The BRAM STOKER AWARDS for works
published in 1999 were presented May 13th, 2000, at the Stoker Awards Banquet
during the World Horror Convention in Denver, Colorado.
This is a short list of the nominees and winners for
those that are considered the most important and prestigious categories:
NOVEL:
Darker
than Night by Owl Goingback (Signet)
Hannibal by Thomas
Harris (Delacorte)
Low Men in
Yellow Coats by Stephen King (Hearts in Atlantis,
Scribner)
Hexes by Tom Piccirilli
(Leisure Books)
Mr. X by Peter
Straub (Random House) WINNER!
FIRST NOVEL:
Widow's Walk by Steve Beai
(Indigo Publishing)
Every Dead
Thing by John Connolly (Simon & Schuster)
King Rat by China
Miéville (Macmillan UK/Tor)
Wither by J.G.
Passarella (Pocket Books) WINNER!
SHORT STORY:
The Grave by P.D. Cacek
(999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
The
Entertainment by Ramsey Campbell (999: New
Stories of Horror and Suspense)
Halloween
Street by Steve Rasnic Tem (F&SF,
July)
After Shock by F. Paul Wilson
(Realms of Fantasy, December) WINNER!
COLLECTION:
Death Drives a
Semi by Edo van Belkom (Quarry Press)
The Nightmare
Chronicles by Douglas Clegg (Leisure Books) WINNER!
Hearts in
Atlantis by Stephen King (Scribner)
Deep into that
Darkness Peering by Tom Piccirilli (Terminal Fright)