Shortlist For The 2024 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The shortlist for the 2024 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• A Day of Fallen Night – Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
• At Eternity’s Gates – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• Beyond Sundered Seas – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi (Daw Books)
• Talonsister – Jen Williams (Titan)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• A House with Good Bones – T Kingfisher (Titan)
• Boys in the Valley – Philip Fracassi (Orbit)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix (Titan)
• Looking Glass Sound – Catriona Ward (Viper)
• One Life Left – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)

Best Novella

• The Darkness in the Pines – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• The Last Day and the First – Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)
• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar – Indra Das (Subterranean Press)
• They Shut Me Up – Tracy Fahey (PS Publishing)
• Thornhedge – T Kingfisher (Titan)
• Untethered Sky – Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

• Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities – Shona Kinsella (Great British Horror 8)
• The Brazen Head of Westinghouse – Tim Major (IZ Digital)
• The Pilfered Quill – Rachel Rener & David Green (From the Arcane)
• The Ripe Fruit in the Garden – CA Yates (Great British Horror 8)
• Turn Again, O My Sweetness – CA Yates (At the Lighthouse)

Best Collection

• A Curious Cartography – Alison Littlewood (Black Shuck Books)
• Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic – Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)
• No Happily Ever After – Phil Sloman
• No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
• The House on the Moon – Georgina Bruce (Black Shuck Books)
• Under my Skin – KJ Parker (Subterranean Press)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Hellebore
• Interzone / IZ Digital
• khōréō 
• Occult Detective Magazine
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Audio Work

• Cast of Wonders (Escape Artists)
• The Penumbra Podcast – Harley Takagi Kaner, Kevin Vibert, Ginny D’Angelo, Alice C. LeBeau, Noah Simes
• PodCastle (Escape Artists)
• PseudoPod (Escape Artists)
• Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)
• The Tiny Bookcase – Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell

Best Independent Press

• Angry Robot
• Black Shuck Books
• Eibonvale Press
• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• Newcon Press

Best Artist

• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• David Rix
• Asya Yordonova

Best Anthology

• At the Lighthouse, ed. Sophie Essex (Eibonvale Press)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, ed. Wole Talabi (Android Press)
• Never Whistle at Night, ed. Shane Hawk (Vintage)
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, ed. Jordan Peele (Picador)
• Something Peculiar: Great British Horror 8, ed. Steve J Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
• The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy, eds. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Titan) 

Best Non-Fiction

• Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror – Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts – Delyth Badder & Mark Norman (Calon)
• The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• Writing the Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst (Dead Ink)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Moniquill Blackgoose, for “To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” (Del Ray)
• Vajra Chandrasekera, for “The Saint of Bright Doors” (Tordotcom)
• Hannah Kaner, for “Godkiller” (HarperVoyager)
• Charlotte Langree, for “Fractured: Tales of Flame and Fury” (Clarendon House Publications)
• Em X Liu, for “The Death I Gave Him” (Solaris)
• Teika Marija Smits, for “Umbilical” (Newcon Press) & “Waterlore” (Black Shuck Books)