2020 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

Novel

• Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
• Sisters, Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• Death in Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin)
• True Story, Kate Reed Petty (Viking)

Novella

• “Agatha’s Barn: A Carpenter’s Farm Story”, Michael Bailey (Written Backwards 4/20)
• Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• Her Mad Song, CJ Halbard (Man on Fire)
• Night of the Mannequins, Stephen Graham Jones (Tordotcom)
• History of an Executioner, Clancy McGilligan (Miami University Press)
• The Best of Both Worlds, S.P. Miskowski (Trepidatio)

Novelette

• The Attic Tragedy, J. Ashley-Smith (Meerkat)
• Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus (A Testimony), Gayle Brandeis (Black Lawrence)
• “Heritage Hill”, Matthew R. Davis (Outback Horrors Down Under)
• “Señor Ligotti”, Bernardo Esquinca, translated by James D. Jenkins (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
• “Pale Toes”, Marko Hautala, translated by Sanna Terho (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories)
• “I Will Find You, Even in the Dark”, Jessica Landry (Dim Shores Presents, Vol. 1)
• “Faith”, Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Granta 11/18/20)

Short Fiction

• “Holes”, R.A. Busby (Graveyard Smash)
• “Not the Man I Married”, R.A. Busby (Black Petals Autumn 2020)
• Graceful Burdens, Roxane Gay (Amazon Original Stories)
• “The Memory Game”, Franki Haber (The Gravity of the Thing Spring ’20)
• “Isn’t Your Daughter Such a Doll”, Tobi Ogundiran (Shoreline of Infinity #18)
• “Room and Board Included, Demonology Extra”, Eden Royce (Eyedolon 6/20)

Single-Author Collection

• Aftermath of an Industrial Accident, Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium)
• Thin Places, Kay Chronister (Undertow)
• Mannequin and Wife, Jen Fawkes (LSU Press)
• Settling the World, M. John Harrison (Comma)
• Velocities, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
• Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day, JD Scott (Lake Forest College Press)

Edited Anthology

• The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires, Lenore Hart, ed. (Northampton House)
• Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
• Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, Mark Matthews, ed. (Wicked Run)
• Tiny Nightmares, Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto, eds. (Catapult)
• After Sundown, Mark Morris, ed. (Flame Tree)
• Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, Doug Murano & Michael Bailey, eds. (Written Backwards)
• Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn, eds. (Omnium Gatherum)

Winners will be announced during a ceremony at Readercon 31 on August 15, 2021. For more information, see the award website.

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