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:

5 Stories

Peter Straub

Offered for the first time in a collected format, this selection of short stories features five gripping tales by one of the horror genre’s most literate and endlessly inventive writers, Peter Straub—“Little Red’s Tango,” “Lapland, or Film Noir,” “The Geezers,” “Donald Duck,” and “Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle.”

 

Proverbs for Monsters

Michael A. Arnzen

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.

Get advice for growing your own maneating plant. Ride the movies at Exorcystland—the scariest amusement park ever created. Attend a bizarre grade school for assassins. 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. Ride a deseased elephant and witness the death of the last vampire and learn more than you ever wanted to know about a perpetual embalming machine. Wince and laugh and wince again.

 

Defining Moments

David Niall Wilson

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

Laird Barron

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.

 

Old Devil Moon

Christopher Fowler

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.

 
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