Massive thanks to Ryne from The Moon Is A Dead World and Nicki from Hey! Look Behind You! for bestowing the Zombie Chicken Award upon us here at No Room In Hell!  In case you’re not a horror blogger or haven’t read other blogs lately, The Vault of Horror started this impromptu award-giving season yesterday, encouraging us to pass it on to our favorite fellow bloggers.  Here’s the description:

The blogger who receives this award believes in the Tao of the zombie chicken – excellence, grace and persistence in all situations, even in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. These amazing bloggers regularly produce content so remarkable that their readers would brave a raving pack of zombie chickens just to be able to read their inspiring words.

Over the past year, I’ve met some excellent like-minded horror bloggers and fanatics.  It’s awesome that such a supportive and talented community of people exists.  I hereby grant you the prestigious Zombie Chicken Award:

The Horror Section – drawing inspiration from the robust horror movie section at a video store he worked at many years ago, blogger Jay Clarke never seems to run out of content.  His posts are both funny and informative as he lets readers know about small upcoming indie releases, has weekly features for cover art and news, and throws in regular reviews.  But what I find most interesting about Jay’s blog is his coverage of horror film festivals/events/shows/screenings/you name it.  Over the past year, the guy has had the opportunity to attend some really awesome events and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous.

The Moon Is A Dead World – Not sure if I’m supposed to give this award back to the person who gave it to me in the first place, but I have to.  Aside from being probably my first supporter here, Ryne is an outstanding blogger himself.  Focusing not only on horror movies, he also reviews books, anime, and the occasional non-horror film.  Ryne’s writing is concise and organized in a way that I can only manage on good days.  He consistently has a strong voice in his posts and I always check in to see what he’s been up to.

The Horror Digest – Blogger Andre Dumas is a writing machine.  Not only does she consistently post once or more every day, what she posts is quality stuff.  Quantity really is quality on The Horror Digest.  Aside from her seemingly tireless ability to write reviews, she spices up her blog with great features that, to me, are the sign of a quality genre blog.  No one wants to only read reviews and she knows that.  Check out her recent “Pranks Gone Wrong” post for a fine example of a feature I wish I had thought of.

Horror Crypt – Never afraid to piss people off with her opinions, Bloofer Lady is one ballsy blogger.  While her recent rant on Paranormal Activity stirred up some firey thoughts in my brain (still formulating my plan of attack/response), it’s just a great example of how effective her writing is.  I’ve always believed that writing shouldn’t be safe and it shouldn’t be done to always make people happy.  She’s also one of the most active Twitterers (I refuse to say “Tweeters”, sorry) I have ever seen.  Follow her for some quality tweets.  For example, I believe her recurring theme yesterday was her quest to make macaroni and cheese.  Quality stuff, folks.

More awesome blogs that deserve a full description/praise (but I’m sorry, time is short for me right now):

• Zombos’ Closet of Horror
• Fascination With Fear
• Hey! Look Behind You!
• Kindertrauma
• Evil On Two Legs
• Zombies DON’T Run
• Horror Extreme

I know this is an abbreviated list and many others deserve some attention, so forgive me if you feel neglected.  I still love you.