Shirley Jackson Awards しゃーりー・じゃくそんしょう
Edition 11 (2017)
Winners
7 peopleAn anthology of short horror fiction by a range of writers. It spans classical gothic moods to contemporary psychological dread, showing how many forms fear can take.
Fear speaks in many voices, not just one.
A novel in which a family’s ordinary life begins to unravel after a small incident, turning bodily change and unstable memory into psychological horror. Its quiet style draws terror out of everyday cracks.
The smallest tear in everyday life becomes a doorway to terror.
A short story that uses the image of the road home to trace family rupture and estrangement. Movement and shifting memory turn it into a meditation on where the self belongs.
The road home becomes a way of measuring distance from family and self.
An experimental novella about the loss at the center of mother-daughter relations and the fractures of a community. Fragmented viewpoints and uncertain narration probe the boundary between loss and renewal.
Fragmented narration slowly brings the shape of loss into view.
A psychological horror novel built from unsettling dialogue and fragmentary recollection. Concerns about a child’s health, environmental danger, and parent-child anxiety gradually come into focus, leaving a strong aftershock.
Fragmented conversation alone is enough to keep the tension climbing.
A short horror story in which an orange ball slips into a town and lets unease spread through the gaps in ordinary life.
An eerie short story in which a single impossible object unsettles an entire town.
A short story collection that moves through desire, violence, and horror, finding moments where intimacy and dread sit side by side.
A sharp and unsettling collection in which the body becomes a stage for fear and desire.