Вручение 31 января 2013 г.

Премия вручена за 2012 год.

Лауреатами премии также стали:
в номинации Журнал года - Журнал "Black Static / The Third Alternative"
Издательство года - Angry Robot
Подкаст года - Booked. Podcast
Кинофильм года - Хижина в лесу (реж. Дрю Годдар) / The Cabin in the Woods (dir. Drew Goddard)
Телесериал года - Ходячие мертвецы (реж. Эрнест Р. Дикерсон, Гвинет Хордер-Пэйтон) (2-й сезон) / The Walking Dead
Саундтрек года - Марко Бельтрами (к фильму «Женщина в чёрном») /Marco Beltrami
Видеоигра года - The Walking Dead
Художник года - Даниэле Серра (Daniele Serra)
Тату-художник года - Vincent Castiglia
Британское событие года - FantasyCon

Страна: Великобритания Дата проведения: 31 января 2013 г.

Роман года

Лауреат
The Last Final Girl
Stephen Jones Graham 0.0
"The Last Final Girl is like Quentin Tarantino's take on The Cabin in the Woods. Bloody, absurd, and smart. Plus, there's a killer in a Michael Jackson mask." - Carlton Mellick III, author of Apeshit

Life in a slasher film is easy. You just have to know when to die.

Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone's got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town. You're from this town.

Zoom In: Homecoming princess, Lindsay. She's just barely escaped death at the hands of a brutal, sadistic murderer in a Michael Jackson mask. Up on the cliff, she was rescued by a horse and bravely defeated the killer, alone, bra-less. Her story is already a legend. She's this town's heroic final girl, their virgin angel.

Monster Vision: Halloween masks floating down that same river the kids jump into. But just as one slaughter is not enough for Billie Jean, our masked killer, one victory is not enough for Lindsay. Her high school is full of final girls, and she's not the only one who knows the rules of the game.

When Lindsay chooses a host of virgins, misfits, and former final girls to replace the slaughtered members of her original homecoming court, it's not just a fight for survival-it's a fight to become The Last Final Girl.
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Чёрные дрозды
Чак Вендиг 4.1

Второе место.

Мириам Блэк знает когда ты умрешь.
Она предвидит сотни автомобильных катастроф, сердечных приступов, инсультов и самоубийств.
Но когда Мириам садится в грузовик Луиса Дарлинга и пожимает мужчине руку, то видит, что через тридцать дней Луис будет убит с её именем на устах. Луис умрет из-за неё, а она сама станет следующей жертвой.
Что бы девушка ни предпринимала, спасти Луиса она не сможет. Но если Мириам хочет остаться в живых, она должна попытаться.
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Рассказ года

Лауреат
Высокая зелёная трава
Стивен Кинг, Джо Хилл 3.6
Кэл и Бекки, брат и сестра, пересекая страну на автомобиле, остановились у огромного поля высокой, с кукурузу, травы в штате Канзас, услышав зов маленького заблудившегося мальчика. Не раздумывая, они вошли в траву и тоже заблудились, а что хуже — потеряли друг друга. Но настоящий кошмар их ждет в глубине поля. Прочитайте до конца и выясните, почему же «если вам раньше нравились сардины, теперь вы никогда к ним не прикоснетесь…».
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What Gets Left Behind
Mark West 0.0

Второе место.

In 1981, Gaffney was terrorised by The Rainy Day Abductor. Local girls went missing and two boys made a terrifying discovery.

Now one of them has come home, to try and lay the past to rest.


"Very strong writing and with a nice evocation of time and place. West conjures the sense of a particular era with skill and the horrors he finds there are universal."
- Gary McMahon, author of “Silent Voices” and “Dead Bad Things”

"Mark West has a knack for making the bonds that bind friends and family tangible and very real. In "What Gets Left Behind" those bonds reach forward from the past to ensnare Mike and draw him back to a place he never wanted to visit again..."
- Ian Whates, author of The Noise Within
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Сборник рассказов года

Лауреат
Tales of the Weak & the Wounded
Гари Макмахон 0.0
The sound of shuffling footsteps across the old cell floor...
A soft voice like a strange tune echoing along the empty corridors...
Dim lights in the windows of the abandoned asylum...
Discarded case files that flip open to reveal the dreams of broken minds...
Welcome to a place where the boundaries of fact and fiction meet.
Acclaimed author Gary McMahon raids the archives of a notorious derelict mental asylum called the Daleside Institute to bring you stories of madness, horror and emotional trauma. In locations as diverse as suburban Germany, the London Underground, an Italian seaside resort and the inhospitable polar icecap, you will meet damaged people with broken lives. Here are terrifying accounts of love, hate, death and madness...
These are the Tales of the Weak and the Wounded
"If you love short stories, this is a must book for your collection. If you haven't read anything by Mr. McMahon this is a great place to start. One of the better collections of short stories I've read and I give it my highest recommendation, I will definitely be keeping my eyes out for more from Gary McMahon." - Famous Monsters of Filmland
"This is a great collection of stories and an excellent showcase for the highly talented Gary McMahon. There are enough images in here to haunt your dreams for months to come but there's also depth here, strong ideas and commentary. The best horror holds up a mirror to society, is grounded in reality and Tales of The Weak and The Wounded is an exemplar of this." - Dark Musings
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Remember Why You Fear Me: The Best Dark Fiction of Robert Shearman
Robert Shearman 0.0

Второе место.

A woman rejects her husband's heart - and gives it back to him, still beating, in a plastic box. A little boy betrays his father to the harsh mercies of Santa Claus. A widower suspects his dead wife's face is growing over his own. A man goes to Hell, and finds he's roommate to the ghost of Hitler's pet dog. Giant spiders, killer angels, ghost cat photography, and the haunted house right at the centre of the Garden of Eden. Deliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader's Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before.
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Антология года

Лауреат
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
3.5
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won’t find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled.
The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon.
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Chiral Mad
0.0

Второе место.

Chiral Mad is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. All profit from sales of this anthology go directly to Down syndrome charities. Featuring the imaginations of Jack Ketchum, Gary Braunbeck, Gene O'Neill, Gary McMahon, Gord Rollo, Jeff Strand, Michael Bailey, and many others, with an introduction by Thomas F. Monteleone.
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Комикс года

Лауреат
Clockworks
Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez 4.6
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! After the gruesome murder of their father, the Locke kids, Tyler, Kinsey and Bode move with their mother Nina to the ancestral family home, Keyhouse. They soon discover that the house is full of secrets when they start finding magical keys which hold impossible powers such as turning people into ghosts, or being able to erase someone's memories. They are not the only ones who know of the keys; a demonic creature known as Dodge is also after the keys, with the goal of opening the Black Door, which will allow the demons of hell to enter our world. The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the 'whispering steel' thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time.

Tyler and Kinsey Locke have no idea that their now-deceased nemesis, Lucas "Dodge" Caravaggio, has taken over the body of their younger brother, Bode. With unrestricted access to Keyhouse, Dodge's ruthless quest to find the Omega Key and open the Black Door is almost complete. But Tyler and Kinsey have a dangerous key of their own — one that can unlock all the secrets of Keyhouse by opening a gateway to the past. The time has come for the Lockes to face theri own legacy and the darkness behind the Black Door. Because if they don't learn from their family history, they may be doomed to repeat it, and time is running out!

Colonel Adam Crais's minutemen are literally trapped between a rock and a hard place; in the first days of the Revolutionary War, they find themselves hiding beneath 120 feet of New England stone, with a full regiment of redcoats waiting for them in the daylight... and a door into hell in the cavern below. The black door is open, and it's up to a 16-year-old smith named Ben Locke to find a way to close it. The biggest mysteries of the Locke & Key series are resolved as Clockworks opens, not with a bang, but with the thunderous crash of English cannons.
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