We’re continuing our special weekend series of blogs presenting the 2008 Stoker Award Nominations.
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The Stoker Awards have been handed out at different conventions and venues but this year the HWA is sponsoring and entire weekend gathering. Called The 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend, it runs from June 12 to June 14, 2009. It will be held at Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel & Convention Center in Burbank, California. The Award Banquet itself will take place Saturday evening, June 13, 2009. The rest of the weekend will have workshops, book signings and chances to pitch your stories. Check out the Official 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend Website for more information.
Today we’ll look at the next two category of awards: Long Fiction and Short Fiction.
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
 The Shallow End of the Pool |
The Shallow End of the PoolAuthor: Castro, Adam-Troy |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Resolution. Reason. Respect. Among U.S. couples marrying today, roughly 40% will divorce. About half of those will have children at the time of the split. Ensuing ugliness will engulf the lives of both divorcees and offspring. They can in most cases expect years of legal battles, deceit, rage, depression, baiting, vitriol, manipulation, and hurt. Perhaps there is another way, a better way. A way that allows for resolution, reason, and respect. An agreement, of sorts, but one that confronts rather than masks the myriad troubles at hand. Lays them all out on the table. Settles the issues once and for all in an honorable arena. Something direct. Fair. Final. Adam-Troy Castro, Hugo/Nebula/Stoker-nominated author of the upcoming SF novel Emissaries from the Dead, brings you a brutally horrific tale of the ultimate settlement in the battle of broken-hearted wills in a new novella from Creeping Hemlock Press. Petty power-plays have been cast aside. The façade of decency is shelved. For one blistering week in an abandoned desert motel, there will be no excuses, pleading, or games. Only resolution, reason, respect. And blood. |
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 Miranda |
MirandaTitle on Cover: adnariM |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Michael is different from you and me. He lives his life in reverse, from the day he died back to the day he was born. It’s hard to make friends when you’re travelling in the wrong direction of time. In fact the only true friend he has is his little dog, Doof. Until one day, Michael meets Miranda, and his life changes forever. adnariM. |
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 Redemption Roadshow |
Redemption RoadshowAuthor: Ochse, Weston |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Dolan Gibb has driven the same section of Arizona desert highway for years, where crosses and shrines litter the side of the highway like confetti for the dead. He’s passed them thousands of times and never given them a second’s glance. To him, like everyone else, they are places of remembering, places to mourn. But when the Long Cool Woman and El Hombre Quemado (The Burned Man) suddenly appear with the Redemption Roadshow, Dolan’s entire world is spun on end as he learns that his whole life may have been a waste and that the shrines aren’t what they appear to be and, in fact, they never were. |
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 The Confessions of St. Zach |
The Confessions of St. ZachAuthor: O’Neill, Gene |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction In the post-apocalyptic background of The Confessions of St. Zach, Jacob Zachary attempts to protect his family while maintaining his idealistic sense of humanity in the face of increasing violence and a grim and daily deteriorating environment. Failing miserably, he struggles on in spite of terrible personal loss in his search for spiritual redemption. |
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Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
 “Petrified” in Desolate Souls |
“Petrified”Author: Edelman, Scott |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction “Petrified”, the short story by Scott Edelman was published in Desolate Souls, the souvenir program book for The 2008 World Horror Convention. |
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 “The Lost” |
“The Lost”Author: Langan, Sarah |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction The Lost was an original short story by horror author Sarah Langan published as a promotional chapbook by Cemetery Dance Publications. |
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 “The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft” |
“The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft”Author: Mamatas, Nick and Pratt, Tim |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction “The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft” was published in the online magazine called ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words issue #36. You can click on the link to read the story online or download a pdf copy from a link just before the story. |
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 “Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandomnent” |
“Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandomnent: One Daughter’s Personal Account”Author: Rickert, M. |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction “Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandomnent: One Daughter’s Personal Account” was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2008 (An Anniversary Issue). |
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 “Turtle” |
“Turtle”Author: Thomas, Lee |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction “Turtle” was published in Doorways: A Journal of Horror and the Paranormal #4, Winter Issue December 2007. |
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The 2008 Stoker Nominations Series:
Part 1 — Superior Achievement in a Novel and First Novel
Part 2 — Superior Achievement in Long Fiction and Short Fiction
Part 3 — Superior Achievement in an Anthology and a Collection
Part 4 — Superior Achievement in Nonfiction and Poetry
Part 5 — Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and other awards
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