From AwardAnnals
Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Mine
Robert McCammon
Robert McCammon asks, “What happened to those children of the sixties who learned the language of hatred, who swore oaths upon their bloodstained manifestos and vowed to never surrender?” Most went on to other lifestyles. But Mary Terrell, a.k.a. “Mary Terror,” did not change. Her insanity deepened into schizophrenia, and in the late ‘80s she still calls herself “freedom fighter for those without rights in the Mindfuck State.” Hallucinating, heavily armed, and possessed by the delusion that an infant son will restore the good ol’ days with her ex-lover, Mary…
Savage Season
Joe R. Lansdale
Hap and Leonard are two friends who are always looking for a fast buck. So when Hap’s old flame, Trudy, waltzes back into town with a money-making scam, it sounds easy—a quick dive into the icy Sabine River for a half-million dollars in lost hold-up money. But things go bad, and when Hap and Leonard meet Soldier, they know they’ve entered a nightmare with no escape.
Funland
Richard Laymon
The resort of Boleta Bay is not the carefree place it used to be. A series of unexplained disappearances, and holiday-makers threatened by an army of leering bums, casts a shadow over summer pleasures. But now Boleda Bay is fighting back and their campaign leads them to the abandoned Funhouse.
