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21 September 2008

British Fantasy Awards Winners

Winners of this year's British Fantasy Awards, voted by the British Fantasy Society, were presented at this weekend's Fantasycon in Nottingham, UK. Winners and other finalists are as follows:


KARL EDWARD WAGNER AWARD (SPECIAL AWARD)
  • Ray Harryhausen
  • SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER
  • Scott Lynch
  • AUGUST DERLETH AWARD (NOVEL)
  • The Grin of the Dark, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
  • Heart Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Gollancz)
  • The Intruders, Michael Marshall (HarperCollins)
  • The Servants, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling)
  • The Taken, Sarah Pinborough (Dorchester)
  • The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
  • NOVELLA
  • The Scalding Rooms, Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
  • After the War, Tim Lebbon (Subterranean Press)
  • All Your Gods are Dead, Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)
  • Black Tide, Del Stone, Jr. (Telos Publishing)
  • Rain, Conrad Williams (Gray Friar Press)
  • Starship Summer, Eric Brown (PS Publishing)
  • SHORT FICTION
  • "My Stone Desire", Joel Lane (Black Static #1)
  • "Digging Deep", Ramsey Campbell (Phobic: Modern Horror Stories Comma Press)
  • "Discovering Ghosts", Tim Lebbon (Postscripts #10)
  • "The Spider Kiss", Christopher Fowler (The Mammoth Book of Monsters)
  • "Thumbprint", Joe Hill (Postscripts #10)
  • ANTHOLOGY
  • The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18, Stephen Jones (Robinson)
  • The Black Book of Horror, Charles Black (Mortbury Press)
  • The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories, Ian Alexander Martin (Humdrumming)
  • New Writings in the Fantastic, John Grant (Pendragon)
  • Zencore!, D. F. Lewis (Meganthus)
  • COLLECTION
  • Old Devil Moon, Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
  • Dirty Prayers, Gary McMahon (Gray Friar Press)
  • Going Back, Tony Richards (Elastic Press)
  • Midnight Bazaar: A Secret Arcade of Strange and Eerie Tales, Simon Clark (Robert Hale)
  • Plots and Misadventures, Stephen Gallagher (Subterranean Press)
  • Stains, Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press)
  • NONFICTION
  • Whispers of Wickedness Peter Tennant (website reviews)
  • Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents, Stephen Thrower (FAB Press)
  • "Planet Dodo", Allen Ashley (column)
  • UKSF Book News, Darren Turpin
  • Wormwood, Mark Valentine (Tartarus Press)
  • SMALL PRESS
  • PS Publishing, Peter Crowther
  • Black Static, Andy Cox
  • Elastic Press, Andrew Hook
  • Postscripts, Peter Crowther
  • Screaming Dreams, Steve Upham
  • ARTIST
  • Vincent Chong
  • Les Edwards
  • Dave McKean
  • Bryan Talbot
  • Steve Upham
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