World Fantasy Awards 2008
Life Achievement
winner Leo & Diane Dillon
winner Patricia McKillip
Novel
winner Ysabel Guy Gavriel Kay [Viking Canada/Penguin Roc]
Territory Emma Bull [Tor]
Fangland John Marks [Penguin Press]
The Gospel of the Knife Will Shetterly [Tor]
The Servants Michael Marshall Smith [Earthling Publications]

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Alan Beatts, Alice Whittenburg, Allison Baker, Bantam Spectra, Chris Roberson, Daniel Abraham, Diane Dillon, Diogenes Club, Earthling Publications, Edward Miller, elizabeth hand, Ellen Datlow, Ellen Klages, Emma Bull, G. S. Evans, gardner dozois, Gary A. Braunbeck, Gordon Van Gelder, Guy Gavriel Kay, Hank Schwaeble, Ian R. MacLeod, Jack Dann, Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen, John Klima, John Marks, Jude Feldman, Kij Johnson, Kim Newman, Leo Dillon, lucius shepard, Michael Marshall Smith, Midori Snyder, Mount Abora, Night Shade Books, Patricia McKillip, Peter Crowther, Raymond Russell, Robert Edric, Robert Shearman, Rosalie Parker, Shawna McCarthy, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Stephen Gallagher, Stephen Jones, Tachyon Publications, Terri Windling, Theodora Goss, Tim Pratt, Trickster Tales, Will Shetterly, World Fantasy Awards

The INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD AWARDS 2008 for WORKS from 2007
NOVEL
The Terror: A Novel. Dan Simmons (Little, Brown & Company)
Also nominated:
* The Grin of the Dark. Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
* Generation Loss. Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
* The Missing. Sarah Langan (HarperCollns)
* Season of the Witch. Natasha Mostert (Dutton)

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Ash Tree, Barbara Roden, Ben Templesmith, Bob Weinberg, Candlewick Press, Christopher Roden, Colleen Doran, Conrad Williams, dan simmons, Dead Ash, Don Webb, elizabeth hand, Ellen Datlow, Fredric S. Durbin, Glen Hirshberg, International Horror Guild, Joe Harris, joe r lansdale, Laird Barron, Lisa Tuttle, Lois M. Gresh, lucius shepard, Michael Gaydos, Nancy Etchemendy, Natasha Mostert, Nick Gevers, Night Shade Books, Paul Finch, Paul Walther, Peter Crowther, peter straub, Postscripts, Postscripts 10, Ramsey Campbell, Reggie Oliver, Rosalie Parker, Rosemary Pardoe, S T Joshi, S.T. Joshi, Sarah Langan, Stephen Gallagher, Stephen Jones, Steven Duffy, Stuart Moore, Subterranean Press, Summer Chills, Susan Hill, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, Ted McKeever, thomas ligotti, Tim Lucas, Webb Magazine

D.C. Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
Rather than just traveling the same mean streets as the first “D.C. Noir” — a much-lauded gathering of original tales — this new anthology of 16 works (stories, novel excerpts and one poem) draws on more than a century of published writings. Stretching from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s story “A [...]

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Akashic Noir, Anthology, Book Reviews, Edward P. Jones, elizabeth hand, Female Journalist, George Pelecanos, Insight, James Grady, Jean Toomer, Julian Mayfield, Julian Mazor, Langston Hughes, Larry Neal, Marita Golden, Mean Streets, Nora, Novel Excerpts, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poem, Possibilities, Relevance, Richard Wright, Roach Brown, Ward Just

Songs of the Dying Earth, the Jack Vance tribute anthology that I’m co-editing with Gardner Dozois, has been moving ahead rapidly, and we expect to deliver the complete manuscript to our publishers within the next six weeks.

“The Green Bird” by Kage Bager
“The Good Magician” by Glen Cook
“The Copsy Door” by Terry Dowling
“The Last Golden Thread” [...]

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dan simmons, elizabeth hand, elizabeth moon, gardner dozois, george rr martin, glen cook, jeff vandermeer, john c wright, kage bager, liz williams, lucius shepard, matthew hughes, mike resnick, paula volsky, phyllis eisenstein, robert silverberg, songs of the dying earth, tad williams, tanith lee, terry dowling, walter jon williams

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre.

Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly inventive, evocative spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe [...]

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brian evenson, dan chaon, elizabeth hand, jonathan carroll, melanie rasnic tem, neil gaiman, peter straub, stephen king, steve rasnic tem, thomas ligotti