Annal:2007 International Horror Guild Award for Collection
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Results of the International Horror Guild Award in the year 2007. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- International Horror Guild Award for Collection
- Horror books
- Horror authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
Dagger Key: and Other Stories
- 2007 IHG–Collection winner
- 2008 WFA–Collection nominee
- Score: 16.57
Lucius Shepard’s new story collection may well be his best yet. In nine novellas and stories, he traces a long-dead pirate’s murderous possession of a Caribbean islander, explains a grand tantric conspiracy, pits a fugitive killer against the malignant energies of the Dragon Griaule, exposes a small Pennsylvania town to a morally fraught extradimensional excursion…and there’s much more.
Written in Shepard’s characteristically brilliant moody prose, these are amongst the finest dark fantasies on offer today.
The Imago Sequence: and Other Stories
- 2007 IHG–Collection nominee
- 2007 Stoker–Collection nominee
- Score: 12.57
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.
Masques of Satan: Twelve Tales and a Novella
- 2007 IHG–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.57
Many of the tales in this collection draw on the author’s theatrical background, and in such stories as ‘Mmm-Delicious’, ‘Puss-Cat’, ‘Blind Man’s Box’, ‘Grab a Granny Night’, ‘Mr Poo-Poo’, ‘The Road from Damascus’, and the stunning novella ‘Shades of the Prison House’ he takes us backstage into a world of easy friendship and a surface glamour which conceals something much more dark and desperate. Oliver’s talent for pastiche shines in ‘The Silver Cord’, which won the Arthur Machen Short Story Competition, while ‘The Children of Monte Rosa’ turns a friendly invitation to a holiday villa into something deeply disturbing.
All of these tales, as well as the four others collected in this volume, makes Masques of Satan Oliver’s richest and most satisfying book to date, one that deserves to be on the shelf of every reader who appreciates fine writing and is searching for chills as literate as they are frightening.
- 2008 WFA–Collection nominee
- 2007 IHG–Collection nominee
- Score: 12.58
In this, his second collection of short fiction, award-winning author and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher delivers his unique take on the weird, the wonderful and the downright strange. These are tales in which the world is very much as we know it, but charged with a sense of the wonders that lie in wait just beneath the surface of our everyday reality. Grisly goings-on in a tattoo parlour…A bereaved girl’s poetic revenge…Hunting fairies with pickup truck and cattle prod…Along with The Blackwood Oak, a novella making its first appearance between these covers, the stories have been drawn together from sources as diverse as Weird Tales, Subterranean, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter Chills, and The Dark.
- 2007 IHG–Collection nominee
- Score: 6.57
The endlessly inventive mind of Joe R. Lansdale whips up yet another batch of stories to amaze, surprise, and entertain you. His new offering covers a lot of territory, producing what may be his best short story collection yet.
Read about an East Texas mule race in the early 1900s, the disturbed mind of a mass murderer and his friendship with the shadow, the supernatural adventures of Reverend Rains, a poetic collaboration with Melissa Mia Hall about the nature of loneliness and loss, a famous, award winning novella about a clutch of unusual crime solvers. Read about a world where the dead almost rule, and venture into an alternate universe that is the background for perhaps the strangest tale of all, an adventure concerning an earnest and horny steam shovel named Bill.
It’s the usual wild and crowd pleasing display of what has become a subgenre of modern literature as only Joe R. Lansdale can present it: Tales Lansdalien. Welcome to his world.
