2021 This Is Horror Awards Nominees

Novel of the Year

• Red X, David Demchuk (Strange Light)
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo (Tordotcom)
• This Thing Between Us, Gus Moreno (MCD x FSG)
• Queen of Teeth, Hailey Piper (Rooster Republic)

Novella of the Year

• Goddess of Filth, V. Castro (Creature)
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Tor Trade)
• Waif, Samantha Kolesnik (Grindhouse)
• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric LaRocca (Titan)
• Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom)

Short Story Collection of the Year

• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Maraina Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Granta)
• In That Endlessness, Our End, Gemma Files (Grimscribe)
• Beneath a Pale Sky, Philip Fracassi (Lethe)
• Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, Keith Rosson (Meerkat)
• The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)

Anthology of the Year

• Lost Contact, Max Booth III and Lori Michelle, eds. (Perpetual Motion Machine)
• When Things Get Dark, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
• There is No Death, There are No Dead, Aaron J. French and Jess Landry, eds. (Crystal Lake)
• Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Eric J. Guignard, ed. (Dark Moon)
• The Bad Book, John F.D. Taff, ed. (Bleeding Edge)

Fiction Magazine of the Year

• Apex
• Fantasy
• Lamplight
• Nightmare
• The Dark

Publisher of the Year

• Clash
• Grimscribe
• Meerkat
• Titan
• Tor Nightfire

Fiction Podcast of the Year

• Bridgewater
• Old Gods
• The Silt Verses
• The Wicked Library
• WE’RE NOT MEANT TO KNOW

Nonfiction Podcast of the Year

• Against Everyone with Conner Habib
  
• Cursed Morsels
• Dead Headspace
• Talking Scared
• The Kingscast