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     Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
Okay, for those of you here who are also on Shocklines and the AH group, this is the third and last time I'll post this, honest. But congrats off the top to the landlord for his two nominations, and to Laird for his two! ************ 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) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Congrats, Barbara. Hope Christopher is feeling okay now. And let's hope Ramsey steals an award too! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.124.65 |
Yes - congrats to you both,Laird and Ramsey! Hope Christopher is taking it easy. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182 |
Yes congrats, and I wish all the best to your other half. Great also to see Straub honoured. Straub's the man! I'm really looking forward to his upcoming novel The Skylark! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Congratulations to all the RCMB members who made this year's IHG shortlist...and hats off to Ramsey who's up for not one but two trophies this year. Huzzah! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.186.27 |
Congratulations and good luck to all! | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
Thanks, everyone! Christopher is home and doing well; the hardest part is getting him to slow down, but what's life without a challenge, eh? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Lord, I didn't know Christopher wasn't well. Give him my best and tell him not to overdo it! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Did my pasta picture of Dracula not win anything? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
No, but the long macaroni incisors drew commendation (and not only that) from the judges. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
"This macaroni vampire bit me!" | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
Pasta vampires don't last very long. All that garlic. Hence Joss Whedon's little-known recipe book BUFFET: THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
I would ask for several previous offences against the RCMB pun laws to be taken into consideration. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Slaver. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
Des, are you one of those people (mostly former readers of the BEANO) who says sounds instead of making them – as in "Titter" and "Snarl"? I can imagine you reading THE GRIN OF THE DARK and getting all of the little oblique jokes about language and identity. Without, of course, assuming any authorial purpose in putting them there. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.248.217 |
Pow! Crash! Wallop! The gloves are off. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
Gary, this is just good-natured repartee, not confrontation.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Slaver was a suggested replacement for Slayer. When I read 'Grin of the Dark' I did so in serious silence. Certainly not smiling, not even making any involuntary noises, as are my normal wont. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.234 |
Congratulations to all the nominees. What a great list. And I didn't know, either, that Christopher wasn't well. Glad he's feeling better. Please pass along my best wishes. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
Thanks, Michael. He's doing okay now, and trying to take it easy, with trying being the operative word in that sentence. |