2011 British Fantasy Award Winners

The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners of 2011 British Fantasy Awards. The winners and nominees are:

Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award):

• Demon Dance, Sam Stone (The House of Murky Depths)

• Apartment 16, Adam Nevill (Pan Macmillan)
• The Leaping, Tom Fletcher (Quercus)
• Pretty Little Dead Things, Gary McMahon (Angry Robot)
• The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

Best Novella

• Humpty’s Bones, Simon Clark (Telos)

• “1922”, Stephen King (Full Dark, No Stars)
• Ponthe Oldenguine, Andrew Hook (Atomic Fez)
• Sparrowhawk, Paul Finch (Pendragon)
• The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine)

Best Short Story

• “Fool’s Gold,” Sam Stone (The Bitten Word)

• The Beautiful Room, R.B. Russell (Nightjar)
• “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

• Vincent Chong

• Ben Baldwin
• Daniele Serra
• Les Edwards
• Paul Mudie

Best Small Press

• Telos Publishing; David J. Howe & Stephen James Walker

• Atomic Fez; Ian Alexander Martin
• Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
• Pendragon Press; Christopher Teague
• TTA Press; Andy Cox

Best Magazine

• Black Static

• Cemetery Dance
• Murky Depths
• Shadows & Tall Trees
• Strange Horizons

Best Graphic Novel

• At the Mountains of Madness, I.N.J. Culbard (SelfMadeHero)

• CLiNT, Mark Millar (Titan)
• Grandville Mon Amour, Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)
• Neonomicon, Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows (Avatar)
• The Unwritten Vols. 1 & 2, Mike Carey & Peter Gross (Titan)

Karl Edward Wagner Special Award: Terry Pratchett

Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer: Robert Jackson Bennett, for Mr Shivers (Orbit)

There are also nominees and winners in film and television categories. Voting was open to all current members of the BFS, plus members of FantasyCon 2010 and FantasyCon 2011. Winners were announced at this year’s British Fantasy Convention, FantasyCon 2011, held September 30 – October 2 2011 at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, UK.