2015 British Fantasy Awards Shortlists

This may not be of interest to everyone but I have found that Scifi fans are frequently fantasy fans. I know I am. So if you are looking for something new read, then what better way than a shortlist of the best British Fantasy? (Apart from perhaps a world shortlist.) Without further ado:

Best Anthology

• The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2, ed. Jan Edwards and Jenny Barber (The Alchemy Press)
• Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease, ed. by Joel Lane and Tom Johnstone (Gray Friar Press)
• Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue, ed. Christie Yant (Lightspeed Magazine)
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, ed. Mark Morris (Spectral Press)
• Terror Tales of Wales, ed. Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press)

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Les Edwards
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Karla Ortiz
• Daniele Serra

Best Collection

• Black Gods Kiss, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
• The Bright Day Is Done, Carole Johnstone (Gray Friar Press)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine Publications)
• Nick Nightmare Investigates, Adrian Cole (The Alchemy Press and Airgedlámh Publications)
• Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites, Hal Duncan (Lethe Press)

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Cemetery Girl, Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden and Don Kramer (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Grandville Noël, Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)
• Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Seconds, Bryan Lee O’Malley (SelfMadeHero)
• Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
• The Wicked + The Divine, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (Image Comics)

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• Breed, KT Davies (Fox Spirit Books)
• City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• A Man Lies Dreaming, Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Moon King, Neil Williamson (NewCon Press)
• The Relic Guild, Edward Cox (Gollancz)

Best Film/Television Episode

• Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Black Mirror: White Christmas, Charlie Brooker (Channel 4)
• Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (Marvel Studios)
• Interstellar, Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan (Paramount Pictures)
• Under the Skin, Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer (Film4 et al)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• The End, Gary McMahon (NewCon Press)
• The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey (Orbit)
• The Last Plague, Rich Hawkins (Crowded Quarantine Publications)
• No One Gets Out Alive, Adam Nevill (Macmillan)
• Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel (Knopf)
• The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)

Best Independent Press

• The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn)
• Fox Spirit Books (Adele Wearing)
• NewCon Press (Ian Whates)
• Spectral Press (Simon Marshall-Jones)

Best Magazine/Periodical

• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Holdfast Magazine, ed. Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee (Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee)
• Interzone, ed. by Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Lightspeed, ed. John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Sein und Werden, ed. Rachel Kendall (ISMs Press)

The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Edward Cox, for The Relic Guild (Gollancz)
• Sarah Lotz, for The Three (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Laura Mauro, for “Ptichka” (Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease)
• Den Patrick, for The Boy with the Porcelain Blade (Gollancz)
• Jen Williams, for The Copper Promise (Headline)

Best Non-Fiction

• D.F. Lewis Dreamcatcher Real-Time Reviews, D.F. Lewis (D.F. Lewis)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, ed. Jim McLeod (Jim McLeod)
• Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961–1971, ed. S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing)
• Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions, Hal Duncan (Lethe Press)
• Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews, Adam Roberts (Steel Quill Books )
• Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic, John Howard (The Alchemy Press)
• You Are the Hero: A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, Jonathan Green (Snowbooks)

Best Novella

• Cold Turkey, Carole Johnstone (TTA Press)
• Drive, Mark West (Pendragon Press)
• Newspaper Heart, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
• Water For Drowning, Ray Cluley (This Is Horror)

Best Short Story

• “A Change of Heart”, Gaie Sebold (Wicked Women)
• “The Girl on the Suicide Bridge”, J.A. Mains (Beside the Seaside)
• “Ptichka”, Laura Mauro (Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease)
• “A Woman’s Place”, Emma Newman (Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets)