2020 This Is Horror Awards Nominees

Novel of the Year

• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• The Invention of Sound, Chuck Palahniuk (Grand Central)
• The Sun Down Motel, Simone St. James (Berkley)

Novella of the Year

• We Need to Do Something, Max Booth III (Perpetual Motion Machine)
• Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• Crossroads, Laurel Hightower (Off Limits)
• True Crime, Samantha Kolesnik (Grindhouse)
• The Worm and His Kings, Hailey Piper (Off Limits)

Short Story Collection of the Year

• Thin Places, Kay Chronister (Undertow)
• Velocities, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
• Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies, John Langan (Word Horde)
• Wyrd and Other Derelictions, Adam Nevill (Ritual)
• The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature, Christopher Slatsky (Grimscribe)

Anthology of the Year

• Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Anchor)
• Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, Mark Matthews, ed. (Wicked Run)
• Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, Doug Murano & Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
• Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Zelda Knight & Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, eds. (Aurelia Leo)
• Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror, Samantha Kolesnik, ed. (Grindhouse)

Fiction Magazine of the Year

• The Dark
• Lightspeed
• Nightmare
• Uncanny
• Unnerving

Publisher of the Year

• Death’s Head
• Del Rey
• Silver Shamrock
• Undertow
• Valancourt

Fiction Podcast of the Year

• Chilling Tales for Dark Nights
• Crypto-Z
• NIGHTLIGHT
• The Other Stories
• Thirteen

Nonfiction Podcast of the Year

• Afro Horror
• Ghoulish
• Ink Heist
• Post Mortem with Mick Garris
• TheNecronomi.com

Cover Art of the Year

• Mike Davis for grotesquerie, Richard Gavin (Undertow)
• Todd Keisling for Arterial Bloom, Mercedes M. Yardley, ed. (Crystal Lake)
• Stephen Mackey for Thin Places, Kay Chronister (Undertow)
• Mikio Murakami for The Best of Both Worlds, S.P. Miskowski (Trepidatio)
• Matthew Revert for Antioch, Jessica Leonard (Perpetual Motion Machine)