2012 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

The 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented at a ceremony at Readercon 24 on July 14, 2013 in Burlington MA, for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction. The ceremony was hosted by Maureen McHugh. The winners are:

NOVEL

• Edge, Koji Suzuki (Vertical)

• Immobility, Brian Evenson (Tor)
• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Crown)
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)

NOVELLA

• “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)

• 28 Teeth of Rage, Ennis Drake (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• “The Indifference Engine”, Project Itoh (The Future Is Japanese)
• I’m Not Sam, Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee (Sinister Grin)
• Delphine Dodd, S.P. Miskowski (Omnium Gatherum Media)

NOVELETTE

• “Reeling for the Empire” Karen Russell (Tin House Winter 2012)

• “Wild Acre”, Nathan Ballingrud (Visions, Fading Fast)
• “The Wish Head”, Jeffrey Ford (Crackpot Palace)
• “The Crying Child”, Bruce McAllister (originally “The Bleeding Child,” Cemetery Dance #68)
• “The House on Ashley Avenue”, Ian Rogers (Every House is Haunted)

SHORT FICTION

• “A Natural History of Autumn”, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)

• “How We Escaped Our Certain Fate”, Dan Chaon (21st Century Dead)
• “Little America”, Dan Chaon (Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Morrow)
• “Bajazzle”, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)
• “Two Houses”, Kelly Link (Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury)
• “The Magician’s Apprentice”, Tamsyn Muir (Weird Tales #359)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• Crackpot Palace, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

• The Woman Who Married a Cloud, Jonathan Carroll (Subterranean)
• The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories, Andy Duncan (PS Publishing)
• Windeye, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
• Errantry, Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer)
• Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Exotic Gothic 4:  Postscripts #28/29, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)

• Night Shadows, Greg Herren & J.M. Redmann, eds. (Bold Strokes)
• 21st Century Dead, Christopher Golden, ed. (St. Martin’s)
• Black Wings II, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS Publishing)
• Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller & Mort Castle, eds. (Morrow)

The awards were presented on on Sunday, July 14, 2013 at Readercon 24 in Burlington MA.