British Fantasy Award Explained

• The Bitter Twins, Jen Williams
• Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri
• Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Green Man's Heir, Juliet E. McKenna
• The Loosening Skin, Aliya Whiteley
• Priest of Bones, Peter McLean

• Little Eve, Catriona Ward
• The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul G. Tremblay
• The Way of the Worm, Ramsey Campbell
• Wolf's Hill, Simon Bestwick

• The Bone Ships, R. J. Barker
• The Migration, Helen Marshall
• The Poison Song, Jen Williams
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow

• The Reddening, Adam Nevill
  • The Institute, Stephen King The Migration, Helen Marshall
• Mistletoe, Alison Littlewood
• The Plague Stones, James Brogden

• The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow
• The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart
• By Force Alone, Lavie Tidhar
• The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
• Dark River, Rym Kechacha
• Threading the Labyrinth, Tiffani Angus

• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
• The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
• Plain Bad Heroines, Emily Danforth
• Survivor Song, Paul G. Tremblay

• She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
• The Black Coast, Mike Brooks
• The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri
• Sistersong, Lucy Holland
• This is Our Undoing, Lorraine Wilson
• The Unbroken, C.L. Clark

• The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward
• The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig
• A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed
• A Dowry of Blood, S.T. Gibson
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
• Nothing but Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw

• The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez*
• The Bone Orchard, Sara A. Mueller
  • Cast Long Shadows, Cat Hellisen Glitterati, Oliver K. Langmead
  • The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri Path of War, David Green

• Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey*
  • Full Immersion, Gemma Amor The Hollows, Daniel Church
• Miracle Growth, Tim Mendees

• Talonsister, Jen Williams, (Titan)
• A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon, (Bloomsbury)
• At Eternity’s Gates, David Green, (Eerie River Publishing)
• Beyond Sundered Seas, David Green, (Eerie River Publishing)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi, (Daw Books)

• Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones, (Titan)
• A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher, (Titan)
• Boys in the Valley, Philip Fracassi, (Orbit)
• How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix, (Titan)
• Looking Glass Sound, Catriona Ward, (Viper)
• One Life Left, David Green, (Eerie River Publishing)

• Masquerade, O.O. Sangoyomi, Forge Books
• The Green Man’s War, Juliet E. McKenna, Wizard's Tower Press
• Fathomfolk, Eliza Chan, Orbit Books
• Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan, Orbit Books
• A Shadow Over Haven, David Green, Eerie River Publishing

• My Darling Dreadful Thing, Johanna van Veen, Poisoned Pen Press
• Withered Hill, David Barnett – Canelo Horror
• The Ravening, Daniel Church, Angry Robot
• Among The Living, Tim Lebbon, Titan Books
• Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle, Titan Books
• Feast While You Can, Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, Simon & Schuster

• Strange Weather, Joe Hill
• Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
• Tanith by Choice, Tanith Lee
• Tender: Stories, Sofia Samatar
• You Will Grow into Them, Malcolm Devlin

• New Fears, ed. Mark Morris
• 2084, ed. George Sandison
• Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2, ed. Steve Shaw
• Imposter Syndrome, ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth
• Pacific Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir

• Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick
• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Grimdark Magazine, ed. Adrian Collins
• Interzone, ed. Andy Cox

• Unsung Stories
• Fox Spirit Books
• Grimbold Books
• NewCon Press
• Salt Publishing

• All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma
• The Future is Blue, Catherynne M Valente
• How Long 'til Black Future Month?, NK Jemisin
• Lost Objects, Marian Womack
• Octoberland, Thana Niveau
• Resonance & Revolt, Rosanne Rabinowitz

• Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5, ed. Robert Shearman & Michael Kelly
• The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, ed. Ellen Datlow
• Humanagerie, ed. Sarah Doyle & Allen Ashley
• New Fears 2, ed. Mark Morris
• This Dreaming Isle, ed. Dan Coxon

• Uncanny
• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Interzone, ed. Andy Cox
• Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick

• Unsung Stories
• Fox Spirit Books
• Luna Press
• NewCon Press

• Sing Your Sadness Deep, Laura Mauro
• The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams, Maura McHugh
• Growing Things, Paul G. Tremblay
• This House of Wounds, Georgina Bruce
• Of Wars, And Memories, And Starlight, Aliette de Bodard

• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color, ed. Nisi Shawl
• A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, ed. Jennifer Brozek
• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
• Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales, ed. David Gullen
• Wonderland, ed. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane
• The Woods, ed. Phil Sloman

• FIYAH, ed. DaVaun Sanders
• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox
• The Dark
• F&SF
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick

• Rebellion Publishing
• Aqueduct Press
• Black Shuck Books
• Luna Press
• NewCon Press
• Undertow Publications

• The Watcher in the Woods, Charlotte Bond
• Bloody Britain, Anna Taborska
• Only the Broken Remain, Dan Coxon
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark, Robert Shearman

• , ed. Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• After Sundown, ed. Mark Morris
• Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, ed. Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn
• Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, ed. Michael Kelly

• Strange Horizons
• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox
• The Dark
• FIYAH, ed. DaVaun Sanders
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick

• Luna Press
• Black Shuck Books
• Flame Tree Press
• Unsung Stories

• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap
• The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise
• I Spit Myself Out, Tracy Fahey
• The Museum for Forgetting, Pete W. Sutton
• We All Have Teeth, C.A. Yates

• Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, ed. Xueting C. Ni
• Dreamland: Other Stories, ed. Sophie Essex
• Out of the Darkness, ed. Dan Coxon
• There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, ed. Aaron J. French & Jess Landry
  • When Things Get Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

• Apex Magazine
• Anathema Magazine
• Black Static
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Interzone
• Shoreline of Infinity

• Luna Press Publishing
• Black Shuck Books
• Unsung Stories
• Wizard's Tower Press

• Under the Moon, E.M. Faulds
• Behind a Broken Smile, Penny Jones
  • Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw Candescent Blooms, Andrew Hook

• Someone in Time, ed. Jonathan Strahan
• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, ed. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight *The Book of Queer Saints, ed. Mae Murray
• Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana, ed. Steve J. Shaw
• Isolation: The Horror Anthology, ed. Dan Coxon
• Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer – Lee C. Conley, H.L. Tinsley, J.E. Hannaford, David Green, Derek Power, C. Marry Hultman, Damien Larkin and C.F. Welburn

• Interzone
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Shoreline of Infinity
• Strange Horizons

• Luna Press Publishing*
• Black Shuck Books
• Flame Tree Press
• NewCon Press

• Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic, Tobi Ogundiran, (Undertow Publications)
• A Curious Cartography, Alison Littlewood, (Black Shuck Books)
• No Happily Ever After, Phil Sloman
• No One Will Come Back for Us, Premee Mohamed, (Undertow Publications)
• The House on the Moon, Georgina Bruce, (Black Shuck Books)
• Under my Skin, K.J. Parker, (Subterranean Press)

• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, ed. Jordan Peele, (Picador)
• At the Lighthouse, ed. Sophie Essex, (Eibonvale Press)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, ed. Wole Talabi, (Android Press)
• Never Whistle at Night, ed. Shane Hawk, (Vintage)
• Something Peculiar: Great British Horror 8, ed. Steve J. Shaw, (Black Shuck Books)
• The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy, eds. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane, (Titan)

• Shoreline of Infinity
• Hellebore
• Interzone/IZ Digital
• khōréō
• Occult Detective Magazine

• Flame Tree Press
• Angry Robot
• Black Shuck Books
• Eibonvale Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• Newcon Press

• Elephants in Bloom, Cecile Cristofari – Newcon Press
• Dirt Upon My Skin, Steve Toase – Black Shuck Books
• Limelight and Other Stories, Lyndsey Croal – Shortwave Publishing
• Mood Swings, Dave Jeffery, Black Shuck Books
• Preaching To The Perverted, James Bennett – Lethe Press

• Bury Your Gays – An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, Sofia Ajram, Ghoulish Books
• Nova Scotia 2, Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson – Luna Press Publishing
• I Want That Twink Obliterated!, Trip Galey, C.L. McCartney, and Robert Berg, Bona Books
• Fight Like A Girl 2, Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall, Wizard's Tower Press
• Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology, Dan Coxon, PS Publishing
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2023), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighala, Caezik SF & Fantasy

• ParSec
• Phantasmagoria
• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Shoreline of Infinity

• Flame Tree Press
• Newcon Press
• Black Shuck Books
• Luna Press Publishing
• Swan River Press

• Widdershins, Vol. 7: Curtain Call, Kate Ashwin
• 100 Demon Dialogues, Lucy Bellwood
• B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 1, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Guy Davis, Tyler Crook & Dave Stewart
• Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories, Vol. 1, Mike Mignola et al.
• The Prisoner, Robert S Malan & John Cockshaw
• Saga #49-54, Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples

• Vince Haig
• David Rix
• Daniele Serra
• Sophie E Tallis

• , Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman
• Annihilation, Alex Garland
• , Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely
• Black Panther, Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole
• The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan
• Inside No. 9, series 4, Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith

• Breaking the Glass Slipper Podcast, Lucy Hounsom, Charlotte Bond, & Meghan Leigh
• Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (endoftheworldpodcast.com)
• Blood on Satan's Claw, by Mark Morris (Bafflegab)
• PodCastle (podcastle.org)
• PseudoPod (pseudopod.org)

• DIE, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans
• 2000AD, ed. Matt Smith
• Basketful of Heads #1, Joe Hill
• B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know, Vol. 3: Ragna Rok, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Laurence Campbell et al.
• DCeased #1-6, Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, Stefano Gaudiano et al.
• The Ozone Diary, Pentti Otsamo & Tero Mielonen

• Ben Baldwin
• Vince Haig
• Jackie Morris
• David Rix

• Us, Jordan Peele
• Game of Thrones: The Long Night – David Benioff & DB Weiss
• Watchmen: "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" (Season 1, Ep. 1), Damon Lindelof
• The Witcher: "Rare Species" (Season 1, Ep. 6), Haily Hall

• PodCastle
• Breaking the Glass Slipper
• PseudoPod
• Speculative Spaces

• DIE Vol. 2: Split the Party, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans
• The Daughters of Ys, Jo Rioux & M.T. Andersen
• John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe, Simon Spurrier & Aaron Campbell
• The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen
• Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious, Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel
• Venus in the Blind Spot, Junji Ito

• Daniele Serra
• Warwick Fraser-Coombe
• David Rix
• Vincent Sammy

• The Boys

"What I Know" (Season 2, Ep. 8), Rebecca Sonnenshine & Eric Kripke

• Birds of Prey, Christina Hodson & Cathy Yan
• The Haunting of Bly Manor

"The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" (Season 1, Ep. 8), Leah Fong & Axelle Carolyn

• The Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell
• The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers & Max Eggers
• Saint Maud, Rose Glass

• The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill
• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounson & Charlotte Bond
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists
• The Sandman, Dirk Maggs & Neil Gaiman
• Stellar Firma, Rusty Quill

• The Girl from the Sea, Lee Knox Ostertag
• 2000AD
• DIE Vol. 4, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans
• Djeliya, Juni Ba
• ExtraOrdinary, V.E. Schwab & Enid Balam
• Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming, Stan Sakai

• Jenni Coutts
• Olga Beliaeva
• Randy Broecker
• Alison Buck
• Vincent Sammy
• Daniele Serra

• Last Night in Soho
• Candyman
• Dune
• The Green Knight
• In the Earth
• Space Sweepers

• Monstrous Agonies, H. R. Owen
• Breaking the Glass Slipper, Megan Leigh, Lucy Hounsom & Charlotte Bond
• Daughter of Fire and Water, Lyndsey Croal
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists

• Vince Haig
• Chris Baker (Fangorn)
• Ben Baldwin
• Jenni Coutts
• Dan Hillier

• The Stranger Times, C.K. McDonnell
• Breaking the Glass Slipper
• The Painkiller Podcast
• PodCastle, Escape Artists
• PseudoPod, Escape Artists
• The Secret of St. Kilda, Michael Ireland & Naomi Clarke

• Asya Yordonova
• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• David Rix

• The Tiny Bookcase, Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell
• Cast of Wonders (Escape Artists)
• The Penumbra Podcast, Harley Takagi Kaner, Kevin Vibert, Ginny D’Angelo, Alice C. LeBeau, Noah Simes
• PodCastle (Escape Artists)
• PseudoPod (Escape Artists)
• Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)

• Kelly Chong
• Jenni Coutts
• Greg Chapman
• L.N. Bayen

• Breaking the Glass Slipper
• PodCastle
• The Tiny Bookcase
• Pseudopod

• Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. FT Barbini
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Luminescent Threads, ed. Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal
• No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, by Ursula K Le Guin
• Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction, by Grady Hendrix
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, by Maura McHugh

• Jeannette Ng, for Under the Pendulum Sun (Angry Robot)
• R. J. Barker, for Age of Assassins (Orbit)
• SA Chakraborty, for The City of Brass (HarperVoyager)
• Ed McDonald, for Blackwing (Orion)
• Anna Smith Spark, for The Court of Broken Knives (HarperVoyager)

• Noise and Sparks, by Ruth EJ Booth (Shoreline of Infinity)
• The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Full Lid, by Alasdair Stuart (alasdairstuart.com/the-full-lid)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror (www.gingernutsofhorror.com)
• Les Vampires, by Tim Major (PS Publishing)

• Tasha Suri, for Empire of Sand (Orbit)
• Tomi Adeyemi, for The Children of Blood and Bone (Macmillan Children's Books)
• Cameron Johnston, for The Traitor God (Angry Robot)
• RF Kuang, for The Poppy War (HarperVoyager)
• Marian Womack, for Lost Objects (Luna Press Publishing)
• Micah Yongo, for Lost Gods (Angry Robot)

• The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
• Coffinmaker's Blues: Collected Writings on Terror, by Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
• The Full Lid, by Alasdair Stuart
• Joanna Russ (Modern Masters of SF), by Gwyneth Jones (University of Illinois Press)
• Notes from the Borderland, by Lynda E Rucker, for Black Static (TTA Press)
• The Pleasant Profession of Robert E Heinlein, by Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, for The Water Dancer (Penguin)
• Alix E. Harrow, for The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Orbit)
• Penny Jones, for Suffer Little Children (Black Shuck Books)
• Tamsyn Muir, for Gideon the Ninth (Tordotcom)
• Nina Oram, for The Joining (Luna Press)

• Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, ed. Alison Peirse (Rutgers University Press)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?, Adam Roberts (Elliot & Thompson)
• Notes from the Borderland, Lynda E. Rucker (in "Black Static", TTA Press)
• Ties that Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T Barbini (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest, Paul Kincaid (Gylphi Limited)

• Kathleen Jennings, for Flyaway (Tordotcom)
• Tiffani Angus, for Threading the Labyrinth (Unsung Stories)
• Dan Coxon, for Green Fingers & Only the Broken Remain (Black Shuck Books)
• Sean Hogan, for England's Screaming (PS Publishing) & Three Mothers, One Father (Black Shuck Books)
• Simon Jimenez, for The Vanished Birds (Titan)
• Rym Kechacha, for Dark River (Unsung Stories)

• Alasdair Stuart

• Writing the Uncanny, ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst
• After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin, Thomas Connolly
• Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985, ed. Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim Mcleod
• Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T. Barbini

• Shelley Parker-Chan, for She Who Became the Sun
• J.T. Greathouse, for The Hand of the Sun King
• Ian Green, for The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath
• Lorraine Wilson, for This is Our Undoing
• C.A. Yates, for We All Have Teeth

• Maureen K. Speller

• An Earnest Blackness, Eugen Bacon*
• Fantasy: How it Works, Brian Attebery
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• My Life in Horror, Vol. 2, Kit Power
• Outlander and the Real Jacobites, Shona Kinsella
• Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, Rob Wilkins

• Hiron Ennes, for Leech
• Sunyi Dean, for The Book Eaters
• Somto Ihezue, for a collection of short stories: Whole; Like Stars Daring to Shine; A Girl is Blood, Spirit and Fire; The Carving of War
• Shauna Lawless, for The Children of Gods and Fighting Men
• Elijah Kinch Spector, for Kalyna the Soothsayer
• Susan York, for Starless and Bible Black

• Ann Landmann

• Writing the Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst (Dead Ink)
• Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts, Delyth Badder & Mark Norman (Calon)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner

• Teika Marija Smits, for "Umbilical" (Newcon Press) & "Waterlore" (Black Shuck Books)
• Moniquill Blackgoose, for "To Shape a Dragon’s Breath" (Del Ray)
• Vajra Chandrasekera, for "The Saint of Bright Doors" (Tordotcom)
• Hannah Kaner, for "Godkiller" (HarperVoyager)
• Charlotte Langtree, for "Fractured: Tales of Flame and Fury" (Clarendon House Publications)
• Em X. Liu, for "The Death I Gave Him" (Solaris)

• Ramsey Campbell

• Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters, Sacha Coward, Unbound
• Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2: A Beginner's Guide to Writing More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan, Luna Press
• Autism and Writing, David Green, BFS Blog
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, edited by Marguerite Kenner
• Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum, Briardene Books
• Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales: A Case Study and Ideological Approach (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities), Juwen Zhang, Lexington Books

• Frances White, Voyage of the Damned, Penguin Michael Joseph
• Eliza Chan, Fathomfolk, Orbit
• Lyndsey Croal, Limelight and Other Stories, Shortwave Publishing
• L N Bayen, Wingspan of Treason, Bregma Publishing
• J.L. Odom, By Blood, By Salt, Azimuth
• Adrian M Gibson, Mushroom Blues

• Rosemary Pardoe