Novel

• WINNER: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Hanover Square)

• Old Soul, Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• How to Fake a Haunting, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
• The Lamb, Lucy Rose (HarperCollins)

Novella

• WINNER: The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)

• The Glass Garden, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
• The Cold House, A.G. Slatter (Titan)
• DuMort, Michelle Tang (Ghost Orchid)

Novelette

• WINNER: “Emily”, Vanessa Santos (Make a Home of Me)

• Letter Slot, Owen King (Amazon Original Stories)
• “The Severity of Things”, Mo Moshaty (Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment)
• “The Millay Illusion”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• The Confirmed Bachelors, Stephen Volk (Black Shuck)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night & Day)

• “Room 24”, Caroline Kepnes (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
• “Lapse”, Kirsty Logan (Unquiet Guests)
• “Silver Boots”, Donna Lynch (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror)
• “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter”, Audrey Zhou (Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora)

Single-Author Collection

• WINNER: Issues with Authority, Nadia Bulkin (Ghoulish)

• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
• Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment, Mo Moshaty (Tenebrous)
• Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin, tr. Megan McDowell (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski (Simon & Schuster)

Edited Anthology

• WINNER (TIE): Unquiet Guests, Dan Coxon, ed. (Dead Ink)
• WINNER (TIE): Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)

• Roots of My Fears, Gemma Amor, ed. (Titan)
• Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
• Were Wolf Short Stories, Catherine Taylor, Nick Wells & Gillian Whitaker, eds. (Flame Tree)

For more information, see the award website.