2018 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Age of Assassins, RJ Barker (Orbit)
• Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng (Angry Robot)
• The Court of Broken Knives, Anna Smith Spark (HarperVoyager)
• The Ninth Rain, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• The Boy on the Bridge, M.R. Carey (Orbit)
• The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• Relics, Tim Lebbon (Titan)
• The Crow Garden, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Harper Collins)

Best Novella

• A Pocketful of Crows, Joanne Harris (Gollancz)
• Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
• Cottingley, Alison Littlewood (Newcon)
• Naming the Bones, Laura Mauro (Dark Minds)
• Brother’s Ruin, Emma Newman (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Short Story

• “Four Abstracts”, Nina Allan (New Fears)
• “The Anniversary”, Ruth EJ Booth (Black Static 11-12/17)
• “Shepherd’s Business”, Stephen Gallagher (New Fears)
• “Illumination”, Joanne Hall (Book of Dragons)
• “Looking for Laika”, Laura Mauro (Interzone 11-12/17)
• The Little Gift, Stephen Volk (PS)

Best Collection

• You Will Grow Into Them, Malcolm Devlin (Unsung Stories)
• Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
• Strange Weather, Joe Hill (Gollancz)
• Tanith by Choice, Tanith Lee (Newcon)
• Tender: Stories, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)

Best Anthology

• Imposter Syndrome, James Everington & Dan Howarth, eds. (Dark Minds)
• Pacific Monsters, Margrét Helgadóttir, ed. (Fox Spirit)
• New Fears, Mark Morris, ed. (Titan)
• 2084, George Sandison, ed. (Unsung Stories)
• Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror 2, Steve J Shaw, ed. (Black Shuck)

Best Independent Press

• Fox Spirit
• Grimbold
• Newcon
• Salt
• Unsung Stories

Best Non-Fiction

• Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Francesca T Barbini, ed. (Luna)
• Paperbacks from Hell, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, Ursula K. Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Maura McHugh (Electric Dreamhouse)
• Luminescent Threads, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds. (12th Planet)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Grimdark
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Victo Ngai
• Daniele Sera
• Sana Takeda
• Sophie E Tallis

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Grim & Bold, Joshua Cornah (Kristell Ink)
• Bitch Planet Vol 2: President Bitch, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Taki Soma & Valentine de Landro (Image)
• The Wicked + The Divine Vol 5: Imperial Phase Part 1, Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)
• Monstress Vol. 2, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
• Tomorrow, Jack Lothian & Garry Mac (BHP Comics)

Best Audio

• Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman, adapted by Dirk Maggs
• Brave New Words Podcast
• Breaking the Glass Slipper Podcast
• Ivory Towers, Richard H Brooks
• PseudoPod Podcast
• Tea & Jeopardy Podcast

Best Film / Television Production

• Black Mirror: Series 4
• Get Out
• The Good Place: Season 1
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Stranger Things: Season 2
• Twin Peaks: the Return
• Wonder Woman

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• RJ Barker, for Age of Assassins (Orbit)
• S.A. Chakraborty, for The City of Brass (HarperVoyager)
• Ed McDonald, for Blackwing (Orion)
• Jeanette Ng, for Under the Pendulum Sun (Angry Robot)
• Anna Smith Spark, for The Court of Broken Knives (HarperVoyager)