Annal:2003 Bram Stoker Award for Fiction Collection
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Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Bram Stoker Award for Fiction Collection
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 2003 IHG–Collection nominee
- 2003 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 12.53
Told by the Dead is Ramsey Campbell’s first short story collection for five years.
Spectral terrors abound, and monsters who might live next door or in our own heads. We learn why we should never play cards with strangers, and the perils of attending press shows of films. We glimpse a book that may render all others redundant, and encounter another that is too full of ghosts. A roadside mirror contains more than a reflection, and a bedroom mirror shows what may be in store for us all. Telephone advertising gives rise to a nightmare, and so does a…
Karen E. Taylor, William Sanders, Mike Resnick
- 2003 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.53
A vampire named Bitsy. A grieving father’s rage. An intergalactic cosmetic saleswoman. Loving wives, thwarted mistresses. Demons, ghosts, gods and angels. Red silk scarves and the lash of leather. What do these diverse elements have in common? They have all been spawned in the imagination of Karen E. Taylor, a Bram Stoker nominated author. In Fangs and Angel Wings, the writer of the popular Vampire Legacy series will take you on a tour of distant planets, drafty castles, haunted houses, and the most frightening place of all: the dark recesses of the human heart.
- 2004 WFA–Collection winner
- 2003 IHG–Collection nominee
- 2003 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 22.54
From Elizabeth Hand, one of America’s leading literary fantasists, comes a collection of extraordinary novellas of damnation and dark revelation, epiphany and redemption. Written in the author’s characteristic poetic prose, and rich with the detail of lives traumatic yet luminously transformed, these stories form a remarkable tapestry interweaving the supernatural and the mundane.
“Cleopatra Brimstone”—a young woman’s obsession with winged insects achieves a dangerous climax in the streets and nightclubs of London’s Camden Town.
“Pavane for a Prince of…
Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories
- 2003 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.53
Welcome to Cedar Hill, Ohio, a deceptively commonplace bordertown between the familiar everyday and the phantasms, fancies, hauntings, and enchantments that wait in dimly-lit places for a chance to pass through the scrim of perception & make this place their home, as well. Those who live here don’t really have any choice and neither will you. Cedar Hill: “Main Street” tinged with the macabre, located just this side of night. This is the first of approximately 3-5 volumes to be published by Earthling collecting the author’s stories set in his fictional town of…
