Category: Novel
Iglesias, Gabino
Awards:
The Devil Takes You Home (Mullholland Press), Novel, 2022
Nominations:
House of Bone and Rain (Mulholland Books in US; Titan Books in UK), Novel, 2024
“Beyond the Reef” (Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, Wicked Run Press), Long Fiction, 2020
Coyote Songs (Broken River Books), Fiction Collection, 2018
Murray, Lee
Awards:
“I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2022
Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2021
“Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Short Fiction, 2021
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media), Anthology, 2020
Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well), Fiction Collection, 2020
Mentor of the Year Award, 2019
Nominations:
Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (The Cuba Press), Poetry Collection, 2024
“Displaced Spirits” (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books), Short Non-fiction, 2023
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (Black Spot Books), Non-fiction, 2023
Despatches (PS Publishing), Long Fiction, 2023
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 writer, editor, poet, essayist, and screenwriter from Aotearoa, and a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award winner for Literary Achievement in Fiction. A USA Today bestselling author and multiple award-winner (including Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker awards), Lee’s works include the Taine McKenna military thrillers, supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra (with Dan Rabarts), fiction collection Grotesque: Monster Stories, as well as several books for children. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including prestigious venues such as Weird Tales, Space and Time, and Grimdark Magazine. She is proud to have edited more than two dozen anthologies, among them award-winning titles Baby Teeth: Bite Sized Tales of Terror and At the Edge (with Dan Rabarts), Te Kōrero Ahi Kā (with Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton), Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror, Midnight Echo #14, Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Geneve Flynn), and Under Her Eye (with Lindy Ryan). A Rhysling- and Pushcart-nominated poet, Lee’s poetry collection, Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, is a collaboration with poets Christina Sng, Geneve Flynn, and Angela Yuriko Smith. Her first solo poetry collection, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (2024), won her a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for ‘unique and innovative vision’. Lee is a life member of Tauranga Writers, New Zealand’s longest standing writing group, and of SpecFicNZ, and she’s an Honorary Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors. Lee lives over the hill from Hobbiton in New Zealand’s sunny Bay of Plenty where she dreams up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock. Read more at www.leemurray.info.
Stoker, Dacre
Nominations:
Dracul (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), Novel, 2018
BIO: Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (Dutton, 2009), the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula. Dacre is also the co-editor (with Elizabeth Miller) of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years (Robson Press, 2012). His latest novel, Dracul, co-authored with JD Barker, a prequel to Dracula, released in October 2018, has been sold to publishers in fourteen territories, with film rights purchased by Paramount Studios. Dracul was the bestselling hardcover novel in horror in the UK in 2018. A native of Montreal, Canada, Dacre taught Physical Education and Sciences for twenty-two years, in both Canada and the U.S. He has participated in the sport of Modern Pentathlon as an athlete and a coach at the international and Olympic levels for Canada for 12 years. He currently lives in Aiken, SC, with his wife Jenne.
Dacre has consulted and appeared in recent film documentaries about vampires in literature and popular culture. The Real Vampire Files (2010 History Channel), The Tillinghast Nightmare, (2014 Historical Haunts), Secrets of the Dead (2015 PBS), Mysteries at the Museum, (2017 Travel Channel) Legend Hunter (2019 Travel Channel) He currently hosts tours to Transylvania to explore both the life and times of the historic Vlad Dracula lll and also the locations where Bram Stoker set his famous novel.
Katsu, Alma
Awards:
The Wehrwolf (Amazon Original Stories), Long Fiction, 2022
Nominations:
The Fervor (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Novel, 2022
The Deep (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), Novel, 2020
The Hunger (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), Novel, 2018
BIO: Alma Katsu is the award-winning author of The Hunger, a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party. The Hunger was on NPR’s list of 100 favorite horror stories, was named one of the best books of 2018 by Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, and won the 2018 Western Heritage Award for Best Novel. Her debut novel, The Taker, was one of Booklist’s Top Ten Debut Novels of 2011. She’s a graduate of the Johns Hopkins writing program and an alumni of the Squaw Valley Writers Conference.
