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1999 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot
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The Final Stoker Ballot for works published in 1999 will be released on or about March 23, 2000.

The Bram Stoker Awards for works published in 1999 will be presented May 13th, 2000, at the Stoker Awards Banquet in conjunction with the World Horror Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Novel

    The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll (Gollancz/Tor)
    Naomi by Douglas Clegg (Douglas Clegg, email serial)
    Darker than Night by Owl Goingback (Signet)
    Strangewood by Christopher Golden (Nal)
    The Poker Club by Ed Gorman (Cemetery Dance Publications)
    Black Light by Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism)
    Hannibal by Thomas Harris (Delacorte)
    Wild Horses by Brian Hodge (William Morrow)
    The Road to Hell by Gerard Houarner (Necro Publishing)
    Mojo Hand by Greg Kihn (Forge)
    The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (Scribner)
    Freezer Burn by Joe R. Lansdale (Mysterious Press)
    Come Out Tonight by Richard Laymon (Cemetery Dance Publications)
    Welcome Back to the Night by Elizabeth Massie (Leisure Books)
    King Rat by China Miéville (Macmillan UK/Tor)
    A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan (Henry Holt)
    Hexes by Tom Piccirilli (Leisure Books)
    Mr. X by Peter Straub (Random House)
    This is My Blood by David Niall Wilson (Terminal Fright)
    Conspiracies by F. Paul Wilson (Gauntlet Press)

First Novel

    Widow's Walk by Steve Beai (Indigo Publishing)
    The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco (Buzzcity Press)
    Every Dead Thing by John Connolly (Simon & Schuster)
    Fountain Society by Wes Craven (Simon & Schuster)
    World of Darkness: Lasombra by Richard Dansky (White Wolf)
    Collectors by Paul Griner (Random House)
    The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman (Meisha Merlin)
    King Rat by China Miéville (Macmillan UK/Tor)
    Madonna of the Dark by Elaine Moore (Authorlink Press)
    Wither by J.G. Passarella (Pocket Books)
    The Guardian by Beecher Smith (Hot Biscuit Productions)

Long Fiction

    "Butcher Cover" by Jay Bonansinga & Ben Adams (Play It Again, Sam, August)
    "I'll Play the Blues for You" by Gary Braunbeck (Subterranean Gallery)
    "Small Song" by Gary Braunbeck (F&SF, May)
    "It Ain't Much to Brag About, But It's All Mine" by Bill Breedlove (Book of Dead Things)
    "The Flicker Man" by Ed Bryant, & Trey R. Barker (Whitley Strieber's Aliens)
    "The Hand that Feeds" by Peter Crowther & James Lovegrove (Maynard Sims Productions)
    "The Executioner's Guild" by Andy Duncan (Asimov's, August)
    "Five Days in April" by Brian A. Hopkins (Chiaroscuro: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, July)
    "Dread in the Beast" by Charlee Jacob (Dread in the Beast)
    Right to Life by Jack Ketchum (Cemetery Dance Publications)
    "Low Men in Yellow Coats" by Stephen King (Hearts in Atlantis)
    "Why We're in Vietnam" by Stephen King (Hearts in Atlantis)
    "Mad Dog Summer" by Joe R. Lansdale (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
    "White" by Tim Lebbon (Masters of Terror)
    Operator B by Edward Lee (Cemetery Dance Publications)
    "Rio Grande Gothic" by David Morrell (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
    "Andy Warhol's Dracula" by Kim Newman (Event Horizon, June)
    "The Ruins of Contracoeur" by Joyce Carol Oates (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
    An Antique Vintage by John Pelan (Gargadillo Press)
    "Mount of the Oath" by Tom Piccirilli (Deep Into That Darkness Peering)
    "The Blue of Her Hair, Gold of Her Eyes" by John Rosenman (LC-39)
    "The Women of Whale Rock" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (F&SF, March)
    "Sea Oak" by George Saunders (New Yorker, January)
    "Crocodile Rock" by Lucius Shepard (F&SF, Oct/Nov)
    "Hair and Blood Machine" by Terry West (Agony in Black #3)

Short Fiction

    "The Grave" by P.D. Cacek (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
    "The Entertainment" by Ramsey Campbell (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
    "Joleraymi's Rose" by Geoff Cooper (The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique)
    "Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story" by Neil Gaiman (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
    "Release" by Sephera Giron (Bad Dreams/The Asylum...Bedtime Stories for the Criminally Insane, Vol 1: The Psycho Ward)
    "Gramps Goes Fishing" by Brian A. Hopkins (Flesh and Blood, May)
    "The Woodshed" by Brian A. Hopkins (Sleuthhound, February)
    "To Wake the Dead in Nypholos" by Gerard Houarner (The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique)
    "The Burn Barrel" by Brian Keene (Houses at the Borderlands)
    "The Ushers" by Edward Lee (The Ushers)
    "Burden" by Michael Marano (Gothic Net, March)
    "Family Man" by Weston Ochse (At the Brink of Madness, July)
    "By Invitation Only" by Julie Anne Parks (Dead Promises)
    "Of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine" by Tom Piccirilli (Houses at the Borderlands)
    "The Cannibal's Daughter" by Eve Rings (Chiaroscuro: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, July)
    "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem (F&SF, July)
    "Standing Betwixt Worlds In Delightful Agony" by David Whitman (At the Brink of Madness, July)
    "That's Some Pig" by David Niall Wilson & Brett Savory (Of Pigs and Spiders)
    "After Shock" by F. Paul Wilson (Realms of Fantasy, December)
    "Strays" by Mehitobel Wilson (Gothic Net, April)

Fiction Collection

    Death Drives a Semi by Edo van Belkom (Quarry Press)
    The Lost Bloch, Volume 1: The Devil with You! by Robert Bloch (Subterranean Press)
    Brotherly Love & Other Tales of Faith and Knowledge by David Case (Pumpkin Books)
    Salt Snake and Other Bloody Cuts by Simon Clark (Silver Salamander)
    The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg (Leisure Books)
    The Longest Single Note by Peter Crowther (Cemetery Dance Publications)
    The Alchemy of Love by Elizabeth Engstrom (Triple Tree)
    Down to Sleep by Greg F. Gifune (Goddess of the Bay)
    Flesh Wounds by Brian A. Hopkins (Lone Wolf Publications)
    Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob (Necro Publishing)
    All of Us Are Dying by George Clayton Johnson (Subterranean Press)
    Broken on the Wheel of Sex by Jack Ketchum (Sideshow Books)
    Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (Scribner)
    Demons, Freaks, and Other Abnormalities by Michael Laimo (Delirium Books)
    The Ushers by Edward Lee (Obsidian Press)
    Night Tales by John Maclay (Maclay and Associates)
    Black Evening by David Morrell (Feature/ Warner Books/ Cemetery Dance Publications)
    The Crawling Abbatoir by Martin Mundt (Twilight Tales/11th Hour)
    The House Spider and Other Strange Visitors by Kurt Newton (Delirium Books)
    Deep into that Darkness Peering by Tom Piccirilli (Terminal Fright)
    My Own Private Spectres by Jean Ray (Midnight House)
    The Sound of His Horn and the King of the Lake by Sarban (Tartarus Press)
    Really, Really, Really, Really, Weird Stories by John Shirley (Night Shade Books)
    What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith (Harper Collins UK)
    Everybody Pays by Andrew Vachss (Vintage)

Anthology

    Subterranean Gallery edited by Richard Chizmar & William K. Schafer (Subterranean Press)
    The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin's)
    Houses at the Borderland edited by Andy Fairclough (Masters of Terror)
    New Mythos Legends edited by Bruce Gehweiler (Marietta Publishing)
    Cemetery Sonata edited by June Hubbard (Chameleon)
    Northern Frights 5 edited by Don Hutchison (Mosaic Press)
    Book of Dead Things edited by Tina Jens (Twilight Tales/11th Hour)
    Dark Detectives edited by Stephen Jones (F & B Mystery)
    The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 edited by Stephen Jones (Carroll and Graf)
    White of the Moon edited by Stephen Jones (Pumpkin Books)
    'Til Death Do Us Partedited by Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg (Berkeley Prime Crime)
    California Sorcery edited by William F. Nolan, & William Schafer (Cemetery Dance Publications)
    The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique edited by John Pelan (Shadowlands Press)
    The Age of Reason: Stories for a New Millennium edited by Kurt Roth (SFF Net)
    999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense edited by Al Sarrantonio (Avon Books)
    Whitley Strieber's Aliens edited by Whitley Strieber (Pocket Books)

NonFiction

    Fantasy & Horror: A Critical & Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet by Neil Barron (Scarecrow Press)
    Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines (Fourth Estate/ North Point Press)
    Darkecho (all 1999 issues) edited by Paula Guran
    Nightmares of Mine by Kenneth Hite (Iron Crown Enterprises)
    The Essential Monster Movie Guide by Stephen Jones (Titan)
    Jobs in Hell (all 1999 issues) edited by Brian Keene
    Video Watchdog (all 1999 issues) edited by Tim Lucas
    Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography by Victoria Price (St. Martin's)
    Hellnotes (all 1999 issues) edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
    No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock by Marina Warner (Chatto and Windus/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Illustrated Narrative

    Lenore #5 by Roman Dirge (Slave Labor Graphics)
    Lenore #6 by Roman Dirge (Slave Labor Graphics)
    The Monsters in My Tummy by Roman Dirge (Slave Labor Graphics, Oct.)
    Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman (DC/Vertigo)
    Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1 by Joe R. Lansdale (DC/Vertigo, February)
    Jonah Hex: Shadows West #2 by Joe R. Lansdale (DC/Vertigo, March)
    Jonah Hex: Shadows West #3 by Joe R. Lansdale (DC/Vertigo, April)
    "The Betrothed," in Flinch #5, by Joe R. Lansdale (DC/Vertigo, October)
    Red Rangeby Joe R. Lansdale (Mojo Press)
    Wolff & Byrd, Counsellors of the Macabre #22, "The Human Within Me" by Batton Lash (Exhibit A Press)
    Desperadoes: Epidemic! by Jeff Mariotte (Homage Comics, November)
    Hellboy: Box Full of Evil by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse Comics, Sept.)
    "Maggie and Her Microscope," in Flinch #2, by Dean Motter (DC/Vertigo)
    Faust: Book of M by David Quinn (Avatar Press)
    The Blair Witch Project by Jen van Meter (Oni Press, July)

Screenplay

    The X-Files, "The Rain King," by Jeffrey Bell (Fox)
    eXistenZ by David Cronenberg (Miramax)
    The Green Mile by Frank Darabont (Castle Rock)
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Earshot," by Jane Espenson (Fox)
    The Stendhal Syndrome by Dario Argento and Franco Ferrini (Troma Entertainment)
    The X-Files, "Millennium," by Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz (Fox)
    Idle Hands by Terri Hughes & Ron Milbauer (Tristar/Columbia)
    Storm of the Century by Stephen King (ABC)
    Stir of Echoes by David Koepp (Artisan Entertainment)
    The Talented Mr. Ripley by Anthony Minghella (Paramount Pictures)
    The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez (Artisan Entertainment)
    The Curse of the Blair Witch by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez, & Ben Rock (SciFi Channel)
    Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan (Hollywood Films/Spyglass)
    Titus by Julie Taymore (Blue Sky Films)
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "The Zeppo," by Dan Vebber (Fox)
    8mm by Andrew Kevin Walker (Columbia Pictures)
    Sleepy Hollow by Andrew Kevin Walker & Kevin Yagher (Paramount Pictures)
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Hush," by Joss Whedon (Fox)
    House on Haunted Hill by Robb White & Dick Beebe (Dark Castle/Warner Bros)

Work for Young Readers

    Something Lumber This Way Comes by Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press)
    Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children by Angus Oblong (Ballantine Books)
    Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury/ Scholastic Levine Books)

Other Media

    Nobilis (Role Playing Game) by R. Sean Bergstrom (Pharos Press)
    The Blair Witch Project (Improvisational Acting) by Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, & Joshua Leonard (Artisan Entertainment)
    I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (Audio) by Harlan Ellison (Dove)
    Masters of Terror (Website) by Andy Fairclough (Andy Fairclough)
    Sunnydale High Yearbook by Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder (Pocket Books)
    Gothic Net (Website) by Seth Lindberg (Darren McKeeman)
    Fresh Dread: Four Exercises in Fear (Stage Play) by Lisa Morton (Zeitgeist Theatre Company)
    Clive Barker's The History of the Devil (Audio) by Seeing Ear Theatre (Dove)
    Classic Monsters (DVD) by David J. Skal (Universal Pictures)
    Dracula (DVD Commentary) David J. Skal (Universal Pictures)
    Conspiracies (Audio CD) by Wyrd Sisters Productions (Wyrd Sisters Productions)

Posted February-24-2000

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