Die Nominierungen für die diesjährigen Shirley Jackson Awards wurden heute (oder gestern?) verkündet. Die Preise, mit denen das Vermächtnis von Shirley Jackson geehrt werden soll, werden in verschiedenen Kategorien für außergewöhnliche literarische Leistungen im Bereich "horror, psychological suspense and dark fantasy fiction" von einer Jury verliehen.
Novel
- Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square)
- Old Soul, Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- How to Fake a Haunting, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
- Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
- The Lamb, Lucy Rose (HarperCollins)
Novella
- The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
- The Glass Garden, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
- Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
- The Cold House, A.G. Slatter (Titan)
- DuMort, Michelle Tang (Ghost Orchid)
Novelette
- Letter Slot, Owen King (Amazon Original Stories)
- “The Severity of Things”, Mo Moshaty (Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment)
- “The Millay Illusion”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
- “Emily”, Vanessa Santos (Make a Home of Me)
- The Confirmed Bachelors, Stephen Volk (Black Shuck)
Short Fiction
- “Room 24”, Caroline Kepnes (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
- “Lapse”, Kirsty Logan (Unquiet Guests)
- “Silver Boots”, Donna Lynch (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror)
- “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)
- “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter”, Audrey Zhou (Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)
Single-Author Collection
- Issues with Authority, Nadia Bulkin (Ghoulish)
- Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
- Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment, Mo Moshaty (Tenebrous)
- Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski (Simon & Schuster)
Edited Anthology
- Roots of My Fears, Gemma Amor, ed. (Titan)
- Unquiet Guests, Dan Coxon, ed. (Dead Ink)
- Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
- Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
- Were Wolf Short Stories, Catherine Taylor, Nick Wells & Gillian Whitaker, eds. (Flame Tree)
Die Preisverleihung findet am 11. Juli auf der oder dem Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts, statt.
