2024 British Fantasy Awards Shortlist

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• At Eternity’s Gates, David Green (Eerie River)
• Beyond Sundered Seas, David Green (Eerie River)
• A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW)
• Talonsister, Jen Williams (Titan)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Boys in the Valley, Philip Fracassi (Orbit)
• One Life Left, David Green (Eerie River)
• How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Titan)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Titan)
• Looking Glass Sound, Catriona Ward (Viper)

Best Novella

• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das (Subterranean)
• They Shut Me Up, Tracy Fahey (PS)
• The Darkness in the Pines, David Green (Eerie River)
• Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Titan)
• The Last Day and the First, Tim Lebbon (PS)
• Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

• “Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities”, Shona Kinsella (Great British Horror 8)
• “The Brazen Head of Westinghouse”, Tim Major (IZ Digital 5/23/23)
• “The Pilfered Quill”, Rachel Rener & David Green (From the Arcane)
• “The Ripe Fruit in the Garden”, C.A. Yates (Great British Horror 8)
• “Turn Again, O My Sweetness”, C.A. Yates (At the Lighthouse)

Best Collection

• The House on the Moon, Georgina Bruce (Black Shuck)
• A Curious Cartography, Alison Littlewood (Black Shuck)
• No One Will Come Back for Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
• Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
• Under My Skin, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
• No Happily Ever After, Phil Sloman (self-published)

Best Anthology

• At the Lighthouse, Sophie Essex, ed. (Eibonvale)
• Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage)
• The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy, Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane, eds. (Titan)
• Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House)
• Great British Horror 8, Steve J Shaw, ed. (Black Shuck)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)

Best Independent Press

• Angry Robot
• Black Shuck
• Eibonvale
• Flame Tree
• Luna Press Publishing
• Newcon

Best Non-Fiction

• Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts, Delyth Badder & Mark Norman (Calon)
• Writing the Future, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst, eds. (Dead Ink)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Hellebore
• Interzone (IZ Digital)
• khōréō
• Occult Detective
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Artist

• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• David Rix
• Asya Yordonova

Best Audio

• Cast of Wonders
• The Penumbra Podcast
• PodCastle
• PseudoPod
• Simultaneous Times Podcast
• The Tiny Bookcase

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• Moniquill Blackgoose
• Vajra Chandrasekera
• Hannah Kaner
• Charlotte Langree
• Em X. Liu
• Teika Marija Smits