Thirty-two works of dark fiction in six categories are nominated for the 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards, according to an announcement by ShirleyJacksonAwards.org.
Presentation of the awards is scheduled July 19 at 8 p.m. during Readercon 34 at the Boston Marriott Burlington in Burlington, Mass.
Honoring the legacy of author Shirley Jackson, this year’s awards recognize the best work published during 2024 in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. The categories are Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.
Jackson, who died in 1965, is the author of classic novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle and the chilling short story “The Lottery.”
Here is the complete list of nominees, according to ShirleyJacksonAwards.org.
NOVEL
Curdle Creek: A Novel by Yvonne Battle-Felton
The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Eynhallow by Tim McGregor
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden
Smothermoss by Alisa Alering
NOVELLA
Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram
Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce
Red Skies in the Morning by Nadia Bulkin
A Scout is Brave by Will Ludwigsen
A Voice Calling by Christopher Barzak
NOVELETTE
“All the Parts of You That Won’t Easily Burn” by Eric LaRocca
“The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes” by Lyndsey Croal
His Unburned Heart by David Sandner
“Ready Player (n+1)” by M. Shaw
Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman
The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson Into A Monster by Kurt Fawver
SHORT FICTION
“Kamchatka” by Kristina Ten (Washington Square Review, Issue 51, Spring 2024)
“Strike” by Jessica P. Wick (Monsters in the Mills)
“MAMMOTH” by Manish Melwani (Nightmare Magazine, June 2024)
“Moon Rabbit Song” by Caroline Hung (Nightmare Magazine, November 2024)
“Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine (Uncanny Magazine #58)
SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION
The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories by Devon A. Mihesuah
Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations by Carina Bissett
Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas
A Place Between Waking and Forgetting by Eugen Bacon
These Things That Walk Behind Me by David Surface
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror edited by Sofia Ajram
The Crawling Moon edited by dave ring
Monsters in the Mills edited by Christa Carmen and L.E. Daniels
The White Guy Dies First edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Why Didn’t You Just Leave edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin
Visit ShirleyJacksonAwards.org the complete announcement.
LIONEL RAY GREEN 