The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners of 2011 British Fantasy Awards and here they are…
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)
- Demon Dance, Sam Stone (The House of Murky Depths)
Best Novella
- Humpty’s Bones, Simon Clark (Telos)
Best Short Story
- “Fool’s Gold,” Sam Stone (The Bitten Word)
Best Collection
- Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Best Anthology
- Back From the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories, Johnny Mains, ed. (Noose & Gibbet)
Best Non-Fiction
- Vincent Chong, Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong (Telos)
Best Artist
- Vincent Chong
Best Small Press
- Telos Publishing; David J. Howe & Stephen James Walker
Best Magazine
- Black Static
Best Graphic Novel
- At the Mountains of Madness, I.N.J. Culbard (SelfMadeHero)
Karl Edward Wagner Special Award: Terry Pratchett
Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer: Robert Jackson Bennett, for Mr Shivers (Orbit)
There are also nominees and winners in film and television categories. Voting was open to all current members of the BFS, plus members of FantasyCon 2010 and FantasyCon 2011. Winners were announced at this year’s British Fantasy Convention, FantasyCon 2011, held September 30 – October 2 2011 at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, UK.