Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel The Bram Stoker Award for First Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for an author's first horror novel.
Winners and nominees
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and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 1995, and the Deathrealm Award for Best Novel in 1996. Her collection ''The Flesh Artist'' was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award (Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection) in 1994.
Taylor's horror fictions do not usually feature supernatural elements, instead being
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s about extreme human relationships.Nevins, Jeff, ''Horror Fiction in the Twentieth Century : Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre''. Santa Barbara, CA: Prager Publishers, 2020. (p.173). Taylor has been called "The Queen of Erotic Horror" by
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. The online ''Locus Index to Science Fiction'' (published by '' Locus'') has also categorized several of her works as "erotic horror". Original short fiction of hers appears in all five volumes of the international anthology series, '' Exotic Gothic.''
She has a B.A. in philosophy. Her early writing included non-fiction travel writing.
Reception
Reviewing Taylor's book ''A Respite for the Dead'', Peter Tennant called it "a compelling and totally engaging story, one in which the strangeness is woven deep into every line of the text."Peter Tennant, '' Black Static'' Magazine, January–February 2015, (pp. 89-90).
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Partial bibliography
See the ISFDB listing in
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for a more complete bibliography, including works of short fiction.
Novels
* ''The Safety of Unknown Cities'' (Dark Side Press, 1995; The Mammoth Book of Erotica; Overlook Connection Press, 1999)
* ''Sub-Human'' (1998)
* ''Eternal Hearts'' (1999)
* ''Saving Souls'' (Onyx, 2002)
* ''Dancing With Demons'' (Necro Press, Ebook 2019)
Collections
* ''The Flesh Artist'' (1993)
* ''Close to the Bone'' (1993)
* ''Painted in Blood'' (1996)
* ''The Silence Between the Screams'' (2004)
* ''Fatal Journeys'' (2014)
* ''Spree and Other Stories'' (2018)
Omnibus
* ''Sideshow Double #1: Sub-Human/The Colour out of Darkness'' (1998) with John Pelan
Chapbooks
* ''Flame Thrower / Blood Rights'' (1991) with Ann K. Schwader
* ''Spree'' (1998)
* ''A Respite for the Dead'' (2014)
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His thirteen books have been finalists for the Bram Stoker Award thrice, ...