From Ellen Datlow:
PETER STRAUB has been named as this year's International Horror Guild Living Legend. Mr. Straub is the author of numerous short stories and novellas as well as seventeen novels (including two co-authored with Stephen King), which have been translated into more than twenty foreign languages. The recipient of many awards and honors, he has achieved both critical acclaim and commercial success in a notable career in which he has continually reshaped and expanded the field of dark literature.
The International Horror Guild Awards have been presented annually since 1995. Based on public recommendations, the juried awards recognize outstanding achievements in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy. Nominations are derived from recommendations made by the public and the judges' knowledge of the field. This year's awards will be presented Friday evening, October 31, 2008 in an online presentation via its Web site (www.horroraward.org).
INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD NOMINATIONS for WORKS from 2007
NOVEL
* Grin of the Dark. Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
* Generation Loss. Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
* The Missing. Sarah Langan (HarperCollns)
* Season of the Witch. Natasha Mostert (Dutton)
* The Terror. Dan Simmons (Little, Brown & Company)
FICTION COLLECTION
* The Imago Sequence and Other Stories. Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
* Plots and Misadventures. Stephen Gallagher (Subterranean Press)
* Shadows Kith and Kin. Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press)
* Masques of Satan. Reggie Oliver (Ash Tree Press)
* Dagger Key and Other Stories. Lucius Shepard (PS Publishing)
LONG FICTION
* Procession of the Black Sloth. Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence: Night Shade Books)
* The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story. Susan Hill (Profile)
* Softspoken. Lucius Shepard (Night Shade Books)
* The Scalding Rooms. Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
MID-LENGTH FICTION
* "The Janus Tree". Glen Hirshberg (Inferno: Tor)
* "Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed". Steven Duffy (At Ease with the Dead: Ash Tree Press)
* "The Bone Man". Fredric S. Durbin (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2007)
* "Closet Dreams". Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts 10: PS Publishing)
SHORT FICTION
* "Digging Deep". Ramsey Campbell (Phobic: Comma Press)
* "Honey in the Wound". Nancy Etchemendy (The Restless Dead: Candlewick Press)
* "The Tank". Paul Finch (At Ease with the Dead: Ash Tree Press)
* "Splitfoot". Paul Walther (New Genre 5, Spring 2007)
* "The Great White Bed". Don Webb (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2007)
ANTHOLOGY
* Inferno. Ellen Datlow, editor (Tor)
* Summer Chills. Stephen Jones, editor (Carroll & Graf)
* American Supernatural Tales. S.T. Joshi, editor (Penguin)
* Strange Tales Volume II. Rosalie Parker, editor (Tartarus Press)
* At Ease with the Dead. Barbara and Christopher Roden, editors (Ash Tree Press)
NON-FICTION
* Frankenstein: A Cultural History. Susan Tyler Hitchcock (W.W. Norton & Company)
* Mario Bava: All the Colors of Dark. Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog)
* Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M.R. James. Rosemary Pardoe & S.T. Joshi, eds. (Hippocampus Press)
* Sides. Peter Straub (Borderlands Press)
* The Science of Stephen King. Bob Weinberg & Lois M. Gresh (John Wiley)
PERIODICAL
* Black Static
* Dead Reckonings
* The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
* Postscripts
* Weird Tales
ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE
* Scalped: Indian Country. Jason Aaron (writer) R.M. Gu�ra (artist) (Vertigo/DC Comics)
* The Nightmare Factory. Thomas Ligotti (creator/writer), Joe Harris & Stuart Moore (writers), Ben Templesmith, Michael Gaydos, Colleen Doran & Ted McKeever (illustrators) (Fox Atomic/Harper Paperbacks)
* The Blot. Tom Neely (I Will Destroy You)
* The Arrival. Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine Books)
* Wormwood Gentleman Corpse: Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer. Ben Templesmith (IDW)
ART
* Didier Cottier for Exhibit at Utopiales, Nantes, France, November 2007
* David Ho for his body of work
* Elizabeth McGrath for "The Incurable Disorder", Billy Shire Fine Arts, December 2007
* Chris Mars for "New Salem", Jonathan Levine Gallery, October 2007
* Mike Mignola for cover & illustrations: Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (Bantam Spectra)
The IHG Awards
The International Horror Guild Awards are now in their thirteenth year. Based on public recommendations, the juried awards recognize outstanding achievements in the field of Horror and Dark Fantasy. [List of recipients and nominees] Nominations are derived from recommendations made by the public and the judges' knowledge of the field. Edward Bryant, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Ann Kennedy, and Hank Wagner currently adjudicate. Paula Guran is the award administrator. The awards are overseen by a non-profit corporation, The Mirabundus Project, Inc.
If you have a recommendation to make for a work published in 2007, please check the award rules, and email your recommendations to info@horroraward.org. It is also important to provide, whenever possible, copies of the work to the judges.
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