La liste des nominés du Prix Bram Stoker 2021 a enfin été dévoilée ! Décerné par la Horror Writers Association, ce prix créé en 1987 rend hommage à Bram Stoker en récompensant des œuvres d'horreur ou de dark fantasy de très bonne qualité.
Les gagnants seront annoncés le 15 mai prochain à Denver, dans le Colorado. Les nominés sont :
Catégorie roman
- V. Castro – The Queen of the Cicadas (Flame Tree Press)
- Grady Hendrix – The Final Girl Support Group (Berkley)
- Stephen Graham Jones – My Heart is a Chainsaw (Gallery/Saga Press)
- Cynthia Pelayo – Children of Chicago (Agora Books)
- Chuck Wendig – The Book of Accidents (Del Rey)
Catégorie premier roman
- S. Alessandro Martinez – Helminth (Omnium Gatherum)
- LaTanya McQueen – When the Reckoning Comes (Harper Perennial)
- Terry Miles – Rabbits (Del Rey)
- Hailey Piper – Queen of Teeth (Strangehouse Books)
- Lisa Quigley – The Forest (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
- Nicole Willson – Tidepool (The Parliament House)
Catégorie roman graphique
- Saladin Ahmed (auteur) et Sami Kivelä (dessin) – Abbott 1973 (BOOM! Studios)
- Kami Garcia (auteur); Mico Suayan (artist); Jason Badower (dessin); et Mike Mayhew (dessin) – Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (DC Comics)
- Alessandro Manzetti (auteur) et Stefano Cardoselli (dessin) – The Inhabitant of the Lake (Independent Legions Publishing)
- Grant Morrison (auteur); Alex Child (auteur); et Naomi Franquiz (dessin) – Proctor Valley Road (BOOM! Studios)
- Dan Panosian (auteur) et Marianna Ignazzi (dessin) – An Unkindness of Ravens (BOOM! Studios)
Catégorie roman jeune adulte
- Kendare Blake – All These Bodies (Quill Tree Books)
- R.L. Boyle – The Book of the Baku (Titan Books )
- Jessica Lewis – Bad Witch Burning (Delacorte Press)
- Krystal Sutherland – House of Hollow (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- Erica Waters – The River Has Teeth (HarperTeen)
Catégorie fiction longue
- V. Castro – Goddess of Filth (Creature Publishing, LLC)
- Cassandra Khaw – Nothing But Blackened Teeth (Tor Nightfire)
- Eric LaRocca – Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Weirdpunk Books)
- Hailey Piper – Recitation of the First Feeding (Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy) (The Seventh Terrace)
- Jeff Strand – Twentieth Anniversary Screening (Slice and Dice) (auto-publié)
Catégorie fiction courte
- Carol Gyzander – The Yellow Crown (Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign) (Hippocampus Press)
- Lee Murray – Permanent Damage (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Cindy O’Quinn – A Gathering at the Mountain (The Bad Book) (Bleeding Edge Books)
- Anna Taborska -Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail (Terror Tales of the Scottish Lowlands) (Telos Publishing)
- Kyla Lee Ward – A Whisper in the Death Pit (Weirdbook #44) (Wildside Press)
Catégorie recueil de nouvelles
- Gemma Files – In That Endlessness, Our End (Grimscribe Press)
- Philip Fracassi – Beneath a Pale Sky (Lethe Press)
- Jonathan Maberry – Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead (WordFire Press LLC)
- Lisa Tuttle – The Dead Hours of Night (Valancourt Books)
- A.C. Wise – The Ghost Sequences (Undertow Publications)
Catégorie scénario
- C. Henry Chaisson, Nick Antosca; et Scott Cooper – Antlers (Searchlight Pictures)
- Hwang Dong-hyuk – Squid Game, Saison 1, Episode 1: Red Light, Green Light (Siren Pictures)
- Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan, et Jeff Howard – Midnight Mass, Saison 1, Episode 6: Book VI: Acts of the Apostles (Intrepid Pictures)
- Phil Graziadei et Leigh Janiak – Fear Street: Part One – 1994 (Chernin Entertainment)
- Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, et Nia DaCosta – Candyman (Universal Pictures)
Catégorie recueil de poésie
- Joe R. Lansdale – Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations (Independent Legions Publishing)
- Jessica McHugh – Strange Nests (Apokrupha)
- Marge Simon et Mary Turzillo – Victims (Weasel Press)
- Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, et Geneve Flynn – Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing)
- Lucy A. Snyder – Exposed Nerves (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Catégorie anthologie
- James Chambers – Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign (Hippocampus Press)
- Ellen Datlow – When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books)
- Aaron J. French and Jess Landry – There is No Death, There are No Dead (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Eric J. Guignard – Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (Dark Moon Books)
- Eugene Johnson – Attack From the ’80s (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Catégorie non-fiction
- Michael Knost – Writers Workshop of Horror 2 (Hydra Publications)
- Danel Olson – 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels (Lexington Books)
- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock et Regina M. Hansen – Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema (Fordham University Press)
- Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. – Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters (Reaktion Books)
- Kristopher Woofter – Shirley Jackson: A Companion (Peter Lang Publishing)
Catégorie non-fiction courte
- Dejan Ognjanović – The Three Paradigms of Horror (Vastarien Vol. 4, Issue 2) (Grimscribe Press)
- Cindy O’Quinn – One and Done (Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology) (Brigids Gate Press)
- Emily Ruth Verona – A Horror Fan’s Guide to Surviving Womanhood (thefinalgirls.co.uk)
- Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. – Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring (Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University Press)
- Angela Yuriko Smith – Horror Writers: Architects of Hope (The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications)
Félicitations et bonne chance à eux !
