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February 23, 2025

REST STOP is a Bram Stoker Award Finalist

We are excited to announce Nat Cassidy‘s novella, Rest Stop, which we published last October, has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction!

This is Nat’s first Bram Stoker nomination.

The awards will be presented in a ceremony at StokerCon this summer.

Congrats, Nat!

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