Annal:2006 Bram Stoker Award for Novel
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Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Bram Stoker Award for Novel
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
Lisey's Story: A Novel
- 2006 Stoker–Novel winner
- 2007 WFA–Novel nominee
- 2006 IHG–Novel nominee
- Score: 22.56
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Lisey knew there was a place Scott went—a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it’s Lisey’s turn to face Scott’s demons, Lisey’s turn to go to Boo’ya Moon. What begins as a widow’s effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited.
- 2006 Stoker–1st Novel winner
- 2006 Stoker–Novel nominee*
- Score: 10.56
The cozy little town of Pine Deep buried the horrors of its past a long time ago. Thirty years have gone by since the darkness descended and the Black Harvest began, a time when a serial killer sheared a bloody swath through the quiet Pennsylvania village.
But then—a month before Halloween—it begins. Unspeakably desecrated bodies. Inexplicable insanity. And an ancient evil walking the streets, drawing in those who would fall to their own demons and seeking to shred the very soul of this rapidly fracturing community. Yes, the residents of Pine Deep have drawn together and faced a killer before. But this time, evil has many faces—and the lust and will to rule the earth. This struggle will be epic.
- 2006 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
The night Johnny Danetello drove a dying girl through the streets of Brooklyn in his cab, he was trying to save her life. Instead he ran down a cop and lost her and his freedom. Every day in prison, Johnny knew that Angie Monticelli’s family blamed him for her death, and that going home would be suicide. But Johnny has unfinished business with his former friend turned mob boss, Vinny Monticelli.
Now Johnny has returned to converse with the doomed and the dead–and wait for Vinny to make his move. Survivors of a long-ago freak accident, the two men share access to alternate realities no one else can know–and to a past and present that will all become the same in a city only one of them can leave alive….
- 2006 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
They met first in boarding school at age twelve. Alex Fletcher, shy and scared. Darren Rust, always furiously scribbling away in a private journal. Though a bond was formed from their pre-pubescent interest in naked women, Darren had another interest. A morbid curiosity about death. A curiosity that turned into something much more sinister.
They crossed paths again in college. Darren had dark, ghastly urges squirming around in his head, and he believed he saw the same things—the urge to hurt, the urge to kill—in Alex.
Now Alex has a wife and a daughter. And Darren is back. He’s hiding. He’s patient. His mind is twisted in the worst possible way.
- 2006 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
After he finds himself stranded at a truck stop in Missouri, Mark Sieber gets one of the biggest shocks of his life when he recognizes the face of a little girl on a Missing poster as belonging to the same little girl he saw only a few minutes before. As the police and media begin to converge on the truck stop, Mark retreats back to his hotel room to call his wife and let her know what’s going on, only to be taken hostage by the same people who released the little girl.
Ranging in ages from 12 to 19, Mark’s abductors are in the process of escaping from a sadistic pedophile known to them only as “Grendel”. Mark’s abductors have all been mutilated by Grendel — who may be very close behind them — and need someone with a “normal face” to help them carry out their plan for justice and returning home.
