First Shirley Jackson Award Nominees Announced

The finalists for the first ever Shirley Jackson Awards—for writers of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic—have been announced (see this article for the establishment of the awards). The winners will be announced on Sunday 20 July at Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts.

The finalists are:

Novel:
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow (William Heinemann)
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
Baltimore, Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (Bantam Spectra)
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace (Knopf)
The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)

Novella:
"Procession of the Black Sloth" by Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence and Other Stories)
The Mermaids by Robert Edric (PS Publishing)
Illyria by Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
"Vacancy" by Lucius Shepard (Subterranean #7)
The Scalding Rooms by Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
12 Collections by Zoran Zivkovic (PS Publishing)

Novelette:
"The Forest" by Laird Barron (Inferno)
"Thumbprint" by Joe Hill (Postscripts #10)
"The Janus Tree" by Glen Hirshberg (Inferno)
"The Tenth Muse" by William Browning Spencer (Subterranean #6)
"The Swing" by Don Tumasonis (At Ease with the Dead)

Short Story:
"The Monsters of Heaven" by Nathan Ballingrud (Inferno)
"Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" by Andy Duncan (Eclipse One)
"Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben (Clarkesworld March 2007)
"Holiday" by M. Rickert (Subterranean #7)
"The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer (Clarkesworld April 2007)
"A Murder of Crows" by Elizabeth Ziemska (Tin House 31)

Collection:
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
The Entire Predicament by Lucy Corin (Tin House)
Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
The Bone Key by Sarah Monette (Prime Books)
Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard (Knopf)

Anthology:
Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (Berkley)
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
Dark Delicacies 2 edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Running Press)
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories edited by John Klima (Bantam Spectra)
At Ease with the Dead edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)