The Horror! Five 2014 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Stories You Can Read Online for Free - UPDATED!

Get ready for some horror! The Bram Stoker Awards have just announced their nominees for best Horror stories of 2014. Here's a link roundup of 5 stories nominated in the short story category that you can read online for free.  Plus two bonus stories that were on the original preliminary ballot, but weren't ultimately nominated. Enjoy.


"Baby's Breath" by Sydney Leigh (no longer online)

“Splinterette” by John Palisano

Illustration for Hot Tub by Hal Bodner

Here is an illustration I did for Hal Bodner's excellent, Bram Stoker Award nominated, short story "Hot Tub".

Art copyright © 2015 by James Hubbs

"Hot Tub" appears in the 2014 horror anthology From Big Time Books called Hell Comes to Hollywood II. Hal has had other short stories of his appear in the anthologies Halloween Tales & Fairly Wicked Tales. He is the author of the novels The Trouble With Hairy, Bite Club, In Flesh and Stone, & For Love of the Dead.