Annal:2006 Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction
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Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 2006. There was a tie for first place. 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.
Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
- 2006 Stoker–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.56
We’re all going to die—it’s in the contract—but how will it happen? Today, although we live longer, people are killed by everything—bad words, bloodletting, flying cows, frozen toilets, hiccups, laughing, and spontaneous combustion are some of the unexpected causes. According to death certificates, in 1700 there were less than one hundred causes of death. Now there are more than three thousand. In the eye-opening and addictive Final Exits, causes of death—bizarre or common—are alphabetically arranged and include actual accounts of people, both famous and ordinary, who died in their own particular way.
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth
- 2006 Stoker–Nonfiction winner
- 2006 IHG–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 16.56
This volume connects American social and religious views with the classic American movie genre of the zombie horror film. For nearly forty years, the films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hellish visions of our world overrun by flesh-eating ghouls. This study proves that Romero’s films, like apocalyptic literature or Dante’s Commedia, go beyond the surface experience of repulsion to probe deeper questions of human nature and purpose, often giving a chilling and darkly humorous critique of modern, secular America.
- 2006 IHG–Nonfiction nominee
- 2006 Stoker–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 12.56
A collection of essays on horror cinema from Nosferatu (1922) to The Sixth Sense (1999).
Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished
- 2006 Stoker–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 6.56
This is the most comprehensive review of the Stephen King works you’ve never read, including coverage of nearly one hundred unpublished and uncollected works of fiction—novels, short stories, screenplays, and poems! Best of all, it features the first book publication of two lost works written by King, including an entire chapter from King’s unpublished 1970 novel Sword in the Darkness that has never been published anywhere in the world!
