Kolchak, Dark Shadows on Rondo Award Ballot

Although not solely for my own work, it’s mighty gratifying that two books to which I contributed are on the ballot for the 21st Annual Rondo Awards (for work published in 2022). First, in the Book of the Year category (#11 on the ballot), is Running Home to Shadows (Becky Books), edited by Jim Beard and Charles R. Rutledge; second, in the Best Graphic Presentation category (#22 on the ballot), is Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Novel (Moonstone Books), edited by James Aquilone (this one has also been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award).

The Rondo Awards are cooler than fuck. Yes, they are! You can check out the ballot and vote here: The 21st Annual Rondo Awards

Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Anthology

My contributor copy of Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Anthology from Moonstone Books is in the house. This one features my original Kolchak tale, “Up From the Underground.” This really is one helluva beautiful volume!

Edited by James Aquilone, with tales by David Avallone, Jonathan Maberry, Peter David, R.C. Matheson, Kim Newman, Tim Waggoner, Steve Niles, Rodney Barnes, Gabriel Hardman, James Aquilone, Nancy A. Collins, James Chambers, Nancy Holder & Alan Philipson, David Boop, Bobby Nash, Will McDermott, John Jennings, Owl Goingback, Leverett Butts, Lisa Morton; art by Zac Atkinson, Julius Ohta, Marco Finnegan, J.K. Woodward, Paul McCaffrey, Clara Meath, Szymon Kudranski, Jonathan Marks Barravecchia, Colton Worley, and more.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series (or, as it was originally known, simply The Night Stalker) — as well as the two original TV movies, The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler, back in the early 1970s, were among those TV productions that made a powerful and lasting impression on me, and so contributing to this volume felt right, to put it mildly. The book has made it onto the preliminary ballot for the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel, and it would be awesome to see it go all the way to the top. If you have ever been a fan of Carl Kolchak’s exploits, this is the volume for you.

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Check Out Kolchak: The Night Stalker
50th Anniversary Graphic Anthology
From Moonstone Books Here!

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2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award Winners

Congarters to the 2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award winners!

• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL: Piper, Hailey – Queen of Teeth (Strangehouse Books)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist) – The Inhabitant of the Lake (Independent Legions Publishing)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL: Waters, Erica – The River Has Teeth (HarperTeen)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION: Strand, Jeff – “Twentieth Anniversary Screening” (Slice and Dice) (Independently published)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION: Murray, Lee – “Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FICTION COLLECTION: Files, Gemma – In That Endlessness, Our End (Grimscribe Press)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A SCREENPLAY: Flanagan, Mike; Flanagan, James; and Howard, Jeff – Midnight Mass, Season 1, Episode 6: “Book VI: Acts of the Apostles” (Intrepid Pictures)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A POETRY COLLECTION: Sng, Christina; Yuriko Smith, Angela; Murray, Lee; and Flynn, Geneve – Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY: Datlow, Ellen – When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NON-FICTION: Knost, Michael – Writers Workshop of Horror 2 (Hydra Publications)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT NON-FICTION: Yuriko Smith, Angela – “Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications)
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Fletcher, Jo; Holder, Nancy; Suzuki, Koji
• SPECIALTY PRESS: Valancourt Books
• THE RICHARD LAYMON PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Saulson, Sumiko
• THE SILVER HAMMER AWARD: Wetmore, Kevin J.
• MENTOR OF THE YEAR: Knost, Michael