Shirley Jackson Award Finalists

As I have mentioned before here, the Shirley Jackson Awards are among my favorite in the world of dark fiction.  The 2010 nominees were just released, and I was happy to see some of my favorites.  Click here for the list and analysis from Rose Fox at PW's Genreville:


Novel:

• Dark Matter, Michelle Paver (Orion)
• A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (Doubleday)
• Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit)
• Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
• The Reapers Are the Angels, Alden Bell (Holt)
• The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

Novella:

• The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS Publishing)
• Chasing the Dragon, Nicholas Kaufmann (Chizine Publications)
• “Mysterium Tremendum”, Laird Barron (Occultation, Night Shade)
• One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau (ECW Press)
• Subtle Bodies, Peter Dubé (Lethe Press)
• The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (Chizine Publications)

Novelette:

• “–30–,” Laird Barron (Occultation, Night Shade)
• “The Broadsword,” Laird Barron, (Black Wings, PS Publishing)
• “Holderhaven,” Richard Butner, (Crimewave 11: Ghosts)
• “The Redfield Girls,” Laird Barron (Haunted Legends, Tor)
• “Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains,” Neil Gaiman (Stories: All New Tales, William Morrow)

Short story:

• “As Red as Red,” by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Haunted Legends, Tor)
• “Booth’s Ghost,” Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See, Small Beer Press)
• “The Foxes,” Lily Hoang (Haunted Legends, Tor)
• “six six six,” Laird Barron (Occultation, Night Shade)
• “The Things,” Peter Watts (Clarkesworld, Issue 40)

Single-author collection:

• Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade)
• The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)
• The Third Bear, Jeff Vandermeer (Tachyon)
• What I Didn’t See, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer Press)
• What Will Come After, Scott Edelman (PS Publishing)

Edited anthology:

• Black Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, edited by S. T. Joshi (PS Publications)
• Haunted Legends, edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor)
• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer (Penguin)
• Stories: All New Tales, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (William Morrow)
• Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders (Harper Voyager)