NOMINATIONS: “Lydia” (The Twisted Book of Shadows) (Twisted Publishing) , Short Fiction, 2019 BIO: Cindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer who grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. In 2016 Cindy, along with her husband and sons, made the move from Virginia to the northern woods of Maine and started homesteading. She has had a longtime love for everything […]
Read moreNominations “And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” (Weirdbook #39) (Wildside Press), Short Fiction, 2018 BIO: Kyla Lee Ward is a Sydney-based creative who works in many modes. August 2018 sees publication of her second poetry collection, The Macabre Moderne and Other Morbidities by P’rea Press, following 2011’s The Land of Bad Dreams. Her novel Prismatic (co-authored as Edwina Grey) […]
Read moreAwards: Mentor of the Year Award, 2019 Nominations: Into the Ashes (Severed Press), Novel, 2019 “Dead End Town” (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International), Short Fiction, 2018 Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press), Anthology, 2018 BIO: Lee Murray is a multi-award-winning writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror (Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows) and […]
Read moreAwards: “Mutter” (Fantastic Tales of Terror) (Crystal Lake Publishing), Short Fiction, 2018 Nominations: “Bury Me in Tar and Twine” (Tales of the Lost Volume 1: We All Lose Something!) (Things in the Well Publishing), Short Fiction, 2019 2018 Silver Hammer Award BIO: From the day she was born, Jess Landry has always been attracted to the darker things in life. […]
Read moreAwards: “Little Dead Red” (Grimm Mistresses) (Ragnarok Publications), Long Fiction, 2015 Nominations: “Loving You Darkly” (F(r)iction Magazine #8) (Tethered by Letters), Short Fiction, 2017 BIO: Mercedes M. Yardley is a dark fantasist who wears poisonous flowers in her hair. She is the author of Beautiful Sorrows, the Stabby Award-winning Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love, Pretty Little Dead Girls, and Detritus in […]
Read moreNominations: “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” (Nightmare Magazine #37), Short Fiction, 2015
Read moreAwards: Richard Laymon President’s Award, 2007 Nominations: “Final Draft”, Short Fiction, 2010
Read moreNominations: Reign, Novel, 1990 “From the Papers of Helmut Hecher”, Short Fiction, 1990 “The Confessions of St. James”, Long Fiction, 1989 “Yore Skin’s Jes’ So Soft ‘n Purdy,’ He Said”, Short Fiction, 1989 “The Music of the Dark Time”, Short Fiction, 1988 Ash Wednesday, Novel, 1987
Read moreAwards: “The Gentle Brush of Wings”, Short Fiction, 2007 The Gossamer Eye, Poetry Collection, 2002 Nominations: Defining Moments, Fiction Collection, 2007 Storytellers Unplugged, Non-fiction, 2007 Roll Them Bones, Long Fiction, 2003 BIO: David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. A former president of the Horror Writer’s Association and multiple recipient […]
Read moreAwards: Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008 “Aftershock”, Short Fiction, 1999 Nominations: A Necessary End (Thunderstorm/Maelstrom Press), Novel, 2013 The Christmas Thingy, Works for Young Readers, 2000 “Pelts”, Long Fiction, 1990 Soft and Others, Fiction Collection, 1989 Black Wind, Novel, 1988 “Dat-Tay-Vao”, Short Fiction, 1987 “Traps”, Short Fiction, 1987
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