2012 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees

The 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.

NOVEL

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

NOVELLA

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

NOVELETTE

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

SHORT FICTION

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

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

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• 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)
• Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts #28/29, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)
• Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller & Mort Castle, eds. (Morrow)

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