The nominees for the 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced! We’re pleased and honored that three Tor.com Publishing titles, Stephen Graham Jones’ Mapping the Interior, Margaret Killjoy’s The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion and Tade Thompson’s The Murders of Molly Southbourne, were included in the novella category. Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom, was also nominated for The Changeling in the Novel category. Congratulations to all the nominees!
The Shirley Jackson Awards were established to recognize excellence in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy. They honor the legacy of Shirley Jackson, author of seminal works including The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The awards are voted on by a jury of writers, editors, critics, and academics, and the awards will be presented on Sunday, July 15, 2018, at Readercon 29 in Quincy, Massachusetts.
NOVEL
- Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine Books)
- The Bone Mother, David Demchuk (ChiZine Publications)
- The Changeling, Victor Lavalle (Spiegel & Grau)
- The Hole, Hye-young Pyun (Arcade Publishing)
- The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
NOVELLA
- Fever Dream, Samantha Schweblin (Riverhead Books)
- Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
- The Asylum of Dr. Caligari, James Morrow (Tachyon Publications LLC)
- The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, Margaret Killjoy (Tor.com)
- The Lost Daughter Collective, Lindsey Drager (Dzanc Books)
- The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
NOVELETTE
- “Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street,” Chavisa Woods (Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country)
- “The Resident,” Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties)
- “Sun Dogs,” Laura Mauro (Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7)
- “The West Topeka Triangle,” Jeremiah Tolbert (Lightspeed Magazine)
- “You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych,” Kathleen Kayembe (Nightmare Magazine)
SHORT FICTION
- “Blur,” Carmen Maria Machado (Tin House, issue 72, Summer 2017)
- “Live Through This,” Nadia Bulkin (Looming Low)
- “The Convexity of Our Youth,” Kurt Fawver (Looming Low)
- “The Mouse Queen,” Camilla Grudova (The Doll’s Alphabet)
- “The Second Door,” Brian Evenson (Looming Low)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
- She Said Destroy, Nadia Bulkin (Word Horde)
- The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt (FSG Originals)
- The Doll’s Alphabet, Camilla Grudova (Coffee House Press)
- Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country, Chavisa Woods (Seven Stories Press)
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
- Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
- The Djinn Falls in Love, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Rebellion Publishing / Solaris Books)
- Looming Low, edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan (Dim Shores)
- Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
- Tales From a Talking Board, edited by Ross E. Lockhart (Word Horde)
