Hello, wonderful horror readers! It has been a long time coming but the This Is Horror Awards 2021 are now open. Please send your votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the subject line ‘Awards 2021. 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
- My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
- Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper
- Red X by David Demchuk
- Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
- This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
Novella of the Year
- Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
- Goddess of Filth by V. Castro
- Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
- Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
- Waif by Samantha Kolesnik
Short Story Collection of the Year
- Beneath a Pale Sky by Philip Fracassi
- Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons by Keith Rosson
- In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files
- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
- The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise
Anthology of the Year
- Lost Contact, edited by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle
- Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, edited by Eric J. Guignard
- The Bad Book, edited by John F.D. Taff
- There is No Death, There are No Dead, edited by Aaron J. French and Jess Landry
- When Things Get Dark, edited by Ellen Datlow
Fiction Magazine of the Year
- Apex Magazine
- Fantasy Magazine
- Lamplight Magazine
- Nightmare Magazine
- The Dark
Publisher of the Year
- Clash Books
- Grimscribe Press
- Meerkat Press
- Titan Books
- Tor Nightfire
Fiction Podcast of the Year
- Bridgewater by Grim & Mild
- Old Gods of Appalachia
- The Silt Verses
- The Wicked Library
- WE’RE NOT MEANT TO KNOW
Nonfiction Podcast of the Year
- Against Everyone with Conner Habib
- Cursed Morsels
- Dead Headspace
- Talking Scared
- The Kingcast
Voting closes at 12:01am BST on Saturday 7 January 2023.
