2011 British Fantasy Award Nominees
The British Fantasy Society has announced finalists for their 2011 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award):
- Apartment 16, Adam Nevill (Pan Macmillan)
- Demon Dance, Sam Stone (The House of Murky Depths)
- The Leaping, Tom Fletcher (Quercus)
- Pretty Little Dead Things, Gary McMahon (Angry Robot)
- The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
Best Novella
- “1922”, Stephen King (Full Dark, No Stars)
- Humpty’s Bones, Simon Clark (Telos)
- Ponthe Oldenguine, Andrew Hook (Atomic Fez)
- Sparrowhawk, Paul Finch (Pendragon)
- The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine)
Best Short Story
- The Beautiful Room, R.B. Russell (Nightjar)
- “Fool’s Gold,” Sam Stone (The Bitten Word)
- “The Lure,” Nicholas Royle (The End of the Line)
- “Otterburn,” Jan Edwards (Estronomicon Dec 2010)
- “Something For Nothing,” Joe Essid (Catastrophia)
Best Collection
- Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Gravedigger’s Tale: Fables of Fear, Simon Clark (Robert Hale)
- Last Exit for the Lost, Tim Lebbon (Cemetery Dance)
- One Monster Is Not Enough, Paul Finch (Gray Friar)
- Walkers in the Dark, Paul Finch (Ash-Tree)
Best Anthology
- Back From the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories, Johnny Mains, ed. (Noose & Gibbet)
- The End of the Line, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 21, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson)
- Never Again, Allyson Bird & Joel Lane, eds. (Gray Friar)
- Zombie Apocalypse!, Stephen Jones, ed. (Robinson)
Best Non-Fiction
- Vincent Chong, Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong (Telos)
- Cinema Futura, Mark Morris, ed. (PS Publishing)
- Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction, Steven Savile (Plexus)
- M.P. Shiel: The Middle Years 1897-1923, Harold Billings (Roger Beacham)
- The Shrieking Sixties, Darrel Buxton (Midnight Marquee)
Best Artist
- Ben Baldwin
- Daniele Serra
- Les Edwards
- Paul Mudie
- Vincent Chong
Best Small Press
- Atomic Fez; Ian Alexander Martin
- Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
- Pendragon Press; Christopher Teague
- Telos Publishing; David J. Howe & Stephen James Walker
- TTA Press; Andy Cox
Best Magazine
- Black Static
- Cemetery Dance
- Murky Depths
- Shadows & Tall Trees
- Strange Horizons
Best Graphic Novel
- CLiNT, Mark Millar (Titan)
- Grandville Mon Amour, Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)
- Neonomicon, Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows (Avatar)
- At the Mountains of Madness, I.N.J. Culbard (SelfMadeHero)
- The Unwritten Vols. 1 & 2, Mike Carey & Peter Gross (Titan)
There are also nominees in film and television categories. Voting is open to all current members of the BFS, plus members of FantasyCon 2010 and FantasyCon 2011. Winners will be announced at this year’s British Fantasy Convention, FantasyCon 2011, to be held September 30 – October 2 2011 at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, UK.
