UPDATE: 2009 Award Finalists Anounced.

Each year, the Horror Writers Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in the field of horror writing, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work Dracula. Since 1987, the approximately 500 members of the HWA have recommended, nominated and voted on the greatest works of horror and dark fantasy of the previous calendar year, making the Stokers the most prestigious award in the field of horror literature.
 
Currently the awards are presented in eight categories: Novel, First Novel, Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Fiction Collection, Anthology, Non-fiction, and Poetry Collection. The organization's Active members will select the winners from this ballot; voting will close on March 3rd, and the awards will be presented this year at a gala banquet on Saturday evening, March 27, at the World Horror Convention in Brighton, UK.

Darren hadn’t thought of the vagina tree for nearly 20 years, but now, driving back to his hometown with a car full of belongings and a half a fifth of vodka tucked between his legs, the image was burned into his brain like a brand into a horse’s ass.

29^th January, 2010

Oxford, UK

 TODAY: Rebellion is proud to announce the launch of The Abaddon & Solaris Books Podcast. The podcast is available free from iTunes and is posted on both the Solaris and Abaddon blogs. The podcast will be available at the end of each month, check out the blogs for updates.

Tin Te. These are the two syllables that had been haunting Damien ever since he began searching for his missing brother, Luke, a year ago; two syllables that are etched in Chinese characters in the corner of the tattoo covering his brother’s back in a Dali-esque vision: an alpine landscape but where the angles seem somehow wrong and the lines waver, where the mundane rock features appear to be leering faces when you look askance and where the colouring subtly changes with his breathing; two syllables that are perhaps the artist’s name, though no-one in any tattoo studio from the St. Pauli strip in Hamburg to the wharves of Shanghai or the Camden Markets of London claims to have heard of him. Or her. He had also tried mainstream art galleries and a university library to no avail. Nor had that bible of the internet, Wikipedia, helped him in this case.

After a much needed break in the fall of 2009, Macabre Cadaver is now open to submissions for the new year. We would like to extend a warm welcome to all prospective authors of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. We are particularly interested in fiction that is well-written and defies classification, breaks the rules, sets new standards, knows no boundaries, and doesn’t fit nicely into any particular nook or cranny. We are not averse to any topics or subject matter as long as it is well written, unique, and distinctive.

This year we hope to gather together the best stories by new and established authors and publish our first anthology. We will also begin publishing PDF issues of MC again on a quarterly basis, with the first issue available in the spring of 2010.

Talking With The Dead: 15 Questions With Scarlet Salem

“What’s wrong, Mrs. Jackson? You seem out of sorts. Holiday stress?”

“How’d you know, Judd? Mind-reading again?”

“This time of year is always stressful, but particularly when you have a boy like . . . ” He clapped a hand over his mouth.

“Go ahead and say it, Judd.”

“I’m sorry, Mrs. Jackson. I didn’t mean it like that.”

“How’d you mean it, then, Judd?”

Shane Ryan is a self taught dark horror artist's who has been creating imagery from the darker side of the art world ever since he was old enough to pick up a pencil and put it to paper, having drawn horror art even before being introduced to the world of horror it would seem that Shane's love for horror was as natural as his artistic talent.

Stephen King has published a fifth collection of short stories, Just After Sunset, the youngest sibling to Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, and Everything’s Eventual. With the most recent collection, Just After Sunset, King has reignited his passion for the short story.  After sitting in as guest editor for The Best American Short Stories 2007, King stated that “I got excited all over again, and I started writing stories again in the old way. I had hoped for that, but had hardly dared believe it would happen.” ^[1] Each of the stories in Just After Sunset showcases King at his most potent storytelling ability to date.

Sean Clark is the writer/producer of the upcoming movie, The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond. This movie is about a group of friends on a weekend getaway who discover an ancient board game that takes over their lives with deadly consequences. It won the audience choice award when it premiered in an Orlando horror convention. The original story by Gabriel Bologna fell into Sean Clark’s hands and the rest is history