The 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented at Readercon 25 on Sunday July 13. The Awards recognise exceptional work in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy.

NOVEL Winner: American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)

NOVELLA Winner: Burning Girls, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com)

NOVELETTE Winner: Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press)

SHORT FICTION Winner:  “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, December 2013)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION Winners: Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press) and North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY Winner: Grimscribe’s Puppets, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (Miskatonic River Press)

A full list of nominees and winners can be found here