The 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 11th 2010, at Readercon 21, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Here’s a list of the winners:
Novel
Big Machine, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau)
Finalists:
- Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland Press)
- The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
- The Owl Killers, Karen Maitland (Delacorte Press)
- The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
- White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Nan A. Talese)
Novella
Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca (Word Riot Press)
Finalists:
- The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough, (PS Publishing)
- “Sea-Hearts,” Margo Lanagan (X6, coeur de lion)
- Shrike, Quentin S. Crisp (PS Publishing)
- Vardøger, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar Press)
- The Witnesses are Gone, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
Novelette
“Morality,” Stephen King (Esquire)
Finalists:
- “Catch Hell,” Laird Barron (Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse)
- “Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death,” Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, (Clockwork Phoenix 2, Norilana Books)
- “Lonegan’s Luck,” Stephen Graham Jones (New Genre 6)
- The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS Publishing)
Short Story
“The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse 3, Night Shade)
Finalists:
- “The Crevasse,” by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud (Lovecraft Unbound, Dark Horse)
- “Faces,” Aimee Bender (The Paris Review, Issue 191, Winter 2009)
- “The Jacaranda Smile,” Gemma Files (Apparitions, Undertow Publications)
- “Procedure in Plain Air,” Jonathan Lethem (The New Yorker, April 5, 2010)
- “Strappado,” Laird Barron (Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Solaris)
Single-Author Collection (Two Winners)
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson (Harper Perennial)
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish Productions)
Finalists:
- Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS Publishing)
- Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
- Zoo, Otsuichi (Haikasoru/VIZ Media)
Edited Anthology
Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
Finalists:
- Apparitions, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
- British Invasion, edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore (Cemetery Dance)
- Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, edited by Danel Olson (Ash Tree Press)
- Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
