The 2013 World Fantasy Awards

The 2013 World Fantasy Awards Final Ballot nominees have been announced:

NOVEL

• The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu)
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
  

NOVELLA

• ‘‘Hand of Glory’’, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
• ‘‘Let Maps to Others’’, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer 2012)
• “The Emperor’s Soul”, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)
• ‘‘The Skull’’, Lucius Shepard (The Dragon Griaule)
• ‘‘Sky’’, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)

SHORT FICTION

• ‘‘The Telling’’, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
• ‘‘A Natural History of Autumn’’, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
• ‘‘The Castle That Jack Built’’, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
• ‘‘Breaking the Frame’’, Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
• ‘‘Swift, Brutal Retaliation’’, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12) 

ANTHOLOGY

• Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
• Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer)
• Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
• Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)
• Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)
  
  COLLECTION
• At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
• Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
• The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
• Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
• Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)

ARTIST

• Vincent Chong
• Didier Graffet & Dave Senior
• Kathleen Jennings
• J.K. Potter
• Chris Roberts
  

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Peter Crowther & Nicky Crowther for PS Publishing
• Lucia Graves for the translation of The Prisoner of Heaven (Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Harper) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Adam Mills, Ann VanderMeer, & Jeff VanderMeer for Weird Fiction Review website
• Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi for ChiZine Publications
• William K. Schafer for Subterranean Press

SPECIAL AWARD - NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Scott H. Andrews for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• L. Timmel Duchamp for Aqueduct Press
• S.T. Joshi for Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2 (PS Publishing)
• Charles A. Tan for Bibliophile Stalker blog
• Jerad Walters for Centipede Press
• Joseph Wrzos for Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (Centipede Press)

 Award already announced: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Susan Cooper
• Tanith Lee