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British Fantasy Awards: winners & nominees

Presented by the British Fantasy Society since 1971, including the Robert Holdstock Award for fantasy novel and the August Derleth Award for horror novel.

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British Fantasy Awards 2024

🏆Don't Fear the Reaper — Stephen Graham Jones· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror· Best Anthology
🏆Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror — Jordan Peele· Best Anthology
🏆Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror — John Joseph Adams· Best Anthology
🏆Jackal, Jackal — Tobi Ogundiran· Best Collection
🏆The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar — Indrapramit Das· Best Novella
🏆The Brazen Head of Westinghouse· Best Short Fiction
🏆Talonsister — Jen Williams· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
✦Boys in the Valley — Philip Fracassi· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦One Life Left· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦How to Sell a Haunted House — Grady Hendrix· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦ Catriona Ward· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦A House with Good Bones — Ursula Vernon· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology — Wole Talabi· Best Anthology

All 42 2024 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2023

🏆Just Like Home — Sarah Gailey· August Derleth Award
🏆Just Like Home — Sarah Gailey· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 Someone in Time· Best Anthology
🏆Someone in Time — Jonathan Strahan· Best Anthology
🏆Under the Moon: Collected Speculative Fiction· Best Collection
🏆The Queen of the High Fields· Best Novella
🏆Morta· Best Short Fiction
🏆The Spear Cuts Through Water — Simon Jimenez· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
✦Full Immersion — Gemma Amor· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Miracle Growth· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Sundial — Catriona Ward· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Hollows — Simon Bestwick· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Africa Risen — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki· Best Anthology
✦Isolation — Dan Coxon· Best Anthology

All 39 2023 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2022

🏆The Last House on Needless Street — Catriona Ward· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction· Best Anthology
🏆Never Have I Ever — Isabel Yap· Best Collection
🏆Defekt — Nino Cipri· Best Novella
🏆Bathymetry· Best Short Fiction
🏆She Who Became the Sun — Shelley Parker-Chan· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
🏆She Who Became the Sun — Shelley Parker-Chan· Sydney J. Bounds Award For Best Newcomer
✦A Broken Darkness — Premee Mohamed· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦A Dowry of Blood — S. T. Gibson· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Book of Accidents — Chuck Wendig· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Nothing But Blackened Teeth — Cassandra Khaw· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦My Heart Is a Chainsaw — Stephen Graham Jones· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021): Volume 1 — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki· Best Anthology
✦ When Things Get Dark· Best Anthology

All 41 2022 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2021

🏆Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Volume One) — Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki· Best Anthology
🏆Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Volume One) — Zelda Knight· Best Anthology
🏆 Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Volume One)· Best Anthology
🏆The Watcher in the Woods — Charlotte Bond· Best Collection
🏆Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times — P. Djèlí Clark· Best Novella
🏆Infinite Tea in the Demara Café — Ida Keogh· Best Short Fiction
🏆 The Boys· Overall
🏆 Elvire De Cock· Overall
🏆The Once and Future Witches — Alix E. Harrow· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
✦Beneath the Rising — Premee Mohamed· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Plain Bad Heroines — Emily M. Danforth· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Survivor Song — Paul G. Tremblay· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Only Good Indians — Stephen Graham Jones· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

All 38 2021 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2020

🏆The Reddening — Adam Nevill· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 New Suns· Best Anthology
🏆New Suns — Nisi Shawl· Best Anthology
🏆Sing Your Sadness Deep — Laura Mauro· Best Collection
🏆Ormeshadow — Priya Sharma· Best Novella
🏆The Pain-Eater's Daughter — Laura Mauro· Best Short Fiction
🏆Ormeshadow — Priya Sharma· Overall
🏆The Bone Ships· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
🏆Ta-Nehisi Coates· Sydney J. Bounds Award For Best Newcomer
✦The Plague Stones· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Mistletoe — Alison Littlewood· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Institute — Stephen King· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Migration· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Twisted Ones — Ursula Vernon· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

All 40 2020 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2019

🏆Little Eve — Catriona Ward· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Five· Best Anthology
🏆Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Five — Robert Shearman· Best Anthology
🏆Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Five — Michael Kelly· Best Anthology
🏆All the Fabulous Beasts — Priya Sharma· Best Collection
🏆The Tea Master and the Detective — Aliette de Bodard· Best Novella
🏆Down Where Sound Comes Blunt — G. V. Anderson· Best Short Fiction
🏆 Jen Williams· Overall
🏆The Bitter Twins — Jen Williams· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
✦The Way of the Worm — Ramsey Campbell· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Cabin at the End of the World — Paul G. Tremblay· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Wolf's Hill — Simon Bestwick· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦This Dreaming Isle — Dan Coxon· Best Anthology
✦ The Devil and the Deep· Best Anthology

All 41 2019 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2018

🏆The Changeling — Victor LaValle· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 New Fears· Best Anthology
🏆New Fears — Mark Morris· Best Anthology
🏆Strange Weather — Joe Hill· Best Collection
🏆Passing Strange — Ellen Klages· Best Novella
🏆Looking for Laika — Laura Mauro· Best Short Fiction
🏆 Jen Williams· Overall
🏆The Ninth Rain — Jen Williams· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
🏆Under the Pendulum Sun — Jeannette Ng· Sydney J. Bounds Award For Best Newcomer
✦The Crow Garden — Alison Littlewood· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Boy on the Bridge — Mike Carey· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Behind Her Eyes — Sarah Pinborough· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Relics — Tim Lebbon· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Pacific Monsters — Margret Helgadottir· Best Anthology

All 38 2018 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2017

🏆Disappearance at Devil's Rock — Paul G. Tremblay· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 Lightspeed - 2016· Best Anthology
🏆Lightspeed - 2016 — Nalo Hopkinson· Best Anthology
🏆Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors — Adam Nevill· Best Collection
🏆The Ballad of Black Tom — Victor LaValle· Best Novella
🏆White Rabbit — Georgina Bruce· Best Short Fiction
🏆The Tiger and the Wolf — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
✦The Hidden People — Alison Littlewood· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Searching Dead — Ramsey Campbell· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦13 Minutes — Sarah Pinborough· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Asian Monsters — Margret Helgadottir· Best Anthology
✦Dead Letters — Conrad Williams· Best Anthology
✦ Dead Letters· Best Anthology
✦The Starlit Wood — Dominik Parisien· Best Anthology

All 38 2017 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2016

🏆Rawblood — Catriona Ward· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 The Doll Collection· Best Anthology
🏆The Doll Collection — Ellen Datlow· Best Anthology
🏆Ghost Summer — Tananarive Due· Best Collection
🏆The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn — Usman T. Malik· Best Novella
🏆Fabulous Beasts — Priya Sharma· Best Short Fiction
🏆Uprooted — Naomi Novik· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
🏆Sorcerer to the Crown — Zen Cho· Sydney J. Bounds Award For Best Newcomer
✦Welcome to Night Vale — Jeffrey Cranor· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Welcome to Night Vale — Joseph Fink· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Lost Girl — Adam Nevill· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦A Cold Silence — Alison Littlewood· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Death House — Sarah Pinborough· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Silence — Tim Lebbon· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

All 41 2016 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2015

🏆No One Gets Out Alive — Adam Nevill· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆Lightspeed - 2014 — Christie Yant· Best Anthology
🏆 Lightspeed - 2014· Best Anthology
🏆Nick Nightmare Investigates — Adrian Cole· Best Collection
🏆Through the Woods — E. M. Carroll· Best Comic/Graphic Novel
🏆Newspaper Heart — Stephen Volk· Best Novella
🏆A Woman's Place — Emma Newman· Best Short Fiction
🏆Cuckoo Song — Frances Hardinge· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
✦The End — Gary McMahon· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Last Plague· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Unquiet House — Alison Littlewood· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Girl with All the Gifts — Mike Carey· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Horror Uncut — Tom Johnstone· Best Anthology

All 37 2015 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2014

🏆The Shining Girls — Lauren Beukes· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 End of the Road· Best Anthology
🏆End of the Road — Jonathan Oliver· Best Anthology
🏆Monsters in the Heart — Stephen Volk· Best Collection
🏆Beauty — Sarah Pinborough· Best Novella
🏆Signs of the Times — Carole Johnstone· Best Short Fiction
🏆A Stranger in Olondria — Sofia Samatar· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
🏆Ancillary Justice — Ann Leckie· Sydney J. Bounds Award For Best Newcomer
✦House of Small Shadows — Adam Nevill· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Path of Needles — Alison Littlewood· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦NOS4A2 — Joe Hill· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Year of the Ladybird — Graham Joyce· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Mayhem — Sarah Pinborough· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Tenth Black Book of Horror — Charles Black· Best Anthology

All 36 2014 entries →

British Fantasy Awards 2013

🏆Last Days — Adam Nevill· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
🏆 Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane· Best Anthology
🏆Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane — Jonathan Oliver· Best Anthology
🏆Remember Why You Fear Me: The Best Dark Fiction of Robert Shearman — Robert Shearman· Best Collection
🏆The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine — John Llewellyn Probert· Best Novella
🏆Shark! Shark! — Ray Cluley· Best Short Fiction
🏆Some Kind of Fairy Tale — Graham Joyce· Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
✦Silent Voices — Gary McMahon· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Drowning Girl — Caitlín R. Kiernan· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦The Kind Folk — Ramsey Campbell· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦Some Kind of Fairy Tale — Graham Joyce· August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
✦ The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women· Best Anthology
✦ A Town Called Pandemonium· Best Anthology
✦ Terror Tales of the Cotswolds· Best Anthology