This year’s nominees for the Shirley Jackson Award have been announced (taken from their website). Congratulations to everyone; the winners will be revealed in July at Readercon 24.
NOVEL
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (ROC)
- The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
- Edge, Koji Suzuki (Vertical, Inc.)
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers)
- Immobility, Brian Evenson (Tor)
NOVELLA
- 28 Teeth of Rage, Ennis Drake (Omnium Gatherum Media)
- Delphine Dodd, S.P. Miskowski (Omnium Gatherum Media)
- I’m Not Sam, Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee (Sinister Grin Press/ Cemetery Dance Publications)
- The Indifference Engine, Project Itoh (Haikasoru/VIZ Media LLC)
- “Sky,” Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls, Twelfth Planet Press)
NOVELETTE
- “The Crying Child,” Bruce McAllister (originally “The Bleeding Child,” Cemetery Dance #68)
- “The House on Ashley Avenue,” Ian Rogers (Every House is Haunted, ChiZine Publications)
- “Reeling for the Empire,” Karen Russell (Tin House, Winter 2012)
- “Wild Acre,” Nathan Ballingrud (Visions, Fading Fast, Pendragon Press)
- “The Wish Head,” Jeffrey Ford (Crackpot Palace, William Morrow)
SHORT FICTION
- “Bajazzle,” Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape, Twelfth Planet Press)
- “How We Escaped Our Certain Fate,” Dan Chaon (21st Century Dead, St. Martin’s)
- “Little America,” Dan Chaon (Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, William Morrow)
- “The Magician’s Apprentice,” Tamsyn Muir (Weird Tales #359)
- “A Natural History of Autumn,” Jeffrey Ford (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August 2012)
- “Two Houses,” Kelly Link (Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, William Morrow)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
- Crackpot Palace, Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)
- Errantry, Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
- The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories, Andy Duncan (PS Publishing)
- Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine Publications)
- The Woman Who Married a Cloud, Jonathan Carroll (Subterranean Press)
- Windeye, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
- 21st Century Dead, edited by Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s)
- Black Wings II, edited by S. T. Joshi (PS Publishing)
- Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts #28/29, edited by Danel Olson (PS Publishing)
- Night Shadows, edited by Greg Herren and J. M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
- Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle (William Morrow)