The Shirley
Jackson Award nominations have been announced with James Morrow’s
provocative THE
ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI receiving nomination for best novella. Frequent Tachyon editor Ellen Datlow and THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY contributor Carmen Maria Machado were also honored.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

NOVEL

• Ill
  Will,
  Dan Chaon (Ballantine Books)
• The
  Bone Mother,
  David Demchuk (ChiZine Publications)
• The
  Changeling,
  Victor Lavalle (Spiegel & Grau)
• The
  Hole,
  Hye-young Pyun (Arcade Publishing)
• The
  Night Ocean,
  Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)

NOVELLA

• Fever
  Dream,
  Samantha Schweblin (Riverhead Books)
• Mapping
  the Interior,
  Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
• THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI ,
  James Morrow (Tachyon Publications LLC)
• The
  Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion,
  Margaret Killjoy (Tor.com)
• The
  Lost Daughter Collective,
  Lindsey Drager (Dzanc Books)
• The
  Murders of Molly Southbourne,
  Tade Thompson (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE

• “Take
  the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street,” Chavisa Woods
  (Things
  to Do When You’re Goth in the Country)
• “The
  Resident,” Carmen Maria Machado (Her
  Body and Other Parties)
• “Sun
  Dogs,” Laura Mauro (Shadows
  and Tall Trees Volume 7)
• “The
  West Topeka Triangle,” Jeremiah Tolbert (Lightspeed
  Magazine)
• “You
  Will Always Have Family: A Triptych,” Kathleen Kayembe (Nightmare
  Magazine)  

SHORT
FICTION

• “Blur,”
  Carmen Maria Machado (Tin
  House,
  issue 72, Summer 2017)
• “Live
  Through This,” Nadia Bulkin (Looming
  Low)
• “The
  Convexity of Our Youth,” Kurt Fawver (Looming
  Low)
• “The
  Mouse Queen,” Camilla Grudova (The
  Doll’s Alphabet)
• “The
  Second Door,” Brian Evenson (Looming
  Low)

SINGLE-AUTHOR
COLLECTION

• Her
  Body and Other Parties,
  Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
• She
  Said Destroy,
  Nadia Bulkin (Word Horde)
• The
  Dark Dark,
  Samantha Hunt (FSG Originals)
• The
  Doll’s Alphabet,
  Camilla Grudova (Coffee House Press)
• Things
  to Do When You’re Goth in the Country,
  Chavisa Woods (Seven Stories Press)

EDITED
ANTHOLOGY

• Black
  Feathers: Dark Avian Tales,
  edited by Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
• The
  Djinn Falls in Love,
  edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Rebellion Publishing /
  Solaris Books)
• Looming
  Low,
  edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan (Dim Shores)
• Shadows
  and Tall Trees Volume 7,
  edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
• Tales
  From a Talking Board,
  edited by Ross E. Lockhart (Word Horde)

For more info on THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story