2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

The 2014 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.

NOVEL

• Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes (Mulholland)
• The Lesser Dead, Christopher Buehlman (Berkley)
• The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• Bird Box, Josh Malerman (Ecco)
• Confessions, Kanae Minato (Mulholland)
• Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)

NOVELLA

• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• Ceremony of Flies, Kate Jonez (DarkFuse)
• “The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
• The Good Shabti, Robert Sharp (Jurassic London)
• The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)

NOVELETTE

• “The End of the End of Everything”, Dale Bailey (Tor.com 4/23/14)
• Office at Night, Kate Bernheimer & Laird Hunt (Coffee House)
• “The Quiet Room”, V.H. Leslie (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
• “The Husband Stitch”, Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
• “Newspaper Heart”, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
• “The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 4/2/14)

SHORT FICTION

• “Wendigo Nights”, Siobhan Carroll (Fearful Symmetries)
• “Candy Girl”, Chikodili Emelumadu (Apex 11/14)
• “The Dogs Home”, Alison Littlewood (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
• “Shay Corsham Worsted”, Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries)
• “The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5-6/14)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• Unseaming, Mike Allen (Antimatter)
• After the People Lights Have Gone Off, Stephen Graham Jones (Dark House)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• They Do The Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
• Burnt Black Suns, Simon Strantzas (Hippocampus)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Letters to Lovecraft, Jesse Bullington, ed. (Stone Skin)
• Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow/ChiZine)
• The Children of Old Leech, Ross E. Lockhart & Justin Steele, ed. (Word Horde)
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Mark Morris, ed. (Spectral)

The awards will be presented July 12, 2015 at Readercon 26 in Burlington MA.