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Monday, May 3, 2021

Using Awards Lists as a RA Tool: This Is Horror

This is part of my ongoing series on using Awards Lists as a RA tool. Click here for all posts in the series in reverse chronological order. Click here for the first post which outlines the details how to use awards lists as a RA tool.

This is Horror, one of my favorite Horror resources as noted on the page I have dedicated to those favorites, is not only a fantastic general Horror resource for library workers [I especially love the weekly news roundup to keep you quickly and accurately up to date], but it also hosts the second most important awards for the genre [The Bram Stoker Awards being first].

Last week, the This is Horror Awards finalists were announced in a variety of categories. You can click here to see the full slate of nominees AND access backlist winners and nominees. Please refer to the series note at the top of this post to see my advice on how to use all awards lists as your best RA tool.

Note that I also keep an easy to access archive page of all of the most pertinent Horror and Horror adjacent Awards in this page always found in the right gutter of the blog.

As you will see noted in my new book [preorder now and use the $5 off coupon and link at the top of this page], one of my favorite things about all horror awards-- none of them come out in October. Why should they? Horror is worth celebrating other times of the year and the mere positioning of these awards announcements subconsciously reinforces that.

Check out the This is Horror Awards finalists for this year and year's past. Consider adding some of these titles to your collections. Honestly, scanning the top 4 categories [Novel, Novella, Story Collection, and Anthology], you should have every single one of these books in your collection. Most you already have. These are not niche titles. These are mainstream, excellent works. I personally have reviewed many of them.

And don't forget to check out my Horror Awards page anytime you are looking for ideas on suggestions or for some new display ideas.

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