The finalists for the fourth annual Shirley Jackson Awards—for writers of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic—have been announced. The winners of the juried awards will be announced at Readercon 22 in Burlington, Massachusetts, this July.
This year’s nominees are:
Novel:
The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell (Holt)
Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
Feed by Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (Orion)
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub (Doubleday)
Novella:
“Mysterium Tremendum” by Laird Barron (Occultation)
The Broken Man by Michael Byers (PS Publishing)
One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau (ECW Press)
Subtle Bodies by Peter Dubé (Lethe Press)
Chasing the Dragon by Nicholas Kaufmann (Chizine Publications)
The Thief of Broken Toys Tim Lebbon (Chizine Publications)
Novelette:
“–30–” by Laird Barron (Occultation)
“The Broadsword” by Laird Barron (Black Wings)
“The Redfield Girls” by Laird Barron (Haunted Legends)
“Holderhaven” by Richard Butner (Crimewave 11: Ghosts)
“Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” by Neil Gaiman (Stories: All New Tales)
Short Story:
“six six six” by Laird Barron (Occultation)
“Booth’s Ghost” by Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See)
“The Foxes” by Lily Hoang (Haunted Legends)
“As Red as Red” by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Haunted Legends)
“The Things” by Peter Watts (Clarkesworld)
Single-Author Collection:
Occultation by Laird Barron (Night Shade)
What Will Come After by Scott Edelman (PS Publishing)
What I Didn’t See by Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer Press)
The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)
The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)
Edited Anthology:
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales edited by Kate Bernheimer (Penguin)
Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor)
Stories: All New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (William Morrow)
Black Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror edited by S.T. Joshi (PS Publications)
Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders (Harper Voyager)
More details on the nominees and the awards are available on this page.