Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot for Works Published in 2001. The fianl ballot will be available at the end of March.

NOVEL

From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury (Morrow)
The Infinite by Douglas Clegg (Leisure)
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due (Pocket Books)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Harper Collins)
House of Pain by Sephera Giron (Leisure)
Evil Whispers by Owl Goingback (Signet)
Straight On 'Til Morning by Christopher Golden (Signet)
The Beast That Was Max by Gerard Houarner (Leisure)
The Lost by Jack Ketchum (Leisure)
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King (Scribner)
Black House by Stephen King & Peter Straub (Random House)
A Night in the Lonesome October by Richard Laymon (Cemetery Dance)
The Nature of Balance by Tim Lebbon (Prime; Leisure)
The Association by Bentley Little (Signet)
Wire Mesh Mothers by Elizabeth Massie (Leisure)
Fireworks by James A. Moore (Meisha Merlin)
A Lower Deep by Tom Piccirilli (Leisure)
The Vampire Vivienne by Karen E. Taylor (Kensington)
Teeth by Edo van Belkom (Meisha Merlin)
Hosts by F. Paul Wilson (Gauntlet Press)
FIRST NOVEL Phantom Feast by Diana Barron (Barclay)
Skating on the Edge by d.g.k. goldberg (Time Warner)
Voice of the Blood by Jemiah Jefferson (Leisure)
Bound in Blood by David Thomas Lord (Kensington)
Riverwatch by Joe Nassise (Barclay)
Deadliest of the Species by Michael Oliveri (Vox13)
Keepers of the River by Keith Schulz (Quixote)
Night Terrors by Drew Williams (Barclay)

LONG FICTION

"The God of Dark Laughter" by Michael Chabon (The New Yorker)
"The Sheriff of Pensie Avenue" by Geoff Cooper (Bum Piss and Other City Scents)
"A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet" by Harlan Ellison (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
"Demolition" by Nancy Etchemendy (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
The Folks by Ray Garton (Cemetery Dance)
"Heretics" by Greg F. Gifune (Heretics)
"Diving the Coolidge" by Brian A. Hopkins (Historical Hauntings)
"The Tumbleweed Rustlers Snack & Save" by Brian A. Hopkins (Crime Spree)
"Earthworm Gods" by Brian Keene (No Rest for the Wicked; 4x4)
"The Rest of the Wrong Thing" by Poppy Z. Brite & Caitlin R. Kiernan (Wrong Things)
"The Unfortunate" by Tim Lebbon (As the Sun Goes Down)
Holy Rollers by James Newman (DarkTales)
Natural Selection by Weston Ochse (DarkTales)
"Blood Money" by Norman Partridge (The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists)
The Distance Travelled by Brett A. Savory (Prime)
"The Bird Catcher" by S.P. Somtow (The Museum of Horrors)
"Cinema Surrendari" by Robin Spriggs (Wondrous Strange)
"Ladylove and the Old Nick of Time" by Robin Spriggs (Wondrous Strange)
In These Final Days of Sales by Steve Rasnic Tem (Wormhole Books)
A Game of Colors by John Urbancik (Yard Dog Press)
"Middle Passage" by Matthew Warner (Extremes 3: Terror on the High Seas)
Deadfellas by David Whitman (DarkTales)
SHORT FICTION "Black Roses and Hail Marys" by Maria Alexander (Chiaroscuro)
"King of Shadows" by Maria Alexander (Gothic.net)
"I Am Your Need" by Mort Castle (Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox)
"Weaver's Spell" by Kristy Dark (The Gallows)
"Lamed Vov" by d.g.k. goldberg (Extremes 2: Fantasy & Horror from the Ends of the Earth)
"Eleven Minutes in September" by Brian A. Hopkins (Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox)
"How Do We Say Goodbye?" by Gerard Houarner (Gothic.net)
"El Cura" by Michael T. Huyck, Jr. (Extremes 2: Fantasy & Horror from the Ends of the Earth)
"Lest Ye Become" by Brian Keene (Poddities; No Rest for the Wicked; A Darker Dawning; Horrorfind)
"The Haunt" by Jack Ketchum (Cemetery Dance)
"Reconstructing Amy" by Tim Lebbon (As the Sun Goes Down)
"Twenty-three Snapshots of San Francisco" by Seth Lindberg (Twilight Showcase)
"When We Was Flab" by Mark McLaughlin (Horrorfind)
"The Pit" by Kurt Newton (Poddities)
"Holy Mother of God" by Weston Ochse (Gothic.net)
"Experiment in Human Nature" by Monica O'Rourke (Horrorfind; Rare)
"Blind Mouths" by Judi Rohrig (Cemetery Dance)
"The Hoor's Revenge" by Larry Santoro (Blood and Donuts)
"Jimmy Dale" by Brett A. Savory (Gothic.net)
"Quickie" by Harry Shannon (Alternate Realities; Bad Seed)
"Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" by David B. Silva (Cemetery Dance)
"Whisper" by Ray Vukcevich (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

FICTION COLLECTION

Escaping Purgatory by Gary A. Braunbeck & Alan M. Clark (IFD Publishing)
4x4 by Geoff Cooper, Michael T. Huyck, Jr., Brian Keene, & Michael Oliveri (Delirium)
Talking in the Dark by Dennis Etchison (Stealth Press)
Heretics by Greg F. Gifune (Delirium)
The Dark Fantastic by Ed Gorman (Leisure)
Salt Water Tears by Brian A. Hopkins (Dark Regions Press)
These I Know By Heart by Brian A. Hopkins (Vox13)
No Rest for the Wicked by Brian Keene (Vox13)
As the Sun Goes Down by Tim Lebbon (Night Shade)
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
The Whisperer and Other Voices by Brian Lumley (Tor)
The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge (Night Shade)
Night Moves and Other Stories by Tim Powers (Subterranean Press)
Eye by David Schow (Subterranean)
Through Shattered Glass by David B. Silva (Gauntlet)
Wondrous Strange by Robin Spriggs (Circle Myth Press)
Cobwebs and Whispers by Scott Thomas (Delirium)
Six Inch Spikes by Edo van Belkom (DarkTales)
Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich (Small Beer Press)
Dial Your Dreams by Robert Weinberg (DarkTales)
ANTHOLOGY Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin's Griffin)
Crime Spree edited by Sandra DeLuca & Trey R. Barker (December Girl Press)
Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox edited by Steve Eller (Irrational Press)
Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth edited by Brian A. Hopkins (Lone Wolf Publications)
Extremes 3: Terror on the High Seas edited by Brian A. Hopkins (Lone Wolf Publications)
The Midnighter's Club edited by Ron Horsley (Infinity Publishing)
The Best of Horrorfind edited by Brian Keene (Horrorfind)
The Dead Inn edited by Shane Ryan Staley (Delirium)
Into the Mummy's Tomb edited by John Richard Stephens (Berkley)

NONFICTION
House Magic by Ariana (a.k.a. Sephera Giron) (Conari Press)
Guilty But Insane by Poppy Z. Brite (Subterranean)
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell (LA Weekly Books)
Personal Demons edited by Brian A. Hopkins & Garrett Peck (Lone Wolf Publications)
Jobs in Hell edited by Brian Keene (JIHad Publications)
The New Jersey Graveline by Drew Beebe & John Picinich (Garden State Horror Writers)
Hellnotes by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson (Phantasm Press)

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE
"Freezes Over" (Hellblazer 158-161) by Brian Azzarello (Vertigo)
Just a Pilgrim by Garth Ennis (Black Bull Entertainment)
"The First Adventures of Miss Catterina Poe" (The Dreaming 56) by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Vertigo)
Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave by Jeff Mariotte (WildStorm)
"Quiver" (Green Arrow 1-10) by Kevin Smith (DC Comics)
Weird Western Tales by Various Authors (Vertigo)

SCREENPLAY The Others by Alejandro Amenabar (Miramax)

The Fellowship of the Ring by Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Frances Walsh (based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien) (New Line Cineman)
Hearts in Atlantis by William Goldman (based on the novel by Stephen King) (Castle Rock/Warner Bros.)
From Hell by Terry Hayes & Rafael Yglesias (based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell) (20th Century Fox)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Steven Kloves (based on the novel by J.K. Rowling) (Warner Bros.)
Mulholland Drive by David Lynch (Universal Studios Canal)
Hannibal by David Mamet & Steven Zaillian (based on the novel by Thomas Harris) (MGM)
Memento by Christopher & Jonathan Nolan (Newmarket)
The Gift by Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson (Paramount)
"The Body" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) by Joss Whedon (Fox)
"Once More, With Feeling" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) by Joss Whedon (Fox)
WORK FOR YOUNG READERS Prowlers by Christopher Golden (Pocket Pulse)
The Willow Files 2 by Yvonne Navarro (Pocket Books)

POETRY COLLECTION

Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes by Linda Addison (Space & Time Press)
White Space by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press)
A Dark Ride by Corrine De Winter (Black Arrow Press)
What the Cacodaemon Whispered by Chad Hensley (Flesh & Blood Press)
Taunting the Minotaur by Charlee Jacob (Miniature Sun Press)
Pursuits and Conjurings, Horrors, Guises by Sandra Kasturi (Kelp Queen Press)
Deadly Nightshade by Jacie Regan (Flesh & Blood Press)
The Worms Remember by Ann K. Schwader (Hive Press)

ALTERNATIVE FORMS

FeoAmante.com (web site) by Feo Amante (Edward C. McMullen, Jr.)
Gorelets (poetry series) by Michael Arnzen (Mastication Publications)
Unseen Masters (gaming module) by Bruce Ballon (Chaosium)
Pavane for a Cyber-Princess (story-length poem) by Bruce Boston (Miniature Sun Press)
Twilight Showcase (Internet magazine) by Gary W. Conner (Gary W. Conner)
Frightful Fiction (Internet magazine) by Thomas Deja (Fangoria.com)
Horror World (web site) by Andy Fairclough (Andy Fairclough)
Dark Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear by Beth Gwinn & Stanley Wiater (Cemetery Dance)
Horrorfind (Internet magazine) by Brian Keene & Mike Roden (Horrorfind)
Gothic.net (Internet magazine) edited by Seth Lindberg & Mehitobel Wilson (Darren McKeeman)
"My Father's Hands: Understanding Gwen" (personal essay) by Louis Maistros (Personal Demons)
Scars by Gina Osnovich (Fall Reaching Productions)
"I Never Dress for Halloween" (article) by Larry Santoro (HWA Newsletter)
"Once More, With Feeling" (lyrics to an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) by Joss Whedon (Fox)

Posted February 21, 2002