Bram Stoker Awards Results and Next Year's StokerCon Announcement

 It's a celebration of Horror today and StokerCon happened this weekend.

You can watch the Bram Stoker Awards ceremony here. The official list of winner is here.

Here is my post with the final ballot from back in February. Here is a list of the winners courtesy of  Twitter user, @LouPendergrast. Click through to their website for more. This one is missing MG which went to Lora Senf for The Lighthouse Keeper. Links go to my reviews where applicable.

Superior Achievement in a Novel The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Gallery/Saga Press/Titan)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Blood from the Air by Gemma Files (Grimscribe Press)\

Superior Achievement in an Anthology Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams (Random House)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel The Daughters of Block Island by Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel The First Vampire by Amy Chu (author) and Soo Lee (artist) (Dark Horse)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Linghun by Ai Jiang (Dark Matter INK)

Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing)   Superior Achievement in a Screenplay Godzilla Minus One by Takashi Yamazaki (Robot Communications, Toho Studios) 

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction “Quondam” by Cindy O’Quinn (The Nightmare Never Ends, Exploding Head Fiction)

 Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction “Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia,” by Nadia Bulkin (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury YA)

In a few weeks, I will have an article up on The Lineup with the major category winners and some readalikes for them. You can click here to see what I wrote last year.

Finally, I wanted to let all of you library people know that next year, StokerCon will be in Stamford, CT. So close to so many of you. Super easy to get to for millions of people. Librarians Day will be Friday, June 13, 2025. We don't have the link to buy just LD up yet, but you can buy a ticket to the entire conference right now for under $200. Only until June 10th. Click here for that information and to secure your ticket now. This is an awesome deal to go from Thursday-Sunday. But if you want to wait for an LD ticket, those will be around $70 for access to only LD programming. We don't put those up until later this year though. Stay tuned.

Either way, you all need to come. We are going to have a great time, right off 1-95 and steps from the train.