Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with Joe McKinney

Joe McKinney is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Novel for Flesh Eaters. 1. How would you describe Flesh Eaters? Flesh Eaters is sort of difficult to characterize.  It’s a zombie novel, for example, but it’s also a classic disaster tale and a crime story.  I didn’t...

Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with Allyson Bird

Allyson Bird is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for her book Isis Unbound. 1. Tell us about what inspired you to write Isis Unbound? I’ve always been interested in Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. So I combined the two in an alternate history. I...

“Bram Stoker Award™ for Best First Novel” List on GoodReads

Horror writer and HWA member Weston Ochse has created a list on GoodReads of all the winners of the Best First Novel category of the Bram Stoker Awards™. Browse through it and rate the ones you’ve...

Horror Writers Association Announces 2009 Stoker Winners

At long last, the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2009 Bram Stoker Awards at its annual Stoker Banquet held March 27th, 2010, as part of the World Horror Convention in Brighton, UK. Eight new bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the...

Stoker Weekend 2009 – Simply the Best!

A message from HWA President Deborah LeBlanc: Last weekend’s Stoker event was, in the words of the incomparable Tina Turner, “Simply the Best!” The lineup of special guests was to die for, the food at the banquet was spectacular, and the panels, workshops, and the awards ceremony were...