2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards Winners

Best Collection

• WINNER: Little Paranoias, Sonora Taylor (self-published)

• Collision, J.S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)
• Out of Water, Sarah Read (Trepidatio)
• Ghosts of You, Cathy Ulrich (Okay Donkey)

Best Debut

• WINNER: The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)

• Little Darlings, Melanie Golding (Crooked Lane)
• The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read (Trepidatio)
• Theme Music, T. Marie Vandelly (Dutton)

Best Poetry Collection

• WINNER: Choking Back the Devil, Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming)

• Mary Shelley Makes a Monster, Octavia Cade (Aqueduct)
• The Apocalyptic Mannequin, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Best Novel (tie)

• WINNER: Bunny, Mona Awad (Viking)
• WINNER: Without Condition, Sonora Taylor (self-published)

• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)
• River of Souls, T.L. Bodine (Trepidatio)
• The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)

Best Novella

• WINNER: To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger (Unnerving)

• Dear Laura, Gemma Amor (self-published)
• The Ladderman, Angela Archer (TYG)
• The Festering Ones, S.H. Cooper (self-published)
• Halloween Fiend, C.V. Hunt (Grindhouse)

Best Young Adult

• WINNER: Wilder Girls, Rory Power (Delacorte)

• Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal (Tor Teen)
• House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig (Delacorte)
• Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall (Viking)

Honorable Mentions for Short Fiction:

• “‘Til Death Do Us Part”, Peggy Christie (Dark Doorways)
• “A Song for Wounded Mouths”, Kristi DeMeester (PseudoPod 3/19)
• “Jack-O-Lantern”, Gabrielle Faust (#ScaryStories)
• “Sun Dogs”, Laura Mauro (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
• “What Throat”, Annie Neugebauer (PseudoPod 3/19)
• “Butterflies”, Samanta Schweblin (Mouthful of Birds)
• “The Woman Next Door”, Ha Seong-nan, translated by Janet Hong (Flowers of Mold)
• “Quadrapocalypse”, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)
• “Weary Bones”, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)

Winners were announced on the Ladies of Horror Fiction (LOHF) website beginning July 20, 2020. For more information, visit the LOHF website.

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