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Edition 14 (2020)

NovelNovellaNoveletteShort StorySingle-Author CollectionEdited AnthologyBoard of Directors Award

Winners

7 people
Lee Murray Winner
Geneve Flynn Winner

A horror novel in which four Native American men are caught in a supernatural reckoning tied to something they did years ago. It explores cultural identity, guilt, and collective memory.

The past returns in the shape of a curse for four men who thought they had moved on.

336 pages
horrorNative identityrevengeguiltmemory

A short novella set around an attic where hidden pasts and family secrets come to the surface. It turns an ordinary world unsettling by degrees.

Secrets and longing seep slowly into the air of the attic.

68 pages
familysecretsghostsfriendshipunease

A novella built around mannequins and anonymity. Through a warped urban landscape and flashes of violence, it turns fear into social unease.

One prank becomes something far more irreversible and terrifying.

136 pages
horroradolescencepranksviolencemutation
R. A. Busby Winner

A short story about marriage and shifting identity. The gap between trust and expectation gradually turns into terror.

A small mismatch in a relationship slowly draws the outline of horror.

marriageidentityshort fictionuneasetransformation
Kathe Koja Winner

A collection of Kathe Koja stories in which cracks in ordinary life meet the supernatural. The pieces move through dread, desire, and drift.

A strange, dense collection in which the edges of ordinary life keep sliding out of place.

145 pages
short fictionhorrorchangethe bodyunease