2014 British Fantasy Award Nominees

The British Fantasy Society has announced the finalists for the 2014 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Headline)
• Blood and Feathers: Rebellion, Lou Morgan (Solaris)
• Between Two Thorns, Emma Newman (Angry Robot)
• The Glass Republic, Tom Pollock (Jo Fletcher)
• A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes (HarperCollins)
• NOS4R2, Joe Hill (Gollancz)
• The Year of the Ladybird, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• Path of Needles, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• House of Small Shadows, Adam Nevill (Pan)
• Mayhem, Sarah Pinborough (Jo Fletcher)

Best Novella

• Spin, Nina Allan (TTA Press)
• “Vivian Guppy and the Brighton Belle”, Nina Allan (Rustblind and Silverbright)
• Dogs With Their Eyes Shut, Paul Meloy (PS Publishing)
• Beauty, Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
• Whitstable, Stephen Volk (Spectral)

Best Short Story

• “Chalk”, Pat Cadigan (This Is Horror)
• “Signs of the Times”, Carole Johnstone (Black Static #33)
• “Golden Apple”, Sophia McDougall (The Lowest Heaven)
• “Death Walks En Pointe”, Thana Niveau (The Burning Circus)
• “Family Business”, Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic)
• “Moonstruck”, Karin Tidbeck (Shadows & Tall Trees #5)
• “The Fox”, Conrad Williams (This Is Horror)

Best Collection

• North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer)
• Holes for Faces, Ramsey Campbell (Dark Regions)
• For Those Who Dream Monsters, Anna Taborska (Mortbury)
• Monsters in the Heart, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar)

Best Anthology

• The Tenth Black Book of Horror, Charles Black, ed. (Mortbury)
• Fearie Tales, Stephen Jones, ed. (Jo Fletcher)
• End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
• Rustblind and Silverbright, David Rix, ed. (Eibonvale)
• Tales of Eve, Mhairi Simpson, ed. (Fox Spirit)

Best Small Press (the PS Publishing Independent Press Award)

• The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn)
• Fox Spirit Books (Adele Wearing)
• NewCon Press (Ian Whates)
• Spectral Press (Simon Marshall-Jones)

Best Non-Fiction

• Fantasy Faction, Marc Aplin, ed.
• Doors to Elsewhere, Mike Barrett (The Alchemy Press)
• ‘‘We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative’’, Kameron Hurley (A Dribble of Ink 5/20/13)
• Speculative Fiction 2012, Justin Landon & Jared Shurin, eds. (Jurassic London)
• Gestalt Real-Time Reviews, D.F. Lewis

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Clarkesworld, Neil Clarke & Sean Wallace, eds. (Wyrm)
• Black Static, Andy Cox, ed. (TTA Press)
• Interzone, Andy Cox, ed. (TTA Press)
• Shadows & Tall Trees, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Joey Hi-Fi
• Tula Lotay
• Adam Oehlers
• Daniele Serra

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• The Unwritten, Mike Carey & Peter Gross (Vertigo)
• Demeter, Becky Cloonan (Becky Cloonan)
• Rachel Rising, Terry Moore (Abstract Studio)
• Porcelain, Benjamin Read & Chris Wildgoose (Improper Books)
• Saga, Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Jennifer Wilde, Maura McHugh, Karen Mahoney & Stephen Downey (Atomic Diner Comics)

Best Film/Television Episode

• Game of Thrones: ‘‘The Rains of Castamere’’
• Gravity
• Doctor Who: ‘‘The Day of the Doctor’’
• Iron Man 3
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Francis Knight, for Fade to Black (Orbit)
• Laura Lam, for Pantomime (Strange Chemistry)
• Ann Leckie, for Ancillary Justice (Orbit)
• Libby McGugan, for The Eidolon (Solaris)
• Emma Newman, for Between Two Thorns (Angry Robot)
• Samantha Shannon, for The Bone Season (Bloomsbury)

Winners will be chosen by juries, and announced September 6 or 7, 2014 during an awards ceremony at FantasyCon in York, England.