The Bram Stoker Awards Prelimiary Ballot for Works Published in 2001 The Bram Stoker Award is presented annually by the Horror Writers Association for works published during the previous calendar year. The final ballot will be published towards the end of March 2002. The awards will be presented at the World Horror Convention at the New York Helmsely Hotel, June 6 2002. Novel    Ray Bradbury - From the Dust Returned (Morrow)    Douglas Clegg - The Infinite (Leisure)    Tananarive Due - The Living Blood (Pocket Books)    Neil Gaiman - American Gods (Harper Collins)    Sephera Giron - House of Pain (Leisure)    Owl Goingback - Evil Whispers (Signet)    Christopher Golden - Straight on 'til Morning (Signet)    Gerard Houarner - The Best That Was Max (Leisure)    Jack Ketchum - The Lost (Leisure)    Stephen King - Dreamcatcher (Scribner)    Stephen King & Peter Straub - Black House (Leisure)    Richard Laymon - A Night in the Lonesome October (Cememtary Dance)    Tim Lebbon - The Nature of Balance (Prime/Leisure)    Bentley Little - The Association (Signet)    Elizabeth Massie - Wire Mesh Mothers (Leisure)    James A. Moore - Fireworks (Meisha Merlin)    Tom Piccirilli - A Lower Deep (Leisure)    Karen E. Taylor - The Vampire Vivienne (Kensington)    Edo van Belkom - Teeth (Meisha Merlin)    F. Paul Wilson - Hosts (Gaunlet Press) First Novel    Diana Barron - Phantom Feast (Barclay Books)    d.g.k. goldberg - Skating on the Edge (Time Warner)    Jeremiah Jefferson - Voice of the Blood (Leisure)    David Thomas Lord - Bound in Blood (Kensington)    Joe Nassise - Riverwatch (Barclay Books)    Michael Oliveri - Deadliest of the Species (Vox13)    Keith Schulz - Kepers of the River (Quixote)    Drew Williams - Night Terrors (Barclay Books) Long Fiction    Michael Chabon - The God of Laughter (The New Yorker)    Geoff Cooper - The Sheriff of Pensie Avenue (Bum Piss and Other City Scents)    Harlan Ellison - A to Z, the Sarsaparilla Alphabet (F&SF)    Nancy Etchemendy - Demolition (F&SF)    Ray Garton - The Folks (Cemetery Dance)    Greg F. Gifune - Heretics (Heretics)    Brian A. Hopkins - Driving the Coolidge (Historical Hauntings)    Brian A. Hopkins - The Tumbleweed Rustlers Snack & Save (Crime Spree)    Brian Keene - Earthworm Gods (No Rest for the Wicked; 4x4)    Poppy Z. Brite & Caitlin R. Kiernan - Heretics (Heretics)    Tim Lebbon - The Unfortunate (As the Sun Goes Down)    James Newman - Holy Rollers (Dark Tales)    Weston Osche - Natural Selection (Dark Tales)    Norman Partridge - Blood Money (The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists)    Brett A. Savory - The Distance Travelled (Prime)    S.P. Somtow - The Bird Catcher (The Museum of Horrors)    Robin Spriggs - Cinema Surrendari (Wondrous Strange)    Steve Rasnic Tem - In These Final Days of Sales (Wormhole Books)    John Urbancik - A Game of Colors (Yard Dog Press)    Matthew Warner - Middle Passage (Extremes 3: Terror on the High Seas)    David Whitman - Deadfellas (Dark Tales) Short Fiction    Maria Alexander - Black Roses and Hail Marys (Chiaroscuro)    Maria Alexander - King of Shadows (Gothic.Net)    Mort Castle - I Am Your Need (Brainbox II)    Kristy Dark - Weaver's Spell (The Gallows)    d.g.k. goldberg - Lamed Vov (Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror form the Ends of the Earth)    Brian A. Hopkins - Eleven Minutes in September (Brainbox II)    Gerard Houarner - How Do We Say Goodbye (Gothic.Net)    Michael T. Huyck Jr. - El Cura (Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth)    Brian Keene - Lest Ye Become (Poddities; No Rest for the Wicked; A Darker Dawning; Horrorfind)    Jack Ketchum - The Haunt (Cemetery Dance)    Time Lebbon - Reconstructing Amy (As the Sun Goes Down)    Seth Lindberg - Twenty-three Snapshots of San Francisco (Twilight Showcase)    Mark McLaughlin - When We Was Fab (Horrofind)    Kurt Newton - The Pit (Gothic.Net)    Weston Ochre - Holy Mother of God (Gothic.Net)    Monica O'Rourke - Experiment in Human Nature (Horrorfind; Rare)    Judi Rohrig - Blind Mouths (Cemetery Dance)    Larry Santoro - The Hoor's Revenge (Blood and Donuts)    Brett A. Savory - Jimmy Dale (Gothic.Net)    Harry Shannon - Quickie (Alternate Realities; Bad Seed)    David B. Silva - Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We? (Cemetery Dance)    Ray Vikcevik - Whisper (F&SF) Short Fiction    Gary A. Braunbeck & Alan M. Clark - Escaping Purgatory (IFD Publishing)    Geoff Cooper, Michael T. Huyck Jr., Brian Keene & Michael Oliveri - 4x4 (Delirium)    Dennis Etchison - Talking in the Dark (Stealth Press)    Greg F. Gifune - Heretics (Delirium)    Ed Gorman - The Dark Fantastic (Leisure)    Brian A. Hopkins - Salt Water Tears (Dark Regions Press)    Brian A. Hopkins - These I Know by Heart (Vox13)    Brian Keene - No Rest for the Wicked (Vox13)    Tim Lebbon - As the Sun Goes down (Night Shade)    Kelly Link - Stranger Things Happen (Small Beer Press)    Brian Lumley - The Whisperer amnd Other Voices (Tor)    Norman Partridge - The Man with Barbed-Wire Fists (Night Shade)    Tim Powers - Night Moves and Other Stories (Subterranean Press)    David Schow - Eye (Subterranean Press)    David B. Silva - Through Shattered Glass (Gauntlet Press)    Robin Spriggs - Wondrous Strange (Circle Myth Press)    Scott Thomas - Cobwebs and Whispers (Delirium)    Edo van Belkom - Six Inch Spikes (Dark Tales)    Ray Vukcevik - Meet Me in the Moon Room (Dark Tales)    Robert Weinberg - Dial Your Dreams (Small Beer Press) Anthology    ed. Richard Chizmar - Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas (Cemetery Dance)    ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Collection, Fourteenth Annual Edition (St Martin's Griffin)    ed. Sandy deLuca & Trey R. Barker - Crime Spree (December Girl Press)    ed. Steve Eller - Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox (Irrational Press)    ed. Brian A. Hopkins - Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth (Lone Wolf)    ed. Brian A. Hopkins - Extremes 3: Terror on the High Seas (Lone Wolf)    ed. Ron horsley - The Midnighter's Club (Infinity Publishing)    ed. Brian Keene - The Best of Horrorfind (Horrorfind)    ed. Shane Ryan Staley - The Dead Inn (Delirium)    ed. John Richard Stephens - Into the Mummy's Tomb (Berkley) Non-Fiction    Ariana (Sephera Giron) - House Magic (Conari Press)    Poppy Z. Brite - Guilty But Insane (Subterranean)    Bruce Campbell - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor (LA Weekly Books)    ed. Brian & Hopkins & Garrett Peck - Personal Demons (Lone Wolf Publications)    Brian Keene - Jobs in Hell (Jihad Publications)    Drew Beebe & John Picinich - The New Jersey Graveline (Garden State Horror Writers)    David B. Silva & Paul F. Olsen - Hellnotes (Phantasm Press) Illustrated Narrative    Brian Azzarello - Freezes Over (Vertigo)    Garth Ennis - Just a Pilgrim (Black Bull)    Caitlín R. Kiernan -The First Adventures of Miss Catterina Poe (Vertigo)    Jeff Mariotte - Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave (Wildstorm)    Kevin Smith - Quiver (Green Arrow 1-10) (DC)    Various - Wierd Western Tales (Vertigo) Screenplay    Alejandro Amenabar - The Others (Miramax)    Phillipa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Frances Walsh - The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (New Line)    William Goldman - Hearts in Atlantis (Castle Rock/Warner Brothers)    Terry Hayes & Rafael Yglesias - From Hell (20th Century Fox)    Steven Kloves - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone (Warner Bros.)    David Lynch - Mulholland Drive (Universal)    David Mamet & Steven Zaillian- Hannibal (MGM)    Christopher & Jonathan Nolan - Memento (Newmarket)    Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson - The Gift (Paramount)    Joss Whedon - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Body (Fox)    Joss Whedon - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More with Feeling (Fox) Work for Younger Readers    Christopher Golden - Prowlers (Pocket Pulse) Poetry Collection    Linda Addison - Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (Space & Time Press)    Bruce Boston - White Space (Dark Regions Press)    Corrine De Winter - A Dark Ride (Black Arrow Press)    Chad Hensley - What the Cacodaemon Whispered (Flesh & Blood Press)    Charlee Jacob - Tauting the Minotaur (Miniature Sun Press)    Sandra Kasturi - Pursuits and Conjurings, Horrors, Guises (Kelp Queen Press)    Jacie Regan - Dealy Nightshade (Flesh & Blood Press)    Ann K. Schwader - The Worms Remember (Hive Press) Alternate Forms    Feo Amante - FeoAmante.Com (Website)    Michael Arnzen - Gorelets (Poetry Series/Mastication Publications)    Bruce Ballon - Unseen Masters (Gaming Module/Chaosium)    Bruce Boston - Pavane for a Cyber-Princess (Story length Poem/Miniature Sun Press)    Gary W. Connor - Twilight Showcase (eZine)    Thomas Deja - Frightful Fiction (eZine)    Andy Fairclough - Horror World (Website)    Beth Gwinn & Stanley Wiater - Dark Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear (Book/Cemetery Dance)    Brian Keene & Mike Roden - Horrorfind (Website)    Seth Lindberg & Mehitobel Wilson - Gothic.Net (Website)    Louis Maistros - My Father's Hands: Understanding Gwen (Essay/Anthology Brainbox II)    Gina Osnovich - Scars (Fall Reaching Publications)    Larry Santoro - I Never Dress for Halloween (Article/HWA Newsletter)    Joss Whedon - Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Once More with Feeling (Song Lyrics)