The World Fantasy Award nominations have come out; congratulations to all the nominees. Winners will be announced at the annual World Fantasy Convention, to be held this year on November 3 in Brighton, England. (List taken from Tor.)
Novel
- The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu)
- Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
Novella
- “Hand of Glory,” Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
- “Let Maps to Others,” K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’12)
- The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)
- “The Skull,” Lucius Shepard (The Dragon Griaule)
- “Sky,” Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
Short Story
- “The Telling,” Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
- “A Natural History of Autumn,” Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
- “The Castle That Jack Built,” Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
- “Breaking the Frame,” Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
- “Swift, Brutal Retaliation” Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
Anthology
- Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
- Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer)
- Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
- Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)
- Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)
Collection
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
- Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
- The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
- Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
- Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)
Artist
- Vincent Chong
- Didier Graffet and Dave Senior
- Kathleen Jennings
- J.K. Potter
- Chris Roberts
Special Award—Professional
- Peter Crowther & Nicky Crowther for PS Publishing
- Lucia Graves for the translation of The Prisoner of Heaven (Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Harper) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeer, & Jeff VanderMeer for the Weird Fiction Review website
- Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi for ChiZine Publications
- William K. Schafer for Subterranean Press
Special Award—Non-professional
- Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- L. Timmel Duchamp for Aqueduct Press
- S.T. Joshi for Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2 (PS Publishing)
- Charles A. Tan for Bibliophile Stalker blog
- Jerad Walters for Centipede Press
- Joseph Wrzos for Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (Centipede Press)
The Life Time Achievement Award will go to Susan Cooper and Tanith Lee