Stoker Final Ballot Announced

I noticed this via Nick Mamatas' Live Journal; he's also handicapping the race, so go there if you're interested in the will-win/should-win over/under.

I'll just paste it in, for those of you who don't feel like following a link. No commentary from me this time; this is outside of my normal area to begin with and I'm judging an award with a somewhat overlapping area this year. But I might be able to comment on the winners, in the fullness of time; I'll have read more of the nominees than most years.

NOVEL	CREEPERS by David Morrell (CDS)
	DREAD IN THE BEAST by Charlee Jacob (Necro Publications)
	KEEPERS by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure)
	NOVEMBER MOURNS by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
FIRST NOVEL	THE HIDES by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications)
	SCARECROW GODS by Weston Ochse (Delirium Books)
	SIREN PROMISED by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson (Bloodletting Press)
LONG FICTION	BEST NEW HORROR by Joe Hill (Postscripts #3)
	IN THE MIDNIGHT MUSEUM by Gary Braunbeck (Necessary Evil Press)
	SOME ZOMBIE CONTINGENCY PLANS by Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners)
	THE THINGS THEY LEFT BEHIND by Stephen King (Transgressions)
SHORT STORY	AS OTHERS SEE US by Mort Castle (World Horror Convention 2005 Program Book)
	HAECKEL'S TALE by Clive Barker (Dark Delicacies)
	TIMES OF ATONEMENT by Yvonne Navarro (Taverns of the Dead)
	WE NOW PAUSE FOR STATION IDENTIFICATION by Gary Braunbeck (Endeavor Press)
	INVISIBLE by Steve Rasnic Tem (Sci Fiction, Mar '05)
ANTHOLOGY	CORPSE BLOSSOMS by Julia and RJ Sevin (Creeping Hemlock Press)
	DARK DELICACIES: ORIGINAL TALES OF TERROR AND THE MACABRE by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf)
	OUTSIDERS by Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick (Roc)
	WEIRD SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH by Stephen Jones (Fedogan and Bremer)

FICTION COLLECTION	HAUNTED by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
	LOOKING FOR JAKE by China Mieville (Del Rey)
	MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS by Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
	TWENTIETH CENTURY GHOSTS by Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
NONFICTION	THE BRADBURY CHRONICLE by Sam Weller (William Morrow & Co.)
	HORROR: ANOTHER 100 BEST BOOKS by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (Carroll & Graf)
	MORBID CURIOSITY #9 by Loren Rhoades (Automatism Press)
	MORE GIANTS OF THE GENRE by Michael McCarty (Wildside Press)
	WHY BUFFY MATTERS: THE ART OF 'BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER' by Rhonda Wilcox (I.B. Tauris)
POETRY	FREAKCIDENTS by Michael A. Arnzen (Shocklines Press)
	SEASONS: A SERIES OF POEMS BASED ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Daniel Shields (Foothills Publishing)
	THE SHADOW CITY by Gary W. Crawford (Naked Snake Press)
	SINEATER by Charlee Jacob (Cyberpulp)

Good luck to all of the nominees.