Winners and nominees

• 1987: "The Deep End" by Robert R. McCammon
  Robert R. McCammon
  Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon...
  
  
  • "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll
    Jonathan Carroll
    Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy...
    
    
  • "This Old Man" by Charles L. Grant
    Charles L. Grant
    Charles Lewis Grant was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection...
    
    
  • "Day-Tay-Vao" by F. Paul Wilson
    F. Paul Wilson
    Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...
    
    
  • "Traps" by F. Paul Wilson
    F. Paul Wilson
    Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...
    
    
• 1988: "Night They Missed the Horror Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
  Joe R. Lansdale
  Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
  
  
  • "The Young Thing at the Top of the Stairs" by Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury
    Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
    
    
  • "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" by Harlan Ellison
    Harlan Ellison
    Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
    
    
  • "The Music of the Dark time" by Chet Williamson
    Chet Williamson
    Chet Williamson is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies.-Biography:...
    
    
  • "Jack's Decline" by Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents...
    
    
  • "Nobody Lives There Now" by Carol Orlock
• 1989: "Eat Me" by Robert R. McCammon
  Robert R. McCammon
  Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon...
  
  
  • "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" by Edward Bryant
    Edward Bryant
    Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. is a science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave....
    
    
  • "Bodies and Heads" by Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem was born in Jonesville, Virginia, which is in the heart of Appalachia. He went to college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He got a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative...
    
    
  • "Each Night, Each Year" by Kathryn Ptacek
    Kathryn Ptacek
    Kathryn Ptacek is an American author and editor. She received her B. A. in Journalism, with a minor in history, with honors from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1974...
    
    
  • "'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said" by Chet Williamson
    Chet Williamson
    Chet Williamson is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies.-Biography:...
    
    
• 1990: "The Calling" by David B. Silva
  • "Back Windows" by Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem was born in Jonesville, Virginia, which is in the heart of Appalachia. He went to college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He got a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative...
    
    
  • "But You'll Never Follow Me" by Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into...
    
    
  • "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" by Chet Williamson
    Chet Williamson
    Chet Williamson is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies.-Biography:...
    
    
  • "The Loneliest Number" by Edward Bryant
    Edward Bryant
    Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. is a science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave....
    
    
• 1991: "Lady Madonna" by Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction and fantasy shows, including Angel and Smallville.Holder is a four-time winner...
  
  
  • "The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire" by Poppy Z. Brite
    Poppy Z. Brite
    Poppy Z. Brite is an American author. Brite initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s after publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections...
    
    
  • "Love Doll: A Fable" by Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
    
    
  • "The Braille Encyclopaedia" by Grant Morrison
    Grant Morrison
    Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer, playwright and occultist. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings, as well as his successful runs on titles like Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Fantastic Four, All-Star Superman, and...
    
    
  • "Wolf Winter" by Maxine O'Callaghan
  • "Richard's Head" by Al Sarrantonio
    Al Sarrantonio
    Al Sarrantonio is an American horror and science fiction author who has published, over the past thirty-five years, more than forty-five books and eighty short stories...
    
    
• 1992: "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
  
  
  • "Farm Wife" by Nancy Kilpatrick
  • "Did They Get You to Trade?" by Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into...
    
    
  • "Come One, Come All" by Gahan Wilson
    Gahan Wilson
    Gahan Wilson is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations...
    
    
  • "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" by Douglas E. Winter
• 1993: "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" by Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction and fantasy shows, including Angel and Smallville.Holder is a four-time winner...
  
  
  • "Death Fiend Guerrillas" by William S. Burroughs
    William S. Burroughs
    William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...
    
    
  • "Distances" by Sherman Alexie
    Sherman Alexie
    Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American. Two of Alexie's best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , a book of short stories and Smoke Signals, a film...
    
    
  • "The Dog Park" by Dennis Etchison
    Dennis Etchison
    Dennis William Etchison , is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison refers to his own work as “rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world.”Stephen King has called Dennis Etchison “one hell of a fiction...
    
    
  • "Pain Grin" by Wayne Allen Sallee
• 1994: "The Box" by Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for American author Dallas Mayr . He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Girl Next Door and Red...
  
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• 1994: "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" by Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder
  Nancy Holder is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction and fantasy shows, including Angel and Smallville.Holder is a four-time winner...
  
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  • "Mr. Torso" by Edward Lee
    Edward Lee (writer)
    Edward Lee is an American novelist specializing in the field of horror who has written 40 books, more than half of which have been published by mass-market New York paperback companies such as Leisure/Dorchester, Berkley, and Zebra/Kensington. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee for his story “Mr...
    
    
  • "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" by Lucy Taylor
    Lucy Taylor
    Lucy Taylor is a horror novel writer. Her novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 1995, and the Deathrealm Award for Best Novel in 1996...
    
    
• 1995: "Chatting With Anubis" by Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
  
  
  • "Becky Lives" by Harry Crews
    Harry Crews
    Harry Crews is an American novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist. He was born in Bacon County, Georgia in 1935 and served in the Marines during the Korean War. He attended the University of Florida on the GI Bill, but dropped out to travel...
    
    
  • "The Bungalow House" by Thomas Ligotti
    Thomas Ligotti
    Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings are unique in style, have been noted as major continuations of several literary genres – most prominently Lovecraftian horror – and have overall been variously described as works of...
    
    
  • "The Death of the Novel" by William Browning Spencer
    William Browning Spencer
    William Browning Spencer is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surreally humorous. His novel Resume With Monsters conflates soul-destroying H. P...
    
    
• 1996: "metalica" by P.D. Cacek
  • "The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman" by Robert Devereaux
  • "The Secret Shih Tan" by Graham Masterton
    Graham Masterton
    Graham Masterton is a British horror author. Originally editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse, Graham Masterton's first novel The Manitou was released in 1976. This novel was adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou...
    
    
  • "The House of Mourning" by Brian Stableford
    Brian Stableford
    Brian Michael Stableford is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published as by Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford...
    
    
  • "Plan 10 from Inner Space" by Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into...
    
    
• 1997: "Rat Food" by Edo van Belkom
  Edo van Belkom
  Edo van Belkom is a Canadian author of horror fiction.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the author of the novels Wyrm Wolf, Teeth, Martyrs, Scream Queen, Army of the Dead, and Wolf Pack, and the Dragonlance setting novel Lord Soth , amongst others...
  
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  • "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" by Douglas Clegg
    Douglas Clegg
    Douglas Clegg is a horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website and LiveJournal.-Biography:...
    
    
  • "A Plague on Both Your Houses" by Scott Edelman
    Scott Edelman
    Scott Edelman is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor. He became the editor of SCI FI Magazine in 2002, and has edited the channel's online magazine Science Fiction Weekly since 2000.He was the founding and only editor of the science fiction magazine Science Fiction...
    
    
  • "Madame Babylon" by Brian Hodge
    Brian Hodge
    Brian Hodge is a prolific writer in a number of genres and sub-genres, as well as an avid connoisseur of music. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is working on his latest novel.Brian Hodge's novels are often dark in nature. Themes like self...
    
    

• 1998: "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
  Bruce Holland Rogers
  Bruce Holland Rogers is an American author of short fiction who also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, the Micro Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and...
  
  
  • "Blues-Born" by Tina L. Jens
  • "Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King
    Stephen King
    Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
    
    
  • "The Rug" by Edo van Belkom
    Edo van Belkom
    Edo van Belkom is a Canadian author of horror fiction.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the author of the novels Wyrm Wolf, Teeth, Martyrs, Scream Queen, Army of the Dead, and Wolf Pack, and the Dragonlance setting novel Lord Soth , amongst others...
    
    
• 1999: "Aftershock" by F. Paul Wilson
  F. Paul Wilson
  Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...
  
  
  • "The Grave" by P.D. Cacek
  • "The Entertainment" by Ramsey Campbell
    Ramsey Campbell
    John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
    
    
  • "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem was born in Jonesville, Virginia, which is in the heart of Appalachia. He went to college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He got a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative...
    
    
• 2000: "Gone" by Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for American author Dallas Mayr . He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Girl Next Door and Red...
  
  
  • "Dead Cat Bounce" by Gerard Daniel Houarner
    Gerard Daniel Houarner
    -Novels & Short Fiction Collections:*The Bard of Sorcery *Painfreak *Inside the Works *I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It *Road to Hell *Black Orchids from Aum...
    
    
  • "Fallen Angel" by Robert J. Sawyer
    Robert J. Sawyer
    Robert James Sawyer is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 20 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won over forty awards for his fiction, including the Nebula Award ,...
    
    
  • "Mexican Moon" by Karen E. Taylor
    Karen E. Taylor
    Karen E. Taylor is the author of The Vampire Legacy Series of novels, published by Kensington Books. A voracious reader of vampire/horror novels, Karen first started writing Blood Secrets in January, 1988. She conceived of writing the novel while living across the street from a very large cemetery...
    
    
• 2001: "Reconstructing Amy" by Tim Lebbon
  Tim Lebbon
  Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...
  
  
  • "I Am Your Need" by Mort Castle
    Mort Castle
    Mort Castle is a horror author and writing teacher, with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional...
    
    
  • "The Haunt" by Jack Ketchum
    Jack Ketchum
    Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for American author Dallas Mayr . He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Girl Next Door and Red...
    
    
  • "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" by David B. Silva
• 2002: "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Depair" by Tom Piccirilli
  • "Disappearances" by Mort Castle
    Mort Castle
    Mort Castle is a horror author and writing teacher, with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional...
    
    
  • "The Green Man" by Christopher Fowler
    Christopher Fowler
    Christopher Fowler is an English thriller writer. In addition to his numerous horror, satire and crime novels, he has also written a Sherlock Holmes audio drama for BBC 7 entitled The Lady Downstairs...
    
    
  • "The Plague Species" by Charlee Jacob
    Charlee Jacob
    Charlee Jacob is an American author specializing in horror fiction, dark fantasy, and poetry. Her writing career began in 1981 with the publication of several poems under the name Charlee Carter Broach...
    
    
  • "Details" by China Miéville
    China Miéville
    China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
    
    
• 2003: "Duty" by Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
  
  
  • "The Last Supper" by Scott Edelman
    Scott Edelman
    Scott Edelman is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor. He became the editor of SCI FI Magazine in 2002, and has edited the channel's online magazine Science Fiction Weekly since 2000.He was the founding and only editor of the science fiction magazine Science Fiction...
    
    
  • "Harvey's Dream" by Stephen King
    Stephen King
    Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
    
    
  • "The Haunting" by Joyce Carol Oates
    Joyce Carol Oates
    Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
    
    
  • "The Red Bow" by George Saunders
    George Saunders
    George Saunders is a New York Times bestselling American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ, among other publications...
    
    
• 2004: "Nimitseahpah" by Nancy Etchemendy
  Nancy Etchemendy
  Nancy Elise Howell Etchemendy is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her novels, short fiction, and poetry have appeared regularly since 1980, both in the United States and abroad...
  
  
  • "Just Out of Reach" by Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
    
    
  • "A Madness of Starlings" by Douglas Clegg
    Douglas Clegg
    Douglas Clegg is a horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website and LiveJournal.-Biography:...
    
    
  • "Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland" by John Farris
    John Farris
    John Lee Farris is an American writer, known largely for his work in the southern Gothic genre. He was born 1936 in Jefferson City, Missouri, to parents John Linder Farris and Eleanor Carter Farris . Raised in Tennessee, he graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Southwestern...
    
    
  • "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan
    Margo Lanagan
    Margo Lanagan in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.Many of her books, including ye Young Adult fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black...
    
    
  • "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk
    Chuck Palahniuk
    Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...
    
    
• 2005: "We Now Pause for Station Identification" by Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
  
  
  • "Haeckel's Tale" by Clive Barker
    Clive Barker
    Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
    
    
  • "As Others See Us" by Mort Castle
    Mort Castle
    Mort Castle is a horror author and writing teacher, with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional...
    
    
  • "Times of Atonement" by Yvonne Navarro
    Yvonne Navarro
    Yvonne Navarro is an American author who has published over twenty books. Of those twenty, the titles AfterAge, deadrush, Final Impact, Red Shadows, DeadTimes, That's Not My Name and Mirror Me were solo novels, or fiction created solely by her...
    
    
  • "Invisible" by Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem was born in Jonesville, Virginia, which is in the heart of Appalachia. He went to college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He got a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative...
    
    
• 2006: "Tested" by Lisa Morton
  Lisa Morton
  Lisa Morton is an American horror author and screenwriter.Morton was born in Pasadena, California, and entered the film industry in 1979 as a modelmaker on Star Trek: The Motion Picture...
  
  
  • "FYI" by Mort Castle
    Mort Castle
    Mort Castle is a horror author and writing teacher, with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional...
    
    
  • "Feeding the Dead Inside" by Yvonne Navarro
    Yvonne Navarro
    Yvonne Navarro is an American author who has published over twenty books. Of those twenty, the titles AfterAge, deadrush, Final Impact, Red Shadows, DeadTimes, That's Not My Name and Mirror Me were solo novels, or fiction created solely by her...
    
    
  • "Balance" by Gene O'Neill
    Gene O'Neill
    Gene O'Neill is best known as a multi-award nominated writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.O'Neill's professional writing career began after completing the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1979. Since that time, over 100 of his works have been published...
    
    
  • "31/10" by Stephen Volk
    Stephen Volk
    Stephen Volk is a British screenwriter, whose first produced work was Ken Russell's film Gothic in 1986.His most famous work is Ghostwatch, a controversial drama shown on BBC One on Halloween 1992. It is commonly misrepresented as a hoax documentary, but this was never the intention...
    
    
• 2007: "The Gentle Brush of Wings" by David Niall Wilson
  David Niall Wilson
  David Niall Wilson is an American writer primarily known for his works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction.-Background:...
  
  
  • "The Death Wagon Rolls on By" from C. Dean Andersson
  • "Letting Go" by John Everson
    John Everson
    John Everson of Naperville, Illinois, is an American author. He is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant, released by Leisure Books in 2008, and Sacrifice, released by Leisure Books in 2009...
    
    
  • "The Teacher" by Paul G. Tremblay
    Paul G. Tremblay
    Paul G. Tremblay is an American author and editor of contemporary horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. Tremblay received two Bram Stoker Award nominations in 2007 and he is a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.- Biography :...
    
    
  • "There's No Light Between Floor" by Paul G. Tremblay
    Paul G. Tremblay
    Paul G. Tremblay is an American author and editor of contemporary horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. Tremblay received two Bram Stoker Award nominations in 2007 and he is a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.- Biography :...
    
    
  • "Closet Dreams" by Lisa Tuttle
    Lisa Tuttle
    Lisa Tuttle is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. She has published over a dozen novels, five short story collections, and several non-fiction titles, including a reference book on feminism. She has also edited several anthologies and reviewed books for various...
    
    
• 2008: "The Lost" by Sarah Langan
  • "Petrified" by Scott Edelman
    Scott Edelman
    Scott Edelman is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor. He became the editor of SCI FI Magazine in 2002, and has edited the channel's online magazine Science Fiction Weekly since 2000.He was the founding and only editor of the science fiction magazine Science Fiction...
    
    
  • "The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft" by Nick Mamatas
    Nick Mamatas
    Nick Mamatas is an American horror, science fiction and fantasy author and editor for the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction novels for Viz Media...
    
     and Tim Pratt
    Tim Pratt
    Tim Pratt is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He grew up in the vicinity of Dudley, North Carolina, and attended Appalachian State University, where he earned a Bachelor's in English. In 1999 he attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop...
    
    
  • "Evidence of Love in A Case of Abandonment" by M. Rickert
    M. Rickert
    Mary Rickert, known as M. Rickert , is an American writer of fantasy fiction. Many of her stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her first collection, Map of Dreams, was published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2006; her second collection, Holiday, appeared in 2010...
    
    
  • "Turtle" by Lee Thomas
    Lee Thomas
    Lee Thomas may refer to:*Lee Thomas , baseball*Lee Thomas , rugby player*Lee M. Thomas , head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1985-1989...
    
    
• 2009 : "In the Porches of My Ears" by Norman Prentiss
  • "Keeping Watch" by Nate Kenyon
    Nate Kenyon
    Nate Kenyon is the award-winning author of science fiction, horror and suspense novels and short fiction. Kenyon's first novel, Bloodstone , was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist and was voted the Preditors and Editors Horror Novel of the Year for 2006. His second novel, The Reach, was also a Bram...
    
    
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