BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2012 NOMINEES
The British Fantasy Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards 2012. Determined by the 927 recommendations from BFS members and FantasyCon attendees and overseen by the British Fantasy Award Jury, the shortlist is:
Novel
• 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.
Novella
• ‘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)
Short Fiction
• ‘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)
Anthology
• 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)
Collection
• 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)
Screenplay
• 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
Magazine/Periodical
• 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 (thehorrorzine.com)
Comic/Graphic Novel
• Animal Man; Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman (DC Comics)
• Batwoman; J.H. 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)
As stated in the new rules of the British Fantasy Awards, the Judges can add titles they feel were an egregious omission from the initial recommendations. This year they added 2 titles to the novel category, 2 titles to the novella category, and 1 title to short fiction. If a category has 5 titles listed, this is due to a tie on number of votes and points.
The British Fantasy Award Judges, James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh. Esther Sherman and Damien G. Walter, will now review the shortlist and enter into deliberations.
The Special Juries and shortlists for the following awards have also been announced:
The PS Publishing Independent Press Award
• Chomu Press; Quentin S Crisp
• Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
• NewCon Press; Ian Whates
• Spectral Press; Simon Marshall-Jones
Jurors: Sandy Auden, Peter Crowther, Nicholas Royle, Peter Tennant and Darren Turpin.
The Artist Award
• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Les Edwards
• Daniele Serra
Jurors: Guy Adams, Anne Sudworth and Christopher Teague.
The Non-Fiction Award
• 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)
Jurors: Djibril al-Ayad, Roz Kaveney and Adam Roberts.
British Fantasy Society Chair Lee Harris says: “Our members have been consistent in recommending the best in horror and fantasy published in 2011, and we think we have an incredibly strong shortlist. Our judges have a hard job ahead of them, and we’re sure the 2012 British Fantasy Awards will get people debating for the rest of the year.”
The winners will be announced at the FantasyCon 2012 Banquet in Brighton on September 30. To book your tickets, go to www.fantasycon2012.org/banquet.php
