Earlier this month the winners of this year’s Shirley Jackson Awards were announced. Congratulations to all the nominees. (List taken from ShirleyJacksonAwards.org.)
NOVEL
Winner: American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
Finalists
- The Accursed, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
- The Demonologist, Andrew Pyper (Orion-UK/ Simon & Schuster-US)
- The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo (William Morrow)
- Night Film, Marisha Pessl (Random House)
- Wild Fell, Michael Rowe (ChiZine Publications)
NOVELLA
Winner: Burning Girls, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com)
Finalists:
- Children of No One, Nicole Cushing (DarkFuse)
- Helen’s Story, Rosanne Rabinowitz (PS Publishing)
- It Sustains, Mark Morris (Earthling Publications)
- “The Gateway,” Nina Allan (Stardust, PS Publishing)
- The Last Revelation of Gla’aki, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
- Whom the Gods Would Destroy, Brian Hodge (DarkFuse)
NOVELETTE
Winner: Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press)
Finalists:
- “A Little of the Night,” Tanith Lee (Clockwork Phoenix 4, Mythic Delirium Books)
- “My Heart is Either Broken,” Megan Abbott (Dangerous Women, Tor Books)
- “Phosphorus,” Veronica Schanoes (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, Tor Books)
- “Raptors,” Conrad Williams (Subterranean Press Magazine, Winter 2013)
SHORT FICTION
Winner: “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, December 2013)
Finalists:
- “Furnace,” Livia Llewellyn (Grimscribe’s Puppets, Miskatonic River Press)
- “The Memory Book,” Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, Tor Books)
- “The Statue in the Garden,” Paul Park (Exotic Gothic 5, PS Publishing)
- “That Tiny Flutter of the Heart,” Robert Shearman (Psycho-Mania!, Constable & Robinson)
- “The Traditional,” Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed, May 2013)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
Two Winners: Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press) and North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press)
Finalists:
- Everything You Need, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)
- In Search of and Others, Will Ludwigsen (Lethe Press)
- The Story Until Now, Kit Reed (Wesleyan)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Winner: Grimscribe’s Puppets, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Miskatonic River Press)
Finalists:
- The Book of the Dead, edited by Jared Shurin (Jurassic London)
- End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver (Solaris)
- Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Tor Books)
- Where thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Steve Berman (Lethe Press)