British Fantasy Awards

The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2013 British Fantasy Awards at a ceremony during the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England on November 3, 2013. The winners are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
• The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan (David Fickling)
• Railsea, China Miéville (Macmillan)
• Blood and Feathers, Lou Morgan (Solaris)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Last Days, Adam Nevill (Macmillan)
• The Kind Folk, Ramsey Campbell (PS)
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Silent Voices, Gary McMahon (Solaris)

Best Novella

• The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine, John Llewellyn Probert (Spectral)
• The Respectable Face of Tyranny, Gary Fry (Spectral)
• “Curaré”, Michael Moorcock (Zenith Lives!)
• Eyepennies, Mike O’Driscoll (TTA)

Best Short Story

• “Shark! Shark!”, Ray Cluley (Black Static #29)
• “Sunshine”, Nina Allan (Black Static #29)
• “Our Island”, Ralph Robert Moore (Where Are We Going?)
• “Wish for a Gun”, Sam Sykes (A Town Called Pandemonium)

Best Collection

• Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
• The Woman Who Married a Cloud, Jonathan Carroll (Subterannean)
• Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS)
• From Hell to Eternity, Thana Niveau (Gray Friar)

Best Anthology:

• Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
• Terror Tales of the Cotswolds, Paul Finch, ed. (Gray Friar)
• The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, Marie O’Regan, ed. (Robinson)
• A Town Called Pandemonium, Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin, eds. (Jurassic London)

Best Small Press (the PS Publishing Independent Press Award)

• ChiZine Publications (Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi)
• Gray Friar Press (Gary Fry)
• Spectral Press (Simon Marshall-Jones)
• TTA Press (Andy Cox)

Best Non-Fiction

• Pornokitsch, Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin, eds.
• Ansible, David Langford
• The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
• Coffinmaker’s Blues (column), Stephen Volk (Black Static)
• Fantasy Faction, Marc Aplin, ed.
• Reflections: On the Magic of Writing, Diana Wynne Jones (David Fickling)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Interzone, Andy Cox, ed. (TTA)
• Black Static, Andy Cox, ed. (TTA)
• SFX, David Bradley, ed. (Future)
• Shadows and Tall Trees, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)

Best Artist

• Sean Phillips
• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Les Edwards
• David Rix

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Saga, Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)
• The Unwritten, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Gary Erskine, Gabriel Hernández Walta, M.K. Perker, Vince Locke, and Rufus Dayglo (Vertigo)
• The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Skybound/Image)
• Dial H, China Miéville, Mateus Santolouco, David Lapham, and Riccardo Burchielli (DC)

Best Screenplay

• The Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon &Drew Goddard
• Sightseers, Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, & Amy Jump
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, & Guillermo del Toro
• Avengers Assemble, Joss Whedon

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Helen Marshall, for Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine)
• Saladin Ahmed, for Throne of the Crescent Moon (Gollancz)
• Stephen Bacon, for Peel Back the Sky (Gray Friar)
• Stephen Blackmoore, for City of the Lost (DAW)
• Kim Curran, for Shift (Strange Chemistry)
• Anne Lyle, for The Alchemist of Souls (Angry Robot)
• Alison Moore, for The Lighthouse (Salt Publishing)
• Lou Morgan, for Blood and Feathers (Solaris)
• E.C. Myers, for Fair Coin (Pyr)
• Molly Tanzer, for A Pretty Mouth (Lazy Fascist)