Monday, April 12, 2010

Datlow mentions

Congratulations to two MIDNIGHT WALK stories on receiving Honorable Mentions in Ellen Datlow's BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR 2009: Jason M. Light's "The Bear Who Swallowed the Sky" and Joey O'Bryan's "The Svancara Supper Society" were both tagged.

Friday, February 19, 2010

MIDNIGHT WALK nominated for the Bram Stoker Award

MIDNIGHT WALK has just been nominated for the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology:

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan (Harper)
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin)
Quarantined by Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing)
Cursed by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL

Breathers by S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)
Solomon’s Grave by Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)
Damnable by Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION

“Dreaming Robot Monster” by Mort Castle (Mighty Unclean)
The Hunger of Empty Vessels by Scott Edelman (Bad Moon Books)
The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
Doc Good’s Traveling Show by Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION

"Keeping Watch" by Nate Kenyon (Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror)
“The Crossing of Aldo Ray” by Weston Ochse (The Dead That Walk)
"In the Porches of My Ears" by Norman Prentiss (Postscripts #18)
"The Night Nurse" by Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-in)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FICTION COLLECTION

Martyrs and Monsters by Robert Dunbar (DarkHart Press)
Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories by Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)
A Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill (Apex Book Company)
In the Closet, Under the Bed by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ANTHOLOGY (EDITING)

He is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson edited by Christopher Conlon (Gauntlet Press)
Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse Books)
Poe edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
Midnight Walk edited by Lisa Morton (Darkhouse Publishing)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION

Writers Workshop of Horror by Michael Knost (Woodland Press)
Cinema Knife Fight by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda (Fearzone)
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent (Fall River Press)
Stephen King: The Non-fiction by Rocky Wood and Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN POETRY COLLECTION

Double Visions by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
North Left of Earth by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)
Barfodder by Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)
Chimeric Machines by Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy Publishing)


http://www.horror.org/news/2009stokernominees.htm

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

MIDNIGHT WALK wins the Black Quill Award!

MIDNIGHT WALK has just received the Black Quill Editor's Choice Award for Best Dark Genre Anthology of 2009:

Black Quill Award Winners

We are absolutely thrilled by this, and would like to thank Dark Scribe's editors for this wonderful recognition.

Monday, February 1, 2010

The next book from Darkhouse...

Darkhouse will soon be announcing its next book. Here's a hint: It'll be a novella from one of the MIDNIGHT WALK contributors, and it's pretty wild...

Monday, January 4, 2010

FAMOUS MONSTERS lists MW in its Top 10!

Yep, that's right: FAMOUS MONSTERS has listed MIDNIGHT WALK in its list of the top 10 horror books of 2009:

FM's Top Ten

Color us humbled and grateful!

Monday, December 7, 2009

A rave review for a side project...

I'm pretty happy with this review for my novella The Lucid Dreaming:


Monster Librarian Reviews

Snippet: "...one of the best novellas I've ever read." Wow! Thanks to Monster Librarian and Rhonda Wilson for those kind words.

If you don't yet have your copy of The Lucid Dreaming (which includes gorgeous illustrations by the amazing Zach McCain), you can still order one at:

Horror Mall.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

And our first award nomination...

Thrilled as can be to announce that MIDNIGHT WALK has just been nominated for the Black Quill Award:

3rd Annual Black Quill nominations

Extra big thanks to Dark Scribe for this wonderful honor!