The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the nominees for their 2008 British Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced at the Sunday banquet of this year’s British Fantasy Convention, Fantasycon 2008, which will be held 19-21 September at the Britannia Hotel in Nottingham, UK.
The nominees are:
Novel (The August Derleth Award):
The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Gollancz)
The Intruders by Michael Marshall (HarperCollins)
The Taken by Sarah Pinborough (Dorchester)
The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little Brown)
The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)
     [Editor’s note: Michael Marshall and Michael Marshall Smith are indeed the same person, see the author’s web site.]
Novella:
Starship Summer by Eric Brown (PS Publishing)
After the War by Tim Lebbon (Subterranean)
All Your Gods are Dead by Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)
Black Tide by Del Stone, Jr. (Telos)
Rain by Conrad Williams (Gray Friar)
The Scalding Rooms by Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
Short Fiction:
“Digging Deep” by Ramsey Campbell (Phobic: Modern Horror Stories, Comma Press)
“The Spider Kiss” by Christopher Fowler (The Mammoth Book of Monsters, Robinson)
“Thumbprint” by Joe Hill (Postscripts #10, PS Publishing)
“My Stone Desire” by Joel Lane (Black Static #1, TTA Press)
“Discovering Ghosts” by Tim Lebbon (Postscripts #10, PS Publishing)
Collection:
Midnight Bazaar: A Secret Arcade of Strange and Eerie Tales by Simon Clark (Robert Hale)
Stains by Paul Finch (Gray Friar)
Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
Plots and Misadventures by Stephen Gallagher (Subterranean)
Dirty Prayers by Gary McMahon (Gray Friar)
Going Back by Tony Richards (Elastic Press)
Anthology:
The Black Book of Horror edited by Charles Black (Mortbury)
New Writings in the Fantastic edited by John Grant (Pendragon)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 edited by Stephen Jones (Robinson)
Zencore! edited by D.F. Lewis (Meganthus)
The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories edited by Ian Alexander Martin (Humdrumming)
Small Press:
Andy Cox for Black Static
Peter Crowther for PS Publishing
Peter Crowther for Postscripts
Andrew Hook for Elastic Press
Steve Upham for Screaming Dreams
Artist:
Vincent Chong
Les Edwards (Edward Miller)
Dave McKean
Bryan Talbot
Steve Upham
Non-Fiction:
Planet Dodo column by Allen Ashley (Midnight Street)
Whispers of Wickedness website reviews by Peter Tennant
Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower (FAB Press)
Darren Turpin for UKSF Book News
Wormwood by Mark Valentine (Tartarus)
In addition to the awards above, which will be voted on by members of the BFS and of Fantasycon, there will be the announcement of the Karl Edward Wagner Special Award (selected by the BFS committee), presented to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the genre, and the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award, selected by a panel of judges.