Category: Non-fiction

Anderson, Melanie R.

AWARDS:

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Quirk Books), Non-Fiction, 2019

NOMINATIONS:

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult (Quirk Books), Non-Fiction, 2022

BIO: Melanie R. Anderson is an associate professor of English at Delta State University. She co-authored with Lisa Kröger Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult and the Bram Stoker and Locus award-winning Monster, She Wrote. Her academic publications include Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison and three co-edited essay collections (two on the work of Shirley Jackson). She also has penned Introductions for two volumes of Valancourt Books’ Monster She Wrote Series, and one for Flame Tree Press’s reprint of The Citadel of Fear. She is a co-host on two podcasts: The Know Fear Cast and The Monster, She Wrote Podcast. 

Kröger, Lisa

AWARDS:

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Quirk Books), Non-Fiction, 2019

NOMINATIONS:

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult (Quirk Books), Non-Fiction, 2022

BIO: Lisa Kröger, Ph.D., is the author of Monster, She Wrote and co-host of the Know Fear and Monster, She Wrote podcasts. Her latest short fiction can be found in Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road and Cemetery Dance. She’s also editor of Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences and Spectral Identities and contributor to EcoGothic, The Encyclopedia of the Vampire, and Horror Literature through History. You can find out more at www.lisakroger.com. 

Kachuba, John B.

NOMINATIONS:

Shapeshifters: A History (Reaktion Books), Non-Fiction, 2019

BIO: John Kachuba is the award-winning author of twelve books and numerous articles, short stories and poems. His Shapeshifters: A History, published in June 2019, is a Bram Stoker Award in Nonfiction finalist. Dark Entry (2018) is his most recent paranormal novel. John teaches Creative Writing at Ohio University, Antioch University Midwest, and the Gotham Writers Workshop. He is a member of the Historical Novel Society, the Horror Writers Association, and the American Library Association’s Authors for Libraries. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities and libraries and on podcasts, radio and TV. His website is www.johnkachuba.com.

Selected works:

Shapeshifters: A History, (nonfiction), Reaktion Books, 2019

Dark Entry, (fiction) Hellbender Books, 2018.

Embedded with the Paranormal Paramilitary: Riding with Mediums, Spirit Seekers, and Ghost Hunters, (nonfiction) Rosen Publishing, 2016.

The Savage Apostle (historical fiction), Sunbury Press, 2015.

Ghosthunting Ohio: On the Road Again, (nonfiction). Clerisy Press, 2011.

Ghosthunting USA, (editor) Clerisy Press, 2010.

The Gathering of Stones: Short Stories (fiction). VDM Publishing, 2009.

Ghosthunters: On the Trail of Mediums, Dowsers, Spirit Seekers and Other Investigators of America’s Paranormal World, (nonfiction) New Page Books, 2007.

Ghosthunting Illinois, (nonfiction) Emmis Publishing, 2005, reprinted by Clerisy Press, 2008.

Ghosthunting Ohio, (nonfiction) Emmis Publishing, 2004, reprinted by Clerisy Press, 2008.

How to Write Funny, (nonfiction) Writer’s Digest Books, 2001.

Why Is This Job Killing Me? (nonfiction) Dell, 1999.

Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra

NOMINATIONS:

1000 Women in Horror (BearManor Media), Non-Fiction, 2020

Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (University of Wales Press), Non-Fiction, 2019

BIO: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an Australian film critic, author, programmer and academic who specialises in cult, horror and exploitation cinema. She’s written eight books including Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (McFarland, 2014), Masks and Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (University of Wales Press, 2019), as well as books on individual films including The Hitcher (Arrow Books, 2018), Ms. 45 (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2017), and Suspiria (Auteur, 2015). She has co-edited books including ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May (University of Edinburgh Press, 2019), Cattet & Forzani (Queensland Film Festival, 2018) and Wonderland (Thames & Hudson, 2018), as well as writing more than 20 book chapters on subjects such as William Castle, Roberta Findlay, Jean Rollin, Dario Argento, Exorcist remakes, lesbian vampires, and evil children. Alexandra is an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University and holds a PhD in Screen Studies. She is a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, on the Advisory Board for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and is a programmer at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the United States.