Annal:2002 International Horror Guild Award for First Novel
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Results of the International Horror Guild Award in the year 2002. 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.
- 2002 IHG–1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.52
The great fire of 1835 burned most of New York City’s wooden downtown. Like many people, Archie Prescott thought he had lost everything. His home was a smoldering ruin, his dead wife’s body at his feet. And next to her is a child’s corpse he assumes was his daughter. It seems like the end of everything.
But it is only the beginning.
Goaded into action by New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett, Archie runs afoul of one of P. T. Barnum’s former sideshow workers, Riley Steen. With the help of an ancient book translated by Aaron Burr, Steen has…
- 2002 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
Saul’s Run is a great place to raise a family. Life is good, folks live to a ripe old age, and there hasn’t been a violent crime in nearly a generation. It’s almost as if some force were protecting the God-fearing folk of the Run from harm…
Henry left the quiet town almost a decade ago—after his mother’s tragic death and a terrible falling-out with his father. Ever since, he has shut out his memories of the Run. He has tried to not think about the day his mother died. But now—after the startling news of his father’s suicide—Henry is coming home…
Home, where…
The Blues Ain't Nothin': Tales of the Lonesome Blues Pub
- 2002 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- 2002 Stoker–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 12.52
Ramble on up to the Chicago North Side, where you’ll feel the twelve-bar blues beat vibrating right through you. Welcome to the Lonesome Blues Pub, where the sign on the door says it all: “This club is haunted. If you’re afraid of ghosts, go away.”
Grab a stool by the bar, toss back a cool one and join Miss Mustang, the Lonesome Blues proprietor, and a colorfully quirky cast of neighborhood regulars and the ghosts of blues legends both real and imagined. Chicago author Tina L. Jens’ new episodic novel will make you shiver with fright, will surely make you…
- 2002 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
The Snowman’s Children is a poignant, psychologically intense first novel that tells the story of an incident from one man’s childhood in the 1970s, when a serial killer called The Snowman stalked the streets of suburban Detroit. The incident, a result of good but woefully misguided juvenile intentions, forced his family to leave their home, and eventually forced him, at age twenty-nine, to return to his hometown in search of three old friends. Reminiscent of both To Kill a Mockingbird in its touching portrait of childhood, and the beautifully written…
- 2002 IHG–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
The Horned Man opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As Lawrence Miller—an English expatriate and professor of gender studies—tells the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to frame him for a series of brutal killings, we descend into a world of subtly deceptive appearances where persecutor and victim continually shift roles, where paranoia assumes an air of calm rationality, and where enlightenment itself casts a darkness in which the most…
