Small Spirits, Marge Simon (self-published).

Field Guide to the End of the World, Jeannine Hall Gailey (Moon City).

Sacrificial Nights, Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria).

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts (McFarland).Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”, Danel P.Haunted, Leo Braudy (Yale University Press).Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright).Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Doug Murano & D.Fright Mare – Women Write Horror, Billie Sue Mosiman, ed.The Beauty of Death, Alessandro Manzetti, ed.American Nocturne, Hank Schwaeble (Cohesion).Lethal Birds, Gene O’Neill (Omnium Gatherum).A Long December, Richard Chizmar (Subterranean).Swift to Chase, Laird Barron (JournalStone).The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious).Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection “Arbeit Macht Frei”, Lisa Mannetti ( Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories).“The Bad Hour”, Christopher Golden ( What the Is That?).“A Rift in Reflection”, Hal Bodner ( Chiral Mad 3).“Time is a Face on the Water”, Michael Bailey ( Borderlands 6).“The Crawl Space”, Joyce Carol Oates ( Ellery Queen 9-10/16).“The Jupiter Drop”, Josh Malerman ( You, Human).The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing).

“That Perilous Stuff”, Scott Edelman ( Chiral Mad 3).

The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01Publishing).

The Winter Box, Tim Waggoner (Darkfuse).

The Telling, Alexandra Sirowy (Simon & Schuster).

Holding Smoke, Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion).

Last Days of Salton Academy, Jennifer Brozek (Ragnarok).

Snowed, Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming).

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Mayan Blue, Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason (Sinister Grin).Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum).The Apothecary’s Curse, Barbara Barnett (Pyr).Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (William Morrow).Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow).The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde).The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the winners for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards on Apat a gala held aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA during StokerCon 2017.

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