The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the nominees for their 2009 British Fantasy Awards. Voting is open to all current members of the BFS, plus members of FantasyCon 2008 and FantasyCon 2009 (the deadline is 1 August). The winners will be announced at the Sunday banquet of this year’s British Fantasy Convention, Fantasycon 2009, which will be held 18-20 September at the Britannia Hotel in Nottingham, UK.
The nominees are:
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award):
Thieving Fear by Ramsey Campbell (published by PS Publishing)
Midnight Man by Simon Clark (Severn House)
The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler (Little Brown)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney and Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
Rain Dogs by Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)
Best Novella:
“The Narrows” by Simon Bestwick (published in We Fade to Grey, Pendragon Press)
Cold Stone Calling by Simon Clark (Tasmaniac Publications)
Gunpowder by Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
The Reach of Children by Tim Lebbon (Humdrumming)
“Heads” by Gary McMahon (We Fade to Grey, Pendragon Press)
Best Short Fiction:
“The Caul Bearer” by Allyson Bird (Bull Running for Girls, Screaming Dreams)
“N” by Stephen King (Just After Sunset, Hodder & Stoughton)
“Winter Journey” by Joel Lane (Black Static #5)
“All Mouth” by Paul Meloy (Black Static #6)
“The Vague” by Paul Meloy (Islington Crocodiles, TTA Press)
“Do You See” by Sarah Pinborough (Myth-Understandings, Newcon Press)
“Pinholes in Black Muslin” by Simon Strantzas (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror, Humdrumming)
“The Tobacconist’s Concession” by John Travis (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror, Humdrumming)
Best Collection:
Bull Running for Girls by Allyson Bird (Screaming Dreams)
Just After Sunset by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
How to Make Monsters by Gary McMahon (Morrigan Books)
Islington Crocodiles by Paul Meloy (TTA Press)
Glyphotech by Mark Samuels (PS Publishing)
Best Anthology:
Subtle Edens edited by Allen Ashley (Elastic Press)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 edited by Stephen Jones (Constable & Robinson)
Cone Zero edited by DF Lewis (Megazanthus Press)
The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror edited by Ian Alexander Martin (Humdrumming)
We Fade to Grey edited by Gary McMahon (Pendragon Press)
Myth-Understandings edited by Ian Whates (Newcon Press)
The PS Publishing Best Small Press Award:
Elastic Press (Andrew Hook)
Newcon Press (Ian Whates)
Pendragon Press (Chris Teague)
Screaming Dreams (Steve Upham)
TTA Press (Andy Cox)
Best Artist:
Vincent Chong (for various works)
Les Edwards (for various works)
Dave McKean (for The Graveyard Book, Bloomsbury)
Edward Miller (for Vault of Deeds, PS Publishing)
Lee Thompson (The Land at the End of the Working Day, Humdrumming)
Best Comic/Graphic Novel:
The New Avengers: Illuminati written by Brian Bendis & Brian Reed art by Jim Cheung (Marvel Comics)Hellblazer: Fear Machine by Jamie Delano (Vertigo)
Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician written by Andy Diggle art by Leonardo Manco & Daniel Zezelj (Vertigo)
Locke and Key written by Joe Hill, art by Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
Comic Book Tattoo Tales Inspired by Tori Amos edited by Rantz A. Hoseley & Tori Amos (Image Comics)
The Girly Comic Book 1 edited by Selina Lock (Factor Fiction)
All-Star Superman written by Grant Morrison, art by Frank Quitely (DC Comics)
30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow written by Steve Niles, art by Bill Sienkiewicz (IDW Publishing)
Buffy Season Eight Vol. 3: Wolves at the Gate written by Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard, art by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse Comics)
Best Non-Fiction:
Basil Copper: A Life in Books by Basil Copper, edited by Stephen Jones (PS Publishing)
Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale by Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook (BBC Books)
journal.neilgaiman.com by Neil Gaiman
What Is It We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications)
Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (Interzone, TTA Press)
Best Magazine:
Black Static edited by Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Interzone edited by Andy Cox et. al. (TTA Press)
Midnight Street edited by Trevor Denyer
Postscripts edited by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers (PS Publishing)
SFX edited by Dave Bradley (Future Publishing Limited)
Best Television:
Battlestar Galactica (NBC)
Dead Set (Zeppotron/Channel 4)
Dexter (Clyde Phillips Productions)
Doctor Who (BBC Wales)
Supernatural (Warner Bros TV)
Best Film:
Cloverfield directed by Matt Reeves
Iron Man directed by Jon Favreau
The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan
The Mist directed by Frank Darabont
The Orphanage directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
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.