HWA Bram Stoker Award™ 2013 Reading ListPlease note that if your work appears on this list that the Association's Bram Stoker Award etiquette specifically precludes advertising that fact: "You may not promote your work as "Bram Stoker Award Recommended", nor as appearing on the Bram Stoker Award Reading List. Receiving one, or a handful of Bram Stoker Award recommendations (which is how a work appears on the Bram Stoker Award Reading List) is a far cry from winning the Award or even from being listed on the preliminary ballot. It devalues the Bram Stoker Awards to have their name attached to works whose only defining characteristic may be that one or two HWA members liked them. Authors or publishers who promote their work in this manner run the risk of offending our voting members." For full detail about the Bram Stoker Awards, please visit: http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm. Early in each year the Horror Writers Association announces its Preliminary Bram Stoker Awards Ballot, made up of both members' recommendations and jury selections. A month or so later, we announce the Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot, which lists the official nominees for the awards. Full detail of the members' recommendation and jury selection processses and the ballots are included in the Bram Stoker Awards Rules. | ||||
| CATEGORY | AUTHOR | TITLE | PUBLICATION | PUBLISHER |
| Anthology | Anne Petty | Limbus, Inc. | JournalStone | |
| Anthology | Christopher Ficco | Penny Dread Tales III | Rune Wright | |
| Anthology | Angel Leigh McCoy, E S Magill and Chris Marrs | Deep cuts | Evil Jester Press | |
| Anthology | Eric J. Guignard, ed. | After Death... | Dark Moon | |
| Fiction Collection | Christopher Barzak | Before and Afterlives | Lethe Press | |
| Fiction Collection | Eddy C. Bertin | The Whispering Horror | Shadow Publishing | |
| Fiction Collection | Karen Russell | Vampires in the Lemon Grove | Knopf | |
| Fiction Collection | Kathryn Ptacek | Looking Backward in Darkness: Tales of Fantasy and Horror | Borgo Press | |
| Fiction Collection | Steve Rasnic Tem | Onion Songs | Chomu Press | |
| Fiction Collection | W. H. Pugmire | Bohemians of Sesqua Valley | Arcane Wisdom Press | |
| First Novel | Rena Mason | The Evolutionist | Nightscape Press | |
| First Novel | Brian W. Matthews | Forever Man | JournalStone | |
| Long Fiction | Rena Mason | East End Girls | JournalStone | |
| Long Fiction | Stephen Volk | Whitstable | Spectral Press | |
| Long Fiction | Brett J. Talley | The Sacrifice | Limbus, Inc. | JournalStone |
| Long Fiction | Conrad Williams | The Fox | This is Horror | |
| Long Fiction | Jonathan Maberry | Strip Search | Limbus, Inc. | JournalStone |
| Long Fiction | Laird Barron | LD50 | Weaponized (author's blog) | |
| Long Fiction | Mark Allan Gunnells | The Summer of Winters | Evil Jester Press | |
| Long Fiction | Nicole Cushing | Children of No One | DarkFuse | |
| Long Fiction | Tim Casson | The Withering | Black Static #32 | |
| Novel | Michaelbrent Collings | Darkbound | Amazon Digital Services | |
| Novel | Gord Rollo | Only the Thunder Knows | JournalStone | |
| Novel | Graeme Reynolds | High Moor 2: Moonstruck | Horrific Tales Publishing | |
| Novel | Joe Hill | NOS4A2 | William Morrow | |
| Novel | Andrew Pyper | The Demonologist | Simon & Schuster | |
| Novel | David Morrell | Murder as a Fine Art | Mulholland | |
| Novel | Frank Herbert | Angels' Fall | WordFire Press | |
| Novel | James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell | The Blood Gospel | William Morrow | |
| Novel | Jody R. LaGreca & Michael McCarty | Bloodlust | Whiskey Creek Press | |
| Novel | Kevin J. Anderson | Hair Raising Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. | Kensington | |
| Novel | Michael McCarty, Linnea Quigley & Stan Swanson | Return of the Scream Queen | Dark Moon Books | |
| Poetry | Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca | Dangerous Dreams | Elektrik Milk Bath Press | |
| Screenplay | Glenn Mazzara | The Walking Dead - Welcome to the Tombs S3, ep 16 | AMC | |
| Screenplay | Scott M Gimple | The Walking Dead: This Sorrowful Life S3:15 | AMC | |
| Screenplay | Tim Minear | American Horror Story Asylum: Madness Ends | FX Channel | |
| Screenplay | Wentworth Miller and Erin Cressida Wilson | Stoker | Fox Searchlight | |
| Short Fiction | Samuel Marolla | Black Tea | Black Tea and Other Tales | Mezzotints |
| Short Fiction | Neil Gaiman | Down to a Sunless Sea | guardian.co.uk | |
| Short Fiction | Kit Reed | The Legend of Troop 13 | Asimov's Science Fiction | |
| Short Fiction | Marc Laidlaw | Bonfires | Nightmare Magazine | |
| Short Fiction | Priya Sharma | The Anatomist’s Mnemonic | Black Static #32 | |
| Short Fiction | Steve Rasnic Tem | Bedtime Story | Black Static #32 | |
| Short Fiction | W.H. Pugmire | An Eidolon of Filth | http://lovecraftzine.com/2013/01/03/lovecraft-ezine-january-issue-table-of-contents/ | Mike Davis |