Nominees for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards have been announced by the Horror Writers Association, including a few we’ve reviewed (click the links for those). Congratulations to all the nominees.

NOVEL
• CREEPERS by David Morrell
• DREAD IN THE BEAST by Charlee Jacob
• KEEPERS by Gary Braunbeck
• NOVEMBER MOURNS by Tom Piccirilli

FIRST NOVEL
• THE HIDES by Kealan Patrick Burke
• SCARECROW GODS by Weston Ochse
• SIREN PROMISED by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson

LONG FICTION
• BEST NEW HORROR by Joe Hill
• IN THE MIDNIGHT MUSEUM by Gary Braunbeck
• SOME ZOMBIE CONTINGENCY PLANS by Kelly Link
• THE THINGS THEY LEFT BEHIND by Stephen King

SHORT STORY
• “As Others See Us” by Mort Castle
“Haeckel’s Tale” by Clive Barker
• “Times of Atonement” by Yvonne Navarro
• “We Now Pause for Station Identification” by Gary Braunbeck
• “Invisible” by Steve Rasnic Tem

ANTHOLOGY
• CORPSE BLOSSOMS by Julia and R.J. Sevin
• DARK DELICACIES by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb
• OUTSIDERS by Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick
• WEIRD SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH by Stephen Jones

FICTION COLLECTION
• HAUNTED by Chuck Palahniuk
• LOOKING FOR JAKE by China Mieville
• MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS by Kelly Link
• TWENTIETH CENTURY GHOSTS by Joe Hill

NONFICTION
• THE BRADBURY CHRONICLE by Sam Weller
• HORROR: ANOTHER 100 BEST BOOKS by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (Carroll & Graf)
• MORBID CURIOSITY #9 by Loren Rhoades
• MORE GIANTS OF THE GENRE by Michael McCarty
• WHY BUFFY MATTERS: THE ART OF ‘BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER’ by Rhonda Wilcox

POETRY
• FREAKCIDENTS by Michael A. Arnzen
• SEASONS: A SERIES OF POEMS BASED ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Daniel Shields
• THE SHADOW CITY by Gary W. Crawford
• SINEATER by Charlee Jacob