2024 Australasian Shadows Awards Shortlist

Novel

• Polyphemus, Zachary Ashford (Darklit)
• When Ghosts Call Us Home, Katya de Becerra (Page Street; Pan Macmillan)
• The Graveyard Shift, Maria Lewis (Angry Robot; Datura)
• Cretaceous Canyon, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)

Long Fiction

• We Called it Graffitiville, Aaron Dries (Crystal Lake)
• After I Found Her, Claire Low (Clan Destine)
• Those That Pursue Us Yet, Kyla Ward (Independent Legion)
• Bitters, Kaaron Warren (Cemetery Dance)

Short Fiction

• “All the Eyes That See”, Alan Baxter (Cosmic Horror Monthly 12/23)
• “Camp Never,” J.S. Bruekelaar (Darkness Beckons)
• “Death Interrupted,” Pamela Jeffs (Body of Work)
• “What Bones These Tides Bring”, Nikky Lee (Remains to be Told)

Collected Works

• Midnight Masquerade, Greg Chapman (IFWG)
• Bites Eyes, Matthew R. Davis (Brain Jar)
• Precarious Waters, Pamela Jeffs (Four Ink)
• Stingers, Noel Osualdini & T.M. McLean (self-published)

Edited Works

• SNAFU Punk’d, Geoff Brown & AJ Spedding, eds. (Cohesion)
• Remains to be Told, Lee Murray, ed. (Clan Destine)
• Black Beacon Book of Horror, Cameron Trost, ed. (Black Beacon)
• Killer Creatures Down Under, Deborah Sheldon, ed. (IFWG)

Poetry

• “Guiding Star,” Tim Jones (Remains to be Told)
• “Dancers on the Road,” K.S. Nikakis (SOV Media)
• “The Broonie”, Deborah Sheldon (Nightmare Fuel Magazine 5/18/23)
• “Never Leave the Path,” Kyla Lee Ward (Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice 2023)
• “What It Means to be With You, Pauline Yates (HWA Poetry Showcase: Volume X)

Non-Fiction

• “Holy Revelations”, Grace Chan (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
• A Vindication of Monsters, Claire Fitzpatrick, ed. (IFWG Publishing International)
• “Displaced Spirits: Ghosts of the Diaspora”, Lee Murray (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)

Graphic Novel

• Fables of Fear, Karl Brandt (KB Comics)
• Yuletide Flame, Hayden Fryer (Siberian Productions)
• Monomyth, David Hazan (Mad Cave)
• Splitting Sides 2, David Schembri (North Forest)

For more information, see the AHWA announcement.

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