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Edition 8 (2014)

NovelNovellaNoveletteShort StorySingle-Author CollectionEdited AnthologyBoard of Directors Award

Winners

6 people
Ellen Datlow Winner

An anthology of contemporary horror and dark fantasy assembled by Ellen Datlow, bringing together many voices that range from curses and folklore to uncanny dread and strange beauty.

An anthology of contemporary horror and dark fantasy assembled by Ellen Datlow, bringing together many voices that range from curses and folklore to uncanny dread and strange beauty.

400 pages
anthologyhorrorshort fictiondark fantasy

A science-fiction horror novel about the twelfth expedition into Area X, where four women encounter a landscape that distorts perception, identity, and the natural world.

A science-fiction horror novel about the twelfth expedition into Area X, where four women encounter a landscape that distorts perception, identity, and the natural world.

208 pages
science fiction horrorecological fantasythe unknownexpedition
Daryl Gregory Winner

Five survivors of supernatural trauma meet again in a support group and are forced to confront the unseen wounds and a new, undefined terror.

A sharp, unsettling novella about what happens after surviving the impossible.

192 pages
horrornovellatraumasurvivors
Dale Bailey Winner

A collection of dark and uncanny stories that finds fragile human feeling inside visions of collapse, menace, and strange beauty.

Stories of collapse and uncanny dread that still leave room for human feeling.

227 pages
short fictionhorrordark fantasyapocalypse

“The Dogs Home” is confirmed as an anthology piece, but no separate book edition could be verified.

No standalone book edition could be verified, so it is treated as an anthology story.

short storyanthologyhorrorweird fiction

A short story collection that weaves loss, inheritance, family memory, and uncanny imagery into a lyrical yet unsettling whole.

A lyrical and unsettling collection about family, memory, and the uncanny.

360 pages
short fictionweird fictionfamilymemory