The Horror Writers Association announced the Final Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards. The awards will be presented at the Stoker Banquet at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday, March 29. Superior Achievement in a Novel

The Guardener's Tale by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot Publishing)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
The Missing by Sarah Langan (Harper)
The Witch's Trinity by Erika Mailman (Crown)
The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
I Will Rise by Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
The Memory Tree by John R. Little (Nocturne Press)
The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

"Afterward, There Will be a Hallway" by Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)
"Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man" by Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
"General Slocum's God" by Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press)
"The Tenth Muse" by William Browning Spencer
"An Apiary of White Bees" by Lee Thomas (Inferno)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

"The Death Wagon Rolls On By" by C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance #57)
"Letting Go" by John Everson (Needles and Sins)
"The Teacher" by Paul G. Tremblay (Chizine)
"There's No Light Between Floors by Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld)
"Closet Dreams" by Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts #10)
"The Gentle Brush of Wings" by David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Five Strokes to Midnight edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press)
Inferno edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
Dark Delicacies 2: Fear edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
Midnight Premiere edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications)
At Ease With the Dead edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)

Superior Achievement in a Collection

Proverbs For Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press)
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books
Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
5 Stories by Peter Straub (Borderlands)
Defining Moments by David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)

Superior Achievement in Nonfiction

Encyclopedia Horrifica by Joshua Gee (Scholastic)
The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo (Harper)
The Cryptopedia: Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press / Kensington)
Storytellers Unplugged by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged)

Superior Achievement in Poetry

"Being Full of Light, Insubstantial" by Linda Addison (Space and Time)
"Heresy" by Charlee Jacob (Bedlam Press [Necro Publications])
"Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet" by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)
"Phantasmapedia" by Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)
"Ossuary" by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sam's Dot Publishing)

The Witch's Trinity by Erika Mailman was moved from First Novel to the NOvel catagory.

Updated March 5, 2008