The Shirley Jackson Awards--named after the author of The Lottery, one of the best known short stories in the English language--are now in their second year. The award was created to honour writers of horror, psychological suspense and dark fantasy. This year's shortlists have just been released in the categories of Best Novel, Novella, Novellette, Short Story, Collection and Anthology.
Best Novel:
- Alive in Necropolis by
- The Shadow Year by
- Pandemonium by
- Tender Morsels by
- The Resurrectionist by
- The Man on the Ceiling by and
A complete list of the nominees may be found here.
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A fresh, imaginative debut novel about a young police officer in northern California struggling to keep the peace—and maintain a grip on reality—in a town where the dead outnumber the liv...
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On New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, h...
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It is a world like our own in every respect . . . save one. In the 1950s, random acts of possession begin to occur. Ordinary men, women, and children are the targets of entities that seem...
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Tender Morsels, a 2009 Michael L. Printz honor book, is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, ...
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The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. Part classic noir thriller, part fabulist fable, it is the story of Sweeney and his comatose son, Danny...
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Two interwoven memoirs of love, loss, and family with a haunted, frightening edge.In 2000, American Fantasy Press published an unassuming chapbook titled The Man on the Ceiling. Inside wa...
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