Stephen Graham Jones racked up two more major honors for his works The Only Good Indians and Night of the Mannequins during the 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards announced August 15th.

The Only Good Indians won the Novel category and Night of the Mannequins won the Novella category. In May, Jones won 2020 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel with The Only Good Indians and Superior Achievement in Long Fiction with Night of the Mannequins.

The Shirley Jackson Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic and are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics.

Other 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards winners include The Attic Tragedy by J. Ashley-Smith in the Novelette category.

“Not the Man I Married” by R. A. Busby won the Short Fiction category. Busby’s story appeared in the Autumn 2020 Issue #93 of Black Petals, a horror and science fiction magazine.

Velocities: Stories by Kathe Koja won the Single-Author Collection category. Earlier this year, Velocities: Stories was nominated for a 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.

Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, edited by Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn, won the Edited Anthology category. In May, Black Cranes won the 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology.

Congratulations to the winners!

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