Вручение 2015 г.
Страна: Австралия
Дата проведения: 2015 г.
Роман
Лауреат
Джереми Бейтс
3.8
Катакомбы - самая пугающая достопримечательность Парижа — огромная сеть искусственных тоннелей, в которых покоятся кости миллионов человек. Небольшая часть подземелий открыта для посещения, а проникновение в другие туннели и шахты запрещено законом. Но разве это может остановить настоящих искателей приключений?
Американец Уилл оказывается здесь в первый раз: любимая девушка пригласила его в компанию «катафилов» — нелегальных исследователей катакомб. Им в руки попало странное видео, из которого можно заключить, что с одной туристкой под землей произошло несчастье. Неужели ее растерзало НЕЧТО, живущее в самых дальних коридорах подземелий? Друзья отправляются на поиски разгадки, но это решение становится для них роковым...
Darcy Coates
3.7
Could you survive a week in a haunted house?
Mara is the daughter of spiritualists. Her childhood was filled with séances, scam mediums and talk of ghostly presences.
When Mara finally left her family’s home, she vowed she would never allow superstition or false religion into her life again. Now she’s ready to start over with her fiancé, Neil, in a world based on rationality and facts.
But her past isn’t ready to let her go just yet.
Mara and Neil purchase Blackwood House, a derelict property outside of town. They’re warned about strange occurrences in the crumbling building. Doors open by themselves, voices whisper in the night, bloody handprints appear on the walls, and cold spots linger in the basement, where the house’s original owner was murdered.
But Blackwood was dirt-cheap and came with a large plot of overgrown land. Mara loves her new home, and disregards the warnings.
Because ghosts aren’t real…
…are they?
Майк Джонс
0.0
For fans of American Horror Story.
Fleeing the horrors of Dickensian England and debts she cannot pay, Rosanna steals passage aboard a ship from a desperate young mother and her child. But all hope of a better life is snuffed out when the ship runs aground on Matron Island, a remote quarantine station off the coast of Tasmania.
Trapped, Rosanna searches for a way out, discovering hidden chambers and a bizarre photography studio deep within the bowls of the station. Each step brings Rosanna closer to the truth and the creatures that await her in the dark . . .
From the pen of Mike Jones – renowned multi-platform writer and Head of Story at Portal Entertainment – The Mothers is the first spoke in the Transgressions Cycle story wheel, this is Australian gothic horror at its finest.
Майк Джонс, Leonie Jones
0.0
When an ambitious but troubled Anglican priest takes over the inner city parish of St Agnes, he awakens the ghost of a girl named Amaranth, whose soul lives beneath the cemetery ground.
And when old headstones are removed during church restorations, a terrible secret is brought to the surface.
To unearth the truth of Amaranth and her awful death, the priest will have to confront the fear he dreads most.
Джейсон Нарунг
0.0
Kevin Matheson is coming to Brisbane with revenge on his mind. Even for a vampire, there is no time like the present. He has a score to settle with Mira, the sadistic killer who tore his life in outback Queensland apart.
For Mira's bodyguard, Reece, worn out and fading a little more each day, the present is all he has. He is determined to spend it protecting his mistress, for better or worse.
But as the two men head for a collision the vampires of Brisbane have their own plans – plans that will lead Kevin and Reece down roads they never expected to travel.
And at the end of the line, at the intersection of loyalty and vengeance, both face the questions: who are they willing to sacrifice to win the war?
Премия Пола Хейнса за художественную литературу
Короткая художественная проза
Авторский сборник
Лауреат
Роберт Худ
0.0
Peripheral Visions is a reference collection that includes all of Australian dark fantasy writer Robert Hood's 44 ghost stories to date, three of them especially written for this volume. It is divided into six thematic sections, each section featuring an evocative, disturbing illustration by noted artist, Nick Stathopoulos, who also designed the cover. It includes an introduction by World Fantasy Award-winning editor Danel Olson, a Preface from the author, detailed notes on each story and a complete bibliography of previous publications, awards and commendations. It is also available in trade paperback (in two volumes) and as an ebook.
Стивен М. Ирвин, Шейн Джирайя Каммингс
0.0
Thirteen spine-tingling stories of darkness and desolation from Australia's award-winning master of the macabre, Shane Jiraiya Cummings.
The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After is Cummings at his fear-inducing best: from the seductively erotic autopsy of "The Cutting Room" and the insanity of "Ian" through to the post-apocalyptic tragedy of "Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves."
Imagine a secret from the future that could affect creation itself - a secret so dark, demonic powers would do anything to learn it. Ride a train across the Outback as it descends into a bloodbath. Be entranced by a song that threatens to tear reality apart. Listen for screams only a deaf man can hear ...
With personal afterwords from the author that provide insights into each story, and powerful narratives that explore love, loss, and redemption in the darkest of circumstances, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After is one of the most significant collections of Australian horror ever published.
Дебора Калин
0.0
Tulliæn spans a fractured mountaintop, where the locals lie and the tourists come to die. Try the honey.
Briskwater crouches deep in the shadow of a dam wall. Ignore the weight of the water hanging overhead, and the little dead girl wandering the streets. Off with you, while you still can.
In Haverny Wood the birds drink blood, the dogs trade their coughings for corpses, the lost children carve up their bodies to run with the crows, and the townsfolk stitch silence into their spleens. You mustn't talk so wild.
The desert-locked outpost of Boundary boasts the famed manufacturers of flawless timepieces; those who would learn the trade must offer up their eyes as starting materials. Look to your pride: it will eat you alive.
Sooner or later, in every community, fate demands its dues — and the currency is blood.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, by Kate Elliott
- The Wages of Honey
- The Briskwater Mare
- The Miseducation of Mara Lys
- The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood
What Are the Twelve Planets?
The Twelve Planets are twelve boutique collections by some of Australia’s finest short story writers. Varied across genre and style, each collection offers four short stories and a unique glimpse into worlds fashioned by some of our favourite storytellers. Each author has taken the brief of four stories and up to 40 000 words in their own direction. Some are quartet suites of linked stories. Others are tasters of the range and style of the writer. Each release will bring something unexpected to readers.
Nightsiders by Sue Isle
Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Thief of Lives by Lucy Sussex
Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti
Showtime by Narrelle M Harris
Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren
Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan
Asymmetry by Thoraiya Dyer
Caution: Contains Small Parts by Kirstyn McDermott
Secret Lives by Rosaleen Love
The Female Factory by Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter
Cherry Crow Children by Deborah Kalin
Отредактированная публикация
Лауреат
0.0
Fiction and non-fiction. Reality and make-believe. Can you draw the line between the two? Do you know where real horror starts?
Blurring the Line is a collection of 20 horror short stories by some of the best writers around, plus 10 non-fiction articles to make you think twice about the world we live in – but then again, maybe some of the stories are real, and some of the non-fiction made up...
With tales from Tim Lebbon, Lisa Morton, James A. Moore, Kaaron Warren, Tom Piccirilli, Lisa Hannett, and more, plus frightening artwork by Alex Mcvey, Blurring the Line will make you doubt what you thought you knew, and open you up to possibilities you didn’t want to consider.
But how much of it all is real?
Комикс / графический роман
Лауреат
Geoff Brown, Аманда Дж. Спеддинг
0.0
The Road to Golgotha holds two comics by Australian writers, set to the art of US illustrator Monty Borror.
‘His Own Personal Golgotha’ by G.N. Braun follows the awakening of ‘the man’ into a nightmarish world of cemeteries and bones. To achieve anything, he must find out where and who he is.
‘The Road’ by Amanda J. Spedding shows us the changes wrought in Riley as she casts off her civilised veneer to allow the goddess within to emerge fully into her birthright.
Redemption and personal growth are strong themes throughout both stories, and they each hold surprises as the protagonists struggle to come to terms with changes or growth they need to undertake. Travel with them as they go through their own personal golgotha along a road less-travelled.
Премия Рокки Вуда за научную литературу и критику
Лауреат
Мария Электра Родригес
0.0
'The Literary Gothic' is a collection of critical essays exploring the social anxieties of the Victorian Age through the lens of Gothic Literature. Texts such as 'Dracula', 'The Turn of the Screw', 'The Castle of Otranto', 'The Tell Tale Heart', and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are examined in detail. Marija Elektra Rodriguez is the recipient of numerous academic awards from the University of Sydney, including the 2011 Senior Essay Prize in Classics, the Dean's Merit Award, and the Walter Reid Memorial Award.
