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Gary Braunbeck’s “The Great Pity” won the “long fiction” award.

The envelopes have all been opened, and we have our 2013 Bram Stoker Award® winners. The awards banquet was held last night at the DoubleTree Hilton in Portland, Oregon, and I correctly predicted six of the eleven winners in my blog post on Friday.

There were no ties (I said there would be one), and while I’m sorry that all the nominees couldn’t win, its still a fantastic achievement just to be a finalist, and you should try to read all the nominated works.

But you came here to find out who the winners are for superior achievement in each of the categories.

Here they are, with links to the works and author pages:

• Novel: Stephen King – DOCTOR SLEEP (Scribner)
• First Novel: Rena Mason – THE EVOLUTIONIST (Nightscape Press)
• Young Adult Novel: Joe McKinney – DOG DAYS (JournalStone)
• Graphic Novel: Caitlin R. Kiernan – ALABASTER: WOLVES (Dark Horse Comics)
• Long Fiction: Gary Braunbeck – “The Great Pity” (CHIRAL MAD 2, Written Backwards)
• Short Fiction: David Gerrold – “Night Train to Paris” (THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Jan./Feb. 2013)
• Screenplay: Glen Mazzara – THE WALKING DEAD: “Welcome to the Tombs” (AMC TV)
• Anthology: Eric J. Guignard (editor) – AFTER DEATH… (Dark Moon Books)
• Fiction Collection: Laird Barron – THE BEAUTIFUL THING THAT AWAITS US ALL AND OTHER STORIES (Night Shade Books)
• Non-Fiction: William F. Nolan – NOLAN ON BRADBURY (Hippocampus Press)
• Poetry Collection: Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison – FOUR ELEMENTS (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)

The following awards were also presented:

• The Lifetime Achievement Award: Stephen Jones, R.L. Stine
• The Specialty Press Award: Gray Friar Press
• The Silver Hammer Award (for outstanding service to the Horror Writers Assn.): Norman Rubenstein
• The President’s Richard Laymon Service Award: JG Faherty

Congratulations to all the winners, but this is not “the achievement”. The achievement comes when a new reader picks up a book and finds something true or beautiful inside–even with horror. And that’s where you come in. You may be years removed from high school, but I think you have your summer reading assignment now.

Christian A. Larsen is the author of LOSING TOUCH, featuring a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Piers Anthony, now available in paperback and ebook formats from Post Mortem Press.

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