International Horror Guild Award Nominees Announced
Posted on March 21, 2002
The International Horror Guild has announced the finalists for its annual awards recognizing outstanding achievements in the field of horror and dark fantasy from the year 2001. The awards will be presented during the World Horror Convention, April 11-14, 2002 at the Radisson O'Hare near Chicago, IL.
The International Horror Guild has named prolific multi-genre author William F. Nolan as this year's Living Legend Award winner. IHG Living Legends are individuals who have made a meritorious and notable contribution and/or have substantially influenced the field of horror/dark fantasy. Previous recipients are Alice Cooper, Ray Bradbury, Clive Barker, Hugh B. Cave, Edward W. Bryant, Richard Matheson, and Harlan Ellison.
William F. Nolan is best known as the co-author (with George Clayton Johnson) of Logan's Run -- a dark science fiction novel that went on to become part of popular culture as a movie, a television series, a comic and is about to become a movie again -- and as single author of its sequels. But it is primarily as a short fiction writer for over 50 years that Nolan has helped craft modern horror. Joe R. Lansdale has called him "one of the greats of the horror-suspense field." Stephen King has acknowledged Nolan as "an expert in the art and science of scaring the hell out of people." Ray Bradbury has spoken of Nolan's ability "to create an atmosphere of ultimate terror."
International Horror Guild Award Finalists
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- Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker (Harpercollins)
- The Living Blood by Tananarive Due (Pocket)
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow)
- Sex And Violence In Hollywood by Ray Garton (Subterranean Press)
- Threshold by Caitl�n R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub (Random House)
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong (Viking)
- The Astonished Eye by Tracy Knight (Ps Publishing)
- Riverwatch by Joseph Nassise (Spectral Visions)
- Moontide by Erin Patrick (Wildside)
- Ordinary Horror by David Searcy (Viking)
- "Cleopatra Brimstone" by Elizabeth Hand (RED SHIFT)
- "On Skua Island" by John Langan (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001)
- "Eternity and Afterward" by Lucius Shepard (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2001)
- "Her Hunger" by John Shirley (Night Visions 10)
- Father Panic's Opera Macabre by Thomas Tessier (Subterranean Press)
- Nearly People by Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
- "Worse Than Bones" by Ramsey Campbell (The Museum Of Horrors)
- "Onion" by Caitl�n R. Kiernan (Wrong Things)
- "Angel of Mercy" by Joyce Carol Oates (The Spook, October 2001)
- "Blood Money" by Norman Partridge (The Man With The Barbed Wire Fists)
- "Entr'acte" by David J. Schow (Eye)
- "Lunch at Charon's" by Melanie Tem (The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women)
- Talking In The Dark By Dennis Etchison (Stealth Press)
- Dark Universe By William F. Nolan (Stealth Press)
- The Man With The Barbed Wire Fists By Norman Partridge (Night Shade Press)
- Eye By David J. Schow (Subterranean Press)
- Through Shattered Glass By David B. Silva (Gauntlet Press)
- Meddling With Ghosts: Stories In The Tradition Of M.R. James Edited by Ramsey Campbell (British Library Publishing)
- Night Visions 10 Edited by Richard Chizmar (Subterranean Press)
- The Museum Of Horrors Edited by Dennis Etchison (Leisure)
- The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women Edited by Stephen Jones (Carroll & Graf)
- Darkness Rising Volume Two: Hideous Dreams Edited by L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims (Cosmos Books)
- Bending The Landscape: Original Gay And Lesbian Horror Writing Edited by Stephen Pagel and Nicola Griffith (Overlook Press)
- Dark Blue (One Book) by Warren Ellis (Writer) and Jacen Burrows (Artist) (Avatar Press)
- Just A Pilgrim (5-Issue Miniseries) by Garth Ennis (Writer) and Carlos Ezquerra (Artist) (Titan Books)
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Oz (3-Issue Miniseries) by Christopher Golden (Writer) and Logan Lubera (Artist) (Dark Horse Comics)
- The First Adventure Of Miss Catterina Poe (The Dreaming #56) by Caitl�n R. Kiernan (Writer) and Steve Leialoha (Artist) (Dc/Vertigo)
- Desperadoes: Quiet Of The Grave (#1-5) by Jeff Marriotte (Writer) and John Severin (Artist) (Dc)
- If Chins Could Kill: Confessions Of A B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell (La Weekly Books)
- Ramsey Campbell And Modern Horror Fiction by S.T. Joshi (Liverpool University Press)
- Book Of The Dead: Friends Of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others by E. Hoffman Price (Arkham House)
- Wild Hairs by David J. Schow (Babbage Press)
- Dark Dreamers: Facing The Masters Of Fear by Beth Gwinn & Stanley Wiater (Cemetery Dance)
- All Hallows
- Cemetery Dance
- Hellnotes
- The Spook
- Weird NJ
- No Award
- El Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone), Directed by Guillermo Del Toro; Written by Guillermo Del Toro and Antonio Trashorras & David Mu�oz
- From Hell, Directed by Albert Hughes And Allen Hughes. Written by Alan Moore (Graphic Novel) and Eddie Campbell (Graphic Novel), Terry Hayes (Screenplay) And Rafael Yglesias (Screenplay)
- Ginger Snaps, Directed by John Fawcett, Written by John Fawcett and Karen Walton
- Jeepers Creepers, Directed and Written by Victor Salva
- The Others, Directed and Written by Alejandro Amen�bar
- Le Pacte Des Loups (Brotherhood Of The Wolf), Directed by Christophe Gans, Written by St�phane Cabel & Christophe Gans
- Colleen Crary
- Gail Cross
- Richard Kirk
- John Picacio
- Jason Van Hollander
- Douglas Walters
- William F. Nolan