Annal:1996 International Horror Guild Award for Collection
From AwardAnnals
Results of the International Horror Guild Award in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- International Horror Guild Award for Collection
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
Conference with the Dead: Stories
- 1996 IHG–Collection winner
- 1997 WFA–Collection nominee
- Score: 16.46
“In Conference with the Dead, Terry Lamsley presents ten excellent ghost stories in the classic English mode, deceptively civilized in execution but deeply disturbing as a trickle of icy water down the back of the neck. Any stiff upper lips encountered here are the result of rigor mortis. I really would not read these late at night, if I were you.” —Kage Baker, author of The Graveyard Game and Mother Aegypt
“I love ghost stories, especially when the writer is as good as Terry Lamsley, who has one of those legendary, word-of-mouth reputations, straight from self-publication to international recognition. He knows how to ground terror in a meticulous observation of the ordinary, and how to use the incomer’s, the outsider’s, disquieting uncertainties. Some of these tales (“The Toddler”, “Blade And Bone”) conjure the traditional M. R. James frisson, buried evil disturbed by the unwary. Some raise other echoes: the fate of the siren-haunted rivals in “The Outer Darkness” recalls May Sinclair’s classic “And Their Fire Is Not Quenched”; others are not so…
