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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9887814" data-attributes="member: 86653">I just finished the 2005 Bram Stoker Award-winning novella Best New Horror by Joe Hill. I picked this one because I’ve never read a Joe Hill story and because it won a Stoker. If you don’t know, Joe Hill is one of Stephen King’s kids. While King can’t stick an ending to save his life, I had hoped some of his chops had rubbed off on Junior here. No such luck. Not in evidence in this piece at least. This was such a meh-tastic nothing burger it’s making me question whether it’s worthwhile to pay attention to the Stoker Awards.The plot. A horror anthology editor is burned out on the genre but keeps doing it for the little bit of money and invites to cons. A story comes to him that finally brings back the old spark. So he decides to track down the author to pay him to be in the anthology. A lot of words are spent on how weird, creepy, and horrendous horror fans are. And surprise, turns out [ISPOILER]the writer is a literal Nazi and is such a bloodthirsty psycho that he and his brothers are going to kill the editor. The story ends with a slight reskin of scenes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Editor runs into the woods as one of the brothers starts up a chainsaw[/ISPOILER]. The End.Near as I can tell this story has three things to offer. One, crapping on horror fans. Two, kissing editors’ and pro writers’ butts. Three, lots of references to the most popular horror movies of the 70s and 80s.Here’s to hoping the other award winners are bangers and 2005 was just a wretched year for horror, because damn.</blockquote>

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