Bram Stoker Awards 2020, Preliminary Ballot

Bram Stoker Awards 2020 Preliminary Ballot: Alessandro Manzetti, Stefano Cardoselli e Paolo Di Orazio tengono alto l’onore della letteratura italiana dell’orrore.

In un’annata, quella del 2020, che ricorderemo tutti per vari motivi non del tutto edificanti come la pandemia mondiale da Covid-19, una piccola buona notizia arriva direttamente da oltre oceano.

BRAM STOKER AWARDS 2020 PRELIMINARY BALLOT: COSA SONO?

Ma andiamo con ordine. I Preliminary Ballot non sono ancora le vere e proprie nomination, ma un passaggio intermedio dove gli iscritti alla Horror Writer Association dovranno votare da questa lista (che riportiamo completa in calce alla news) per decidere i finalisti. Le votazioni chiuderanno il 15 febbraio 2021 e solo allora sapremo i nominati.

ANCHE L’ITALIA AL PRELIMINARY BALLOT DEI BRAM STOKER AWARDS 2020

Ai preliminary ballot del prestigioso premio dedicato al mondo della letteratura horror in lingua inglese, il Bram Stoker Awards, sono arrivati anche tre autori italiani. Alessandro Manzetti, Stefano Cardoselli e Paolo Di Orazio sono i nostri autori che terranno alto l’onore del nostro paese e del nostro movimento.

Alessandro Manzetti è stato nominato per il Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection (in pratica la categoria dedicata alla raccolta di poesie) con il libro Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems (Independent Legions Publishing) disponibile anche in italiano a questo link. L’autore italiano, inoltre, insieme all’illustratore Stefano Cardoselli, è stato inserito anche nella categoria dedicata ai Graphic Novel con l’opera Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) (Independent Legions Publishing).

Paolo Di Orazio, dal canto suo, è stato inserito nella categoria per racconti con l’autopubblicato ebook The Man Who Fell Beyond the Wall.

Manzetti, lo ricordiamo, è stato l’unico italiano ad aver vinto per ben due volte la statuetta oltre ad aver ricevuto svariate nomination.

Sottolineiamo come anche un altro autore italiano è giunto al Preliminary Ballot sebbene con un racconto all’interno di un’antologia. Stiamo parlando di Luigi Musolino, un’altra delle migliori penne italiane in fatto di horror. La raccolta di racconti si intitola The Valancourt Book of world horror stories ed è stata inserita nelle categoria delle migliori antologie. e il racconto di Musolino è Uironda. Il racconto è stato pubblicato anche in italiano all’interno dell’antologia omonima da Kipple Officina Libraria che trovate qui.

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BRAM STOKER AWARDS 2020 PRELIMINARY BALLOT: LE CANDIDATURE

Riportiamo dal sito dell’organizzatore l’intera lista dei candidati al Preliminary Ballot del Bram Stoker Awards 2020.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

Davidson, Andy – The Boatman’s Daughter (MCD x FSG Originals)
Hurst, Rex – What Hell May Come (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Jones, Stephen Graham – The Only Good Indians (Gallery/Saga Press)
Katsu, Alma – The Deep (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Keisling, Todd – Devil’s Creek (Silver Shamrock Publishing)
Kenemore, Scott – Lake of Darkness (Talos)
Malerman, Josh – Malorie (Del Rey)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia – Mexican Gothic (Del Rey)
Thomas, Jeffrey – The American (JournalStone)
Triana, Kristopher – Gone to See the River Man (Cemetery Dance Publications)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Alleyne, C.S. – Belle Vue (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Fram, John – The Bright Lands (Hanover Square Press)
Hall, Polly – The Taxidermist’s Lover (CamCat Publishing, LLC)
Harrison, Rachel – The Return (Berkley)
Jeffery, Ross – Tome (The Writing Collective)
Knight, EV – The Fourth Whore (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Kulski, K.P. – Fairest Flesh (Rooster Republic Press)
Lyons, Matthew – The Night Will Find Us (Keylight Books)
Meijer, Maryse – The Seventh Mansion (FSG Originals)
Reed Petty, Kate – True Story (Viking)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Archer, Steven (author/artist) – The Masque of the Red Death (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Brody, Jennifer (author) and Rivera, Jules (artist) – Spectre Deep 6 (Turner)
Chapman, Clay McLeod (author), Brown, Garry (artist), and Mooneyham, Chris (artist) – Scream Vol. 1: Curse of Carnage (Marvel)
Daniel, Tim (author), Moreci, Michael (author), and Hixson, Joshua (artist) – The Plot (Vault Comics)
Douek, Rich (author) and Cormack, Alex (artist) – Road of Bones (IDW Publishing)
Holder, Nancy (author), Di Francia, Chiara (artist), and Woo, Amelia (artist) – Mary Shelley Presents (Kymera Press)
Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist) – Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) (Independent Legions Publishing)
Nadler, Lonnie (author) and Cha, Jenna (artist) – Black Stars Above (Vault Comics)
Niles, Steve (author), Simeone, Salvatore (author), and Kudranski, Szymon (artist) – Lonesome Days, Savage Nights (TKO Studios)
Paknadel, Alex (author), Brusco, Giulia (artist), and Vendrell, Nil (artist) – Redfork (TKO Studios)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Cesare, Adam – Clown in a Cornfield (HarperTeen)
Charlton, Darren – Wranglestone (Stripes/Little Tiger)
Dávila Cardinal, Ann – Category Five (Tor Teen)
Kraus, Daniel – Bent Heavens (Henry Holt and Company/Macmillan)
Laure, Estelle – Mayhem (Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s)
Lutz, Leslie – Fractured Tide (Blink)
Parsons, Ash – Girls Save the World in This One (Philomel Books)
Snyman, Monique – The Bone Carver (Vesuvian Books)
Thomas, Aiden – Cemetery Boys (Swoon Reads/Macmillan)
Waters, Erica – Ghost Wood Song (HarperTeen)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Ashley-Smith, J. – The Attic Tragedy (Meerkat Press)
Cowen, David E. – Proof of Death and Other Facts (Horror USA – Texas: An Anthology of Horror from the Lone Star State) (Soteira Press)
Deady, Tom – Coleridge (Silver Shamrock Publishing)
Iglesias, Gabino – Beyond the Reef (Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press)
Jones, Stephen Graham – Night of the Mannequins (Tor.com)
Kiste, Gwendolyn – The Invention of Ghosts (Nightscape Press)
Landry, Jess – I Will Find You, Even in the Dark (Dim Shores Presents Volume 1) (Dim Shores)
Miskowski, S.P. – The Best of Both Worlds (Trepidatio Publishing)
Parent, Jason – Eight Cylinders (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Pinsker, Sarah – Two Truths and a Lie (Tor.com)
Stred, Steve – The Window in the Ground (The Writing Collective)
Wise, A.C. – Exhalation #10 (Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles) (Blumhouse Books)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

Arcuri, Meghan – “Am I Missing the Sunlight?” (Borderlands 7) (Borderlands Press)
Busby, R.A. – “Street View” (Collective Realms Magazine: Issue #002) (Lazy Adventurer Publishing)
Compton, Johnny – “FFUNS” (PseudoPod 692)
Di Orazio, Paolo – “The Man Who Fell Beyond the Wall” (KDP Amazon)
Fawver, Kurt – “Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1” (Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2020 (Issue 98))
Girardi, Jill – “The Ecstasy of Gold” (25 Gates of Hell: A Horror Anthology) (Burwick Anthologies)
Girardi, Jill – “The Wet Dream” (The Places We Fear to Tread) (Cemetery Gates Media)
Hinkle, Larry – “The Space Between” (Deep Magic, Spring 2020) (Amberlin)
Malerman, Josh – “One Last Transformation” (Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors) (Written Backwards)
McKnight Hardy, Lucie – “The Birds of Nagasaki” (Uncertainties Volume IV) (Swan River Press)
O’Quinn, Cindy – “The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road” (Shotgun Honey Presents Volume 4: Recoil) (Down and Out Books)
Ward, Kyla Lee – “Should Fire Remember the Fuel?” (Oz is Burning) (B Cubed Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Chronister, Kay – Thin Places (Undertow Publications)
Koja, Kathe – Velocities: Stories (Meerkat Press)
Langan, John – Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies (Word Horde)
Lillie, Patricia – The Cuckoo Girls (Trepidatio Publishing)
McMahon, Gary – Some Bruising May Occur (JournalStone)
Murray, Lee – Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well)
Oliver, Jonathan – The Language of Beasts (Black Shuck Books)
Ottone, Robert P. – Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares (Spooky House Press LLC)
Stanton, Max D. – A Season of Loathsome Miracles (Trepidatio Publishing)
Taborska, Anna – Bloody Britain (Shadow Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Amaris, Scarlett and Stanley, Richard – Color Out of Space (SpectreVision)
Cozad, Adam and Duffield, Brian – Underwater (20th Century Fox Film Corporation)
Desola, David and Rivero, Pedro – The Platform (Basque Films, Netflix)
Finnegan, Lorcan and Shanley, Garret – Vivarium (Lovely Productions, Saban Films)
Green, Misha – Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 1: “Sundown” (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
Green, Misha and Ofordire, Ihuoma – Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 8: “Jig-a-Bobo” (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
James, Natalie Erika and White, Christian – Relic (AGBO, Film Constellation, IFC Midnight)
LaManna, Angela – The Haunting of Bly Manor, Season 1, Episode 5: “The Altar of the Dead” (Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios)
Weekes, Remi – His House (Regency Enterprises, BBC Films, Vertigo Entertainment, Starchild Pictures)
Whannell, Leigh – The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Borski, Robert – Carpe Noctem (Weird House Press)
Brandeis, Gayle – Many Restless Concerns (Black Lawrence Press)
Clarke, Cassandra Rose – Sacred Summer (Aqueduct Press)
Crum, Amanda – The Day You Learned To Swim (Self-Published)
Manzetti, Alessandro – Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems (Independent Legions Publishing)
McHugh, Jessica – A Complex Accident of Life (Apokrupha)
Murray, Ronald J. – Cries to Kill the Corpse Flower (Bizarro Pulp Press)
Pelayo, Cynthia – Into the Forest and All the Way Through (Burial Day Books)
Sng, Christina – A Collection of Dreamscapes (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Tantlinger, Sara – Cradleland of Parasites (Rooster Republic Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Bailey, Michael and Murano, Doug – Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors (Written Backwards)
Cagle, Ryan and Jenkins, James D. – The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 (Valancourt Books)
Flynn, Geneve and Murray, Lee – Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media)
Givens Kurtz, Nicole – Slay: Stories of the Vampire (Mocha Memoirs Press)
Kelly, Michael – Shadows & Tall Trees 8 (Undertow Publications)
Kolesnik, Samantha – Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror (Grindhouse Press)
Neal, David T. and Scott, Christine M. – The Fiends in the Furrows II: More Tales of Folk Horror (Nosetouch Press)
Rector, Jeani and Wild, Dean H. – The Horror Zine’s Book of Ghost Stories (HellBound Books Publishing, LLC)
Tantlinger, Sara – Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror (Rooster Republic Press)
Yardley, Mercedes M. – Arterial Bloom (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Florence, Kelly and Hafdahl, Meg – The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films (Skyhorse)
Glasby, Matt – The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film (White Lion Publishing)
Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra – 1000 Women in Horror (BearManor Media)
Keene, Brian – End of the Road (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Kerestman, Katherine – Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels: Prowling Around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press)
Peirse, Alison – Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre (Rutgers University Press)
Stallings, Courtenay – Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks (Fayetteville Mafia Press)
Waggoner, Tim – Writing in the Dark (Guide Dog Books/Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew – The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press)
Wetmore, Jr. Kevin J. – The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

Clasen, Mathias – “Why the World Is a Better Place with Stephen King in It: An Evolutionary Perspective” (Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture) (Springer)
Clasen, Mathias; Johnson, John; Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, Jens; and Scrivner, Coltan – “Pandemic Practice: Horror Fans and Morbidly Curious Individuals Are More Psychologically Resilient during the Covid-19 Pandemic” (Personality and Individual Differences) (Elsevier)
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda – “The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood” (The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation) (McFarland)
Pelayo, Cynthia – “I Need to Believe” (Southwest Review Volume 105.3)
Renner, Karen J. – “Degeneration through Violence: Stephen King’s Rage” (Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King) (Lexington Books)
Robinson, Kelly – “Hell is Other Mushroom People: Societal Decay in Matango” (Scary Monsters Magazine #117)
Robinson, Kelly – “Lost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein” (Rue Morgue Magazine, June 2020)
Sng, Christina – “Final Girl: A Life in Horror” (Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2020)
Waggoner, Tim – “Speaking of Horror” (The Writer)
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew – “What is IT? Ambient Dead and Modern Paranoia in It (2017), It Follows (2014), and It Comes at Night (2017)” (Horror Studies v.11, no.2)