Archive for Horror Organizations
HWA Announces Plans For Solo Events
Posted by: | CommentsAfter record attendance at its recent Stoker Weekend in Burbank this past June, the Horror Writers Association announced today that it would be hosting a stand-alone convention every other year, beginning with a partnership with World Horror Convention in Brighton, England, in 2010 and an East Coast solo event in 2011. Panels, author signings, pitch sessions with publishers, networking opportunities, and the annual Bram Stoker Awards Banquet are just a few of the popular convention features that will be on tap when the venerable HWA brings its yearly gathering to the eastern half of the United States -its first time since 2006.
On the decision to step out on its own, HWA President Deborah LeBlanc said, “Due to the overwhelming, positive response we received at this year’s Stoker Weekend, the HWA’s Board has decided to take yet another step towards the organization’s overall growth and development.”
LeBlanc went on to say that the organization’s “current plans are to hold a stand-alone Stoker event every other year, and for those events to occur on a rotating basis across North America from the West coast to the East coast, and in the Midwest. This every-other-year format is the perfect balance that will allow us to partner with other conventions, like WHC, in alternate years, while still maintaining individuality on par with HWA’s rising visibility and status in the publishing industry. It will also allow members from various parts of the country easier access to organizational gatherings, while keeping an open door with the World Horror Convention, which allows options for gatherings with international members.”
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. HWA was formed in the late 1980’s with the help of many of the field’s greats, including Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, and Joe Lansdale. Today, with over 400 members around the globe, it is the oldest and most respected professional organization for the much-loved writers who have brought the reading public the most enjoyable sleepless nights of their lives.
The Big Thrill
Posted by: | CommentsThe July issue of The Big Thrill, the International Thriller Writers online newsletter, is up and ready for your enjoyment. They’ve got 35 impossible-to-put-down novels from many of your favorite authors including Brad Thor, Karin Slaughter, John Gilstrap, and Heather Graham. And this month, author Jeremy Duns makes his debut with his new novel Free Agent.
You can catch it all at: The Big Thrill
Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can’t Put Down
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Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can’t Put Down, edited by Clive Cussler under the umbrella of the International Thriller Writers, is scheduled for release on June 9th, on the heels of the successful Thriller.
Featuring some of the top thriller writers in the world, including some household names (Phillip Margolin, Ridley Pearson) and some lesser-knowns (Javier Sierra, Harry Hunsicker), this anthology gathers together twenty-three stories. All contributors are members of the International Thriller Writers, the organization that came up with the concept for the series. From Jeffery Deaver’s tale of international terrorism to Lisa Jackson’s dysfunctional family in the California wine country to Ridley Pearson’s horrifying serial killer, this collection has something for everyone.
Thrillers are not an easy genre to define, as Cussler points out in his introduction, as they have more to do with pace than with plot. But we believe you’re bound to discover some “horrific” tales here.
Check it out for yourself: Thrillers 2
WHC Announces Special Guest Of Honor
Posted by: | CommentsWorld Horror Convention 2010 has announced that their very Special Guest of Honour is Britain’s most influential and successful horror writer of all time – James Herbert.
James Herbert created the modern mass-market horror genre with the publication of his first ground-breaking novel, The Rats, in 1974 (for the record, Stephen King’s Carrie was published a few months later). Since then he has reigned as Britain’s undisputed #1 author of chiller fiction, with more than 20 novels to his credit — which have sold more than fifty million copies world-wide. His books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages, including Russian and Chinese.
The Rats has never been out of print, and Jim’s list of best-selling titles includes The Fog, The Survivor, Fluke, The Spear, Lair, The Dark, The Jonah, Shrine, Domain, Moon, The Magic Cottage, Sepulchre, Haunted, Creed, Portent, The Ghosts Of Sleath, ‘48, Others, Once, Nobody True and The Secret Of Crickley Hall.
The Rats (aka Deadly Eyes), The Survivor, Fluke and Haunted have all been made into movies, the latter starring Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale and Sir John Gielgud.
In his 1992 Introduction to the bio-bibliography James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, Stephen King wondered “with real excitement” what James Herbert might be up to in the year 2010. Well, now we know — he’ll be at World Horror Convention in Brighton!
British Fantasy Awards Longlist
Posted by: | CommentsThe 2009 British Fantasy Award longlist has been announced. Voting on it is open until May 31. The long list includes all works recommended by British Fantasy Society and FantasyCon members and will be winnowed down to a short list of nominees following the May 31 deadline. All members of FantasyCon and the BFS are eligible to vote.
Best Anthology
- Cone Zero, edited by D.F. Lewis
- Killers, edited by Colin Harvey
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, edited by Stephen Jones
- Myth-Understandings, edited by Ian Whates
- The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror , edited by Ian Alexander Martin
- Subterfuge, edited by Ian Whates
- Subtle Edens, edited by Allen Ashley
- We Fade To Grey , edited by Gary McMahon
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)
- The Afterblight Chronicles: Arrowhead , by Paul Kane
- The Amethyst Child , by Sarah Singleton
- Black Glass, by John Shirley
- The Burning Man, by Mark Chadbourn
- Chaos Space, by Marianne De Pierres
- Coffin County, by Gary A. Braunbeck
- Couch, by Benjamin Parzybok
- Dark Blood, by John Meaney
- Dawn over Doomsday, by Jaspre Bark
- Dingo, by Charles de Lint
- Duma Key, by Stephen King
- Escape from Hell!, by Hal Duncan
- Everdead, by Rio Youers
- Going Under, by Justina Robson
- The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
- The Gypsy Morph, by Terry Brooks
- The Ice Crown, by Sean Beech
- The Infected, by Michael McBride
- Iron Kissed, by Patricia Briigs
- The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, by Stephen Hunt
- Last Argument of Kings , by Joe Abercrombie
- The Last Watch, by Sergei Lukyanenko
- Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
- Memoirs of a Master Forger, by William Heaney (a.k.a. Graham Joyce)
- Midnight Man, by Simon Clark
- Midnight Never Come, by Marie Brennan
- Moontown, by Peter Atkins
- Nation, by Terry Pratchett
- The Night Sessions, by Ken MacLeod
- The Painted Man , by Peter V. Brett
- The Perils and Dangers of This Night , by Stephen Gregory
- Rain Dogs, by Gary McMahon
- Ravensoul, by James Barclay
- The Reapers, by John Connolly
- Ritual, by Mo Hayder
- The Riven Kingdom, by Karen Miller
- Small Favour, by Jim Butcher
- Song of Time, by Ian MacLeod
- The Summoning , by Kelley Armstrong
- The Victoria Vanishes, by Christopher Fowler
- Thieving Fear , by Ramsey Campbell
- Vengeance Child, by Simon Clark
- Victory Conditions , by Elizabeth Moon
The PS Best Small Press Award
- Beccon Publications
- Cemetary Dance
- Creative Guy Publications
- Elastic Press
- Immanion Press
- MonkeyBrain
- Newcon Press
- Pendragon Press
- Screaming Dreams
- Skullvines Press
- TTA Press
- Delirium Books
Best Collection
- Bull Running for Girls , by Allyson Bird
- Gleefully Macabre Tales , by Jeff Strand
- How to Make Monsters, by Gary McMahon
- Glyphotech , by Mark Samuels
- Islington Crocodiles , by Paul Meloy
- Coffin Nails, by John Probert
- Just After Sunset, by Stephen King
- Mythophidia , by Storm Constantine
- Mama’s Boy & Other Dark Tales , by Fran Friel
- Secret Lives, by Jeff VanderMeer
- Other Voices, by Andrew Humphrey
Best Novella
- “1200 AM Live,” by Brian Knight
- “The City in These Pages,” by John Grant
- “Cold Stone Calling,” by Simon Clark
- “Crystal Nights,” by Greg Egan
- “The Enigma of Departure,” by Nicholas Royle
- “Gunpowder,” by Joe Hill
- “Heads,” by Gary McMahon
- “The Mill,” by Mark West
- “Miranda,” by John R. Little
- “The Narrows,” by Simon Bestwick
- “Overturned,” by Neil Ayres & Aliya Whiteley
- “Pride and Prometheus ,” by John Kessel
- “Red,” by Paul Kane
- “The Reach of Children,” by Tim Lebbon
- “Reunion,” by Paul Kane
- “The School House ,” by Simon Bestwick
- “The Shallow End of the Pool ,” by Adam-Troy Castro
- “The Worst of all Possible Places,” by David Riley
- “Vault of Deeds,” by James Barclay
Best Short Story
- “A Chaos Demon Is For Life,” by Paul Kane
- “All Mouth,” by Paul Meloy
- “And Their Blood Will Be Prescient to Fire,” by Freda Warrington
- “The Caul Bearer,” by Allyson Bird
- “Chasing Waterfalls,” by Andrew Hook
- “Chill,” by Gary McMahon
- “Comus Of Central Park,” by M.K. Hobson
- “Cone Zero: page 33,” by Kek-W
- “Do You See,” by Sarah Pinborough
- “The Fantasy Jumper,” by Will Macintosh
- “Hanging On Her Every Word,” by Ian Whates
- “Heart Song,” by Kim Lakin-Smith
- “In the Howling of the Wind,” by Marie O’Regan
- “Jasmine,” by Andrew Tisbert
- “The Killing Fields,” by Kim Lakin-Smith
- “Lifelike,” by Paul Kane
- “The Mist of Lichthafen,” by Seth Skorkowsky
- “The Moth,” by Neil Williamson
- “N,” by Stephen King
- “Noble Deceit,” by Juliet E. McKenna
- “Owlspeak,” by Storm Constantine
- “Pinholes in Black Muslin,” by Simon Strantzas
- “The Pit,” by Alexander Glass
- “The Point of Oswald Masters,” by Neil James Hudson
- “Queen of the Sunlit,” by Liz Williams
- “Seaborne,” by Kari Spelling
- “The Ships Like Clouds Risen By Their Rain,” by Jason Sanford
- “The Suicide Room ,” by Paul Kane
- “The Tobacconist’s Concession,” by John Travis
- “The Vague,” by Paul Meloy
- “Wind Chimes” by Paul Kane
- “Winter Journey,” by Joel Lane
- “Yin and Yang,” by Paul Kane
HWA Announces Preliminary Bram Stoker Awards Ballot
Posted by: | CommentsThe Horror Writers Association has unveiled the Preliminary Ballot for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards. Please note that none of the works listed below have actually been nominated for any award; voting members will will whittle each category down to four titles (with a fifth title possibly added by the Additions Jury), and those will be the nominees on the Final Ballot. You might recognize a handful of names on the current list as Fear Zone contributors. The Bram Stoker Awards will be held at the Stokers Banquet in Burbank this June. Congratulations and good luck to all of the preliminary contenders!
2008 Preliminary Stoker Ballot
Superior Achievement in a Novel:
Coffin County by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure)
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)
Ghost Walk by Brian Keene (Leisure)
The Reach by Nate Kenyon (Leisure)
Duma Key by Stephen King (Scribner)
Johnny Gruesome by Gregory Lamberson (Bad Moon/Medallion)
Water Witch by Deborah Leblanc (Dorchester/Leisure)
Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Maberry (Pinnacle)
Dead and Gone by Harry Shannon (Delirium Books)
The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff (St. Martins)
The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel:
Bestial: Werewolf Apocalypse by William D. Carl (Permuted Press)
Apricot Brandy by Lynn C?sar (Juno Books)
Midnight On Mourn Street by Christopher Conlon (Earthling Publications)
Veins by Lawrence C. Connolly (Fantasist Enterprises)
Eternal Vigilance by Gabrielle S. Faust (Immanion Press)
The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart Press)
Monster Behind the Wheel by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin (Delirium Books)
Frozen Blood by Joel A. Sutherland (Lachesis Publishing)
Crimson Orgy by Austin Williams (Borderlands Press)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction:
“The Lagerstatte” by Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
The Shallow End of the Pool by Adam-Troy Castro (Creeping Hemlock)
Miranda by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
Redemption Roadshow by Weston Ochse (Burning Effigy)
The Confessions of St. Zach by Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)
Orpheus and The Pearl by Kim Paffenroth (Magus Press)
“Behold the Child” by Harry Shannon (Brimstone Turnpike)
Just Like Hell by Nate Southard (Thunderstorm Books)
Population Zero by Wrath James White (Cargo Cult Press)
Orgy of Souls by Wrath James White, and Maurice Broaddus (Apex Book Company)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction:
“The Last Word” by Maria Alexander (Sins of the Sirens)
“Mama Strangelove’s Remedies for Afterlife Disorders, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mother Death” by C. Dean Andersson (Brutarian)
“Consumed” by Michael Louis Calvillo (Horror Library Volume 3)
“Petrified” by Scott Edelman (Desolate Souls)
“Mechanix” by Christopher Fulbright (Bound for Evil)
The Lost by Sarah Langan (Cemetery Dance Publications)
“The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft” by Nick Mamatas, and Tim Pratt (Chizine)
“The Haven” by John Palisano (Horror Library Vol. 3)
“Turtle” by Lee Thomas (Doorways)
“The Blog at the End of the World” by Paul Tremblay (Chizine)
“Those Eyes” by Mark W. Worthen (Thinner Than Mist)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology:
The Undead: Headshot Quartet edited by Christina Bivins and Lane Adamson (Permuted Press)
Like a Chinese Tattoo edited by Bill Breedlove (Dark Arts Books)
Horror Library, Vol. 3 edited by R. J. Cavender (Cutting Block Press)
Abominations edited by Tim Deal (Shroud Publishing)
Beneath the Surface edited by Tim Deal (Shroud Publishing)
Unspeakable Horrors edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder (Dark Scribe Press)
Superior Achievement in a Collection:
The Number 121 to Pennsylvania by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel (Apex Publications)
Just After Sunset by Stephen King (Scribner)
Little Creatures by Michael McCarty (Sam’s Dot Publishing)
Other Gods by Stephen Mark Rainey (Dark Regions Press)
The Autopsy and Other Tales by Michael Shea (Centipede)
Sheep and Wolves by Jeremy C. Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Fourtold by Michael Stone (Baysgarth Publications)
Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand (Delirium)
Ennui and Other States of Madness by David Niall Wilson (Dark Regions Press)
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction:
Shadows Over New England by David Goudsward, and Scott T. Goudsward (BearManor Media)
Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller (McFarland)
Spirits and Death in Niagara by Marcy Italiano (Schiffer Publishing)
The New Annotated Dracula by Leslie S. Klinger (W. W. Norton)
Beauty and Dynamite by Alethea Kontis (Apex Publications)
Cheap Scares by Gregory Lamberson (McFarland)
Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry (Citadel)
Modern Mythmakers by Michael McCarty (McFarland)
A Hallowe’en Anthology by Lisa Morton (McFarland)
The Book of Lists: Horror by Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley (Harper)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection:
The Nightmare Collection by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press)
The Phantom World by Gary William Crawford (Sam’s Dot)
Virgin of the Apocalypse by Corrine De Winter (Sam’s Dot Publishing)
The Flayed Man and Other Poems by Phillip A. Ellis (Gothic Press)
Attack Of The Two-Headed Poetry Monster by Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty (Skullvines Press)
Ghosts of Past and Future by Darrell Schweitzer (Borgo)
Blood Lite – New Upcoming HWA Anthology
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From the creators of such fantastic compilations as: Psychos by Robert Bloch, Aliens by Whitley Strieber, and Ghosts by Peter Straub, comes a new anthology for more than just standard horror fans. This new Horror Writers Association anthology explores two genres that have been intertwined in literature and film for decades.
Blood Lite is a new horror anthology that promises to give readers a unique taste of horror combined with just the right amount of humor. This lightened version promises to entertain both the seasoned horror fan as well as novices or those who feel horror is too intense for their reading pleasure.
Blood Lite combines horror with comedy in a spectrum of wit ranging from wicked irony to hilarity. Horror and comedy have been combined for decades with fantastic results. Viewers and readers adored such classics as the 1980’s Saturday The 14th, all the way to the more contemporary Scary Movie, franchise, Army of Darkness and Shaun of the Dead. The collection is scheduled for release in October, just in time for Halloween.
This anthology promises readers a diverse array of tales from some of the masters in the field for thrills, chills, and laughter. Some of the authors featured within this anthology include: Charlaine Harris Sherrilyn Kenyon Sharyn McCrumb Joe R. Lansdale Jim Butcher Mike Resnick Kelley Armstrong J.A. Konrath. This list is just a brief sample of Blood Lite’s offerings. Several other members of the HWA have also contributed stories for this volume. The venture promises to stretch the writing skills of all involved to create a volume that is frightfully funny.
Kevin J. Anderson is the editor of this anthology. Anderson is founding member for the Horror Writers Association. He is an esteemed writer whose won multiple awards and enjoys the status as an international bestselling author. His editorial skills have already given readers three of the best-selling science fiction anthologies of all time. His previous successes are Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales of the Bounty Hunters, and Tales From Jabba’s Palace.
The Horror Writers Association currently has over 500 members. The group was established in 1985 to promote dark fiction and its creators. The members are currently in a variety of mediums including fiction, non-fiction, videogames, film, comics and other media. Blood Lite will give all readers a dark and sweet taste of horror tempered with lighter elements.
