October's Reading Challenge:

This pictures has nothing to
do with the Bram Stoker
Award, but I thought it was
a pretty cool-looking Dobby.

Read if you Dare............

This month you will receive "2" bonus points for every nominated Bram Stoker Award Title and "4" bonus points for every Winning title. 

About the Bram Stoker Awards: Each year, the Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. Any work of Horror first published in the English language may be considered for an award during the year of its publication.

2012 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners

[presented in 2013]

Novel	Ethridge, Benjamin Kane - Bottled Abyss (Redrum Horror) Everson, John - NightWhere (Samhain Publishing) Kiernan, Caitlin R. - The Drowning Girl (Roc) winner Little, Bentley - The Haunted (Signet) McKinney, Joe - Inheritance (Evil Jester Press)
First Novel	Boccacino, Michael - Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling (William Morrow) Coates, Deborah - Wide Open (Tor Books) Day, Charles - The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief (Noble YA Publishers LLC) Dudar, Peter - A Requiem for Dead Flies (Nightscape Press) Gropp, Richard - Bad Glass (Ballantine/Del Rey) Soares, L.L. - Life Rage (Nightscape Press) winner
Young Adult Novel	Bray, Libba - The Diviners (Little Brown) Lyga, Barry - I Hunt Killers (Little Brown) Maberry, Jonathan - Flesh & Bone (Simon & Schuster) winner McCarty, Michael - I Kissed A Ghoul (Noble Romance Publishing) Stiefvater, Maggie - The Raven Boys (Scholastic Press) Strand, Jeff - A Bad Day for Voodoo (Sourcebooks)
Graphic Novel	Bunn, Cullen - The Sixth Gun Volume 3: Bound (Oni Press) Moore, Terry - Rachel Rising Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death (Abstract Studio) Thornton, Ravi - The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone (Jonathan Cape) Wacks, Peter J., and Guy Anthony De Marco - Behind These Eyes (Villainous Press) Wood, Rocky, and Lisa Morton - Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times (McFarland) winner

*and for a bonus, I will bestow "4" points on anyone who finds and reads/reviews a book that features an Amish Vampire.  (yes, I said "Amish Vampire").