The 2024 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

●       Ajram, Sofia — Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish Books)

●       Costello, Rob — We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures(Running Press)

●       Gyzander, Carol and Taborska, Anna — Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Publishing)

●       Murano, Doug and Bailey, Michael — Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners (Bad Hand Books)

●       Ryan, Lindy — Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror (A Women in Horror Anthology) (Black Spot Books)

Superior Achievement in...

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, established in 2022, is an annual, English-language literary award presented in honor of Ursula K. Le Guin. The $25,000 prize is awarded to an author for a single work of "imaginative fiction". The award is meant to honor authors who "can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now".  Here is the short list of this year's nominees:

• THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera
• THE SKIN AND ITS GIRL by Sarah Cypher
• IT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN IT'S OVER by Anne de Marcken
• ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey
• SIFT by...

Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT – Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
• AT ETERNITY'S GATES – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• BEYOND SUNDERED SEAS – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF OBALUFON – Wole Talabi (Daw Books)
• TALONSISTER – Jen Williams (Titan)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES – T. Kingfisher (Titan)
• BOYS IN THE VALLEY – Philip Fracassi (Orbit)
• DON'T FEAR THE REAPER – Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE – Grady Hendrix (Titan)
• LOOKING GLASS SOUND – Catriona Ward...

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The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2023 has been announced:

• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Harvill Secker)
• The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Solaris)
• In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (Atlantic)
• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Orbit)
• Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner (Hamish Hamilton)

The winner will be presented with a check for £2,024.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend on July 24, 2024. For more information, see the Clark Award website.