Awards: 2010 Shirley Jackson Nominees

The nominees for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced. The Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.  The Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented at Readercon 22, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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 Anthology

• 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)

Previous years' nominees can be found here: 2009, 2008, 2007.