The contenders for the 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced.

The Shirley Jackson Awards, given for the best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantasy, are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics.

NOVEL

• Foxlowe, Eleanor Wasserberg (Fourth Estate-UK/Penguin Books-US)
• The Girls, Emma Cline (Random House)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid (Gallery/Scout)
• Lily, Michael Thomas Ford (Lethe)
• Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)
• The Wonder, Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)

NOVELLA

• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com)
• “Maggots,” Nina Allan (Five Stories High)
• Muscadines, S.P. Miskowski (Dunhams Manor)
• The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01 Publishing)
• The Warren, Brian Evenson (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE

• “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees,” Laird Barron (Autumn Cthulhu)
• “Angel, Monster, Man,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine)
• “Breaking Water,” Indrapramit Das (Tor.com)
• “The Night Cyclist,” Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
• “Presence,” Helen Oyeyemi (What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours)
• “Waxy,” Camilla Grudova (Granta)

SHORT FICTION

• “Animal Parts,” Irenosen Okojie (Speak, Gigantular)
• “The Apartments,” Karen Heuler (Other Places)
• “Postcards from Natalie,” Carrie Laben (The Dark)
• “Red,” Katie Knoll (Masters Review)
• “Things With Beards,” Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• Almost Insentient, Almost Divine, D.P. Watt (Undertow)
• Furnace, Livia Llewellyn (Word Horde)
• Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt (Shock Totem)
• A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer Press)
• We Show What We Have Learned, Clare Beams (Lookout)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Autumn Cthulhu, edited by Mike Davis (Lovecraft eZine Press)
• The Madness of Dr. Caligari, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Fedogan and Bremer )
• The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga Press )
• Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories, edited by Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay (Exile Editions)
• An Unreliable Guide to London, edited by Kit Caless and Gary Budden (Influx Press)