2010 Shirley Jackson Awards Shortlist

The 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.

Novel

• Dark Matter, Michelle Paver (Orion)
• A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (Doubleday)
• Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit)
• Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
• The Reapers Are the Angels, Alden Bell (Holt)
• The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

Novella

• The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS)
• Chasing the Dragon, Nicholas Kaufmann (ChiZine)
• “Mysterium Tremendum”, Laird Barron (Occultation)
• One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau (ECW)
• Subtle Bodies, Peter Dubé (Lethe)
• The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine)

Novelette

• “–30–”, Laird Barron (Occultation)
• “The Broadsword”, Laird Barron (Black Wings)
• “Holderhaven”, Richard Butner  (Crimewave 11: Ghosts)
• “The Redfield Girls”, Laird Barron (Haunted Legends)
• “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman (Stories)

Short Story

• “As Red as Red”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Haunted Legends)
• “Booth’s Ghost”, Karen Joy Fowlder(What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
• “The Foxes”, Lily Hoang (Haunted Legends)
• “six six six”, Laird Barron (Occultation)
• “The Things”, Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)

Single-Author Collection

• Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade)
• The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones (Prime)
• The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)
• What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
• What Will Come After, Scott Edelman (PS)

Edited Anthology

• Black Wings, S.T. Joshi, ed, (PS)
• Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
• My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
• Stories, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow)
• Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (HarperCollins)

The awards will be presented at Readercon 22 in Burlington, Massachusetts, July 14-17, 2011.