The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the nominees for their 2011 British Fantasy Awards. Voting is open to all current members of the BFS (see this page), plus members of FantasyCon 2010 and FantasyCon 2011 (the deadline is 31 July). The winners will be announced at the Sunday banquet of this year’s British Fantasy Convention, Fantasycon 2011, which will be held 30 September-2 October at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, UK.
The nominees are:
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award):
Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill (published by Pan McMillan)
Demon Dance by Sam Stone (The House of Murky Depths)
The Leaping by Tom Fletcher (Quercus)
Pretty Little Dead Things by Gary McMahon (Angry Robot)
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
Best Novella:
1922 by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Humpty’s Bones by Simon Clark (Telos)
Ponthe Oldenguine by Andrew Hook (Atomic Fez)
Sparrowhawk by Paul Finch (Pendragon)
The Thief of Broken Toys by Tim Lebbon (ChiZine)
Best Short Story:
“The Beautiful Room” by R B Russell (published in Nightjar)
“Fool’s Gold” by Sam Stone (NewCon)
“The Lure” by Nicholas Royle (Solaris)
“Otterburn” by Jan Edwards (Estronomicon)
“Something for Nothing” by Joe Essid (PS Publishing)
Best Collection:
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Gravedigger’s Tale: Fables of Fear by Simon Clark (Robert Hale)
Last Exit for the Lost by Tim Lebbon (Cemetery Dance)
One Monster is Not Enough by Paul Finch (Gray Friar)
Walkers in the Dark by Paul Finch (Ash Tree)
Best Anthology:
Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories edited by Johnny Mains (Noose & Gibbet)
The End of the Line edited by Jonathan Oliver (Solaris)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 21 edited by Stephen Jones (Robinson & Constable)
Never Again edited by Allyson Bird & Joel Lane (Gray Friar)
Zombie Apocalypse! edited by Stephen Jones (Robinson & Constable)
Best Non-Fiction:
Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong by Vincent Chong (Telos)
Cinema Futura edited by Mark Morris (PS Publishing)
Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction by Steven Savile (Plexus)
M P Shiel: The Middle Years 1897-1923 by Harold Billings (Roger Beacham)
The Shrieking Sixties by Darrel Buxton (Midnight Marquee)
Best Artist:
Ben Baldwin
Daniele Serra
Les Edwards
Paul Mudie
Vincent Chong
Best Small Press:
Atomic Fez (Ian Alexander Martin)
Gray Friar Press (Gary Fry)
Pendragon Press (Christopher Teague)
Telos Publishing (David J Howe and Stephen James Walker)
TTA Press (Andy Cox)
Best Magazine/Periodical:
Black Static edited by Andy Cox
Cemetery Dance edited by Rich Chizmar
Murky Depths edited by Terry Martin
Shadows and Tall Trees edited by Michael Kelly
Strange Horizons edited by Susan Marie Groppi
Best Graphic Novel:
Clint by Mark Millar (Titan)
Grandville Mon Amour by Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)
Neonomicon by Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows (Avatar)
The Mountains of Madness by Ian Culbard (Self Made Hero)
The Unwritten, Vols 1 & 2, by Mike Carey & Peter Gross (Titan Books)
Best Film:
Alice in Wonderland
Inception
Kick-Ass
Monsters
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Best Television:
A History of Horror With Mark Gatiss (BBC)
Being Human (BBC)
Doctor Who (BBC)
Sherlock (BBC)
True Blood (HBO)
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.