Bram Stoker Awards 2003
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
New York City :
June 7, 2003
Eligibility Year: 2002
Eligibility Year: 2002
Novel
- Winner: The Night Class, Tom Piccirilli (Leisure)
- From a Buick 8, Stephen King (Cemetery Dance; Scribner)
- The Hour Before Dark, Douglas Clegg (Leisure)
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
- Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
First Novel
- Winner: The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
- Atmosphere, Michael Laimo (Delirium Books; Leisure)
- The Blues Ain't Nothing', Tina Jens (Design Image Group)
- The Red Church, Scott Nicholson (Pinnacle)
Long Fiction
- Winner (tie): El Dia de los Muertos, Brian A. Hopkins (Earthling Publications)
- Winner (tie): “My Work Is Not Yet Done”, Thomas Ligotti (My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror)
- Cape Wrath, Paul Finch (Telos Publishing)
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
- “The Origin”, David B. Silva (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair”, Tom Piccirilli (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)
- “Details”, China Mi�ville (Children of Cthulhu)
- “Disappearances”, Mort Castle (Chizine)
- “The Green Man”, Christopher Fowler (The Third Alternative #31)
- “The Plague Species”, Charlee Jacob (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)
Fiction Collection
- Winner: One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)
- The Collection, Bentley Little (Signet)
- Everything's Eventual, Stephen King (Scribner)
- Knuckles and Tales, Nancy A. Collins (Cemetery Dance)
- Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead, Mort Castle (Prime Books)
Anthology
- Winner: The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, John Pelan, ed. (Roc)
- Children of Cthulhu, John Pelan & Benjamin Adams, eds. (Del Rey)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Thirteen, Stephen Jones, ed. (Carroll & Graf)
- Shivers, Richard Chizmar, ed. (Cemetery Dance)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)
Nonfiction
- Winner: Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
- Hellnotes, David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck, eds. (Phantasm Press)
- Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene & Kelly Laymon, eds. (JIHad Publications)
- Ralan.com, Ralan Conley, ed.
- Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition, Richard Bleiler (Scribner)
Illustrated Narrative
- Winner: Nightside Issues 1-4, Robert Weinberg (Marvel Comics)
- Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained Issues 1-4, Peter Lenkov (Dark Horse)
- Howard the Duck Issues 1-6, Steve Gerber (Marvel Comics)
Screenplay
- Winner: Frailty, Brant Hanley (Lion's Gate Films)
- Minority Report, Scott Frank & Jon Cohen (based on a story by Philip K. Dick; 20th Century Fox)
- The Ring, Ehren Kruger & Scott Frank (based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and on the motion picture by The Spiral Production Group; Dreamworks)
- Signs, M. Night Shyamalan (Touchstone Films)
Work For Younger Readers
- Winner: Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
- Abarat, Clive Barker (Joanna Cotler Books)
- Abu and the 7 Marvels, Richard Matheson & William Stout (Gauntlet Press)
- Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural, Nancy Etchemendy (Cricket Books)
Poetry Collection
- Winner: The Gossamer Eye, Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson (Meisha Merlin)
- Guises (poetry section "Night Unmasked"), Charlee Jacob (Delirium Books)
- Night Smoke, Bruce Boston & Marge Simon (Miniature Sun Press/Quixsilver Press)
- This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding, Tom Piccirilli (Catalyst)
Alternative Forms
- Winner: “Imagination Box”, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (Lone Wolf Publications) (multimedia CD)
- “Buckeye Jim in Egypt”, Mort Castle (Lone Wolf Publications) (audio script based on the Mort Castle story)
- Flesh & Blood, Jack Fisher, ed. (Flesh & Blood Press)
- “The Tree Is My Hat”, Larry Santoro (audio script based on the Gene Wolfe story)
Specialty Press Award
- Winner: Night Shade Books, Jason Williams & Jeremy Lassen
Life Achievement
- Winner: Stephen King
- Winner: J. N. Williamson
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