Hello, wonderful horror readers! The This Is Horror Awards 2019 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2019’. 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 that there is a tiebreaker for first place after the votes have been counted.
Here are the awards and nominations.
Novel of the Year
- Carnivorous Lunar Activities by Max Booth III
- The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read
- The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz
- The Reddening by Adam Nevill
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Novella of the Year
- Dear Laura by Gemma Amor
- In The Scrape by James Newman and Mark Steensland
- Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma
- The Half-Freaks by Nicole Cushing
- The Pale White by Chad Lutzke
Short Story Collection of the Year
- Out of Water by Sarah Read
- Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan
- Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro
- Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson
- Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud
Anthology of the Year
- Echoes, edited by Ellen Datlow
- Midnight in the Graveyard, edited by Kenneth W. Cain
- Nox Pareidolia, edited by Robert S. Wilson
- Pop The Clutch, edited by Eric J. Guignard
- The Twisted Book of Shadows, edited by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore
Fiction Magazine of the Year
- Black Static
- Dark Moon Digest
- Nightmare Magazine
- The Dark
- Vastarien: A Literary Journal
Publisher of the Year
- Crystal Lake Publishing
- Flame Tree Press
- Nightscape Press
- Raw Dog Screaming Press
- Silver Shamrock Publishing
Fiction Podcast of the Year
- Creepy Pod
- Tales to Terrify
- The Magnus Archives
- The NoSleep Podcast
- The Wicked Library
Nonfiction Podcast of the Year
- Bizzong
- Booked. Podcast
- Cosmic Shenanigans
- Ladies of the Fright
- The Horror Show with Brian Keene
Cover Art of the Year
- Ben Baldwin for Hollow Heart by Ben Eads
- Catrin Welz-Stein for This House of Wounds by Georgina Bruce
- Mikio Murakami for The Worst Is Yet to Come by S.P. Miskowski
- Sabercore Art for The Fearing: Book One Fire and Rain by John F.D. Taff
- Stephen Mackey for Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro
Voting closes at 12:01am BST on Saturday 30 May 2020.
