2019 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher)
• The Green Man’s Heir, Juliet E. McKenna (Wizard’s Tower)
• Priest of Bones, Peter McLean (Jo Fletcher)
• Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• The Loosening Skin, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
• The Bitter Twins, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Wolf’s Hill, Simon Bestwick (Snowbooks)
• The Way of the Worm, Ramsey Campbell (PS)
• The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Titan)
• Little Eve, Catriona Ward (W&N)

Best Novella

• Breakwater, Simon Bestwick (Tor)
• The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)
• The Land of Somewhere Safe, Hal Duncan (NewCon)
• Binti: The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Last Temptation of Dr Valentine, John Llewellyn Probert (Black Shuck)

Best Short Story

• “Down Where Sound Comes Blunt”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 3-4/18)
• “Telling Stories”, Ruth EJ Booth (The Dark 12/18)
• “Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees”, Georgina Bruce (The Silent Garden)
• “In the Gallery of Silent Screams”, Carole Johnstone & Chris Kelso (Black Static 9-10/18)
• “A Son of the Sea”, Priya Sharma (All the Fabulous Beasts)
• “Thumbsucker”, Robert Shearman (New Fears 2)

Best Collection

• How Long ’til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
• Octoberland, Thana Niveau (PS)
• Resonance & Revolt, Rosanne Rabinowitz (Eibonvale)
• All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)
• The Future is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
• Lost Objects, Marian Womack (Luna)

Best Anthology

• This Dreaming Isle, Dan Coxon, ed. (Unsung Stories)
• The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
• Humanagerie, Sarah Doyle & Allen Ashley, eds. (Eibonvale)
• New Fears 2, Mark Morris, ed. (Titan)
• Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5, Robert Shearman & Michael Kelly, eds. (Undertow)

Best Independent Press

• Fox Spirit
• Luna
• NewCon
• Unsung Stories

Best Non-Fiction

• The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction, Francesca T. Barbini, ed. (Luna)
• Noise and Sparks, Ruth EJ Booth (Shoreline of Infinity)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Les Vampires, Tim Major (PS)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Uncanny

Best Artist

• Vince Haig
• David Rix
• Daniele Serra
• Sophie E Tallis

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Widdershins, Vol. 7: Curtain Call, Kate Ashwin (self-published)
• 100 Demon Dialogues, Lucy Bellwood (Toonhound)
• The Prisoner, Robert S. Malan & John Cockshaw (Luna)
• B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 1, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Guy Davis, Tyler Crook & Dave Stewart (Dark Horse)
• Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories, Vol. 1, Mike Mignola, et al. (Dark Horse)
• Saga #49-54, Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)

Best Audio

• Bedtime Stories for the End of the World Podcast
• Breaking the Glass Slipper Podcast
• Blood on Satan’s Claw, Mark Morris (Bafflegab)
• PodCastle
• PsuedoPod

Best Film / Television Production

• Annihilation
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Black Panther
• The Haunting of Hill House
• Inside No. 9, series 4
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Tomi Adeyemi, for The Children of Blood and Bone (Macmillan Children’s)
• Cameron Johnston, for The Traitor God (Angry Robot)
• R.F. Kuang, for The Poppy War (Harper Voyager)
• Tasha Suri, for Empire of Sand (Orbit)
• Marian Womack, for Lost Objects (Luna)
• Micah Yongo, for Lost Gods (Angry Robot)