2022 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

• Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
• A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• The City Beautiful, Aden Polydoros (Inkyard)
• The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Nightfire; Viper UK)

Best Novella

• “For Sale by Owner”, Elizabeth Hand (When Things Get Dark)
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
• And What Can We Offer You Tonight, Premee Mohamed (Neon Hemlock)
• Finches, A.M. Muffaz (Vernacular)
• “A Canticle for Lost Girls”, Isabel Yap (Never Have I Ever)

Best Short Fiction

• “The Failing Name”, Eugen Bacon & Seb Doubinsky
  (Fantasy 8/21)
• “The Demon Sage’s Daughter”, Varsha Dinesh
  (Strange Horizons 2/8/218)
• “If the Martians Have Magic”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
• “#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi”, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 3/3/21)
• “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/21)
• “(emet)”, Lauren Ring (F&SF 7-8/21)

Best Anthology

• Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition), Charlatan Bardot & Eric J. Guignard, eds. (Dark Moon)
• When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
• The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two, Paula Guran, ed. (Pyr)
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, ed. (Jembefola)
• Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)

Best Collection

• Tales the Devil Told Me, Jen Fawkes (Press 53)
• Big Dark Hole, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer)
• Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
• The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
• The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)
• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)

Best Artist

• Brom
• Odera Igbokwe
• Tran Nguyen
• Aleksandra Skiba
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional

• Charlie Jane Anders, for Never Say You Can’t Survive (Tordotcom)
• Cam Collins & Steve Shell, for Old Gods of Appalachia (podcast)
• Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
• Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda, for Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics)
• William K. Schafer, for Subterranean Press
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for editing F&SF

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Gautam Bhatia & Vanessa Rose Phin, for Strange Horizons
• Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, for Hellebore
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Tonia Ransom, for Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast
• Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, for Fantasy
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny