Annal:2007 Bram Stoker Award for Fiction Collection
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Results of the Bram Stoker Award in the year 2007. 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.
- 2007 Stoker–Collection winner
- Score: 10.57
A wonderful collection of tales by the horror genre’s most literate and endlessly inventive writers.
“Little Red’s Tango” incorporates a vampire story, miracle legends, a saint’s legend, an epistle, beatitudes, and jazz minutiae within a contemporary faux-gospel.
“Lapland, or Film Noir” is a journey to place of the dark, paranoid crime movies made in Los Angeles between 1948 and 1956, which Straub calls “one of the most compelling periods in American film history.”
“The Geezers” is a fascinating exercise in withholding everything that might explain what the protagonists and their friends were up to, and describing instead their reactions to the consequences of the unstated actions. It is Straub at his best.
“Donald Duck” is a surreal study of how a family can be changed irrevocably by the decisions of one reckless member.
The final tale, “Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle” reveals itself in clever homage as Straub deliberately assumes the mantle of “a great and respected elder, with felonious intentions.” This is the first time these stories have been collected, and represent a welcome addition to the Straub’s body of work.
- 2007 Stoker–Collection winner
- Score: 10.57
You can catch a good human with a bad hamburger
Proverbs For Monsters is an omnibus of the best writing to date by one the most offbeat and humorous writers working in the horror genre today, Michael A. Arnzen. Hand picked by the author, these are the stories “flash fictions,” and poems most cherished by readers, most enjoyed at live performances, most celebrated by editor of year’s best collections, and most recommended for literary awards from across his career.
An infant vampire bites hardest
In Proverbs For Monsters you’ll get advice for growing your own maneating plant. You’ll ride the movies at Exorcystland—the scariest amusement park ever created. You’ll attend a bizarre grade school for assassins. You’ll meet a dentist with a very disturbing collection of baby teeth. You’ll encounter strange children—from the boy who carries his heart in a metal case attached to his chest to the girl who is completely encased in the carapace of her own giant scab. You’ll ride a deseased elephant and witness the death of the last vampire and learn…
- 2007 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.57
A new collection of novellas, novelettes and stories by the author of This is My Blood, Deep Blue & The Mote in Andrea’s Eye.
Enter a world of chilling terror and thrilling unease. David Niall Wilson will be your guide as you meet vampires, werewolves and other things altogether more terrible. Defining Moments is a representative collection of this award-winning author’s novellas, novelettes and stories—with three all new tales (including two lengthy novellas).
The Imago Sequence: and Other Stories
- 2007 IHG–Collection nominee
- 2007 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 12.57
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti, comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the grotesque, the devilish, and the perverse with rare intensity and astonishing craftsmanship.
Collected here for the first time are nine terrifying tales of cosmic horror, including the World Fantasy Award-nominated novella “The Imago Sequence,” the International Horror Guild Award-nominated “Proboscis,” and the never-before published “Procession of the Black Sloth.” Together, these stories, each a masterstroke of craft and imaginative irony, form a shocking cycle of distorted evolution, encroaching chaos, and ravenous insectoid hive-minds hidden just beneath the seemingly benign surface of the Earth.
With colorful protagonists, including an over-the-hill CIA agent, a grizzled Pinkerton detective, and a failed actor accompanying a group of bounty hunters, Barron’s stories are resonant and authentic, featuring vulnerable, hardboiled tough guys attempting to stand against the…
- 2007 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.57
A geologist trapped in a town without water is lured into a desperate escape plan. A boy plans a murder in an eerie funfair. A cop witnesses an inexplicable plague of madness. A teenager learns a deadly trick with his mobile phone. A woman unlocks a childhood secret with the aid of old comic books. A secret museum opens only at night.
Old Devil Moon is Christopher Fowler’s tenth collection of uniquely disturbing short stories, and contains the blackest humour and the darkest fears, set in worlds we walk through each day but rarely see.
