Annal:1990 Bram Stoker Award for Novel
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Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 1990. 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.
- 1990 Stoker–Novel winner
- Score: 10.4
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…
- 1990 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.4
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.
- 1990 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.4
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.
