The winners of the 2009 Stoker Awards for horror have been announced:

• Novel: Duma Key, Stephen King
• First Novel: The Gentling Box, Lisa Mannetti
• Long Fiction: Miranda, John R. Little
• Short Fiction: "The Lost," Sarah Langan
• Fiction Collection: Just After Sunset, Stephen King
• ANTHOLOGY: Unspeakable Horror, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder
• NONFICTON: A Hallowe'en Anthology, Lisa Morton
• Poetry Collection: The Nightmare Collection, Bruce Boston

You can see bios and pictures of all these horror-able people and the nominees, at the 2009 Stoker Awards website.

Lifetime achievement award winners were announced:

• F. Paul Wilson is best known for his Repairman Jack series of novels, and
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro rose to fame with her vampire hero, Count Saint-Germain. She is the first woman ever to receive the International Horror Guild's Living Legend award.

You can see more about the lifetime achievement award winners here.