Från Locus (www.locusmag.com): The 2011 Stoker Award winners have been announced. Superior Achievement in a Novel Flesh Eaters, Joe McKinney (Pinnacle) Superior Achievement in a First Novel Isis Unbound, Allyson Bird (Dark Regions) Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel (tie) The Screaming Season, Nancy Holder (Razorbill)Dust & Decay, Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Superior Achievement Long Fiction ?The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine?, Peter Straub (Conjunctions 56) Superior Achievement in Short Fiction ?Herman Wouk Is Still Alive?, Stephen King (The Atlantic 5/11) Superior Achievement in an Anthology Demons: Encounters with the Devil and his Minions, Fallen Angels and the Possessed, John Skipp, ed. (Black Dog and Leventhal) Superior Achievement in a Collection The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press) Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Stephen King: A Literary Companion, Rocky Wood (McFarland & Company) Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend, Linda Addison (Necon) Rick Hautala and Joe R. Lansdale are the recipients of the Horror Writer?s Association Life Achievement Awards, as previously announced at Locus Online. Derrick Hussey of Hippocampus Press and Roy Robbins of Bad Moon Books won the Specialty Press Award, and the Silver Hammer Award, presented for outstanding service to HWA, went to Guy Anthony DeMarco. The President?s Richard Laymon Service Award was given to Karen Lansdale. This year the HWA, in conjunction with the Bram Stoker Family Estate and the Rosenbach Museum & Library, also presented a special, one-time only Vampire Novel of the Century Award to Richard Matheson for I Am Legend. Winners were announced at the Stoker Weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1, 2012. Stoker-priset, för skräck, är förstås namngivet efter Bram Stoker. --Ahrvid -- ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx / Be an @SFJournalen Twitter Follower for all the latest news in short form! / Gå med i SKRIVA - för författande, sf, fantasy, kultur (skriva-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, subj: subscribe) / Om Ahrvids novellsamling Mord på månen: http://www.zenzat.se/zzfaktasi.html C Fuglesang: "stor förnöjelse...jättebra historier i mycket sannolik framtidsmiljö"! Nu som ljudbok: http://elib.se/ebook_detail.asp?id_type=ISBN&id?86081462 / Läs även AE i nya Vildsint Skymningslandet, årets mest spännande antologi - finns bl a på SF-Bokhandeln! / YXSKAFTBUD, GE VÅR WCZONMÖ IQ-HJÄLP! (DN NoN 00.02.07) ----- SKRIVA - sf, fantasy och skräck * Äldsta svenska skrivarlistan grundad 1997 * Info http://www.skriva.bravewriting.com eller skriva- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx för listkommandon (ex subject: subscribe).