Stokercon 2017 Haunts the Queen Mary

The famously haunted Queen Mary in Long Beach, California was host to all manner of terrifying monster and plot line at the Horror Writer’s Association StokerCon 2017. The event featured book signings, panels on every subject from how to pitch a literary agent to the secret horrors of Shirley Jackson, interviews with renowned authors such as George R.R. Martin, and readings from masters such as Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones and Jonathon Mayberry.

A particularly unique event was a game of Werewolf, hosted by White Wolf creator and writer Bill Bridges. The game participants were none other than George R.R. Martin, fellow White Wolf creator and author Chuck Wendig, Maria Alexander, who would go on to garner her second Bram Stoker Award for YA Novel, Stephen Graham Jones, a nominee for the werewolf themed Mongrels, and New York Times Best Selling author Nancy Holden. It was truly a dream lineup for any RPG fan as well as a fascinating exercise in group storytelling. Danielle DeLisle joined the game for the second half and helped the group capture the diamonds as well as werewolf bragging, er... howling rights.

Stokercon 2017 culminated in the award ceremony for the 2016 nominees of the prestigious Horror Writer’s Association Bram Stoker Awards. The nominees and winners are as follows – thank you to Locus Magazine for the full list and original posting.

2016 Bram Stoker Awards Winners

— posted Saturday 29 April 2017 @ 10:30 pm PDT

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the winners for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards on April 29, 2017 at a gala held aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA during StokerCon 2017.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)

• Hard Light, Elizabeth Hand (Minotaur)
• Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)
• Stranded, Bracken MacLeod (Tor)
• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Haven, Tom Deady (Cemetery Dance)

• The Apothecary’s Curse, Barbara Barnett (Pyr)
• Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum)
• Mayan Blue, Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason (Sinister Grin)
• The Eighth, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Dark Regions)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Snowed, Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming)

• Last Days of Salton Academy, Jennifer Brozek (Ragnarok)
• Holding Smoke, Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion)
• When They Fade, Jeyn Roberts (Knopf)
• The Telling, Alexandra Sirowy (Simon & Schuster)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• The Winter Box, Tim Waggoner (Darkfuse)

• The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01Publishing)
• “That Perilous Stuff”, Scott Edelman (Chiral Mad 3)
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
• “The Jupiter Drop”, Josh Malerman (You, Human)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “The Crawl Space”, Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen 9-10/16)

• “Time is a Face on the Water”, Michael Bailey (Borderlands 6)
• “A Rift in Reflection”, Hal Bodner (Chiral Mad 3)
• “The Bad Hour”, Christopher Golden (What the #@&% Is That?)
• “Arbeit Macht Frei”, Lisa Mannetti (Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious)

• Swift to Chase, Laird Barron (JournalStone)
• A Long December, Richard Chizmar (Subterranean)
• Lethal Birds, Gene O’Neill (Omnium Gatherum)
• American Nocturne, Hank Schwaeble (Cohesion)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Borderlands 6, Oliva F. Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone, eds. (Samhain)

• Chiral Mad 3, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
• The Beauty of Death, Alessandro Manzetti, ed. (Independent Legions)
• Fright Mare – Women Write Horror, Billie Sue Mosiman, ed. (self-published)
• Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Doug Murano & D. Alexander Ward, eds. (Crystal Lake)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright)

• Haunted, Leo Braudy (Yale University Press)
• Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”, Danel P. Olson (Centipede)
• In the Mountains of Madness, W. Scott Poole (Soft Skull)
• Something in the Blood, David J. Skal (Liveright)
• The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Brothel, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

• Sacrificial Nights, Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria)
• Corona Obscura, Michael R. Collings (self-published)
• Field Guide to the End of the World, Jeannine Hall Gailey (Moon City)
• Small Spirits, Marge Simon (self-published)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, James Chambers (Moonstone)

• Blood Feud, Cullen Bunn (Oni)
• No Mercy: Volume 2, Alex de Campi (Image)
• Outcast: Volume 3: This Little Light, Robert Kirkman (Image)
• The Steam Man, Mark Alan Miller & Joe R. Lansdale (Dark Horse)
• Providence: Act 1, Alan Moore (Avatar)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• The Witch

• Penny Dreadful: “A Blade of Grass”
• Stranger Things: “The Upside Down”
• Stranger Things: “The Vanishing of Will Byers”
• 10 Cloverfield Lane