International Horror Guild Award Winners Announced
The annual International Horror Guild Awards ceremony was held last week at the World Fantasy Convention (taking place this year in Saratoga Springs, New York).
Master of Ceremonies John Picacio (pictured at left)--himself a past IHG Award winner--announced this year's honorees: Novel--Conrad Williams' The Unblemished (published by Earthling); Long Fiction --Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest (published by Cemetery Dance Publications); Mid-Length Fiction--Paul Finch's "The Old North Road" (from Alone on the Dark Side); Short Fiction--Stephen Gallagher's "The Box" (from Retro-Pulp Tales); Collection (Single Author)--a tie between Terry Dowling's Basic Black (published by Cemetery Dance) and Glen Hirshberg's American Morons (published by Earthling); Anthology--editors William Sheehan and Bill Schafer's Lords of the Razor (published by Subterranean Press); Periodical--Subterranean (published by Subterranean Press); Illustrated Narrative--Lewis Trondheim's A.L.I.E.E.N. (published in the U.S. by Firstsecond Books); Non-Fiction--editor S.T. Joshi's Icons of Horror and the Supernatural (published by Greenwood Press).
Picacio himself, for the second time in his career, won the Art award; this time, in a tie, for Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio (published by MonkeyBrain, and featuring an interview with the artist by FEARnet's own associate editor Joseph McCabe). The other Art winner was Aeron Alfrey, for his "Exhibits from the Imaginary Museum" (www.ligotti.net/gallery/alfrey.html).
Veteran British horror writer Ramsey Campbell was also honored with an IHG Award this year--as a "Living Legend".
