2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

The 2014 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on July 12, 2015 at Readercon 22 in Burlington MA. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.

NOVEL

• Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)

• 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)

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

• “The Dogs Home”, Alison Littlewood (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)

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

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)

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

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)

• Letters to Lovecraft, Jesse Bullington, ed. (Stone Skin)
• 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)