Brian Keene: City of the Dead
Simon Clark: King Blood
Thomas Ligotti: My Work Is Not Yet Done
L..H.Maynard & M.P.N.Sims: Demon Eyes
Peter Straub: Magic Terror
Bill Hussey: The Absence
Conrad Williams: One
Joseth D'Lacey: Garbage Man & Kill Crew
James Herbert: Fluke
Paul Doherty: The Anubis Slayings
Brian Lumley: Necroscope: The Lost Years: Harry and the Pirates
Max Brooks: World War Z
James Miller: Lost Boys
Brian Keene: Castaways
Sam Stone: Futile Flame
Stephen King: Just After Sunset
Tom Cain: Assassin
John Joseph Adams Anthology: The Living Dead
Frazer Lee: Urbane and other Horror Tales
Adam L G Nevill: Banquet for the Damned
Gary McMahon: Different Skins
Dan Simmons: The Terror
F.Paul Wilson: By The Sword (Reading Now)
Peter Straub: In the Night Room
Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian
Julie Burchill: Sweet
Simon Clark: Death's Dominion
J.D.Rhoades: A Good Day in Hell
Joseph D'Lacey: Meat
Harry Shannon: Daemon
Richard Bachman/Stephen King: Blaze
Jennifer Rardin: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Bill Hussey:Through A Glass Darkly
David Wellington: Monster Island
Paigan (Sam) Stone: Gabriele Caccini
Brian Keene: The Rising
Joe Hill: Heart Shaped Box
Tom Piccirilli: Headstone City
William Hope Hodgson: Adrift on the Haunted Seas
F.Paul Wilson: Bloodline
Various: The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories
Wilbur Smith: The Quest
Garry Charles: Hammerhead A Summer Of Massacre
Tim Lebbon: The Reach of Children
Shaun Jeffrey: Evilution
My end of year Society website awards for the best books that I've read during the year:
Catergories are:
Best Horror Novel I read in 2008:
The Rising Brian Keene
Best Horror Debut of 2008:
Through A Glass Darkly Bill Hussey
Best Collection or Anthology:
Various: The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories
Best Short Story:
Gary McMahon Hum Drum
Best non-horror novel:
The Quest Wilbur Smith
Peter Mark May's Society Special Gold Award:
Simon Clark: Death's Dominion
Sadly I cannot win, but I would like to heap great praise on anyone who shelled out their hard cash to buy Demon and I hope they liked it.