2024 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

• The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
• The Possibilities, Yael Goldstein-Love (Random House)
• Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
• Looking Glass Sound, Catriona Ward (Viper; Nightfire)
• Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

Best Novella

• The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
• Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• “Prince Hat Underground”, Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
• “Half the House Is Haunted”, Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)
• A Season of Monstrous Conceptions, Lina Rather (Tordotcom)
• Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

• “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”, P. Djèlí Clark
  (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont”, P. A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)
• “John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
• “Waystation City”, A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “The Sound of Children Screaming”, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
• “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood”, Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)

Best Anthology

• Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK)
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador)
• The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper
  Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

Best Collection

• The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• The Fortunate Isles, Lisa L. Hannett (Egaeus)
• White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)
• No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories,  Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
• Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
• Jewel Box, E. Lily Yu (Erewhon)

Best Artist

• Audrey Benjaminsen
• Rovina Cai
• Stefan Koidl
• Charles Vess
• Alyssa Winans

Special Award – Professional

• Bill Campbell, for Rosarium Books
• E. M. Carroll, for A Guest in the House (First Second)
• M. John Harrison, for Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir (Serpent’s Tail; Saga; 9/24)
• Stephen Jones, for The Weird Tales Boys (PS)
• Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Trevor Kennedy, for Phantasmagoria
• Brian J. Showers, for Swan River Press
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny
  
• Julian Yap & Fran Wilde, for The Sunday Morning Transport