February 09, 2004
Horror Guild Nominees Named
The International Horror Guild announced its nominations for its 2004 awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in the field of horror and dark fantasy.
The guild also named best-selling horror writer Stephen King and editor and critic Everett F. Bleiler as recipients of its annual Living Legend Award and announced a special award for Jack Cady, the onetime truck driver who became an acclaimed author and creative writing teacher, who died Jan. 14.
No date or venue were announced for the guild's annual awards ceremony. A full list of nominees follows.
Novel
•The Good House by Tananarive Due
•The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
•The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan
•Crawlers by John Shirley
•lostboy lostgirl by Peter Straub
•The Book of Days by Steve Rasnic Tem
First Novel
•The Etched City by K.J. Bishop
•Jinn by Matthew B.J. Delaney
•Tropic of Night by Michael Gruber
•The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
•Echo & Narcissus by Mark Siegal
•Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer
Collection
•Told by the Dead by Ramsey Campbell
•Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand
•The Two Sams: Ghost Stories by Glen Hirshberg
•GRRM: A RRetrospective by George R.R. Martin
•The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini by Reggie Oliver
•More Tomorrow & Other Stories by Michael Marshall Smith
Anthology
•Gathering the Bones, edited by Ramsey Campbell, Jack Dann and Dennis Etchison
•Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural, edited by Bill Congreve
•The Dark: New Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow
•By Moonlight Only, edited by Stephen Jones
•Borderlands 5, edited by Elizabeth and Thomas Monteleone
•The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts
Long Fiction
•"The Time That Time Forgot" by Jack Cady
•"Rape: A Love Story" by Joyce Carol Oates
•"Rock Breaks Scissors Cut" by David Schow
•"Louisiana Breakdown" by Lucius Shepard
•"Floater" by Lucius Shepard
Medium Fiction
•"The Census Taker" by Dale Bailey
•"Dancing Men" by Glen Hirshberg
•"Vandoise and the Bone Monster" by Alex Irvine
•"The Last Horror Show" by David Prill
•"La Sentinelle" by Lucy Sussex
Short Fiction
•"Old Virginia" by Laird Barron
•"The Trentino Kid" by Jeffery Ford
•"With Acknowledgments to Sun Tzu" by Brian Hodge
•"Cell Call" by Marc Laidlaw
•"The Bereavement Photographer" by Steve Rasnic Tem
•"The Goddess of Cruelty" by Thomas Tessier
•"The Mezzotint" by Lisa Tuttle
Periodical
•All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society
•Cemetery Dance
•The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
•The Third Alternative
•Video Watchdog
Illustrated Narrative
•Endless Nights: The Sandman, Book 11
•The Wolves in the Walls
•The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II
•Dark Days
•The Goon, Issues 1-4
Nonfiction
•H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Letters to Alfred Galpin, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
•The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
•Hollywood's Stephen King by Tony Magistrale
•Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Jess Nevins
•The Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith, edited by David E. Schultz and Scott Connors
Art
•Caniglia
•Dave McKean
•"Edward Miller" (aka Les Edwards)
•Todd Schorr
•Bernie Wrightson
Film
•28 Days Later
•Bubba Ho-Tep
•Identity
•Monster
•Mystic River
•Spider
Television
•Angel
•Carnivale
•Dead Like Me
•Six Feet Under
•The Dead Zone