The 2007 IHG Awards Winners have been named.

NOVEL:

The Terror. Dan Simmons (Little, Brown & Company)

Also nominated:

• Grin of the Dark. Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
• Generation Loss. Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
• The Missing. Sarah Langan (HarperCollns)
• Season of the Witch. Natasha Mostert (Dutton)

FICTION COLLECTION

Dagger Key and Other Stories. Lucius Shepard (PS Publishing)

Also nominated:

• The Imago Sequence and Other Stories. Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
• Plots and Misadventures. Stephen Gallagher (Subterranean Press)
• Shadows Kith and Kin. Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press)
• Masques of Satan. Reggie Oliver (Ash Tree Press)

LONG FICTION:

Softspoken. Lucius Shepard (Night Shade Books)

Also nominated:

• Procession of the Black Sloth. Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence: Night Shade Books)
• The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story. Susan Hill (Profile)
• The Scalding Rooms. Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)

MID-LENGTH FICTION:

“Closet Dreams”. Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts 10: PS Publishing)

Also nominated:

• “The Janus Tree”. Glen Hirshberg (Inferno: Tor)
• “Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed”. Steven Duffy (At Ease with the Dead: Ash Tree Press)
• “The Bone Man”. Fredric S. Durbin (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2007)

SHORT FICTION:

“Honey in the Wound”. Nancy Etchemendy (The Restless Dead: Candlewick Press)

Also nominated:

• “Digging Deep”. Ramsey Campbell (Phobic: Comma Press)
• “The Tank”. Paul Finch (At Ease with the Dead: Ash Tree Press)
• “Splitfoot”. Paul Walther (New Genre 5, Spring 2007)
• “The Great White Bed”. Don Webb (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2007)

ANTHOLOGY:

Inferno. Ellen Datlow, editor (Tor)

Also nominated:

• Summer Chills. Stephen Jones, editor (Carroll & Graf)
• American Supernatural Tales. S.T. Joshi, editor (Penguin)
• Strange Tales Volume II. Rosalie Parker, editor (Tartarus Press)
• At Ease with the Dead. Barbara and Christopher Roden, editors (Ash Tree Press)

NON-FICTION:

Mario Bava: All the Colors of Dark. Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog)

Also nominated:

• Frankenstein: A Cultural History. Susan Tyler Hitchcock (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M.R. James. Rosemary Pardoe & S.T. Joshi, eds. (Hippocampus Press)
• Sides. Peter Straub (CD Publications)
• The Science of Stephen King. Bob Weinberg & Lois M. Gresh (John Wiley)

PERIODICAL:

Postscripts. Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, editors (PS Publishing)

Also nominated:

• Black Static
• Dead Reckonings
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Weird Tales

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE:

The Nightmare Factory. Thomas Ligotti (creator/writer), Joe Harris & Stuart Moore (writers), Ben Templesmith, Michael Gaydos, Colleen Doran & Ted McKeever (illustrators) (Fox Atomic/Harper Paperbacks)

Also nominated:

• The Blot. Tom Neely (I Will Destroy You)
• Scalped: Indian Country. Jason Aaron (writer) R.M. Gura (artist) (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• The Arrival. Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine Books)
• Wormwood Gentleman Corpse: Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer. Ben Templesmith (IDW)

ART:

Elizabeth McGrath for “The Incurable Disorder”, Billy Shire Fine Arts, December 2007

Also nominated:

• Didier Cottier for Exhibit at Utopiales, Nantes, France, November 2007
• David Ho for his body of work
• Chris Mars for “New Salem”, Jonathan Levine Gallery, October 2007
• Mike Mignola for cover & illustrations: Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (Bantam Spectra)

Congrats to all of the winners!

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