Se han anunciado los finalistas de los premios World Fantasy de 2021. Son los siguientes:
Mejor novela
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
- Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor)
- The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga/Titan UK)
- Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey/Jo Fletcher UK)
- The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon/Orbit UK)
Mejor novela corta
- Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
- “Stepsister”, Leah Cypess (F&SF 5-6/20)
- Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
- The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)
- Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)
Mejor relato corto
- ”Glass Bottle Dancer”, Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed 4/20)
- “The Women Who Sing for Sklep”, Kay Chronister (Thin Places)
- “The Nine Scents of Sorrow”, Jordan Taylor (Uncanny 7-8/20)
- “My Country Is a Ghost”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 1-2/20)
- “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots 6/15/20)
Mejor antología
- Edited By, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Subterranean)
- The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 1, James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle, eds. (Valancourt)
- Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
- The Book of Dragons, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager)
- The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Vintage)
Mejor colección
- The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Jeffrey Ford (PS)
- Velocities: Stories, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
- Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda (Soft Skull)
- We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman (PS)
- Nine Bar Blues, Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man)
Mejor artista
- Rovina Cai
- Jeffrey Alan Love
- Reiko Murakami
- Daniele Serra
- Charles Vess
Premio especial profesional
- Clive Bloom, por The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan)
- C.C. Finlay, por editar F&SF
- Jo Fletcher, por Jo Fletcher Books
- Maria Dahvana Headley, por Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD x FSG Originals US/Scribe UK)
- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, por The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press)
Premios especial no profesional
- Scott H. Andrews, por Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
- Brian Attebery, por Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Michael Kelly, por Undertow Publications
- Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, por Fantasy Magazine
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, por Uncanny Magazine
El jurado este año ha estado formado por Tobias Buckell, Siobhan Carroll, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Brian Evenson y Patrick Swenson.
¡Enhorabuena a los finalistas!