FINALISTS: 2012 British Fantasy Awards

The finalists for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards have been announced:

• The Heroes; Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
• 11.22.63; Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Cyber Circus; Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon Press)
• A Dance with Dragons; George RR Martin (Harper Voyager)
• The Ritual; Adam Nevill (Pan)
• Among Others; Jo Walton (Tor Books)

There will be two awards in the best Novel category: The August Derleth Award for best horror novel and The Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel.

• Terra Damnata; James Cooper (PS Publishing)
• “Ghosts with Teeth”; Peter Crowther (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
• King Death; Paul Finch (Spectral Press)
• “Near Zennor”; Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
• “The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer”; John Ajvide Lindqvist (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
• Gorel and the Pot Bellied God; Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)

• “Dermot”; Simon Bestwick (Black Static)
• “Sad, Dark Thing”; Michael Marshall Smith (A Book of Horrors)
• “Florrie”; Adam Nevill (House of Fear)
• “Alice Through the Plastic Sheet”; Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors)
• “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter”; Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors)

• A Book of Horrors; editor Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
• House of Fear; editor Jonathan Oliver (Solaris Books)
• The Weird; editors Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Corvus Books)
• Gutshot; editor Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)

• Rumours of the Marvellous; Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press)
• Mrs Midnight; Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
• Everyone’s Just So So Special; Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
• A Glass of Shadow; Liz Williams (NewCon Press)

• Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
• Attack the Block by Joe Cornish
• The Awakening by Stephen Volk and Nick Murphy
• Melancholia by Lars Von Trier
• Kill List by Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump

• Black Static; ed. Andy Cox TTA Press
• Interzone; ed. Andy Cox TTA Press
• SFX, ed. Dave Bradley Future Publishing
• The Horror Zine, ed. Jeani Rector

• Animal Man; Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman (DC Comics)
• Batwoman; JH Williams III and W Haden Blackman (DC Comics)
• Locke and Key; Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
• The Unwritten; Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo)
• The Walking Dead; Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (Image)

• Chomu Press; Quentin S Crisp
• Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
• NewCon Press; Ian Whates
• Spectral Press; Simon Marshall-Jones

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Les Edwards
• Daniele Serra

• Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A biography of Herbert Van Thal; Johnny Mains (Screaming Dreams)
• Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero; Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
• Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s; Kim Newman (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema; Jonathan Rigby (Signum Books)
• Case Notes; Peter Tennant (Black Static)

Congratulations to all the nominees!