This year the 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented at ReaderCon 23 which will be held on July 12-15, 2011 at the Burlington Marriott Hotel in Burlington, Massachusetts.
The Award Ceremony will be Sunday morning, July 15, 2011. The host for this year’s awards are Peter Straub and Caitlin R. Kiernan.
Best Novella
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“And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living”Author: Biancotti, Deborah |
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Nominated for the 2007 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella This novella collection is powerful, sexy and very, very deadly. The Five Loves of Ishtar by Kaaron Warren Follow the path that the goddess Ishtar takes through the eyes of her most devoted worshippers, her washerwomen. Sharokin, Atur, Ninlil, Shamiran, Ninevah and Ashurina share in their goddess’ loves, losses and triumphs, as kingdoms rise and fall in the Land of Rivers. And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living by Deborah Biancotti In modern-day Sydney, male prostitutes are dying. Their bones have turned to paste and their bodies are jelly. As Detective Adrienne Garner investigates the deaths, she finds rumours of strange cults and old gods whose powers threaten her city and, ultimately, her world. The Sleeping and the Dead by Cat Sparks Dr. Anna remembers little of her life before the war, merely traces of the man she used to love. When three desperate travellers rekindle slumbering memories, she begins a search that takes her to Hell and beyond. A search for love and, ultimately, enlightenment. Table of Contents:
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“A Child’s Problem”Author: Oliver, Reggie |
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Nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella Open this book at your own peril! That is because this volume is exactly what it says on the cover — A Book of Horrors contains all-original stories by some of the most successful and exciting names in modern horror fiction. For the first time in many years, here is an original anthology of horror and dark fantasy in all its many and magnificent guises — from classic pulp-style tales of Dark and Stormy Nights, through more contemporary and psychological terrors, to the type of cutting-edge fiction that only the very best horror fiction can deliver. Brought together from around the world by World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and experienced anthologists of horror fiction, here are many of the authors who have helped shaped the genre in all of its forms, along with terrifying tales of unease by a new generation of storytellers devoted to the Dark Side. But be warned: once you begin to delve within these pages, your imagination and senses will be assaulted by terrors both grim and gruesome, literary and lethal, that will stay with you long after you have closed its covers and tried to put aside the images and situations which have wormed their way deep within your mind. Don’t blame us for the bad dreams or cold sweats that these tales will induce. We did tell you — this is A Book of Horrors, and once you open it there is no way that these scarifying stories will ever be forgotten . . . no matter how much you wish that the nightmares will just go away! Table of Contents:
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“Displacement”Author: Marano, Michael |
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Nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella Stories from the Plague Years is the first fiction collection from award-winning fantasy author Michael Marano. Nine tales are arranged in a haunting symphony that guides readers through a tour of the darkest landscapes of human existence. Here, fury and hate grow so strong, they cannot be held within one man’s body, and manifest themselves to devastating effect. Cities contain second, unseen cities populated by the vengeful ghosts of those who died too soon. Countries fall to famine and war. But these are also the tales of love lasting beyond death, love existing beyond all hope, and friendships never forgotten. Included are the widely praised stories “Winter Requiem,” “The Siege,” and the controversial “Burden,” as well as two original novellas. Marano, acclaimed for his evocative voice, paints lush portraits both terrifying and tender, injecting even the darkest of fantasies with a punk rock sensibility and a touch of the humane. With Stories from the Plague Years, he presents snapshots of a time when our world collided with evil, sickness, and self-destruction and left behind lasting scars on those who dared to survive. Table of Contents:
Days of Rage
Prayers for Dead Cities
Two for Marian
Winter Tales
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The Men Upstairs (2012 Delirium Book Club #3)Author: Waggoner, Tim |
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He finds her crying in the lobby of a movie theater and takes her home to his apartment. She’s a strange, beautiful woman with no last name, a mysterious past, and a powerful sexual allure. He wants her, and she wants him. There’s only one problem: the Men Upstairs. She used to belong to them — and they’ll do anything to get her back. |
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“Near Zennor”Author: Hand, Elizabeth |
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Nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella Open this book at your own peril! That is because this volume is exactly what it says on the cover — A Book of Horrors contains all-original stories by some of the most successful and exciting names in modern horror fiction. For the first time in many years, here is an original anthology of horror and dark fantasy in all its many and magnificent guises — from classic pulp-style tales of Dark and Stormy Nights, through more contemporary and psychological terrors, to the type of cutting-edge fiction that only the very best horror fiction can deliver. Brought together from around the world by World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and experienced anthologists of horror fiction, here are many of the authors who have helped shaped the genre in all of its forms, along with terrifying tales of unease by a new generation of storytellers devoted to the Dark Side. But be warned: once you begin to delve within these pages, your imagination and senses will be assaulted by terrors both grim and gruesome, literary and lethal, that will stay with you long after you have closed its covers and tried to put aside the images and situations which have wormed their way deep within your mind. Don’t blame us for the bad dreams or cold sweats that these tales will induce. We did tell you — this is A Book of Horrors, and once you open it there is no way that these scarifying stories will ever be forgotten . . . no matter how much you wish that the nightmares will just go away! Table of Contents:
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“Rose Street Attractors”Author: Shepard, Lucius |
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Nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear! Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still. Table of Contents:
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February 2012 (Trade Paperback — Gilgamesh Press)
November 2011 (NOOK Book — Gilgamesh Press)
November 2011 (eBook — Gilgamesh Press)
May 2012 (Limited Edition Hardcover — Cemetery Dance/PS Publishing)
- The 2011 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Novel
- The 2011 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Novella
- The 2011 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Novelette
- The 2011 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Short Story
- The 2011 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Single-Author Collection
- The 2011 Shirley Jackson Award Nominations for Best Edited Anthology
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