2019 This Is Horror Awards Winners

Novel of the Year

• WINNER: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read (Trepidatio)
• Runner-up: The Dark Game, Jonathan Janz (Fiction Without Frontiers)

• Carnivorous Lunar Activities, Max Booth III (Cinestate)
• The Reddening, Adam Nevill (Ritual Limited)
• Wilder Girls, Rory Power (Delacorte)

Novella of the Year

• WINNER: The Pale White, Chad Lutzke (Crystal Lake)
• Runner-up: The Half-Freaks, Nicole Cushing (Grimscribe)

• Dear Laura, Gemma Amor (self-published)
• In The Scrape, James Newman & Mark Steensland (Silver Shamrock)
• Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Tor.com Publishing)

Short Story Collection of the Year

• WINNER: Sefira and Other Betrayals, John Langan (Hippocampus)
• Runner-up: Out of Water, Sarah Read (Trepidatio)

• Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga)
• Song for the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
• Sing Your Sadness Deep, Laura Mauro (Undertow)

Anthology of the Year

• WINNER: Nox Pareidolia, Robert S. Wilson, ed. (Nightscape)
• Runner-up: Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)

• Midnight in the Graveyard, Kenneth W. Cain, ed. (Silver Shamrock)
• The Twisted Book of Shadows, Christopher Golden & James A. Moore, eds. (Twisted)
• Pop the Clutch, Eric J. Guignard, ed. (Dark Moon)

Fiction Magazine of the Year

• WINNER: Vastarien: A Literary Journal
• Runner-up: Dark Moon Digest

• Black Static
• The Dark
• Nightmare

Publisher of the Year

• WINNER: Nightscape
• Runner-up: Crystal Lake

• Flame Tree
• Raw Dog Screaming
• Silver Shamrock

Fiction Podcast of the Year

• WINNER: The NoSleep Podcast
• Runner-up: The Magnus Archives

• Creepy Pod
• Tales to Terrify
• The Wicked Library

Nonfiction Podcast of the Year

• WINNER: Ladies of the Fright
• Runner-up: The Horror Show with Brian Keene

• Bizzong
• Booked. Podcast
• Cosmic Shenanigans

Cover Art of the Year

• WINNER: Ben Baldwin for Hollow Heart, Ben Eads (Crystal Lake)
• Runner-up: Catrin Welz-Stein for This House of Wounds, Georgina Bruce (Undertow)

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