World Fantasy Awards Winners – Taylen Carver

World Fantasy Award.
Statuette design: Vincent Villafranca

The 2024 World Fantasy Awards, held at the World Fantasy Convention in Niagara Falls, honored some exceptional works.

Best Novel

WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)

The Possibilities, Yael Goldstein-Love (Random House)
Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
Looking Glass Sound, Catriona Ward (Viper; Nightfire)
Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

Best Novella

WINNER: “Half the House Is Haunted”, Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)

The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
“Prince Hat Underground”, Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions, Lina Rather (Tordotcom)
Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

WINNER: “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood”, Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)

“How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23)
“Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont”, P. A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)
“John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
“Waystation City”, A. T. Greenblatt (Uncanny 1-2/23)
“The Sound of Children Screaming”, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)

Best Anthology

WINNER: The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK)
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador)

Best Collection

WINNER: No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)

The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
The Fortunate Isles, Lisa L. Hannett (Egaeus)
White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)
Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
Jewel Box, E. Lily Yu (Erewhon)

Best Artist

WINNER: Audrey Benjaminsen

Rovina Cai
Stefan Koidl
Charles Vess
Alyssa Winans

Special Award – Professional

WINNER: Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus

Bill Campbell, for Rosarium Books
E. M. Carroll, for A Guest in the House (First Second)
M. John Harrison, for Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir (Serpent’s Tail; Saga; 9/24)
Stephen Jones, for The Weird Tales Boys (PS)

Special Award – Non-Professional

WINNER: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny

Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Trevor Kennedy, for Phantasmagoria
Brian J. Showers, for Swan River Press
Julian Yap & Fran Wilde, for The Sunday Morning Transport

This year’s judges were Douglas A. Anderson, Stephanie Feldman, Pat Murphy, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, and Angela Slatter. For more information, see the WFC website.