Category: First Novel

NOMINATIONS: The Luminous Dead (Harper Voyager), First Novel, 2019

NOMINATIONS: Invisible Chains (Haverhill House Publishing), First Novel, 2019 BIO: Michelle Renee Lane writes dark speculative fiction about women of color battling their inner demons while falling in love with monsters. Her work includes elements of fantasy, horror, romance, and occasionally erotica. Her short fiction appears in the anthologies Dark Holidays, Terror Politico: A Screaming World in Chaos, and The […]

NOMINATIONS: Dear Laura (Independently Published), First Novel, 2019 BIO: Gemma Amor is an author, podcaster and illustrator from Bristol, in the UK. Her debut collection of short stories, Cruel Works of Nature, was published in 2018. She is also the author of Dear Laura, Till the Score is Paid, and the soon to be released White Pines.  Gemma also writes for […]

Nominations The Moore House (Twisted Publishing), First Novel, 2018 BIO: Tony Tremblay is the author of his debut novel The Moore House, and the short story collection The Seeds of Nightmares. The author was also a reviewer of horror and genre novels for Horror World, Cemetery Dance, and Beware The Dark. He is the host of a cable show called […]

Nominations Baby Teeth (St. Martin’s Press), First Novel, 2018 BIO: Zoje Stage is a former filmmaker with a penchant for the dark and suspenseful. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

Nominations I Am the River (Lethe Press), First Novel, 2018 BIO: T.E. Grau is a Shirley Jackson Award- and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author whose books include I Am The River (nominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel), They Don’t Come Home Anymore, The Mission, and The Nameless Dark (nominated for the 2015 Shirley Jackson […]

Nominations What Should Be Wild (Harper), First Novel, 2018

Awards: The Suiting, First Novel, 1988