Here are the finalists for the 2024 World Fantasy Award
Some of the best works of fantasy from the last year
This year's World Fantasy Convention is its 50th, and last week, the con announced the finalists for the annual World Fantasy Award. This year's convention will be held between October 17th and 20th, 2024 in Niagara Falls, NY.
Here are the winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards
An excellent set of winners from a convention that seems to have gone off with few issues
The awards have been handed out annually since 1975, and are amongst the highest honors in the fantasy and horror genres, alongside the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Here are the finalists for this year's award:
Best Novel
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love
- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
- Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
- Witch King by Martha Wells
Best Novella
- The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
- Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
- “Prince Hat Underground” by Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
- “Half the House Is Haunted” by Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)
- A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
- Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
Best Short Fiction
- “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark
(Uncanny 1-2/23) - “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont” by P. A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)
- “John Hollowback and the Witch” by Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
- “Waystation City” by A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 1-2/23)
- “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
- “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” by Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)
Best Anthology
- Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow
- Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One edited by Stephen Kotowych
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 edited by R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams
- Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams
- The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan
Best Collection
- The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2 by Peter S. Beagle
- The Fortunate Isles by Lisa L. Hannett
- White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
- No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed
- Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran
- Jewel Box by E. Lily Yu
Best Artist
- Audrey Benjaminsen
- Rovina Cai
- Stefan Koidl
- Charles Vess
- Alyssa Winans
Special Award – Professional
- Bill Campbell, for Rosarium Books
- E. M. Carroll, for A Guest in the House
- M. John Harrison, for Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir
- Stephen Jones, for The Weird Tales Boys
- Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus
Special Award – Non-Professional
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Trevor Kennedy, for Phantasmagoria
- Brian J. Showers, for Swan River Press
- Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
- Julian Yap & Fran Wilde, for The Sunday Morning Transport
Lifetime Achievement
- Ginjer Buchanan
- Jo Fletcher
What are your picks from this list?