Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

The 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards winners for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction were announced at a ceremony, July 16, 2017 at Readercon 28 at the Quincy Marriott in Quincy MA.

NOVEL

WINNER: The Girls, Emma Cline (Random House)

• The Wonder, Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown)
• Lily, Michael Thomas Ford (Lethe)
• Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (Morrow)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid (Gallery/Scout)
• Foxlowe, Eleanor Wasserberg (Fourth Estate UK/Penguin US)

NOVELLA

WINNER: The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)

• “Maggots”, Nina Allan (Five Stories High)
• The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01 Publishing)
• The Warren, Brian Evenson (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
• Muscadines, S.P. Miskowski (Dunhams Manor)

NOVELETTE

WINNER: “Waxy”, Camilla Grudova (Granta 9/16)

• “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees”, Laird Barron (Autumn Cthulhu)
• “Breaking Water”, Indrapramit Das (Tor.com 2/10/16)
• “The Night Cyclist”, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com 9/21/16)
• “Angel, Monster, Man”, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 1/16)
• “Presence”, Helen Oyeyemi (What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours)

SHORT FICTION

WINNER: “Postcards from Natalie”, Carrie Laben (The Dark 7/16)

• “The Apartments”, Karen Heuler (Other Places)
• “Red”, Katie Knoll (The Masters Review 10/7/16)
• “Things With Beards”, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 6/16)
• “Animal Parts”, Irenosen Okojie (Speak, Gigantular)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

WINNER: A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)

• We Show What We Have Learned, Clare Beams (Lookout)
• Furnace, Livia Llewellyn (Word Horde)
• Almost Insentient, Almost Divine, D.P. Watt (Undertow)
• Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt (Shock Totem)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

WINNER: The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

• An Unreliable Guide to London, Kit Caless & Gary Budden, eds. (Influx)
• Autumn Cthulhu, Mike Davis, ed. (Lovecraft eZine Press)
• The Madness of Dr. Caligari, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. (Fedogan and Bremer)
• Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories, Kelsi Morris & Kaitlin Tremblay, eds. (Exile Editions)

In addition, a Board of Directors Award was presented for Ruth Franklin for her contribution in furthering the legacy of Shirley Jackson, namely in recognition of her first biography, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2016).