The nominees for the 2018 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 Publishing titles, Jeremy C. Shipp’s The Atrocities and Brooke Bolander’s The Only Harmless Great Thing, were nominated for Best Novella. Congratulations to all of the nominees!
The 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 14, at Readercon 30, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts. Readercon Guests of Honor Tananarive Due and Stephen Graham Jones will be the ceremony hosts.
NOVEL
- Everything Under, Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
- In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Little Eve, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group)
- Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton (Double Day/Raven Books)
- We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk Books)
NOVELLA
- Judderman, DA Northwood (Gary Budden) (Dead Ink Books/Cinder House Publishing)
- The Atrocities, Jeremy C. Shipp (Tor.com)
- The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com)
- The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky, John Hornor Jacobs (HarperCollins Publishers)
- The Taiga Syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy, a Publishing Project)
NOVELETTE
- “Adriftica,” Maria Dahvana Headley (Robots vs. Fairies)
- “Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes,” D.P. Watt (The Silent Garden)
- Ghostographs: An Album, Maria Romasco Moore (Rose Metal Press)
- “Help the Witch,” Tom Cox (Help the Witch)
- “The Black Sea,” Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves – Tales from the Deep, April 2018)
SHORT FICTION
- “Back Seat,” Bracken MacLeod (Lost Highways)
- “Hell,” David Hansen (The Charcoal Issue of Fairy Tale Review, March 2018)
- “How to be a Horror Writer,” Tim Waggoner (Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol 1., issue 2 – Summer / Grimscribe Press)
- “The Astronaut,” Christina Wood Martinez (Granta 142: Animalia)
- “The Woman Dies,” Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton (online edition of Granta 144: genericlovestory)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
- All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow Publications)
- Drawn up from Deep Places, Gemma Files (Trepidatio Publishing)
- Garden of Eldritch Delights, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Quartier Perdu, Sean O’Brien (Comma Press)
- The Human Alchemy, Michael Griffin (Word Horde)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
- Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder (Written Backwards)
- Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien (Saga Press)
- The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism, edited by The Silent Garden Collective (Undertow Publications)
- This Dreaming Isle, edited by Dan Coxon (Unsung Stories)
- Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto (Black Balloon)
