The World Fantasy Awards administrator announced the final ballot for this year’s awards, and the Lifetime Achievement award winners, on August 11.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Ginjer Buchanan
• Jo Fletcher

NOVEL

• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga Press/Titan UK)
• The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love (Random House)
• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Tor Publishing Group/Tor UK)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi (DAW Books/Gollancz)
• Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward (Tor Nightfire/Viper)
• Witch King by Martha Wells (Tordotcom/Tor UK)

NOVELLA

• The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
• Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (Tor Publishing Group/Titan Books)
• “Prince Hat Underground” by Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
• “Half the House Is Haunted” by Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)
• A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather (Tordotcom)
• Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

SHORT FICTION

• “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Magazine #50)
• “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont” by P. A. Cornell (Fantasy Magazine, Oct. 2023)
• “John Hollowback and the Witch” by Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
• “Waystation City” by A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny Magazine #50)
• “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare Magazine, Oct. 2023)
• “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” by Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)

ANTHOLOGY

• Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow (Titan UK)
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One edited by Stephen Kotowych (Ansible Press)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 edited by R. F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams ((Mariner Books)
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams (Random House/Picador)
• The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan (Harper Voyager US/Harper Voyager UK)

COLLECTION

• The Essential Peter S. Beagle Volumes 1 & 2 by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
• The Fortunate Isles by Lisa L. Hannett (Egaeus Press)
• White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link (Random House/Ad Astra)
• No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
• Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)
• Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu (Erewhon Books)

ARTIST

• Audrey Benjaminsen
• Rovina Cai
• Stefan Koidl
• Charles Vess
• Alyssa Winans

SPECIAL AWARD—PROFESSIONAL

• Bill Campbell for Rosarium Books
• E. M. Carroll, for A Guest in the House (First Second)
• M. John Harrison, for Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir (Saga Press/Serpent’s Tail)
• Stephen Jones, The Weird Tales Boys (PS Publishing)
• Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus magazine

SPECIAL  AWARD—NON-PROFESSIONAL:

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Trevor Kennedy, for Phantasmagoria
• Brian J. Showers, for Swan River Press
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Julian Yap and Fran Wilde, for The Sunday Morning Transport

Judges: Douglas A. Anderson, Stephanie Feldman, Pat Murphy, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and Angela Slatter.