Annal:2002 Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction
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Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
Ramsey Campbell, Probably: On Horror and Sundry Fantasies
- 2002 IHG–Nonfiction winner
- 2002 Stoker–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 20.52
Ramsey Campbell, Probably collects 140,000 words of Campbell’s non-fiction from the last three decades.
The subjects range from the perils of authorship to the delights of amateur fiction and film, from drugs to nightmares, from the Highgate Vampire to the Dracula Society’s marching song. Friends are remembered, and so is Mary Whitehouse. A seminal study of English schoolgirl spanking on video is brought up to date. Many thoughts on the history of horror fiction are included. At last it is revealed why Harlan Ellison is responsible.
May the reader…
Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror
- 2002 IHG–Nonfiction nominee
- 2002 Stoker–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 12.52
This two-volume set for high school students, college undergraduates, and teachers and other nonspecialists contains essays on 116 contemporary supernatural fiction writers whose prose the editor considers equal to, if not superior to, that of writers who have been granted mainstream acceptance. Entries are approximately seven to 12 pages in length and cover all aspects of each writer’s career. They also address questions such as the literary value of these genres of fiction, and whether the science fiction or horror label discourages taking such work seriously.…
