Boston, MA (July 2011) — The 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 17th 2011, at Readercon 22, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Congratulations to all winners!

NOVEL

WINNER:

Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)

Finalists:

  • Dark Matter, Michelle Paver (Orion)
  • A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (Doubleday)
  • Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit)
  • The Reapers Are the Angels, Alden Bell (Holt)
  • The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

 

NOVELLA

WINNER:

“Mysterium Tremendum”, Laird Barron (Occultation, Night Shade)

Finalists:

  • The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS Publishing)
  • Chasing the Dragon, Nicholas Kaufmann, (Chizine Publications)
  • 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

WINNER:

Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains,” Neil Gaiman (Stories: All New Tales, William Morrow)

Finalists:

  • “–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)

 

SHORT STORY

WINNER:

“The Things,” Peter Watts (Clarkesworld, Issue 40)

Finalists:

  • “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)
  • “Six Six Six,” Laird Barron (Occultation, Night Shade)
  • “The Foxes,” Lily Hoang (Haunted Legends, Tor)

 

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

WINNER:

Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade)

Finalists:

  • 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

WINNER:

Stories: All New Tales, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (William Morrow)

Finalists:

  • 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)
  • Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders (Eos)