Annal:2001 International Horror Guild Award for First Novel
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Results of the International Horror Guild Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- International Horror Guild Award for First Novel
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 2001 IHG–1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.51
Frank Delabano is a retired science teacher living an unremarkable life in an unremarkable suburb. But in a sunny corner of his backyard lies his secret treasure: a magnificent rose garden. When his beloved blooms are threatened by a mysterious burrowing pest, he sends away for an organic remedy: an exotic tropical plant guaranteed to be “antithetical to garden varmints but harmless to pets and everything else.”
The strange “gopherbane” plants take care of the problem…and much more. Building to an unforgettable climax, Ordinary Horror tells an unsettling, richly atmospheric tale of creepily evolving menace.
- 2001 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Ever since her parents were killed in a car accident when she was five, Elena Michaels has longed for a normal family life. Smart, beautiful, and engaged to be married, Elena hopes to fulfill that dream when disaster strikes. Not only has her fiancé lied about his secret life as a werewolf, but he’s made her one, too. She has no choice but to join him at Stonehaven, the upstate New York home of an elite pack of werewolves.
In an attempt to break away, she moves to Toronto to lead a normal life. Working as a journalist, Elena now lives with her new architect boyfriend, works out in the basement gym of their high-rise apartment, lunches with girlfriends from the office, and—once a week, at four in the morning—runs naked and furred through a downtown Toronto ravine, ripping out the throats of her animal prey. But when a band of outlaw werewolves threatens the Stonehaven pack, Elena’s feral instincts drive her back there to join the defense. What follows is a war for territory, for pride, and ultimately for Elena herself.
Writing with the visceral power of Anne Rice, Kelley Armstrong has created a fascinating story of a woman struggling for her identity.
- 2001 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
When a UFO crash-lands in Elderton, Illinois, which reporter should The Astonished Eye, one of the country’s most infamous tabloid newspapers, send to investiate? Why, Ben Savitch, of course! After all, he was born in this backwater town and that might just give him the edge when it comes to finding out the truth. And he might finally realize a shot-glass of fame and meaning in his otherwise lacklustre career.
But what starts as a search for the perfect Eye story quickly transforms into something more momentous than Savitch ever could have imagined.
The mystery of a stranded extrterrestrial pales in comparison to the powerful yet fragile magic that already exists in Elderton: Almo Parrish can infallibly predict the first autumn leaf to fall each year, and believes he is the last surviving Munchkin from the Wizard of Oz movie; Chandler Quinn can build or repair anything, including otherworldly machines; little Vida Proust lumbers around town because the gentle inhabitants of Elderton are too polite to tell her the truth of her existence (or lack thereof); and poor Frank Shepard is…
- 2001 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- 2001 Stoker–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 12.51
It Has Waited….It Has Hungered...
When Jake Caruso and his construction team find a hidden tunnel in the cellar of the old Blake mansion in the sleepy hamlet of Harrington Falls, Jake can’t wait to explore its depths. There, he finds an even greater mystery: a stone chamber that’s been covered up for hundreds of years—sealed shut by some long-forgotten warden.
It Has Been Unleashed.
When the ancient seal is broken, a reign of terror and death consumes the town’s residents. Something is stalking them—something that strikes in the darkness without warning or mercy, leaving a trail of innocent blood in its wake—and Jake comes to realize the nightmarish truth of what he has set free. It is an evil born of ages past. A creature of eternal bloodlust. And it has risen to continue its endless slaughter…
- 2001 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
The Flying Dutchman. The Ancient Mariner. The Lady of Shalott. Off the drowned coast of Maine sails Louisa Lee, a haunted schooner with a full complement of secrets…
Titanic meets The Perfect Storm meets The Sixth Sense on a haunted schooner off the drowned coast of Maine. Part nautical thriller, part mystery, part romance, Moontide is a ghost story with a jigger of horror, a generous splash of psychological suspense, and a supernatural twist you will never see coming.
