Audrey's Door

Everybody!

First, thanks to all the new people who signed up. Hope you get your money’s worth. The bar, at least, is low.

Second, AUDREY’S DOOR won the Bram Stoker award for outstanding novel 2009. Hooray! I’m delighted to join the company of Straub, King, and McCammon for winning twice for novel (and overall, three times!). I’m also just generally delighted.  Remember how SNL used to be dominated by men, and then the ladies came along? It feels like that.  A total sea change. More details on the awards here.

Also, my short stories Fenstad’s End , The Burn Victim, The Dark Materials Project , and The Agathas all got honorable mentions in Ellen Datlow’s Anthology, The Best Horror of the Year, 2009.

Finally, I was a founding juror for two years for the Shirley Jackson Awards, and am now an advisor. They came out with the final ballot last week, and it’s pasted below. Congratulations to all. This kind of thing takes a lot of work, and jurors do it for free, so particular kudos to F. Brett Cox, John Langan, Erika Mailman, and Lisa Tuttle.

NOVEL

• Big Machine, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau)
• Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland Press)
• The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
• The Owl Killers, Karen Maitland (Delacorte Press)
• The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
• White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Nan A. Talese)

NOVELLA

• The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough, (PS Publishing)
• Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca (Word Riot Press)
• “Sea-Hearts,” Margo Lanagan (X6, coeur de lion)
• Shrike, Quentin Crisp (PS Publishing)
• Vardøger, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar Press)
• The Witnesses are Gone, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• “Catch Hell,” Laird Barron (Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse)
• “Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death,” Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, (Clockwork Phoenix 2, Norilana Books)
• “Lonegan’s Luck,” Stephen Graham Jones (New Genre 6)
• “Morality,” Stephen King (Esquire)
• The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS Publishing)

SHORT STORY

• “The Crevasse,” by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud (Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse)
• “Faces,” Aimee Bender (The Paris Review, Issue 191, Winter 2009)
• “The Jacaranda Smile,” Gemma Files (Apparitions, Undertow Publications)
• “The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse 3, Night Shade)
• “Procedure in Plain Air,” Jonathan Lethem (The New Yorker, April 5, 2010)
• “Strappado,” Laird Barron (Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Solaris)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS Publishing)
• Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
• Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish Productions)
• There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
• Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson (Harper Perennial)
• Zoo, Otsuichi (Haikasoru/VIZ Media)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Apparitions, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
• British Invasion, edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore (Cemetery Dance)
• Exotic Gothic 3:  Strange Visitations, edited by Danel Olson (Ash Tree Press)
• Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
• Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)

 As always, don’t get none on ya.

Sincerely,

Sarah Langan