2013 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees

The 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.

NOVEL

• American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
• The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo (William Morrow)
• The Accursed, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
• Night Film, Marisha Pessl (Random House)
• The Demonologist, Andrew Pyper (Orion UK; Simon & Schuster US)
• Wild Fell, Michael Rowe (ChiZine)

NOVELLA

• “The Gateway”, Nina Allan (Stardust)
• The Last Revelation of Gla’aki, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
• Children of No One, Nicole Cushing (DarkFuse)
• Whom the Gods Would Destroy, Brian Hodge (DarkFuse)
• It Sustains, Mark Morris (Earthling)
• Helen’s Story, Rosanne Rabinowitz (PS Publishing)
• “Burning Girls”, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/13)

NOVELETTE

• “My Heart is Either Broken”, Megan Abbott (Dangerous Women)
• Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, Greer Gilman (Small Beer)
• “A Little of the Night”, Tanith Lee (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
• “Phosphorus”, Veronica Schanoes (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells)
• “Raptors”, Conrad Williams (Subterranean Winter 2013)

SHORT FICTION

• “The Traditional”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed 5/13)
• “Furnace”, Livia Llewellyn (The Grimscribe’s Puppets)
• “The Memory Book”, Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy)
• “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides”, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 12/13)
• “The Statue in the Garden”, Paul Park (Exotic Gothic 5)
• “That Tiny Flutter of the Heart”, Robert Shearman (Psycho-Mania!)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer)
• Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe)
• In Search of and Others, Will Ludwigsen (Lethe)
• The Story Until Now, Kit Reed (Wesleyan)
• Everything You Need, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

• Where thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, Steve Berman, ed. (Lethe)
• Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
• The Grimscribe’s Puppets, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. (Miskatonic River)
• The Book of the Dead, Jared Shurin, ed. (Jurassic London)

The awards will be presented on on Sunday, July 13, 2014 at Readercon 25 in Burlington MA.