The nominees for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced.

The awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics, with input from a Board of Advisors.

NOVEL

• Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)
• Bird Box, Josh Malerman (Ecco)
• Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes (Mulholland)
• Confessions, Kanae Minato (Mulholland)
• The Lesser Dead, Christopher Buehlman (Berkley)
• The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)

NOVELLA

• The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
• Ceremony of Flies, Kate Jonez (DarkFuse)
• The Good Shabti, Robert Sharp (Jurassic London)
• The Mothers of Voorhisville, Mary Rickert (Tor.com, April 2014)
• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)

NOVELETTE

• “The Devil in America,” Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com, April 2014)
• “The End of the End of Everything,” Dale Bailey (Tor.com, April 2014)
• “The Husband Stitch,” Carmen Maria Machado (Granta)
• “Newspaper Heart,” Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press)
• “Office at Night,” Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt (Walker Art Center/ Coffee House Press)
• “The Quiet Room,” V H Leslie (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Undertow Publications/ChiZine Publications)

SHORT FICTION

• “Candy Girl,” Chikodili Emelumadu (Apex Magazine, November 2014)
• “The Dogs Home,” Alison Littlewood (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press)
• “The Fisher Queen,” Alyssa Wong (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2014)
• “Shay Corsham Worsted,” Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries, ChiZine Publications)
• “Wendigo Nights,” Siobhan Carroll (Fearful Symmetries, ChiZine Publications)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• After the People Lights Have Gone Off, Stephen Graham Jones (Dark House)
• Burnt Black Suns:  A Collection of Weird Tales, Simon Strantzas (Hippocampus)
• Gifts for the One who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine Publications)
• They Do The Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine Publications)
• Unseaming, Mike Allen (Antimatter Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Letters to Lovecraft, edited by Jesse Bullington (Stone Skin Press)
• Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow (ChiZine Publications)
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, edited by Mark Morris (Spectral Press)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications/ChiZine Publications)
• The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron, edited by Ross E. Lockhart and Justin Steele (Word Horde)