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Post by Padrone on Dec 18, 2018 17:05:21 GMT
I just agreed to be on the Committee to select the 2018 Lifetime Achievement recipient to be awarded at the 2019 StokerCon.
Requirements are:
1. must be at least 60 years old
2. Contributed a significant influence and produced an important impact on the genre.
I invite any of you to make suggestions which I can parade before the Committee, which maintains a list of nominees (46 names at this point)
I will tell you if your suggestion is already on the list.
My only caveat is that you include evidence of accomplishment that supports your nomination(s)
Thanks for tuning in.
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Post by Mark Sieber on Dec 18, 2018 22:10:42 GMT
It will help to list the past winners;
1987: Fritz Leiber – Frank Belknap Long – Clifford D. Simak
1988: Ray Bradbury – Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
1989: Robert Bloch
1990: Hugh B. Cave – Richard Matheson
1991: Gahan Wilson
1992: Ray Russell
1993: Joyce Carol Oates
1994: Christopher Lee
1995: Harlan Ellison
1996: Ira Levin – Forrey Ackerman
1997: William Peter Blatty – Jack Williamson
1998: Ramsey Campbell – Roger Corman
1999: Edward Gorey – Charles L. Grant
2000: Nigel Kneale
2001: John Farris
2002: Stephen King – J. N. Williamson
2003: Martin H. Greenberg – Anne Rice
2004: Michael Moorcock
2005: Peter Straub
2006: Thomas Harris
2007: John Carpenter – Robert Weinberg
2008: F. Paul Wilson – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
2009: Brian Lumley – William F. Nolan
2010: Ellen Datlow – Al Feldstein
2011: Rick Hautala – Joe R. Lansdale
2012: Clive Barker – Robert McCammon
2013: R. L. Stine – Stephen Jones
2014: Jack Ketchum – Tanith Lee
2015: Alan Moore - George Romero
2016: Dennis Etchison - Thomas F. Monteleone
2017: Linda Addison
How about Kathryn Ptacek? She has written some really good fiction, edited influential anthologies, and was the editor and publisher of an important writer's/market guide for years.
Thomas Tessier brought literary sensibilities to horror fiction when the was sorely lacking, and his writing foreshadowed elements that were pervasive in later years.
David Morrell, for writing some of the finest short horror fiction ever published.
John Maclay, a pioneer of independent horror publishing and a tragically underrated author of fiction.
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Post by Mark Sieber on Dec 20, 2018 8:27:32 GMT
Chet Williamson for being one of the best writers of the 8's boom, for being one of the best audiobook narrators in the business, and for being one of the only writers who could fit Robert Blcoh's shoes and write an authentic Psycho sequel. Hell, Psycho Sanitarium blows Psycho House away.
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Post by Padrone on Jan 1, 2019 22:49:34 GMT
Each committee member has to submit five names for consideration. I currently have ten and can't winnow it down yet.
Here's what I came up with--basing it on the originality of their work, the significant impact and influence on the genre, and the critical acceptance of their peers. Lots of good writers out there, but if their body of work is a bit thin, they cannot be on my list.
David Cronenberg
George R R Martin
Thomas Ligotti
David Morrell
Dan Simmons
Stuart David Schiff
Tom Doherty
Jo Fletcher
Douglas Winter
Jonathan Maberry
Any thoughts from the rabble?
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Post by Mark Sieber on Jan 5, 2019 12:25:20 GMT
All terrific choices, especially Morrell and Schiff.
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