Today we’re going to begin a special series taking a retrospective look at the International Horror Guild Awards. The awards were handed out yearly between 1995 and 2008.
Sadly the IHG is no longer in existence but their website is still available at www.horroraward.org.
During their run, they provided a nice counterpoint to the HWA’s Bram Stoker Awards and seemed to actively look beyond the US borders for horror fiction worthy of nomination.
If you’re looking for quality horror fiction to read, consulting awards lists like the IHG, Stoker, Shirley Jackson and Black Quill Awards are good places to start.
The International Horror Guild presented their first awards at the World Horror Convention held March 2-5, 1995.
There are no nominations lists or short lists of nomination available for the first four years of the awards.
During the first three years of the award’s existence, the works were selected and judged differently than they would be after 1997. Not much information is available about the early judging process of the award.
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Outstanding Achievement in a Novel
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Anno DraculaAuthor: Newman, Kim |
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Anno DraculaAuthor: Newman, Kim |
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Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Novel It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Genevieve Dieudonne and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders. Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London. This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel. A brilliant, ambitious new novel speculates on Dracula’s survival. Set in Victorian England, this chilling tale wonders, “What if Count Dracula didn’t die via the stake, but managed to become an adviser to the Queen? And what if Jack the Ripper was in reality none other than Bram Stoker’s hero, Jack Seward, killing off vampiric whores?” |
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May 2011 (Trade Paperback — Titan Books)
May 2011 (Trade Paperback — Titan Books)Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel
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Grave MarkingsAuthor: Arnzen, Michael |
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Grave Markings (10th Anniversary Edition)Author: Arnzen, Michael |
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Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel Mark Michael Kilpatrick draws some killer tattoo art. Literally. Skulls and nudes are nothing for this madman. An artist driven to purge traumatic visions of hell from his tainted mind, Kilpatrick expresses himself by permanently working his ink into the skins of unwilling victims. His tattooed visions are so terrifying they drive the bearer to suicide. His tattooed visions that eventually require only flesh as a canvas. Fresh, murdered, flesh . . . |
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Outstanding Achievement in Long Fiction
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The Safety of Unknown CitiesAuthor: Taylor, Lucy |
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Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in Long Fiction Lucy Taylor has a rare gift of writing horror stories about sex that are extremely provocative, and yet touched as well as with longing, even wistfulness. In these nine tales about demons and angels, wrestlers and boxers, and other denizens of a netherworld of erotic terror, she achieves just the right balance of a bleak, unflinching worldview, and characters whose need for fulfillment reveals their underlying humanity. Table of Contents:
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Outstanding Achievement in Short Fiction
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Black SunAuthor: Winter, Douglas E. |
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Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in Short Fiction No summary available. |
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Outstanding Achievement in a Collection
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Angels and Visitations: A MiscellanyAuthor: Gaiman, Neil |
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Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Collection A collection of Neil Gaiman’s short fiction; an odd assortment of enigmatic and wonderful tales — including Troll Bridge, Chivalry and Cold Colours — to amuse and delight, illustrated by Charles Vess, P. Craig Russell, Jill Carla Schwarz, Michael Zulli, and Rrandy Broecker. Table of Contents:
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Outstanding Achievement in an Anthology
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Love in Vein: Tales of Vampire EroticaEditor: Brite, Poppy Z. with Martin H. Greenberg |
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Love in Vein: Tales of Vampire EroticaEditor: Brite, Poppy Z. with Martin H. Greenberg |
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Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in an Anthology A sexy new repackaging of the extremely popular anthology of vampire erotica, edited by acclaimed author Poppy Z. Brite. The classic horror tale is about fear. But in the last few years a new literature of the macabre has arisen, one that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share. Acclaimed dark fantasy author Poppy Z. Brite has brought together this genre’s most powerful and seductive authors in an original collection of vampiric erotica, a shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies. It is not for everyone. But neither is the night. One of the most acclaimed young authors of dark fantasy gathers together an original collection of 20 erotic vampire stories penned by her favorite writers. Not since Anne Rice wrote as Anne Rampling has fantasy been celebrated with such powerful and seductive tales of unspeakable, forbidden, and macabre intimacies. Table of Contents:
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Outstanding Achievement in a Graphic Story/Illustrated Narrative
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Jonah Hex: Two Gun MojoAuthor: Lansdale, Joe R. |
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Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Graphic Story/Illustrated Narrative Jonah Hex tracks down Doc “Cross” Williams to avenge the death of his friend and fellow bounty hunter Slow Go Smith only to find that Williams has resurrected Wild Bill Hickok as a zombie under his control and after Bill kills Jonah, Doc will resurrect him as a zombie as well. |
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Outstanding Achievement in a Film
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Interview with the VampireDirector: Jordan, Neil |
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Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Film This creepy adaptation of Anne Rice’s popular novel stars Brad Pitt as Louis, an 18th-century plantation owner who is recruited by the stylish, centuries-old vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise) to join his nocturnal family in an endless search for blood. Kirsten Dunst, Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater also star; Neil Jordan directs Rice’s script. |
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Additional IHG Awards include:
Outstanding Achievement as an Artist
The winner this year is:
Outstanding Achievement for a Publication
The winner this year is:
Answer Me!
The Living Legend Award
Was presented this year to:
Want to talk about the winners? Leave a comment below.
What a brilliant idea! Going retro with The 1994 International Horror Guild Award Winners is inspired!
I remember hearing something about International Horror Guild a few years back but it fell off my radar screen and was quickly forgotten.
Like so many well known authors whose books are buried under the works of the authors who’ve come after them, there were so many good websites that were excellent and just slid into obscurity for no good reason.
I salute you for putting the International Horror Guild back into the spotlight. Brilliant!
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