2025 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners
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The winners of the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction were announced Saturday, July 11, 2026 at Readercon 35 in Burlington MA, hosted by Readercon guests of honor P. Djèlí Clark and David Gerrold. Novel WINNER: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square) Old Soul, Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam's Sons) How to …Read More The post 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners appeared first on Locus.
The winners of the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction were announced Saturday, July 11, 2026 at Readercon 35 in Burlington MA, hosted by Readercon guests of honor P. Djèlí Clark and David Gerrold.
Novel
WINNER: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square)
Old Soul, Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
How to Fake a Haunting, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
The Lamb, Lucy Rose (HarperCollins)
Novella
WINNER: The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
The Glass Garden, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
The Cold House, A.G. Slatter (Titan)
DuMort, Michelle Tang (Ghost Orchid)
Novelette
WINNER: “Emily”, Vanessa Santos (Make a Home of Me)
Letter Slot, Owen King (Amazon Original Stories)
“The Severity of Things”, Mo Moshaty (Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment)
“The Millay Illusion”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
The Confirmed Bachelors, Stephen Volk (Black Shuck)
Short Fiction
WINNER: “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)
“Room 24”, Caroline Kepnes (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
“Lapse”, Kirsty Logan (Unquiet Guests)
“Silver Boots”, Donna Lynch (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror)
“Mother’s Mother’s Daughter”, Audrey Zhou (Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)
Single-Author Collection
WINNER: Issues with Authority, Nadia Bulkin (Ghoulish)
Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment, Mo Moshaty (Tenebrous)
Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell (Alfred A. Knopf)
Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski (Simon & Schuster)
Edited Anthology
WINNER (TIE): Unquiet Guests, Dan Coxon, ed. (Dead Ink)
WINNER (TIE): Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
Roots of My Fears, Gemma Amor, ed. (Titan)
Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
Were Wolf Short Stories, Catherine Taylor, Nick Wells & Gillian Whitaker, eds. (Flame Tree)
For more information, see the award website.
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