2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica (Scribner)

• The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher (Saga)
• Betty, Tiffany McDaniel (Knopf)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• Saltblood, T.C. Parker (self-published)
• The Sun Down Motel, Simone St. James (Berkley)

Best Young Adult

• WINNER: Blood Countess, Lana Popović (Amulet)

• Category Five, Ann Dávila Cardinal (Tor Teen)
• Harrow Lake, Kat Ellis (Dial)
• Deathless Divide, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
• Horrid, Katrina Leno (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Best Middle Grade

• WINNER: Hide and Seeker, Daka Hermon (Scholastic)

• The Girl and the Ghost, Hanna Alkaf (Harper)
• Crater Lake, Jennifer Killick (Firefly)
• The Stitchers, Lorien Lawrence (Abrams)
• Thirteens, Kate Alice Marshall (Viking Books for Young Readers)
• Ghost Squad, Claribel A. Ortega (Scholastic)

Best Debut

• WINNER: The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson (Ace)

• Lakewood, Megan Giddings (Amistad)
• The Return, Rachel Harrison (Berkley)
• Fairest Flesh, K.P. Kulski (Rooster Republic)
• Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• Catherine House, Elisabeth Thomas (Custom House)

Best Collection

• WINNER: All That’s Fair, S.H. Cooper (self-published)

• Sed de Sangre, Violet Castro (self-published)
• Lucid Screams, Red Lagoe (La Red)
• Bluebeard’s First Wife, Ha Seong-nan (Open Letter)
• Halloween Season, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming)

Best Poetry Collection

• WINNER: A Complex Accident of Life, Jessica McHugh (self-published)

• Burials, Jessica Drake-Thomas (Clash)
• Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Cynthia Pelayo (Burial Day)
• A Collection of Dreamscapes, Christina Sng (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Cradleland of Parasites, Sara Tantlinger (Rooster Republic)

Best Graphic Novel

• WINNER: The Low Low Woods, Carmen Maria Machado, illustrated by Dani (DC)

• Dracula, Motherf**ker, Alex de Campi, illustrated by Erica Henderson (Image)
• Monstress, Volume 5: Warchild, Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image)
• Devil Within, Stephanie Phillips, illustrated by Maan House (Black Mask)

Best Novella

• WINNER: The Bell Chime, Mona Kabbani (self-published)

• Cirque Berserk, Jessica Guess (Unnerving)
• Crossroads, Laurel Hightower (Off Limits)
• The Invention of Ghosts, Gwendolyn Kiste (Nightscape)
• The Worm and His Kings, Hailey Piper (Off Limits)
• Beneath a Bethel, April-Jane Rowan (Gurt Dog)

Best Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Unkindly Girls”, Hailey Piper (Worst Laid Plans)

• “Holes”, R.A. Busby (Graveyard Smash)
• “The Cucuy of Cancun”, V. Castro (Worst Laid Plans)
• “A Key for Any Lock”, S.H. Cooper (We Are Wolves)
• “Carreg Samson”, Catherine McCarthy (Diabolica Britannica)
• “Heart Music”, Lee Murray (Grotesque Monster Stories)
• “The Curse of She, Part 6”, Hailey Piper (We Are Wolves)
• “The Clockmaker”, Sonora Taylor (Graveyard Smash)

For more information, see the LOHF website.