Fresh off wins at the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards for their novels, Gabino Iglesias and Christi Nogle received nominations for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards.
The Devil Takes You Home by Iglesias and Beulah by Nogle are nominated for Best Novel for the Shirley Jackson Awards. The Devil Takes You Home won Superior Achievement in a Novel and Beulah won Superior Achievement in a First Novel at the Stoker Awards on June 17.
The Shirley Jackson Awards recognize the best work published in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic in six categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.
The other four books nominated for Best Novel are The Dead Friends Society by Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall; Jackal by Erin E. Adams; Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai; and Where I End by Sophie White.
Three other Stoker Award winners also received Shirley Jackson Award nominations.
Alma Katsu’s The Wehrwolf is nominated for Best Novella. The Wehrwolf won the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction.
Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw is nominated for Best Single-Author Collection. Breakable Things won the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.
Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow, is nominated for Best Edited Anthology. Screams From the Dark won the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology.
The complete list of nominees for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards are:
NOVEL
Beulah by Christi Nogle
The Dead Friends Society by Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai
Where I End by Sophie White
NOVELLA
The Bone Lantern by Angela Slatter
Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu
Catastrophe by Deirdre Danklin
Lure by Tim McGregor
Pomegranates by Priya Sharma
The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu
NOVELETTE
Azeman or, the Testament of Quincey Morris by Lisa Moore
“Challawa” by Usman T. Malik
“Sweetbaby” by Thomas Ha
“This Place is Best Shunned” by David Erik Nelson
What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo
SHORT FICTION
“Brother Maternitas” by Viktor Athelstan (Your Body is Not Your Body)
“The Church of Divine Electricity” by Emily Mitchell (The Southern Review)
“Dick Pig” by Ian Muneshwar (Nightmare Magazine, Issue 112)
“Halogen Sky” by Wendy N. Wagner (VASTARIEN: A Literary Journal, vol. 5, issue 1)
“Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867” by Kim Fu (Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
And At My Back I Always Hear by Scott Nicolay
Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw
Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted by RJ Joseph
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
Splendid Anatomies by Allison Wyss
We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Chiral Mad 5, edited by Michael Bailey
The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, edited by Doug Murano
Other Terrors, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason
Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow
Your Body is Not Your Body, edited by Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone.
The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards are scheduled for presentation July 15 at Readercon 32, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Quincy, Massachusetts.
LIONEL RAY GREEN 