Annal:2004 International Horror Guild Award for Nonfiction

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Results of the International Horror Guild Award in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

2004 IHG–Nonfiction winner
Score: 10.54

The main voices in A Serious Life belong to David M. Mitchell—his evaluation of the books, records and comics produced by Savoy Books over the last thirty years—and the company’s founders, David Britton and Michael Butterworth, publishers of the eclectic, the maverick and the marginalised. Here they give their first ever extended interviews concerning the company’s history, and state their aims and intentions from Savoy’s inception in the early 1970s to the present day, most notably a disdain for anything occupying the middle ground and an insistent…

Hanging Out With the Dream King: Interviews with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators

Joe McCabe

2004 IHG–Nonfiction nominee
2004 Stoker–Nonfiction nominee
Score: 12.54

The most intimate look yet into the life and mind of the bestselling author and creator of The Sandman.

Neil Gaiman is one of the most successful and versatile writers working today. He has become renowned not only for the consistently high quality of his writing but for his mastery of many media. He is an award-winning comic book writer (Sandman), novelist (American Gods), children’s book author (The Wolves in the Walls), and television screenwriter (Neverwhere). Yet with all the fans hungry to know more about his work,…

The Paint in My Blood

Alan M. Clark

2004 IHG–Nonfiction nominee
Score: 6.54

This 152 page full-color book contains over 130 paintings by World Fantasy Award-winner Alan M. Clark. Includes commentary by the artist on his process, techniques, the philosophies behind his approach to illustration and his career in the freelance business. There is a CD in the back of the book which contains a film of Alan M. Clark demonstrating spontaneous painting techniques and animations of several of the paintings in the book painting themselves.