1997 Bram Stoker Award

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Superior Achievement in a Novel
Win	Children of the Dusk	Janet Berliner and George Guthridge
Nomination	Earthquake Weather	Tim Powers
Nomination	My Soul to Keep	Tananarive Due
Nomination	The Church of Dead Girls	Stephen Dobyns
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Antibodies	Kevin J. Anderson
*	Asylum	Patrick McGrath
*	Cimarron Rose	James Lee Burke
*	Fog Heart	Thomas Tessier
*	Neverwhere	Neil Gaiman
*	Night of Broken Souls	Thomas F. Monteleone
*	Shackled	Ray Garton
*	Shade of Pale	Greg Kihn
*	Signs of Life	M. John Harrison
*	Spares	Michael Marshall Smith
*	Symphony	Charles Grant
*	The Bighead	Edward Lee
*	The Chosen Child	Graham Masterton
*	The Club Dumas (translation of El Club Dumas)	Arturo Pérez-Reverte
*	The House on Nazareth Hill	Ramsey Campbell
*	The Ignored	Bentley Little
*	The Night Watch	Sean Stewart
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Win	Lives of the Monster Dogs	Kirsten Bakis
Nomination	Drawn to the Grave	Mary Ann Mitchell
Nomination	Hungry Eyes	Barry Hoffman
Nomination	The Art of Arrow Cutting	Stephen Dedman
Nomination	The Inquisitor	Mary Murrey
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	An Exchange of Hostages	Susan R. Matthews
*	The Troika	Stepan Chapman
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Win	The Big Blow	Joe R. Lansdale
Nomination	Coppola's Dracula	Kim Newman
Nomination	Everything's Eventual	Stephen King
Nomination	The Word	Ramsey Campbell
Nomination	The Zombies of Madison County	Douglas E. Winter
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	A Lower Deep	Tom Piccirilli
*	Aryans and Absinthe	F. Paul Wilson
*	Cold at Heart	Brian A. Hopkins
*	Dusting the Flowers	David J. Schow
*	Fiends	Richard Laymon
*	Fixtures of Matchstick Men and Joo	Elizabeth Massie
*	If I Should Die Before I Wake	David Morrell
*	In His Daughter's Darkling Womb	Tina L. Jens
*	In Hollow Houses	Gary A. Braunbeck
*	Riding the Black	Charles Grant
*	Ringard and Dendra	Brian McNaughton
*	Searching for Survivors	Gary A. Braunbeck
*	The Inner Inner City	Robert Charles Wilson
*	Triads	Poppy Z. Brite and Christa Faust
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Win	Rat Food	David Nickle and Edo van Belkom
Nomination	A Plague on Both Your Houses	Scott Edelman
Nomination	I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes	Douglas Clegg
Nomination	Madame Babylon	Brian Hodge
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	A Simple Misunderstanding	Ken Abner
*	Beluthahatchie	Andy Duncan
*	Close Encounters of Madison County	Gary Brandner
*	Dance in Crimson	Trey R. Barker
*	Dust Motes	P. D. Cacek
*	Here There Be Hangin's	Trey R. Barker
*	Razorblade Valentines	Thomas S. Roche
*	Saints and Martyrs	Nancy Etchemendy
*	Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon!	Joyce Carol Oates
*	The Children of Gael	Benoit Bisson and Nancy Kilpatrick
*	The Fisher's Daughter	Thomas S. Roche
*	The Great White Light	Greg Kihn
*	The I of the Eye of the Worm	Janet Berliner and George Guthridge
*	The Quick and the Dead	Carrie Richerson
*	The Spider in the Hairdo	Michael A. Burstein
*	The Ugliest Duckling	S. P. Somtow
*	Trophies	John B. Rosenman
*	Waiting for Victor	Del Stone, Jr.
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Win	Exorcisms and Ecstasies	Karl Edward Wagner
Nomination	Painted in Blood	Lucy Taylor
Nomination	The Throne of Bones	Brian McNaughton
Nomination	Things Left Behind	Gary A. Braunbeck
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Distorture	Rob Hardin
*	Fiends	Richard Laymon
*	Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories	Sharyn McCrumb
*	Horizon Lines	Jeffrey Osier
*	Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror	James Hynes
*	The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies	Tom Piccirilli
*	The Final Trick of Funnyman and Other Stories	Bruce Taylor
*	The Mirror of Night	Roberta Lannes
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Win	Dark Thoughts: On Writing	Stanley Wiater
Nomination	Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror	Stephen Jones
Nomination	Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography	Katherine Ramsland
Nomination	The Encyclopedia of Fantasy	John Clute and John Grant
Nomination	The Hammer Story	Alan Barnes and Marcus Hearn
Nomination	Video Watchdog	Tim Lucas
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Bright Darkness: The Lost Art of the Supernatural Horror Film	Jeremy Dyson
*	Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Guide	John Stanley
*	Dracula: The Connoisseur's Guide	Leonard Wolf
*	The Night Stalker Companion: A 25th Anniversary Tribute	Mark Dawidziak
Trustees Hammer Award
Win	----	Jaffery Sheldon
Special Small Press Award
Win	Cemetery Dance	Richard Chizmar
Life Achievement
Win	----	William Peter Blatty
Win	----	Jack Williamson

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