Monday, Sep 02, 2024

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 (Viper)
• ONE LIFE LEFT – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)

Best Novella

• THE DARKNESS IN THE PINES – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• THE LAST DAY AND THE FIRST – Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)
• THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR – Indra Das (Subterranean Press)
• THEY SHUT ME UP – Tracy Fahey (PS Publishing)
• THORNHEDGE – T. Kingfisher (Titan)
• UNTETHERED SKY – Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

• PROFESSOR FLOTSAM'S CABINET OF PECULIARITIES – Shona Kinsella (Great British Horror 8)
• THE BRAZEN HEAD OF WESTINGHOUSE – Tim Major (IZ Digital)
• THE PILFERED QUILL – Rachel Rener & David Green (From the Arcane)
• THE RIPE FRUIT IN THE GARDEN – C.A. Yates (Great British Horror 8)
• TURN AGAIN, OH MY SWEETNESS – C.A. Yates (At the Lighthouse)

Best Collection

• A CURIOUS CARTOGRAPHY – Alison Littlewood (Black Shuck Books)
• JACKAL, JACKAL: TALES OF THE DARK AND FANTASTIC – Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)
• NO HAPPILY EVER AFTER– Phil Sloman
• NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
• THE HOUSE ON THE MOON – Georgina Bruce (Black Shuck Books)
• UNDER MY SKIN – K.J. Parker (Subterranean Press)

Best Anthology

• AT THE LIGHTHOUSE, ed. Sophie Essex (Eibonvale Press)
• MOTHERSOUND: THE SAUUTIVERSE ANTHOLOGY, ed. Wole Talabi (Android Press)
• NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT, ed. Shane Hawk (Vintage)
• OUT THERE SCREAMING: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW BLACK HORROR, ed. Jordan Peele (Picador)
• SOMETHING PECULIAR: GREAT BRITISH HORROR 8, ed. Steve J. Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
• THE OTHER SIDE OF NEVER: DARK TALES FROM THE WORLD OF PETER AND WENDY, eds. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Titan) 

Best Independent Press

• Angry Robot
• Black Shuck Books
• Eibonvale Press
• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• Newcon Press

Best Non-Fiction

• Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror – Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts – Delyth Badder & Mark Norman (Calon)
• The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• Writing the Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Hellebore
• Interzone/IZ Digital
• khōréō 
• Occult Detective Magazine
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Artist

• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• David Rix
• Asya Yordonova

Best Audio

• Cast of Wonders (Escape Artists)
• The Penumbra Podcast – Harley Takagi Kaner, Kevin Vibert, Ginny D’Angelo, Alice C. LeBeau, Noah Simes
• PodCastle (Escape Artists)
• PseudoPod (Escape Artists)
• Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)
• The Tiny Bookcase – Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell

Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Moniquill Blackgoose, for “To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” (Del Ray)
• Vajra Chandrasekera, for “The Saint of Bright Doors” (Tordotcom)
• Hannah Kaner, for “Godkiller” (HarperVoyager)
• Charlotte Langree, for “Fractured: Tales of Flame and Fury” (Clarendon House Publications)
• Em X. Liu, for “The Death I Gave Him” (Solaris)
• Teika Marija Smits, for “Umbilical” (Newcon Press) & “Waterlore” (Black Shuck Books)