Do fantastiky zahrnujeme nejenom vědeckofantastickou a fantasy literaturu, ale také horory. A nebyl by to správný žánr, kdyby v anglofonním světě neměl šanci získat vysoce prestižní ocenění. Stejně jako SF má Huga a Nebulu, Fantasy WFA, tak nejlepší hororová díla vydaná v uplynulém roce mohou získat Cenu Brama Stokera.

Letošní nominace jako obvykle udělila Asociace hororových spisovatelů (Horror Writers Association). Vítězové v jednotlivých kategoriích budou vyhlášeni na World Horror Convention 29. března 2008 v Salt Lake City. Uvidíme, jestli některá nominovaná díla proniknou na náš trh...

• The Guardener's Tale by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)
• Mr. Hands by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure)
• Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow; č. Černá krabice, Beta 2007)
• Ghoul by Brian Keene (Leisure)
• The Missing by Sarah Langan (Harper)
• Dead Man's Song by Jonathan Maberry (Pinnacle)
• The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
• The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown; č. Teror, Laser-books 2007)
• The Dust of Wonderland by Lee Thomas (Alyson Books)

• I Will Rise by Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
• The Memory Tree by John R. Little (Nocturne Press)
• Dying to Live by Kim Paffenroth (Permuted Press)
• The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)
• Vacation by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines by D. L. Snell (Permuted Press)

• "Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway" by Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)
• "Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man" by Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
• "Survival of the Fittest" by Scott Edelman (Summer Chills)
• "You Never Got Used to the Needle" by John Everson (Needles and Sins)
• Blood Coven by Angeline Hawkes & Christopher Fulbright (Dead Letter Press)
• General Slocum's Gold by Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press)
• Placeholders by John R. Little (Necessary Evil Press)
• Blood Wish by Michael McBride (Delirium Books)
• Frayed by Tom Piccirilli (Creeping Hemlock Press)
• Lost in Translation by Gord Rollo (NYX Books)
• "An Apiary of White Bees" by Lee Thomas (Inferno)
• "Trolling Lures" by Steve Vernon (Hard Roads)

Povídka

• "The Death Wagon Rolls On By" by C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance #57)
• "The Heart Of The City" by Sandy DeLuca & Michael McCarty (Hungur #4)
• "Longtime Gone" by Kurt Dinan (Chizine #34) "Letting Go" by John Everson (Needles and Sins)
• "Hungry for the Flesh" by Lisa Manetti (Space and Time #100)
• "The Wizard of Ooze" by Michael McCarty & Linnea Quigley (Midnight Premiere)
• "Mr. Creator" by Joe McKinney (The Sound of Horror)
• "The Teacher” by Paul G. Tremblay (Chizine)
• "There's No Light Between Floors" by Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld)
• "The Gentle Brush of Wings" by David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)

Antologie

• Five Strokes to Midnight edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press)
• Horror Library Volume 2 edited by R. J. Cavender & Vincent VanAllen (Cutting Block Press)
• Inferno edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
• Dark Delicacies 2: Fear edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
• High Seas Cthulhu edited by William Jones (Elder Signs Press)
• Horrors Beyond 2 edited by William Jones (Elder Signs Press)
• Astounding Hero Tales edited by James Lowder (Hero)
• History is Dead edited by Kim Paffenroth (Permuted Press)
• Midnight Premiere edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Gratia Placenti edited by Jason Sizemore & Gill Ainsworth (Apex Publications)

Povídková sbírka 

• Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press)
• The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
• Darker Loves by James Dorr (Dark Regions Press)
• Needles and Sins by John Everson (Necro Publications)
• When it Rains and Other Wreckage by Christopher Fulbright (Doorways Publication)
• Voyeurs of Death by Shaun Jeffrey (Doorways Publication)
• No Further Messages by Brett Alexander Savory (Delirium)
• Sparks and Shadows by Lucy Snyder (HW Press)
• 5 Stories by Peter Straub (Borderlands)
• Defining Moments by David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)

Dílo mimo beletrii 

• Encyclopedia Horrifica by Joshue Gee (Scholastic)
• The Science of Stephen King by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
• The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo (Harper)
• The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press / Kensington)
• Storytellers Unplugged by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged/)

Poezie 

• Being Full of Light, Insubstantial by Linda Addison (Space and Time)
• Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt by Christopher Conlon (The Word Works)
• Tango in the Ninth Circle by Corrine de Winter (Dark Regions Press)
• Heresy by Charlee Jacob (Bedlam Press [Necro Publications])
• VECTORS: A Week in the Death of a Planet by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)
• Phantasmapedia by Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)
• Sometimes While Dreaming by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Sam's Dot)
• Your Cat & Other Space Aliens by Mary Turzillo (VanZeno Press)

Více informací o ceně a asociaci získáte na www.horror.org.