FINALISTS: 2015 World Fantasy Awards

The finalists for the World Fantasy Awards have been announced!

Update (7/12/15): The ballot has been amended to show “The Devil in America” by Ursula Vernon takes the place of Kai Ashante Wilson in the short story category. Wilson’s story was found to be too long for the short story category.

• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (Tor)
• City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
• Area X by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• My Real Children by Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)

• We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
• “Where the Trains Turn”, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Tor.com 11/19/14)
• Hollywood North”, Michael Libling (F&SF 11-12/14)
• “The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
• “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)

• “I Can See Right Through You”, Kelly Link, (McSweeney’s 48)
• Do You Like to Look at Monsters?, Scott Nicolay (Fedogan & Bremer)
• “Death’s Door Café”, Kaaron Warren (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
• “The Devil in America”, Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2014)
• “The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5-6/14)

• Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow
• Monstrous Affections, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (Candlewick)
• Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam; Titan)

• Mercy and Other Stories, Rebecca Lloyd (Tartarus)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• They Do the Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
• The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
• Death at the Blue Elephant, Janeen Webb (Ticonderoga)

• Samuel Araya
• Galen Dara
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Erik Mohr
• John Picacio

• John Joseph Adams, for editing anthologies and Nightmare and Fantasy magazine
• Jeanne Cavelos, for Odyssey writing workshops
• Sandra Kasturi & Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications
• Gordon Van Gelder, for F&SF
• Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Matt Cardin, for Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean)
• Stefan Fergus, for Civilian Reader (civilianreader.wordpress.com)
• Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
• Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press

The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, November 5-8, 2015 in Saratoga Springs NY.

The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Ramsey Campbell and Sheri S. Tepper, and were announced earlier this month.

Congrats to all the all!