• The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga)
• How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
• Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire)
• Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in

• The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga)
• How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)
• Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
• Graveyard of Lost Children, Katrina Monroe (Poisoned Pen)
• The

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• WINNER: The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)

• The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
• Daphne, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• WINNER: Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)

• Jackal, Erin Adams

• The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
• The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
• Daphne, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Jackal, Erin Adams (Bantam)
• The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)

• Sallow Bend, Alan Baxter (Cemetery Dance)
• The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mullholland)
• The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• Fairy Tale, Stephen King (Scribner)
• Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
• The Ghost That Ate Us: The Tragic True Story of the Burger City Poltergeist,

• WINNER: The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)

• The Deep, Alma Katsu (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Devil’s Creek, Todd Keisling (Silver Shamrock)
• Malorie, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• WINNER: The Fourth Whore, EV

• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• The Deep, Alma Katsu (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Devil’s Creek, Todd Keisling (Silver Shamrock)
• Malorie, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• The Taxidermist’s Lover, Polly Hall

• The Boatman’s Daughter, Andy Davidson (MCD x FSG Originals)
• What Hell May Come, Rex Hurst (Crystal Lake)
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Gallery/Saga)
• The Deep, Alma Katsu (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Devil’s Creek, Todd Keisling (Silver Shamrock)
• Lake of Darkness, Scott Kenemore

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• WINNER: Coyote Rage, Owl Goingback (Independent Legions)

• Inspection, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• The Worst is Yet to Come, S.P. Miskowski (Trepidatio)
• Into the Ashes, Lee Murray (Severed)
• Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• WINNER: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Coyote Rage, Owl Goingback (Independent Legions)
• Inspection, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• The Worst is Yet to Come, S.P. Miskowski (Trepidatio)
• Into the Ashes, Lee Murray (Severed)
• Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Dear Laura, Gemma Amor (self-published)
• Doorways

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Coyote Rage, Owl Goingback (Independent Legions)
• Unamerica, Cody Goodfellow (King Shot)
• Black Heart Boys’ Choir, Curtis M. Lawson (Wyrd Horror)
• The Murder of Jesus Christ, John R. Little (Bad Moon)
• Inspection, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• The Worst is Yet to Come, S.P. Miskowski

• WINNER: The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)

• The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• Glimpse, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s)
• Unbury Carol, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Dracul, Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker (Putnam)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• WINNER: The Rust Maidens

• The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• Glimpse, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s)
• Unbury Carol, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Dracul, Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker (Putnam)
• The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• What Should Be Wild

• The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus (Feiwel and Friends)
• Dark Mary, Paolo Di Orazio (Independent Legions)
• The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner)
• Glimpse, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s)
• Unbury Carol, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Naraka,