2017 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees

The nominees for the 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced today, and if you’re anything like us then you were trying to figure out how to get your hands on the nominated books! The Shirley Jackson Awards are “established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.” The winners will be announced on July 15, 2018.

Nominees for Novel:

• Ill Will by Dan Chaon (Ballantine Books)
• The Bone Mother by David Demchuck (ChiZine Publications )
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• The Hole by Hye-Yung Pyun (Arcane Publishing)
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• The Night Ocean by Paul LaFarge (Penguin Press)

Nominees for Novella:

• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (Riverhead Books) √
• Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)√
• The Asylum of Dr. Caligari (Tachyon Publications LLC)
• The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy (Tor.com)
• The Lost Daughters Collective by Lindsey Drager (Dzanc Books)
• The Murders of Molly Southborne by Tade Thompson (Tor.com)

Nominees for Novelette:

• “Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street” Chavisa Woods (Things To Do When You’re Goth in the Country)
• “The Resident,” Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties)
• “Sun Dogs,” Laura Mauro (Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7)
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• “The West Topeka Triangle,” Jeremiah Tolbert (Lightspeed Magazine)
• “You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych,” Kathleen Kayembe (Nightmare Magazine)

Nominees for Short Fiction:

• “Blur,” Carmen Maria Machado (Tin House, issue 72, Summer 2017)
• “Live Through This,” Nadia Bulkin (Looming Low)
• “The Convexity of Our Youth,” Kurt Fawver (Looming Low)
• “The Mouse Queen,” Camilla Grudova (The Doll’s Alphabet)
• “The Second Door,” Brian Evenson (Looming Low)

Nominees for Single-Author Collection:

• Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
• She Said Destroy, Nadia Bulkin (Word Horde)
• The Dark Dark, Samantha Hunt (FSG Originals)
• The Doll’s Alphabet, Camilla Grudova (Coffee House Press)
• Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country, Chavisa Woods (Seven Stories Press)

Nominees for Edited Anthology:

• Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
  • Also nominated for a Bram Stoker Award
• The Djinn Falls in Love, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Rebellion Publishing / Solaris Books)
• Looming Low, edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan (Dim Shores)
• Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 7, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
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• Tales From a Talking Board, edited by Ross E. Lockhart (Word Horde)√
  • Matthew M. Bartlett’s story “Deep Into the Skin” was one of our favorite short stories of 2017!