Annal:2000 International Horror Guild Award for Collection
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Results of the International Horror Guild Award in the year 2000. 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.
- 2000 IHG–Collection winner
- 2000 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 16.5
This mammoth retrospective of Mr. Tem’s horror fiction covers two decades of writing and features over three dozen stories! Ranging from early classics such as “The Painters are Coming Today” to several pieces appearing for the first time anywhere, City Fishing is a cornerstone volume for any serious collection of modern horror.
In the last twenty years, Steve Rasnic Tem’s stories have been consistently featured in various “Year’s Best” collections and nearly every major anthology. This collection gathers together a huge selection of his best supernatural and…
- 2000 IHG–Collection winner
- Score: 10.5
Startling, eerie, unnerving—Thomas Tessier’s fiction takes the reader into shadowy corners of experience where the everyday world breaks down and people are suddenly caught in disturbed states of mind, disturbed states of reality. These stories and novellas are rooted in the familiar, but permeated with an escalating sense of menace and terror.
Ghost Music collects Tessier’s short fiction for the first time, and also includes two new, previously unpublished tales.
- 2000 IHG–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.5
Dennis Etchison has won multiple World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards for both his writing and his editing, and he is able, as few authors are, to instill a sense of foreboding and paranoia in settings we can all recognize, populated by people we all know. Collected here for the first time in paperback are twelve of Etchison’s finest tales of horror and suspense, guaranteed to quicken the heart and chill the blood. The places he describes may seem normal at first, but in his hands they are transformed quickly into dark nightmare realms—cities of the cursed…
Magic Terror: Seven Tales
- 2000 Stoker–Collection winner
- 2001 WFA–Collection nominee
- 2000 IHG–Collection nominee
- Score: 22.5
No one tells a story like Peter Straub. He dazzles with the complexity of his plots. He delights with the sophistication and eloquence of his prose. He startles you into laughter in the face of events so dark you begin to question your own moral compass. Then he reduces you to jelly by spinning a tale so terrifying-and surprising-you wind up sleeping with the lights on.
With Magic Terror, the bestselling author of Ghost Story and The Talisman (with Stephen King) has given us one of the most imaginatively unsettling collections in years.…
- 2000 IHG–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.5
Through the unflinching lens of her exquisite prose, in Tales of Pain and Wonder Kiernan explores a surreal world where the fantastic and the mundane are never separated by more than the insubstantial thickness of a shadow. From the murderous back streets of New Orleans to an abandoned shipyard on the Hudson River, from sun-weary Los Angeles to a maze of dank and forgotten tunnels beneath Manhattan, these stories present a landscape at once alien and undeniably familiar.
- 2000 IHG–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.5
Little Selene is bored. And then comes the mysterious Toyman, carrying a very special toybox, filled with wonders and terrors beyond imagination. As Selene peers into the toybox, the stories tumble out: a quiet little girl whose horrible secret bursts forth at a Halloween party…a doll made of corn that hides a very nasty surprise…a depraved celebration for the last vampire…All of these and many more await Selene—and now they wait for you—inside the toybox. Go ahead, open it. If you dare.
