2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

Novel

• Jackal, Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
• The Dead Friends Society, Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall (Encyclopocalypse)
• The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
• Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)
• Unwieldy Creatures, Addie Tsai (Jaded Ibis)
• Where I End, Sophie White (Tramp)

Novella

• Catastrophe, Deirdre Danklin (Texas Review)
• The Wehrwolf, Alma Katsu (Amazon Original Stories)
• Lure, Tim McGregor (Tenebrous)
• Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (PS)
• The Bone Lantern, Angela Slatter (PS)
• Bound Feet, Kelsea Yu (Cemetery Gates)

Novelette

• “Sweetbaby”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 10/22)
• “Challawa”, Usman T. Malik (Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror)
• Azeman or, the Testament of Quincey Morris, Lisa Moore (Black Shuck)
• “This Place is Best Shunned”, David Erik Nelson (Tor.com)
• What the Dead Know, Nghi Vo (Amazon Original Stories)

Short Fiction

• “Brother Maternitas”, Viktor Athelstan (Your Body is Not Your Body)
• “The Church of Divine Electricity”, Emily Mitchell (The Southern Review)
• “Dick Pig”, Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare 1/22)
• “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867”, Kim Fu (Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)
• “Halogen Sky”, Wendy N. Wagner (Vastarien 6/22)

Single-Author Collection

• We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating)
• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu (Tin House)
• Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)
• Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
• And At My Back I Always Hear, Scott Nicolay (Word Horde)
• Splendid Anatomies, Allison Wyss (Veliz)

Edited Anthology

• Chiral Mad 5, edited by Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
• Your Body is Not Your Body, edited by Matt Blairstone and Alex Woodroe (Tenebrous)
• Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor Nightfire)
• Other Terrors, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason (William Morrow)
• The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, edited by Doug Murano (Bad Hand)

Winners will be announced at the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Ceremony on July 15, 2023 at Readercon 32 in Quincy, Massachusetts. For more information, see the award website.

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