Australasian Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the Australian Shadows Awards 2018 on June 8 at Continuum 15: Other Worlds.

The juried award is given for work by an Australasian author that has horror/dark fiction content either as a focal point or an integral element of the work, and the intent of the work must be to disturb or inspire fear in the reader. Eligible genres/sub-genres include horror, dark fiction, dark fantasy, and paranormal fiction.

Best Collected Work

• Exploring Dark Fiction #2 A Primer to Kaaron Warren, Shadows on the Wall by Steven Paulsen

Best Edited Work

• Hellhole An Anthology of Subterranean Horror – ed. Lee Murray

Best Graphic Novel

• The Demon Hell Is Earth written by Andrew Constant

Best Novel

• Tide of Stone by Kaaron Warren

Best Poetry

• Revenants of the Antipodes by Kyla Lee Ward

Short Fiction

• Riptide by Dan Rabarts.

The Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction

• The Black Sea by Chris Mason