2016 World Fantasy Award Nominees

(Via Tor.com)

Below are the nominees for the 2016 World Fantasy Awards. Congratulations to all of the finalists!

Novel

• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf/Faber & Faber)
• N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season (Orbit)
• Naomi Novik, Uprooted (Del Rey Books/Macmillan UK)
• K. J. Parker, Savages (Subterranean Press)
• Anna Smaill, The Chimes (Sceptre)
• Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow & Co.)

Long Fiction

• Kelly Barnhill, The Unlicensed Magician (PS Publishing)
• Usman T. Malik, “The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn” (Tor.com, Apr. 22, 2015)
• Kim Newman, “Guignol” (Horrorology, edited by Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books)
• Kelly Robson, “Waters of Versailles” (Tor.com, June 10, 2015)
• Bud Webster, “Farewell Blues” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2015)

Short Fiction

• Selena Chambers, “The Neurastheniac” (Cassilda’s Song, ed. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Chaosium Inc)
• Amal El-Mohtar, “Pockets” (Uncanny Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2015)
• Sam J. Miller, “The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History” (Uncanny Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2015)
• Tamsyn Muir, “The Deepwater Bride” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/Aug. 2015)
• Alyssa Wong, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” (Nightmare magazine, Oct. 2015)

Anthology

• Ellen Datlow, ed., The Doll Collection (Tor Books)
• S. T. Joshi, ed., Black Wings IV: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (PS Publishing)
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, eds., She Walks in Shadows (Innsmouth Free Press)
• Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed., Cassilda’s Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chambers’ King in Yellow Mythos (Chaosium Inc.)
• Simon Strantzas, ed., Aickman’s Heirs (Undertow Publications)

Collection

• C. S. E. Cooney, Bone Swans (Mythic Delirium Books)
• Leena Krohn, Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction (Cheeky Frawg Books)
• V. H. Leslie, Skein and Bone (Undertow Publications)
• Kelly Link, Get in Trouble (Random House)
• James Morrow, Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow (Wesleyan University Press)
• Mary Rickert, You Have Never Been Here (Small Beer Press)

Artist

• Richard Anderson
• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Kathleen Jennings
• Thomas S. Kuebler

Special Award – Professional

• Neil Gaiman, Dave Stewart, and J. H. Williams III, The Sandman: Overture (Vertigo)
• Stephen Jones, for The Art of Horror (Applause Theatre Book & Cinema Book Publishers)
• Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons, The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series (Tor Books)
• Joe Monti, for contributions to the genre
• Heather J. Wood, for Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary (Stone Skin Press)

Special Award – Nonprofessional

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Jedediah Berry and Eben Kling, for The Family Arcana: A Story in Cards (Ninepin Press)
• John O’Neill, for Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature
• Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein, for Letters to Tiptree (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine
• Helen Young, for Tales After Tolkien Society