Se acaban de dar a conocer los nominados a los premios Shirley Jackson dedicados a la literatura de terror, suspense y fantasía oscura. Son los siguientes:
NOVELA
The Accursed, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
The Demonologist, Andrew Pyper (Orion-UK/ Simon & Schuster-US)
The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo (William Morrow)
Night Film, Marisha Pessl (Random House)
Wild Fell, Michael Rowe (ChiZine Publications)
NOVELA CORTA
Burning Girls, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com)
Children of No One, Nicole Cushing (DarkFuse)
Helen’s Story, Rosanne Rabinowitz (PS Publishing)
It Sustains, Mark Morris (Earthling Publications)
The Gateway, Nina Allan (Stardust, PS Publishing)
The Last Revelation of Gla’aki, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
Whom the Gods Would Destroy, Brian Hodge (DarkFuse)
NOVELETTE
Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press)
“A Little of the Night”, Tanith Lee (Clockwork Phoenix 4, Mythic Delirium Books)
“My Heart is Either Broken”, Megan Abbott (Dangerous Women, Tor Books)
“Phosphorus”, Veronica Schanoes (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, Tor Books)
“Raptors”, Conrad Williams (Subterranean Press Magazine, Winter 2013)
RELATO CORTO
“57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, December 2013)
“Furnace,” Livia Llewellyn (Grimscribe’s Puppets, Miskatonic River Press)
“The Memory Book,” Maureen McHugh (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, Tor Books)
“The Statue in the Garden,” Paul Park (Exotic Gothic 5, PS Publishing)
“That Tiny Flutter of the Heart,” Robert Shearman (Psycho-Mania!, Constable & Robinson)
“The Traditional,” Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed, May 2013)
ANTOLOGÍA DE UN SOLO AUTOR
Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press)
Everything You Need, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)
In Search of and Others, Will Ludwigsen (Lethe Press)
North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press)
The Story Until Now, Kit Reed (Wesleyan)
ANTOLOGÍA EDITADA
The Book of the Dead, editada por Jared Shurin (Jurassic London)
End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver (Solaris)
Grimscribe’s Puppets, editada por Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Miskatonic River Press)
Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, editada por Ellen Datlow (Tor Books)
Where thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, editada por Steve Berman (Lethe Press)
Si queréis conocer algo más sobre la autora que da nombre a los premios, os recomiendo este artículo de El fantascopio.