Hello, wonderful horror readers! The This Is Horror Awards 2020 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2020’. 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
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Novella of the Year
- Crossroads by Laurel Hightower
- Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
- The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper
- True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik
- We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III
Short Story Collection of the Year
- Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan
- The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature by Christopher Slatsky
- Thin Places by Kay Chronister
- Velocities by Kathe Koja
- Wyrd and Other Derelictions by Adam Nevill
Anthology of the Year
- Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Zelda Knight and Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
- Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, edited by Ellen Datlow
- Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror, edited by Mark Matthews
- Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey
- Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror, edited by Samantha Kolesnik
Fiction Magazine of the Year
- Lightspeed Magazine
- Nightmare Magazine
- The Dark
- Uncanny Magazine
- Unnerving Magazine
Publisher of the Year
- Death’s Head Press
- Del Rey Books
- Silver Shamrock Publishing
- Undertow Publications
- Valancourt Books
Fiction Podcast of the Year
- Chilling Tales for Dark Nights
- Crypto-Z
- NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast
- The Other Stories (Hawk & Cleaver)
- Thirteen (Imaginary Comma)
Nonfiction Podcast of the Year
- Afro Horror
- Ghoulish
- Ink Heist
- Post Mortem with Mick Garris
- TheNecronomi.com
Cover Art of the Year
- Matthew Revert for Antioch by Jessica Leonard
- Mike Davis for grotesquerie by Richard Gavin
- Mikio Murakami for The Best of Both Worlds by S.P. Miskowski
- Stephen Mackey for Thin Places by Kay Chronister
- Todd Keisling for Arterial Bloom, edited by Mercedes M. Yardley
Voting closes at 12:01am BST on Saturday 22 May 2021.
