Awards Summary
Career and Special Awards: 1
Major Awards: 5
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 19
Bram Stoker Awards —
for Horror works, voted by Horror Writer's Association professional membership
lifetime achievement — winner
Nebula Awards —
for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(2 nominations)
“Camera Obscura ” (Cosmos #2 Jul 1977; The Arts and Beyond)
— short story — nomination
“Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep” (Dystopian Visions)
— short story — nomination
(1 nomination)
Borderlands (Maclay; Avon)
— anthology — nomination
Bram Stoker Awards —
for Horror works, voted by Horror Writer's Association professional membership
(8 nominations; 6 wins)
Fearful Symmetries (Cemetery Dance Publications)
— fiction collection — winner
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel (Alpha Books)
— nonfiction — nomination
The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association (Borderlands Press)
— nonfiction — winner
“Looking for Mr. Flip ” (Peter Straub's Ghosts)
— novelette — nomination
The Blood of the Lamb (Tor)
— novel — winner
British Fantasy Awards —
for fantasy works published in the UK, voted by British Fantasy Society members, juried since 2012
(2 nominations)
Borderlands 2 (Borderlands Press)
— anthology/collection — nomination
Borderlands (Borderlands Press)
— anthology/collection — nomination
Locus Awards —
for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(3 nominations)
Borderlands (Maclay)
— anthology — 6th place
“The Dancer in the Darkness ” (New Voices II)
— novella — 14th place
“Camera Obscura ” (Cosmos #2 Jul 1977)
— short fiction — 17th place
(1 nomination)
“Dragonstar” (by
David Bischoff & TFM) (
Analog 14 Sep,12 Oct,9 Nov,7 Dec 1981)
— serial — 3rd place