This Is Horror, the UK website, is taking votes for its annual awards through 12:01 a.m. BST on January 7. Anyone can vote — click through for instructions. Here is the shortlist, which was just announced on December 7.
NOVEL OF THE YEAR
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper
Red X by David Demchuk
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
NOVELLA OF THE YEAR
Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Goddess of Filth by V. Castro
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
Waif by Samantha Kolesnik
SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR
Beneath a Pale Sky by Philip Fracassi
Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons by Keith Rosson
In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise
ANTHOLOGY OF THE YEAR
Lost Contact, edited by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, edited by Eric J. Guignard
The Bad Book, edited by John F.D. Taff
There is No Death, There are No Dead, edited by Aaron J. French and Jess Landry
Winner:The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Runner-up:Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
NOVELLA OF THE YEAR
Winner:Crossroads by Laurel Hightower Runner-up: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR
Winner:Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan Runner-up: Velocities by Kathe Koja
ANTHOLOGY OF THE YEAR
Winner:Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey Runner-up: Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror, edited by Samantha Kolesnik
FICTION MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
Winner: Nightmare Magazine Runner-up: The Dark
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Undertow Publications Runner-up: Death’s Head Press
FICTION PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Winner:The Other Stories (Hawk & Cleaver) Runner-up: NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast
NONFICTION PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Winner: Ink Heist Runner-up: Post Mortem with Mick Garris
COVER ART OF THE YEAR
Winner: Todd Keisling for Arterial Bloom, edited by Mercedes M. Yardley Runner-up: Mike Davis for grotesquerie by Richard Gavin
This Is Horror, the UK website, is taking votes for its annual awards through 12:01 a.m. BST on May 22. Anyone can vote — click through for instructions. Here is the shortlist.
Here are the nominees.
NOVEL OF THE YEAR
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
NOVELLA OF THE YEAR
Crossroads by Laurel Hightower
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper
True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik
We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III
SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR
Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan
The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature by Christopher Slatsky
Thin Places by Kay Chronister
Velocities by Kathe Koja
Wyrd and Other Derelictions by Adam Nevill
ANTHOLOGY OF THE YEAR
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Zelda Knight and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, edited by Ellen Datlow
Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, edited by Mark Matthews
Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey
Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror, edited by Samantha Kolesnik
FICTION MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
Lightspeed Magazine
Nightmare Magazine
The Dark
Uncanny Magazine
Unnerving Magazine
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR
Death’s Head Press
Del Rey Books
Silver Shamrock Publishing
Undertow Publications
Valancourt Books
FICTION PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Chilling Tales for Dark Nights
Crypto-Z
NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast
The Other Stories (Hawk & Cleaver)
Thirteen (Imaginary Comma)
NONFICTION PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Afro Horror
Ghoulish
Ink Heist
Post Mortem with Mick Garris
TheNecronomi.com
COVER ART OF THE YEAR
Matthew Revert for Antioch by Jessica Leonard
Mike Davis for grotesquerie by Richard Gavin
Mikio Murakami for The Best of Both Worlds by S.P. Miskowski
Stephen Mackey for Thin Places by Kay Chronister
Todd Keisling for Arterial Bloom, edited by Mercedes M. Yardley
This Is Horror, the UK website, is taking votes for its annual awards through 12:01 a.m. BST on May 30. Anyone can vote — click through for instructions. Here is the shortlist.
Novel of the Year
Carnivorous Lunar Activities by Max Booth III
The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read
The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Novella of the Year
Dear Laura by Gemma Amor
In The Scrape by James Newman and Mark Steensland
Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma
The Half-Freaks by Nicole Cushing
The Pale White by Chad Lutzke
Short Story Collection of the Year
Out of Water by Sarah Read
Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan
Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud
Anthology of the Year
Echoes, edited by Ellen Datlow
Midnight in the Graveyard, edited by Kenneth W. Cain
Nox Pareidolia, edited by Robert S. Wilson
Pop The Clutch, edited by Eric J. Guignard
The Twisted Book of Shadows, edited by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore
Fiction Magazine of the Year
Black Static
Dark Moon Digest
Nightmare Magazine
The Dark
Vastarien: A Literary Journal
Publisher of the Year
Crystal Lake Publishing
Flame Tree Press
Nightscape Press
Raw Dog Screaming Press
Silver Shamrock Publishing
Fiction Podcast of the Year
Creepy Pod
Tales to Terrify
The Magnus Archives
The NoSleep Podcast
The Wicked Library
Nonfiction Podcast of the Year
Bizzong
Booked. Podcast
Cosmic Shenanigans
Ladies of the Fright
The Horror Show with Brian Keene
Cover Art of the Year
Ben Baldwin for Hollow Heart by Ben Eads
Catrin Welz-Stein for This House of Wounds by Georgina Bruce
Mikio Murakami for The Worst Is Yet to Come by S.P. Miskowski
Sabercore Art for The Fearing: Book One Fire and Rain by John F.D. Taff
Stephen Mackey for Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro
Jeanne Gomoll, whose art, design, and organizing energy has propelled and sustained the Award for the last 25 years, is retiring from the Otherwise Motherboard at the end of 2019. The remaining members of the Motherboard are incredibly grateful for Jeanne’s tireless, brilliant work and look forward to celebrating her contributions at WisCon in 2020.
Jeanne writes:
Up until 1991 it felt to me as though the efforts of the Madison SF Group, Janus and Aurora fanzines, and WisCon, to encourage and celebrate feminist science fiction were largely restricted to a single place and to those who came to this place and attended WisCon. Indeed, by the late 1980s, it felt to me as if our efforts to foster feminist SF were increasingly being met with opposition and might possibly have been in danger of flickering out, as the backlash to feminism in general and feminist SF in specific gained strength. Pat Murphy’s 1991 announcement of the Tiptree Award thrilled me and gave me renewed strength. It was as if a small group of us, following a narrow, twisty path had merged with a much wider, well-traveled path. After the Tiptree Award began handing out annual awards and raising funds, and had sparked a massive juggernaut of community activism, I stopped worrying about the viability of the movement.
I will be forever grateful to the Tiptree Award and proud of my work on it. I chaired two Tiptree juries—one in 1993, which chose Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite as the winner; and the other in 2016, which presented the award to When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore. I served on the Motherboard for 25 years, 1994-2019, and worked behind-the-scenes on most of the auctions during those years, and as an artist creating logos, publications, and Tiptree merchandise. I will be forever grateful to the Motherboard for the work we did together and the friendships we created along the way. I am awed by and very proud of the community of writers and readers who supported and were nurtured by the award, even as they guided the award further along the path toward greater diversity and scope.
The Tiptree Award, and now the Otherwise Award will always have my heartfelt support. But it is time for me to step back and make space for a new generation of activists. I want to thank my fellow motherboard founding mothers and members, past and present—Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Jeff Smith, Alexis Lothian, Sumana Harihareswara, Gretchen Treu, Debbie Notkin, Ellen Klages, Delia Sherman—for all they have done and for their friendship, which I will value forever.
(2) THIS IS HORROR. Public nominations are being accepted
through January 8 for the This
Is Horror Awards.
The public nominations are now open for the ninth annual This Is Horror Awards. This year we’ve retained all the categories from last year and added one more, ‘Cover Art of the year’. Here are the categories: Novel of the Year, Novella of the Year, Short Story Collection of the Year, Anthology of the Year, Fiction Magazine of the Year, Publisher of the Year, Fiction Podcast of the Year, Nonfiction Podcast of the Year, and Cover Art of the Year.
Readers can e-mail in their nominations for each category. Taking into consideration the nominations for each category This Is Horror will then draw up a shortlist.
We invite you to include one sentence as to why each nomination is award-worthy.
(3) DEEP STATE. Jason Sanford has been posting interviews
he conducted with sff magazine editors in conjunction with his fantastic report#SFF2020:
The State of Genre Magazines.
Jason: How much of an increase in your budget would be required to pay all editorial and publishing staff a living wage?
Scott: Estimating using a salary of $15/hour for the work our staff does, we would need a $45,000 increase in our annual budget to pay all staff a living wage. That’s double what our annual budget is to pay for the stories we publish. To cover that, our monthly donations through Patreon would have to increase by 7000%….
Jason: Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld has said some of the problems experienced by genre magazines come about because “we’ve devalued short fiction” through reader expectations that they shouldn’t have to pay for short stories. Do you agree with this? Any thoughts on how to change this situation?
LDL: …I think the issue is one of exhaustion on the part of volunteer staff and a strained supporter base. In my observation, the people who contribute to zine crowdfunds also contribute to crowdfunds for individuals in emergency situations. There are a lot of emergencies or people in general need, just within the SFF community and funds are finite. If you’re supporting your four favorite zines every year, donating to three medical funds, two Kickstarters, a moving fund, and also taking on costs associated with at least one fandom-related convention every year, it’s not sustainable for a lot of readers, especially the marginalized ones….
Jason: In addition to paying your writers, Asimov’s also pays all of your staff, something which is not common among many of today’s newer genre magazines. Is it possible to publish a magazine like Asimov’s without the support of a larger company, in this case Penny Publications?
Sheila: An anecdotal review of the American market doesn’t really bear that out. F&SF is published by a small company. Analog and Asimov’s are published by a larger (though not huge) publishing company. Being published by a larger company does have its advantages, though. While only one and a half people are dedicated to each of the genre magazines, we do benefit from a support staff of art, production, tech, contracts, web, advertising, circulation, and subsidiary rights departments. I’m probably leaving some people out of this list. While the support of this infrastructure cannot be underestimated, Asimov’s revenue covers our editorial salaries, and our production and editorial costs. We contribute to the company’s general overhead as well.
Jason: Strange Horizons also helped pioneer the idea that a genre magazine could be run as a nonprofit with assistance from a staff of volunteers. What are the pros and cons of this publishing model?
Vanessa: With volunteer staff, the con is simple: no pay. Generally, working for no pay privileges people who can afford to volunteer time, and devalues the work we do as editors. I’d like to think that at SH, we have partially balanced the former by making our staff so large and so international that no one need put in many hours, and folks can cover for you regardless of time zone. Despite having 50+ folks, we’re a close group. Our Slack is a social space, and we bring our worst and best days there for each other. Several members (including me) have volunteered right through periods of un- and underemployment because of the love of the zine and our community….
(4) NEBULA CONFERENCE EARLYBIRD RATE. The rate has been extended
another week —
HelenKay Dimon, a past RWA president, previously told The Guardian that she regularly received letters from white RWA members expressing concern that “now nobody wants books by white Christian women”.
There is “a group of people who are white and who are privileged, who have always had 90% of everything available, and now all of a sudden, they have 80%. Instead of saying: ‘Ooh, look, I have 80%,’ they say: ‘Oh, I lost 10! Who do I blame for losing 10?’” Dimon said.
The tweets that sparked the ethics complaints against Milan, which were posted this August, were part of a broader conversation on romance Twitter about how individual racist beliefs held by gatekeepers within the publishing world have shaped the opportunities available to authors of color.
The…next installment of Frank Herbert’s Dune World saga has been staring me in the face for weeks, ever since I bought the January 1965 issue of Analog. I found I really didn’t want to read more of it, having found the first installment dreary, though who am I to argue with all the Hugo voters?
And yet, as the days rolled on, I came up with every excuse not to read the magazine. I cleaned the house, stem to stern. I lost myself in this year’s Galactic Stars article. I did some deep research on 1964’s space probes.
But the bleak desert sands of Arrakis were unavoidable. So this week, I plunged headfirst into Campbell’s slick, hoping to make the trek to the end in fewer than two score years. Or at least before 1965. Join me; let’s see if we can make it.
In September 1963, Tolkien drafted yet another of a number of letters responding to questions about Frodo’s “failure” at the Cracks of Doom. It’s easy to imagine that he was rather exasperated. Few, it seemed, had really understood the impossibility of Frodo’s situation in those last, crucial moments: “the pressure of the Ring would reach its maximum,” Tolkien explained; it was “impossible, I should have said, for any one to resist, certainly after long possession, months of increasing torment, and when starved and exhausted” (Letters 326). Even had someone of unmatched power, like Gandalf, claimed the Ring, there would have been no real victory, for “the Ring and all its works would have endured. It would have been the master in the end” (332).
It would have been the master.
From humble beginnings as a mere trinket bartered in a game of riddles (see the original Hobbit), the Ring grew in power and influence until it did indeed include all of Middle-earth in its simple band of gold. “One Ring to rule them all” wasn’t just meant to sound intimidating—it was hard truth. Even Sauron couldn’t escape the confines of its powers. It was his greatest weakness.
But how did the Ring become the thing around which the entirety of the Third Age revolved (Letters 157)?…
(8) JANUARY 2. Get ready – tomorrow is “National
Science Fiction Day”. It must be legit – “National Science Fiction Day
is recognized by the Hallmark Channel and the Scholastic Corporation.”
National Science Fiction Day promotes the celebration of science fiction as a genre, its creators, history, and various media, too. Recognized on January 2nd annually, millions of science fiction fans across the United States read and watch their favorites in science fiction.
The date of the celebration commemorates the birth of famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. An American author and Boston University professor of biochemistry, Isaac Asimov was born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov on January 2, 1920. He was best known for his works of science fiction and his popular science books.
(9) TODAY IN HISTORY
January 1, 2007 — The Sarah Jane Adventures premiered starring Elizabeth Sladen who had been in the pilot for K-9 and Company which the Beeb didn’t take to series. The program, which as you well know was a spin-off of Doctor Who, lasted five series and fifty-four episodes. It did not make the final Hugo ballot for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in either 2007 or 2008.
(10) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born January 1, 1854 — James George Frazer. Author of The Golden Bough, the pioneering if deeply flawed look at similarities among magical and religious beliefs globally. He’s genre adjacent at a minimum, and his ideas have certainly been used by SFF writers a lot both affirming and (mostly) critiquing his ideas. (Died 1952.)
Born January 1, 1889 — Seabury Quinn. Pulp writer now mostly remembered for his tales of Jules de Grandin, the occult detective, which were published in Weird Tales from the Thirties through the Fifties. (Died 1969.)
Born January 1, 1926 — Zena Marshall. She’s Miss Taro in Dr. No, the very first Bond film. The Terrornauts in which she’s Sandy Lund would be her last film. (The Terrornauts is based off Murray Leinster‘s The Wailing Asteroid screenplay apparently by John Brunner.) She had one-offs in Danger Man, The Invisible Man and Ghost Squad. She played Giselle in Helter Skelter, a 1949 film where the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, played Charles the Second. (Died 2009.)
Born January 1, 1933 — Joe Orton. In his very brief writing career, there is but one SFF work, Head to Toe which the current publisher says “is a dream-vision allegory of a journey on the body of a great giant or ‘afreet’ (a figure from Arabic mythology) from head to toe and back, both on the body and in the body.” Like his other novels, it’s not available digitally. (Died 1967.)
Born January 1, 1954 — Midori Snyder, 66. I was most impressed with The Flight of Michael McBride, the Old West meets Irish myth novel of hers and hannah’s garden, a creepy tale of the fey and folk music. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati which I’ve not read. With Yolen, Snyder co-authored the novel Except the Queen which I do recommend. (Yolen is one of my dark chocolate recipients.) She’s seems to have been inactive for a decade now. Anyone know why?
Born January 1, 1957 — Christopher Moore, 63. One early novel by him, Coyote Blue, is my favorite, but anything by him is always a weirdly entertaining read. I’m hearing good things about Noir, his newest work which I’m planning on listening to soon. Has anyone read it?
Born January 1, 1971 — Navin Chowdhry, 49. He’s Indra Ganesh in a Ninth Doctor story, “Aliens of London.“ I also found him playing Mr. Watson in Skellig, a film that sounds really interesting. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that he was Nodin Chavdri in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Born January 1, 1976 — Sean Wallace, 44. Anthologist, editor, and publisher known for his work on Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, Clarkesworld Magazine which I love, The Dark which I’ve never encountered, and Fantasy Magazine which is another fav read of mine. He has won a very, very impressive three Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards. His People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy co-edited with Rachel Swirsky is highly recommended by me. He’s not well represented digitally speaking which surprised me.
Born January 1, 1984 — Amara Karan, 36. Though she’s Tita in an Eleventh Doctor story, “The God Complex”, she’s really here for being involved in a Stan Lee project. She was DS Suri Chohan in Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, a British crime drama series which is definitely SFF. Oh, and she shows up as Princess Shaista in “Cat Among Pigeons” episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot but even I would be hard put to call that even close to genre adjacent.
Before Dean Parisot signed on to direct Galaxy Quest, Harold Ramis was supposed to helm the movie, which was initially titled Captain Starshine. However, according to Tim Allen, if Ramis directed the film, it wouldn’t have just been titled differently — it would have looked quite different as well.
[…] “Katzenberg pitched me the idea of the commander character and then they started talking and it became clear that Ramis didn’t see me for the part,” Allen said. “It was pretty uncomfortable.”
[…] Interestingly, Sigourney Weaver also wouldn’t have gotten her role as Gwen DeMarco in Galaxy Quest if Ramis had directed the film, despite their relationship from Ghostbusters. “I had heard that Harold was directing a sci-fi movie but he didn’t want anyone who had done sci-fi in the film,” she said. “Frankly, it’s those of us who have done science fiction movies that know what is funny about the genre.”
…I’ll start with this reddit AMA from a few years back, and an interview with Tingle on Nothing in the Rulebook. His answers reveal a consistent approach to the writing life that mirrored the habits of authors who are, possibly, even more well-known than our favorite erotica author.
Asked about a typical writing day, Tingle replies:
yes average day is getting up and having two BIG PLATES of spaghetti then washing them down with some chocolate milk then i get out of bed and meditate to be a healthy man. so when i am meditating i think ‘what kind of tingler would prove love today?’. if nothing comes then i will maybe trot around the house or go to the park or maybe walk to the coffee shop with my son jon before he goes to work. if i have a good idea i will just write and write until it is all done and then I will have son jon edit it and then post it online.
OK, so to translate this a bit out of Tingle-speak, we have a recommendation that you fuel your writing with carbs (and also an unlikely alliance with Haruki Murakami’s spaghetti-loving ways) with a bit of a boost of sugar….
(14) GREASED LIGHTNING. [Item by Daniel Dern.] From one of the CES 2020 press
releases I got today…
Subject: [CES NEWS] Experience a Roomba-Like Device that Navigates the Home Charging ALL Devices
…I want to put an innovative device on your radar: RAGU, a Roomba-like robot that navigates the home charging ALL of your devices.
GuRu is the first company to crack the code on totally untethered, over-the-air charging.
Even
discounting remote mal-hackers, this sounds like a recipe for either a droll TV
episode, or Things Going Horribly Wrong. (Fires, fried gear, tased/defibrilated
pets and sleeping people, etc.)
(15) MIXED
BAG. [Item by Chip Hitchcock.] I
expect everybody will find something interesting or strange in the BBC’s “Alternative
end-of-the-year awards”
Animal rescue of the year
Winner
Spare a thought for the poor fat rat of Bensheim, which became stuck in a German manhole in February. She was eventually freed, but not before passers-by took embarrassing photos of her plight. “She had a lot of winter flab,” one rescuer said, compounding the humiliation.
…Runner-up (2)
In this case, the animals were the rescuers rather than the rescued (sort of).
Anticipating the threat of wildfires later in the year, staff at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California hired a hungry herd of 500 goats to eat flammable scrub around the building in May.
And so, when fires did strike in October, the library was saved because of the fire break the goats had created by eating the flammable scrub. Nice one, goats.
As always, the existential wisdom of Werner Herzog prevails. “You are cowards,” the director castigated on set of The Mandalorian, upon realizing the producers intended to shoot some scenes without the Baby Yoda puppet in case they decided to go full CGI with the character. “Leave it.”
Herzog, who guest-starred on a few episodes of the Disney+ Star Wars spinoff series, was one of Baby Yoda’s earliest champions. And indeed, Baby Yoda — a colloquial epithet referring to the mysterious alien toddler merely known as “The Child” in the script — was designed for maximum neoteny. The gigantic saucer-like dilated eyes; the tiny button nose; a head that takes up nearly half his body mass; the hilariously oversized brown coat; the peach fuzzy hairs tufted around his head; and the pièce de résistance of his custardy little green face: that minuscule line of a mouth that could curve or stiffen in an instant and erupt a thousand ancient nurturing instincts in any viewer. (He’s the only thing my normally stoic husband has ever sincerely described as “cute.”) Heck, there may very well be a micro generation of Baby Yoda babies about eight months from now, thanks to this frog-nomming, lever-pulling, bone-broth-sipping little scamp.
And all because Jon Favreau and company finally recognized that rubber-and-fabric practical effects will almost always have a greater emotional impact than plasticky digital ones.
The recent success of The Mandalorian, thanks to the adorable face that launched a thousand memes, and Netflix’s fantasy-adventure epic The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, recently nominated for a WGA Award and a Critic’s Choice Award, prove that we still need puppetry and mechanical effects in the age of CGI….
(18) PERRY MASON. My fellow geezers may enjoy this quick
quiz.
[Thanks to Jo Van Ekeren, Cat Eldridge, Mike Kennedy, JJ, Chip
Hitchcock, John King Tarpinian, Martin Morse Wooster, Daniel Dern, Contrarius, Darrah
Chavey, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File
770 contributing editor of the day Kip W.]
This Is Horror, the UK website, announced the
winners of its annual awards through 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 29.
Anyone can vote — click through for instructions. Here is the shortlist.
Novel of the Year
Winner:The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste
Runner-up: The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Novella of the Year
Winner:The Writhing Skies by Betty Rocksteady
Runner-up: At The End of the Day I Burst Into Flames by Nicholas Day
Short Story Collection of the Year
Winner:Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files
Runner-up: Little Black Spots by John F.D. Taff
Anthology of the Year
Winner:Ashes and Entropy, edited by Robert S. Wilson
Runner-up: Lost Highways, edited by D. Alexander Ward
This Is Horror, the UK website, is taking votes for its annual awards through 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 29. Anyone can vote — click through for instructions. Here is the shortlist.
Novel
of the Year
Coyote
Songs by Gabino Iglesias
The Cabin
at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
The Hunger by Alma
Katsu
The
Listener by Robert R. McCammon
The Rust
Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste
Novella
of the Year
At The End
of the Day I Burst Into Flames by Nicholas Day
Maniac
Gods by Rich Hawkins
Out Behind
the Barn by John Boden and Chad Lutzke
The
Atrocities by Jeremy C. Shipp
The
Writhing Skies by Betty Rocksteady
Short
Story Collection of the Year
Cry Your
Way Home by Damien Angelica Walters
Figures
Unseen: Selected Stories by Steve Rasnic Tem
Little
Black Spots by John F.D. Taff
Spectral
Evidence by Gemma Files
The Human
Alchemy by Michael Griffin
Anthology
of the Year
Ashes and
Entropy, edited by Robert S. Wilson
Lost
Highways, edited by D. Alexander Ward
Phantoms:
Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre, edited by Marie O’Regan
Suspended
in Dusk II, edited by Simon Dewar
The Devil
and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, edited by Ellen Datlow
This Is Horror, the UK website, is taking votes for its annual awards through 12:01 a.m. GMT on February 26. Anyone can vote — click through for instructions. Here is the shortlist.
Novel of the Year
Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman
I Wish I Was Like You by S.P. Miskowski
In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
Novella of the Year
Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Kiernan
In the River by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Mapping The Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Quiet Places by Jasper Bark
The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
Short Story Collection of the Year
Behold the Void by Philip Fracassi
Everything That’s Underneath by Kristi DeMeester
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin
13 Views of the Suicide Woods by Bracken MacLeod
Anthology of the Year
Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, edited by Doug Murano
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology, edited by Ellen Datlow
Looming Low Volume I, edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan
New Fears, edited by Mark Morris
The Beauty of Death 2 —Death By Water, edited by Alessandro Manzetti & Jodi Renée Lester