Annal:1997 International Horror Guild Award for Collection
From AwardAnnals
Results of the International Horror Guild Award in the year 1997. 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.
- 1998 WFA–Collection winner
- 1997 IHG–Collection winner
- Score: 20.48
“You hold in your hands a book of stories that forced Brian McNaughton to write. Make no mistake: I don’t exaggerate. There’s a reason this book won the World Fantasy Award. The stories inside it are rich, fascinating stuff—creepy and unsettling and phantasmic. Imagine what Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings would have been like if Tolkien had tried to tell that story sympathetically from the point of view of the human denizens of Mordor and you’ll have the slightest sense of what you’re about to wade into—but only just a sense. These stories will make the same demands…
