Вручение 15 мая 2019 г.

Премия вручена за 2018 год.

В номинациях:
Издательство года лауреатом стало - Crystal Lake Publishing;
Подкаст года: художественная литература - The NoSleep Podcast
Подкаст года: нехудожественная литература - Ladies of the Fright

Страна: Великобритания Дата проведения: 15 мая 2019 г.

Роман года

Лауреат
The Rust Maidens
Гвендолин Кисте 4.0
Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street.
It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile at the shore, one strong spark, and the Cuyahoga River might catch fire. But none of that compares to what’s happening in their own west side neighborhood. The girls Phoebe and Jacqueline have grown up with are changing. It starts with footprints of dark water on the sidewalk. Then, one by one, the girls’ bodies wither away, their fingernails turning to broken glass, and their bones exposed like corroded metal beneath their flesh.
As rumors spread about the grotesque transformations, soon everyone from nosy tourists to clinic doctors and government men start arriving on Denton Street, eager to catch sight of “the Rust Maidens” in metamorphosis. But even with all the onlookers, nobody can explain what’s happening or why—except perhaps the Rust Maidens themselves. Whispering in secret, they know more than they’re telling, and Phoebe realizes her former friends are quietly preparing for something that will tear their neighborhood apart.
Alternating between past and present, Phoebe struggles to unravel the mystery of the Rust Maidens—and her own unwitting role in the transformations—before she loses everything she’s held dear: her home, her best friend, and even perhaps her own body.
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The Cabin at the End of the World
Paul G. Tremblay 2.9

Второе место.

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake, with their closest neighbours more than two miles in either direction.
As Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young and friendly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologises and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault”. Three more strangers arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”
So begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are intertwined.
The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay.
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Coyote Songs
Gabino Iglesias 0.0
In Gabino Iglesias’ second novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest.

A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father.These stories intertwine with those of a vengeful spirit and a hungry creature to paint a timely, compelling, pulpy portrait of revenge, family, and hope.

“Call him the Barrio Palahniuk, a badass Henry Miller, Charles Willeford in Cholo-land—whatever the moniker, for my money Gabino Iglesias is one of the most fearless, original and riveting writers working today.” – Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

“Iglesias is a master of compact phrasing and perfectly paced suspense.” - Los Angeles Review of Books
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Голод
Алма Катсу 3.6
1846 год. Девяносто мужчин, женщин и детей под предводительством Джеймса Доннера отправляются в Калифорнию на поиски лучшей жизни.

Они ещё не знают, что это путешествие войдёт в историю — как одно из самых гибельных.

С каждым днём дорога всё тяжелее. Всплывают секреты, которые участники экспедиции надеялись похоронить навсегда. Лютая стужа замораживает волов на ходу. Еды с каждым днём всё меньше. Ссоры вспыхивают всё чаще. Разногласия перерастают в убийства и хаос. И, кажется, кто-то преследует их. Кто-то… или что-то.

Вокруг обоза и в сердцах переселенцев взрастает, крепнет, набирает силы зло. И когда люди начинают исчезать один за другим, становится ясно: что-то страшное живёт в окрестных горах. Страшное — и очень, очень голодное…
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Слушатель
Роберт Маккаммон 3.9
Сотни бизнесов закрываются, беспрецедентное количество людей увязает в долгах или остаётся без залога, а очереди за хлебом в городах Америки растут день ото дня. Посреди всеобщего обнищания кое-кто наловчился доставать деньги бесчестным путём. И сложно найти проходимцев безжалостнее, чем ангелоподобный Джон Партлоу и ярмарочный торгаш Джинджер Лафранс. Вместе они оставляют мелкие мошенничества позади и перебираются в Новый Орлеан, чтобы провернуть там похищение с выкупом. В другой части города Кёртис Мэйхью, молодой чёрнокожий носильщик на железной дороге, зарабатывает себе репутацию тем, что отлично улаживает ссоры и недопонимания между друзьями. Они не догадываются, насколько хорошо он слушает – иногда даже то, что не говорится вслух. Однажды благодаря этому дару Кёртис слышит детский крик о помощи (ЭТОТ ДЯДЯ В МАШИНЕ У НЕГО ПИСТОЛЕТ), что вовлекает его в опасный мир Партлоу и Лафранса. Суровый криминальный триллер на материале Великой депрессии – захватывающая история, соединяющая точные социальные наблюдения с ароматом сверхъестественного – займёт место в ряду лучших романов Маккаммона.
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Повесть года

Лауреат
The Writhing Skies
Betty Rocksteady 0.0
THE SKY IS HUNGRY

Glowing lights and figures in tattered robes force Sarah from her apartment. Outside, phosphorescent creatures infiltrate her every orifice. They want to know everything, especially the things she would rather forget.

Featuring 20 black and white illustrations.
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At the End of the Day I Burst Into Flames
Nicholas Day 0.0

Второе место.

These are his final moments.

In the little city of Wood River, Illinois, a man nicknamed Firecracker knows the end is near. The fire is coming, just like it came for his father, his grandfather, and who knows how many men. After all, folks in those parts have a short-term memory when it comes to history, and lots of stories have a tendency to go to the grave. Maybe the fire was always there. Maybe it came along when the oil refinery went up in 1907. Who can say? Sometimes, a yarn like this is as close to a history book as a Midwest community and its people are apt to get.

When it happened to his father, the doctors only called it an accident. But Firecracker's mother had a name for it: spontaneous combustion. Firecracker knows there is no way to escape this Act of God, so he retreats into his memories. Past and present become one and the same. The veil of reality pulls away and Death arrives in time for one last conversation, where Firecracker comes to terms with the mysteries of his own life, and realizes that some questions are not nearly as important as the moments which spawned them.

From the first line of the tale that sees his eyes explode to--moments and pages later--his whole body being consumed by flame, Firecracker experiences his life and loves through a succession of memories, reveals his friendship with Death, and talks about the men in his family's unfortunate predisposition.

This is a yarn about life and death and spontaneous human combustion.

This is a tale of a man with a fire inside him.

At the End of the Day I Burst into Flames is a horror story about how beautiful love can be.
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Out Behind the Barn
John Boden, Чад Луцке 0.0
The boys crept to the window and watched as Miss Maggie carried the long bundle into the barn, the weight of it stooping her aging back. Rafter lights spilled from the barn doors and Davey saw an arm fall from the canvas-wrapped parcel. He smiled.

“She got someone!”

Both children grinned and settled in their beds, eyes fixed to the ceiling.

This was family growth.
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The Atrocities
Jeremy C. Shipp 0.0
Jeremy Shipp brings you The Atrocities, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education

When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn't suffer.

But Isabella's parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella's... condition, and when Ms Valdez arrives at the estate, having forced herself through a surreal nightmare maze of twisted human-like statues, she discovers that there is no girl to tutor.

Or is there...?
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Maniac Gods
Rich Hawkins 0.0
One rainy night in Penbrook, Albie Samways' family disappeared along with the rest of the village's population, spirited away by unknown forces.

In those abandoned streets and houses he encountered hellish creatures, madness and death, ending in a confrontation with the sadistic Doctor Ridings and his cultists.

He barely made it out alive.

Five years later, he lives in a squalid bedsit, miserable and heartbroken, suffering from nightmares and visions of monstrous things.

He mourns.

He mourns for his daughter, Milly, most of all.

Then one day she returns. However she is not the same girl he once knew, and tells him about terrible places, thin places, where gods and monsters reside in the darkness, waiting to enter our world.

But there is worse to come.

Doctor Ridings and his followers are back, and they have plans for her. Horrific plans of black magic and sacrifice.

With no other option, Albie and Milly are forced to go on the run, beginning an epic chase across the country.

He is all that stands between the monsters and his little girl.
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