The finalists for the 2024 World Fantasy Awards, given for works published in 2023, have been announced! The awards will be presented at the 2024 World Fantasy Convention, taking place October 17-20 in Niagara Falls, New York. The Life Achievement Awards, given to individuals who have “made outstanding contributions to the fantasy field,” go to Ginjer Buchanan and Jo Fletcher.

This year’s judges are Douglas A. Anderson, Stephanie Feldman, Pat Murphy, Thomas Olde Heuvelt and Angela Slatter.

Congratulations to everyone!

Best Novel

• The reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
• The possibilities, Yael Goldstein-Love (Random House)
• Starling HouseAlix E. Harrow (Goal; Goal UK)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of ObalufonWole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
• Mirror glass soundCatriona Ward (Viper; Nightfire)
• Witch KingMartha Wells (Tordotcom)

Best Novella

• The Crane HusbandKelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
• Thorn hedgeT. Kingfisher (Goal; Titan UK)
• “Prince Hat Underground,” Kelly Link (White cat, black dog)
• “Half the House is Cursed”, Josh Malerman (Spin a black yarn)
• A time of monstrous ideasLina Rather (Tordotcom)
• Mammoths at the gatesNghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Best Short Story

• “How to Raise an Octopus in the Bathtub”, P. Djèlí Clark (Scary 1-2/23)
• “Once Upon a Time at Oakmont”, PA Cornell (fantasy 23.10.)
• “John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
• “Waystation City”, AT Greenblatt (Scary 1-2/23)
• “The Sound of Screaming Children”, Rachael K. Jones (nightmare 23.10.)
• “Silk and cotton and linen and blood”, Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)

Best Anthology

• Christmas and other horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK)
• The best Canadian fantasy and science fiction literature of the year: Volume 1Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
• The best American science fiction and fantasy 2023RF Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black HorrorJordan Peele and John Joseph Adams (eds.) (Random House; Picador)
• The Book of WitchesJonathan Strahan, editor (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

Best Collection

• The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 and 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• The Happy IslandsLisa L. Hannett (Egaeus)
• White cat, black dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)
• No one will come back for us and other storiesPremee Mohamed (Undercurrent)
• Jackal, JackalTobi Ogundiran (Undercurrent)
• Jewelry boxE. Lily Yu (Erewhon)

Best Artist

• Audrey Benjaminson
• Rovina Cai
• Stefan Koidl
• Charles Vess
• Alyssa Winans

Special price – Professional

• Bill Campbell, for Rosarium Books
• EM Carroll, for A guest in the house (First second)
• M. John Harrison, for I wish I were here: An anti-memory (Snake Tail; Saga; 24.9.)
• Stephen Jones, for The Weird Tales Boys (PS)
• Liza Groen Trombi, for Location

Special price – non-professional

• Scott H. Andrews, for Under endless skies
• Trevor Kennedy, for Phantasmagoria
• Brian J. Showers, for Swan River Press
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Scary
• Julian Yap and Fran Wilde, for The Sunday morning transport