Friday, October 9, 2015

2015 Nocte Awards nominees

The Spanish Horror Writers Association (Asociación Española e Escritores de Terror) has announced the finalists of the 2015 Premios Nocte, the award recognizing the merits of Spanish horror works published throughout a year (plus those translated into Spanish in the respective year). The winners of the 2015 Premios Nocte will be announced during Semana Gótica de Madrid (Madrid Gothic Week) on October 30th in a ceremony held at The National Museum of Romanticism in Madrid.

BEST NATIONAL NOVEL

“Extraños eons” (Strange Eons) by Emilio Bueso (Valdemar)

“Un minuto antes de la oscuridad” (One Minute Before the Darkness) by Ismael Martínez Biurrun (Fantascy)

“El Cuarto Jinete: Destrucción Masiva” (The Fourth Horse Rider: Massive Destruction) by Víctor Blázquez (Dolmen)

“Tormenta sangrienta” (Bloody Storm) by Tony Jiménez (AppleHead Team)

BEST NATIONAL SHORT STORY

“Caballito” (Hobby Horse) by Darío Vilas (Absurdario, Ed. Sven Jorgensen)

“Cuando tú no estás” (When You’re Not Here) by Teresa Viejo (Relatos Insólitos, Ediciones Arconte)

“Los peces” (The Fish) by David Jasso (Donde reside el horror, Edge Entertainment)

“Plastilina” (Plasticine) by Fernando López Guisado (Frankenstein. Diseccionando el mito, Kelonia)

BEST NATIONAL ANTHOLOGY

“Donde reside el horror” (Where the Horror Lives) by various writers (Edge Entertainment)

‘‘El manjar inmundo” (The Unclean Dish) by Javier Quevedo Puchal (Punto en boca)

“Frankenstein. Diseccionando el mito” (Frankenstein. Dissecting the Myth) by various writers (Editorial Kelonia)

“Una hamburguesa para cenar” (A Hamburger for Dinner) by Javi Martos (Tyrannosaurus Books)

BEST TRANSLATED BOOK

“El Rito” (The Croning) by Laird Barron (Valdemar)

“NOS4R2 (Nosferatu)” by Joe Hill (Suma de letras)

“Diez” (Ten) by Gretchen McNeil (Maeva)

BEST TRANSLATED SHORT STORY

“Ese autobús es de otro mundo” (That Bus is Another World) by Stephen King (published in Esquire España magazine)

“Nacido de hombre y mujer” (Born of Man and Woman) by Richard Matheson (Gigamesh)

“Sueños de armario” (Closet Dreams) by Lisa Tuttle (Ignota, Palabras de agua)

Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees!

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