Annal:2006 International Horror Guild Award for Nonfiction
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Results of the International Horror Guild Award in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- International Horror Guild Award for Nonfiction
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares
- 2006 IHG–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.56
Horror and the supernatural have fascinated people for centuries, and many of the most central figures appear over and over again. These figures have gained iconic status and continue to hold sway over popular culture and the modern imagination. This book offers extended entries on 24 of the most enduring and significant figures of horror and the supernatural, including The Sea Creature, The Witch, The Alien, The Vampire, The Werewolf, The Sorcerer, The Ghost, The Siren, The Mummy, The Devil, and The Zombie. Each entry is written by a leading authority on the subject and discusses the topic’s essential features and lasting influence, from the classical epics of Homer to the novels of Stephen King. Entries cite sources for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Entries include illustrations, sidebars of interesting information, and excerpts from key texts.
- 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).
The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror
- 2006 IHG–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 6.56
Author, critic, and scholar John Clute has assembled a collection of thirty interlinked essays illuminating the evolution of horror and the horrific. The hidden meanings and dark secrets of horror literature are unraveled with explorations of vastation, affect horror, holocaust fiction, cloaca, and the bound fantastic, to name a few. This complex, chthonic journey cross-references to Clute’s Encyclopedia of Fantasy and acts as a set of arguments about the nature of horror that would underpin Clute’s future encyclopedic work on the subject of the fantastic.
The Freedom of Fantastic Things
- 2006 IHG–Nonfiction nominee
- Score: 6.56
As poet, fiction writer, and artist, Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) has left an indelible mark on the fields of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. But criticism of his bountiful and varied work has been surprisingly scanty, and oftentimes ill-informed. The Freedom of Fantastic Things represents the most substantial volume of criticism of Smith’s work ever published, and includes both original and previously published work by the leading scholars on Smith.
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.
