2023 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

• Saint Death’s Daughter, C.S.E. Cooney (Solaris)
• Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Best Novella

• The Bruising of Qilwa, Naseem Jamnia (Tachyon)
• The House of Drought, Dennis Mombauer (Stelliform)
• Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• Helpmeet, Naben Ruthnum (Undertow)
• Pomegranates, Priya Sharma (Absinthe)

Best Short Fiction

• “The Devil Don’t Come with Horns”, Eugen Bacon (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
• “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge”, Tananarive Due (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
• “The Morning House”, Kate Heartfield (PodCastle 7/5/22)
• “Telling the Bees”, Kat Howard (Sunday Morning Transport 1/30/22)
• “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 3/22)

Best Anthology

• Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
• Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason, eds. (Morrow)
• Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror, John F.D. Taff, ed. (Nightfire)
• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight, eds. (Tordotcom)
• Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan, Troy L. Wiggins, eds. (Third Man)

Best Collection

• Dark Breakers, C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
• Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
• All Nightmare Long, Tim Lebbon (PS)
• Boys, Beasts & Men, Sam J. Miller (Tachyon)
• A Different Darkness and Other Abominations, Luigi Musolino (Valancourt)

Best Artist

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Galen Dara
• Matt Ottley
• Lauren Raye Snow
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional

• Irene Gallo, for Tor.com
• Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, for Small Beer Press
• Tim Lebbon & Daniele Serra, for Without Walls (PS)
• Fiona Moore, for Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros (Edward Elgar)
• Matt Ottley, for The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Dirt Lane)

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Cristina Macía, for The Celsius Festival
• dave ring, for Neon Hemlock Press
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
• E. Catherine Tobler, for editing The Deadlands