Annal:1992 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel
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Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Bram Stoker Award for First Novel
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 1992 Stoker–1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.42
Set in the isolated mountains of western Virginia, Sineater twists the legendary tradition of the One Condemned to Absorb the Sins of the Brethen into a harrowing battle between the intolerance of the mountain community’s religious fabric and the newly awakened conscience of a boy.
According to legend, the sineater is a dark and mysterious figure of the night, condemned to live alone in the woods, who devours food from the chests of the dead to allow them to ascend to heaven. In the small Virginia town, children have to lock themselves away when there is a death in their family and the sineater calls to their home. To look upon the sineater is to see the face of all the evil he has eaten, and to become insane with the overwhelming presence of sin. But now the order has been broken, the tradition violated; the sineater has a family of his own, although even his wife and children must avert their gaze on the rare occasions he visits them. And with this broken taboo comes a rash of disturbing events. When Joel, the sineater’s youngest child, begins to try to lead a normal life,…
