2016 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees Announced

The nominees for the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award have been announced! Awarded every year in recognition of Shirley Jackson’s legacy, the awards honor exceptional work in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy. We’re thrilled to announce that two Tor.com Originals (Indrapramit Das’ “Breaking Water” and Stephen Graham Jones’ “The Night Cyclist“) were nominated for Best Novelette, while three Tor.com Publishing titles (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, and The Warren) are up for Best Novella. Congratulations to all of the nominees!

The 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 16, at Readercon 28.

NOVEL

• Foxlowe, Eleanor Wasserberg (Fourth Estate-UK/Penguin Books-US)
• The Girls, Emma Cline (Random House)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid (Gallery/Scout)
• Lily, Michael Thomas Ford (Lethe)
• Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)
• The Wonder, Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)

NOVELLA

• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
• “Maggots,” Nina Allan (Five Stories High)
• Muscadines, S.P. Miskowski (Dunhams Manor)
• The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01 Publishing)
• The Warren, Brian Evenson (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

• “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees,” Laird Barron (Autumn Cthulhu)
• “Angel, Monster, Man,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine)
• “Breaking Water,” Indrapramit Das (Tor.com)
• “The Night Cyclist,” Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
• “Presence,” Helen Oyeyemi (What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours)
• “Waxy,” Camilla Grudova (Granta)

SHORT FICTION

• “Animal Parts,” Irenosen Okojie (Speak, Gigantular)
• “The Apartments,” Karen Heuler (Other Places)
• “Postcards from Natalie,” Carrie Laben (The Dark)
• “Red,” Katie Knoll (Masters Review)
• “Things With Beards,” Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• Almost Insentient, Almost Divine, D.P. Watt (Undertow)
• Furnace, Livia Llewellyn (Word Horde)
• Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt (Shock Totem)
• A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer Press)
• We Show What We Have Learned, Clare Beams (Lookout)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Autumn Cthulhu, edited by Mike Davis (Lovecraft eZine Press)
• The Madness of Dr. Caligari, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Fedogan and Bremer)
• The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga Press)
• Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories, edited by Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay (Exile Editions)
• An Unreliable Guide to London, edited by Kit Caless and Gary Budden (Influx Press)