2024 British Fantasy Awards Winners

The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards.

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

  • WINNER: Talonsister, Jen Williams (Titan)
  • 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)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

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

Best Novella

  • WINNER: 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

  • WINNER: “The Brazen Head of Westinghouse”, Tim Major (IZ Digital 5/23/23)
  • “Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities”, Shona Kinsella (Great British Horror 8)
  • “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

  • WINNER: Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
  • 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)
  • Under My Skin, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
  • No Happily Ever After, Phil Sloman (self-published)

Best Anthology

  • WINNER: Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House)
  • 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)
  • Great British Horror 8, Steve J Shaw, ed. (Black Shuck)
  • Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)

Best Independent Press

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

Best Non-Fiction

  • WINNER: Writing the Future, Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst, eds. (Dead Ink)
  • 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)
  • The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner

Best Magazine / Periodical

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

Best Artist

  • WINNER: Asya Yordanova
  • Jenni Coutts
  • Vince Haig
  • David Rix

Best Audio

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

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

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

Legends of FantasyCon Award

  • Debbie Bennet

Karl Edward Wagner Award

  • Ramsey Campbell

Winners were announced during FantasyCon, held October 11-13, 2024 at The Queen at Chester Hotel in the UK. For more information, see the BFS website.


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