Annal:1989 Bram Stoker Award for Novel
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Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Bram Stoker Award for Novel
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 1989 Stoker–Novel winner
- 1990 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.39
All humans feed on violence. But only those with the Ability have tested the ultimate power. Ordinary vampires possess the body. But only those who use the living can violate the soul. They gather their strength through the years. They plot their unholy games. They war among themselves. And the victor will stand alone against them all without defenses.
Geek Love: A Novel
- 1989 NBA–Fiction finalist
- 1989 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.39
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan…Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins…albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious-and dangerous-asset.
As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring…
- 1990 WFA–Novel nominee
- 1989 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.4
A horror story written by the author of “For Fear of the Night”, “The Pet”, “The Long Night of the Grave” and “The dark Cry on the Moon”. Hale, psychopath and murderer, has been released from the asylum. Declared sane now, Hale has but one thought in his still-twisted mind: revenge.
- 1989 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.39
The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified—if not brutally murdered in the dead of night…
- 1989 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.39
This book is a remarkable tale of pulse-pounding excitement with a uniquely sympathetic, fascinating portrait of the werewolf as nobel warrior-and conflicted being. Complex, compelling and utterly real.
