Estos premios son otorgados por logros excepcionales en la temática de horror, suspenso psicológico y fantasía oscura
Se han anunciado los nominados al Premio Shirley Jackson correspondiente a la producción del año 2009.
La lista es:
Novela
* Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland)
* The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
* Big Machine, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau)
* The Owl Killers, Karen Maitland (Delacorte)
* White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Nan A. Talese)
* The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
Novela corta
* Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca (Word Riot)
* Shrike, Quentin S. Crisp (PS)
* “Sea-Hearts”, Margo Lanagan ( X6 )
* The Witnesses are Gone, Joel Lane (PS)
* The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough (PS)
* Vardøger, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar)
Cuento
* “Catch Hell”, Laird Barron ( Lovecraft Unbound )
* The Night Cache , Andy Duncan (PS)
* “each thing i show you is a piece of my death”, Gemma Files & Stephen J. Barringer ( Clockwork Phoenix 2 )
* “Lonegan’s Luck”, Stephen Graham Jones ( New Genre 6 )
* “Morality”, Stephen King ( Esquire )
Cuento breve
* “The Crevasse”, Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud ( Lovecraft Unbound )
* “Strappado”, Laird Barron ( Poe )
* “Faces”, Aimee Bender ( The Paris Review , Winter ’09)
* “The Jacaranda Smile”, Gemma Files ( Apparitions )
* “The Pelican Bar”, Karen Joy Fowler ( Eclipse 3 )
* “Procedure in Plain Air”, Jonathan Lethem ( The New Yorker 10/26/09)
Colección de un autor
* Fugue State , Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
* Zoo , Otsuichi (Haikasoru)
* There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales , Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
* Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical , Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
* Tunneling to the Center of the Earth , Kevin Wilson (Harper Perennial)
* Everland and Other Stories , Paul Witcover (PS)
Antología
* Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
* Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)
* British Invasion, Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, & James A. Moore, eds. (Cemetery Dance)
* Apparitions, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow Publications)
* Exotic Gothic 3, Danel Olson, ed. (Ash Tree)
Los premios serán presentados en la Readercon 21 en Burlington, Massachusetts, del 8 a 11 de julio de 2010, por el invitado de honor Nalo Hopkinson.
Fuente: Locus. Aportado por Eduardo J. Carletti