It’s that time of year again, friends. The This Is Horror Awards 2015 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2015’. To cast a vote simply write the category and your vote for each award. You may vote for your top two in each category. For example:
Award
1. First choice
2. Second choice
This is in place in the event there is a tie breaker for first place after the votes have been counted.
Here are the awards and nominations.
Novel of the Year
- A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
- Brother by Ania Ahlborn
- Lost Girl by Adam Nevill
- Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Novella of the Year
Short Story Collection of the Year
- Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
- Probably Monsters by Ray Cluley
- Sing Me Your Scars by Damien Angelica Walters
- The Nameless Dark by T.E. Grau
- Vile Men by Rebecca Jones-Howe
- Voices of the Damned by Barbie Wilde
Anthology of the Year
- Aickman’s Heirs, edited by Simon Strantzas
- Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good, co-edited by H. L. Nelson and Joanne Merriam
- Cthulhu Fhtagn!, edited by Ross E. Lockhart
- Exigencies: A Neo-Noir Anthology, edited by Richard Thomas
- Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan, edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington
- The Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow
Fiction Magazine of the Year
Publisher of the Year
- ChiZine Publications
- Crystal Lake Publishing
- DarkFuse
- Dark House Press
- Lazy Fascist Press
- Word Horde
Podcast of the Year
- Arm Cast Podcast
- Booked. Podcast
- Horror News Radio
- The Horror Show with Brian Keene
- The Last Knock
- The Outer Dark
Film of the Year
TV Show of the Year
- American Horror Story: Freak Show
- Bates Motel (Season Three)
- From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (Season Two)
- Hannibal (Season Three)
- Penny Dreadful (Season Two)
- The Walking Dead (Season Five)
Artist of the Year
Voting closes at 12:01am GMT on Monday 25 January 2016.