The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the nominees for their 2012 British Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced at the Sunday banquet of this year’s British Fantasy Convention, Fantasycon 2012, which will be held 27-30 September at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, UK.
The nominees are:
Novel:
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
11.22.63 by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon Press)
A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin (Harper Voyager)
The Ritual by Adam Nevill (Pan)
Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor Books)
[There will be two awards in the best Novel category: The August Derleth Award for best horror novel and The Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel.]
Novella:
Terra Damnata by James Cooper (PS Publishing)
“Ghosts with Teeth” by Peter Crowther (A Book of Horrors)
King Death by Paul Finch (Spectral Press)
“Near Zennor” by Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
“The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer” by John Ajvide Lindqvist (A Book of Horrors)
Gorel and the Pot Bellied God by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Short Fiction:
“Dermot” by Simon Bestwick (Black Static)
“Sad, Dark Thing” by Michael Marshall Smith (A Book of Horrors)
“Florrie” by Adam Nevill (House of Fear)
“Alice Through the Plastic Sheet” by Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors)
“The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” by Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors)
Anthology:
A Book of Horrors edited by Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
House of Fear edited by Jonathan Oliver (Solaris Books)
The Weird edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Corvus Books)
Gutshot edited by Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
Collection:
Rumours of the Marvellous by Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press)
Mrs Midnight by Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
Everyone’s Just So So Special by Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
A Glass of Shadow by Liz Williams (NewCon Press)
Screenplay:
Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
Attack the Block by Joe Cornish
The Awakening by Stephen Volk and Nick Murphy
Melancholia by Lars Von Trier
Kill List by Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump
Magazine/Periodical:
Black Static edited by Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Interzone edited by Andy Cox (TTA Press)
SFX edited by Dave Bradley (Future Publishing)
The Horror Zine edited by Jeani Rector
Comic/Graphic Novel:
Animal Man by Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman (DC Comics)
Batwoman by JH Williams III and W Haden Blackman (DC Comics)
Locke and Key Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
The Unwritten by Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo)
The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image)
As stated in the new rules of the BFAwards, the Judges can add a title they feel was an egregious omission from the initial recommendations. This year they added 2 titles to the novel category, 2 titles to the novella category, and 1 title to short fiction. If a category has 5 titles listed, this is due to a tie on number of votes and points.
The BFAward Judges, James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh, Esther Sherman, and Damien G. Walter, will now review the shortlist and enter into deliberations. The winners will be announced at FantasyCon in Brighton on 30 September 2012.
The Special Juries and shortlists for the following awards have also been announced:
The PS Publishing Independent Press Award:
Jurors: Sandy Auden, Peter Crowther, Nicholas Royle, Peter Tennant, and Darren Turpin
Shortlist:
Chomu Press; Quentin S Crisp
Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
NewCon Press; Ian Whates
Spectral Press; Simon Marshall-Jones
The Artist Award:
Jurors: Guy Adams, Anne Sudworth, and Christopher Teague
Shortlist:
Ben Baldwin
Vincent Chong
Les Edwards
Daniel Serra
The Non-Fiction Award:
Jurors: Djibril al-Ayad, Roz Kaveney, and Adam Roberts
Shortlist:
Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A biography of Herbert Van Thal by Johnny Mains (Screaming Dreams)
Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero by Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s by Kim Newman (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby (Signum Books)
Case Notes by Peter Tennant (Black Static)
British Fantasy Award Chair Lee Harris says, “Our members have been consistent in recommending the best in horror and fantasy published in 2011, and we think we have an incredibly strong shortlist. Our judges have a hard job ahead of them and we’re sure the 2012 British Fantasy Awards will get people debating for the rest of the year.”