RICHARD LAYMON PRESIDENT’S AWARD The 2019 Richard Laymon President’s Award winner is Rena Mason. Rena Mason is an American author of horror fiction and a three-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award . Her literary debut, The Evolutionist, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2013, while her novella East End Girls was nominated for the Bram […]
Read moreAWARDS: Specialty Press Award, 2019
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LOS ANGELES, CA, March 4, 2020 The Horror Writers Association (HWA) proudly announces SST Publications (SST) as the recipient of the 2019 Specialty Press Award. “I’d really like to thank the HWA for awarding SST with this honor. I honestly can’t believe that SST has won the HWA Specialty Press Award,” said publisher Paul Fry. “It really means the world […]
Read moreAWARDS: Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Books) , Graphic Novel, 2019
Read moreNOMINATIONS: The Demeter Diaries (Independent Legions Publishing) Poetry Collection, 2019
Read moreNOMINATIONS: Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning (LVP Publications), Poetry Collection, 2019 BIO: Since 1994 Michelle Scalise’s work has appeared in such anthologies as UNSPEAKABLE HORROR, DARKER SIDE, MORTIS OPERENDI, DARK ARTS, THE BIG BOOK OF EROTIC GHOST STORIES, BEST WOMEN’S EROTICA and such magazines as Cemetery Dance, Crimewave, Space And Time and Dark Discoveries. She was nominated for the […]
Read moreNOMINATIONS: Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Aqueduct Press), Poetry Collection, 2019
Read moreNOMINATIONS: “Lord Byron’s Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre” (Famous Monsters of Filmland, Issue #291), Short Non-Fiction, 2019 BIO: Valerie E. Weich has worked in the non-profit world for over 25 years, raising funding to support a variety of incredible causes and programs, including animal welfare, domestic violence survivors, healthcare for immigrant women, […]
Read moreNOMINATIONS: “Lost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein” (Rue Morgue Magazine, June 2020), Short Non-Fiction, 2020 “Film’s First Lycanthrope: 1913’s The Werewolf” (Scary Monsters Magazine #114), Short Non-Fiction, 2019 BIO: Kelly Robinson is a freelance writer and researcher with an interest in silent film, horror, and weird history. Her contributions to magazines like Rue […]
Read moreNOMINATIONS: “The Evil Aging Women of American Horror Story” (Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of Aging) (McFarland), Short Non-Fiction, 2019 BIO: Karen J. Renner is an associate professor of English at Northern Arizona University. Her edited collection, The ‘Evil Child’ in Film, Literature and Popular Culture, waspublished by Routledge in 2013 and her single-authored study of the subject, Evil Children in […]
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