The 2002 Bram Stoker Award Nominations

The Bram Stoker Award is presented annually by the Horror Writers Association for works published during the previous calendar year. The winners will be announced at the Stoker banquet during the 2003 Horror Writers' Association Annual Conference at the Park Central Hotel in New York, June 6-8, 2003.

Novel
   Stephen King - From a Buick 8 (Cemetery Dance; Scribner)
   Douglas Clegg - The Hour Before Dark (Leisure)
   Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown & Co)
   Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby (Doubleday)
   Tom Piccirilli - The Night Class (Leisure)


First Novel
   Michael Laimo - Atmosphere (Delirium; Leisure)
   Tina Jens - The Blues Ain't Nothing' (Design Image Group)
   Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown & Co)
   Scott Nicholson - The Red Church (Pinnacle)


Long Fiction
   Paul Finch - Cape Wrath (Telos Publishing)
   Neil Gaiman - Coraline (HarperCollins)
   Brian A. Hopkins - El Dia de Los Muertos (Earthling Publications)
   Thomas Ligotti - "My Work Is Not Yet Done" (My Work Is Not Done Yet: Three Tales of Corporate Terror)
   David B. Silva - "The Origin" (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)


Short Fiction
   China Miéville - "Details" (Children of Cthulhu)
   Mort Castle - "Disappearances" (ChiZine)
   Christopher Fowler - "The Green Man" (The Third Alternative)
   Tom Piccirilli - "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair" (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)
   Charlee Jacob - "The Plague Species" (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)


Fiction Collection
   Bentley Little - The Collection (Signet)
   Stephen King - Everything's Eventual (Scribner)
   Nancy A. Collins - Knuckles and Tales (Cemetery Dance)
   Mort Castle - Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead (Prime Books)
   Ray Bradbury - One More for the Road (Morrow/Earthlight)


Anthology
   ed. John Pelan & Benjamin Adams - Children of Cthulhu (del Rey)
   ed. John Pelan - The Darker Side: Generations of Horror (Scribner)
   ed. Stephen Jones - The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (Caroll & Graf)
   ed. Richard Chizmar - Shivers (Cemetary Dance)
   ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling - The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (St. Martin's)


Non-Fiction
   ed. David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck - Hellnotes (Phantasm Press)
   ed. Brian Keene & Kelly Laymon - jobs in Hell (JIHad Publications)
   ed. Ralan Conley - Ralan.com (Website)
   Ramsey Campbell - Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies (PS Publishing)
   Richard Bleiler - Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition (Scribner)


Illustrated Narrative
   Peter Lenkov - Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Issues 1-4) (Dark Horse)
   Steve Gerber - Howard the Duck (Issues 1-6) (Marvel Comics)
   Robert Weinberg - Nightside (Marvel Comics)


Screenplay
   Brant Hanley - Frailty (Lion's Gate Films)
   Scott Frank & Jon Cohen (from a story by Philip K. Dick - Minority Report (20th Century Fox)
   Ehren Kruger & Scott Frank (from a novel by Koji Suzuki and film by The Spiral Production group)- The Ring (Dreamworks)
   M. Night Shyamalan - Signs (Touchstone)


Work for Younger Readers
   Clive Barker - Abarat (Joanna Cotler Books)
   Richard Matheson & William Stout - Abu and the 7 Marvels (Gauntlet Press)
   Nancy Etchmendy - Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural (Cricket Books)
   Neil Gaiman - Coraline (HarperCollins)


Poetry Collection
   Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson - The Gossamer Eye (Meisha Merlin)
   Charlee Jacob - Guises (poetry section - "Night Unmasked" (Delirium)
   Bruce Boston & Marge Simon - Night Smoke (Miniature Sun Press/Quixsilver Press)
   Tom Piccirilli - This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding (Catalyst)


Alternate Forms
   Mort Castle - "Buckeye Jim in Egypt" (audio script)
   Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem - Imagination Box (Mulitmedia CD-rom) (Lone Wolf)
   ed. Jack Fisher - Flesh and Blood (Flesh and Blood Press)
   Larry Santoro (from a Gene Wolfe story) - The Tree Is My Hat (audio script)