FINALISTS: 2009 British Fantasy Awards

The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the nominees for their 2009 British Fantasy Awards. They are:

• Thieving Fear by Ramsey Campbell (published by PS Publishing)
• Midnight Man by Simon Clark (Severn House)
• The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler (Little Brown)
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
• Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney and Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• Rain Dogs by Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)

• “The Narrows” by Simon Bestwick (published in We Fade to Grey, Pendragon Press)
• Cold Stone Calling by Simon Clark (Tasmaniac Publications)
• Gunpowder by Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
• The Reach of Children by Tim Lebbon (Humdrumming)
• “Heads” by Gary McMahon (We Fade to Grey, Pendragon Press)

• “The Caul Bearer” by Allyson Bird (Bull Running for Girls, Screaming Dreams)
• “N” by Stephen King (Just After Sunset, Hodder & Stoughton)
• “Winter Journey” by Joel Lane (Black Static #5)
• “All Mouth” by Paul Meloy (Black Static #6)
• “The Vague” by Paul Meloy (Islington Crocodiles, TTA Press)
• “Do You See” by Sarah Pinborough (Myth-Understandings, Newcon Press)
• “Pinholes in Black Muslin” by Simon Strantzas (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror, Humdrumming)
• “The Tobacconist’s Concession” by John Travis (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror, Humdrumming)

• Bull Running for Girls by Allyson Bird (Screaming Dreams)
• Just After Sunset by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
• How to Make Monsters by Gary McMahon (Morrigan Books)
• Islington Crocodiles by Paul Meloy (TTA Press)
• Glyphotech by Mark Samuels (PS Publishin

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• Subtle Edens edited by Allen Ashley (Elastic Press)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 edited by Stephen Jones (Constable & Robinson)
• Cone Zero edited by DF Lewis (Megazanthus Press)
• The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror edited by Ian Alexander Martin (Humdrumming)
• We Fade to Grey edited by Gary McMahon (Pendragon Press)
• Myth-Understandings edited by Ian Whates (Newcon Press)

• Elastic Press (Andrew Hook)
• Newcon Press (Ian Whates)
• Pendragon Press (Chris Teague)
• Screaming Dreams (Steve Upham)
• TTA Press (Andy Cox

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• Vincent Chong (for various works)
• Les Edwards (for various works)
• Dave McKean (for The Graveyard Book, Bloomsbury)
• Edward Miller (for Vault of Deeds, PS Publishing)
• Lee Thompson (The Land at the End of the Working Day, Humdrumming)

• The New Avengers: Illuminati written by Brian Bendis & Brian Reed art by Jim Cheung (Marvel Comics)Hellblazer: Fear Machine by Jamie Delano (Vertigo)
• Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician written by Andy Diggle art by Leonardo Manco & Daniel Zezelj (Vertigo)
• Locke and Key written by Joe Hill, art by Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
• Comic Book Tattoo Tales Inspired by Tori Amos edited by Rantz A. Hoseley & Tori Amos (Image Comics)
• The Girly Comic Book 1 edited by Selina Lock (Factor Fiction)
• All-Star Superman written by Grant Morrison, art by Frank Quitely (DC Comics)
• 30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow written by Steve Niles, art by Bill Sienkiewicz (IDW Publishing)
• Buffy Season Eight Vol. 3: Wolves at the Gate written by Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard, art by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse Comics)

• Basil Copper: A Life in Books by Basil Copper, edited by Stephen Jones (PS Publishing)
• Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale by Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook (BBC Books)
• journal.neilgaiman.com by Neil Gaiman
• What Is It We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications)
• Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (Interzone, TTA Press)

• Black Static edited by Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Interzone edited by Andy Cox et. al. (TTA Press)
• Midnight Street edited by Trevor Denyer
• Postscripts edited by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers (PS Publishing)
• SFX edited by Dave Bradley (Future Publishing Limited)

• Battlestar Galactica (NBC)
• Dead Set (Zeppotron/Channel 4)
• Dexter (Clyde Phillips Productions)
• Doctor Who (BBC Wales)
• Supernatural (Warner Bros TV)

• Cloverfield directed by Matt Reeves
• Iron Man directed by Jon Favreau
• The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan
• The Mist directed by Frank Darabont
• The Orphanage directed by Juan Antonio Bayona

[via SF Scope and SF Awards Watch]

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