Nominees

Novel

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Tor Books)
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press/Titan UK)
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey US/Jo Fletcher Books UK)
• The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk (Erewhon Books US/Orbit UK)

Novella

• Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times by P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• “Stepsister” by Leah Cypess (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2020)
• Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
• The Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg  (Tachyon Publications)
• Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)

Short Fiction

• “Glass Bottle Dancer” by Celeste Rita Baker (Lightspeed, April 2020)
• “The Women Who Sing for Sklep” by Kay Chronister  (Thin Places)
• “The Nine Scents of Sorrow” by Jordan Taylor (Uncanny Magazine, July/Aug. 2020)
• “My Country Is a Ghost” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2020)
• “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell (Diabolical Plots, June 15 2020)

Anthology

• Edited By, edited by Ellen Datlow (Subterranean Press)
• The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 1, edited by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle (Valancourt Books)
• Shadows & Tall Trees 8, edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
• The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Harper Voyager)
• The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books)

Collection

• The Best of Jeffrey Ford by Jeffrey Ford  (PS Publishing)
• Velocities: Stories by Kathe Koja (Meerkat Press)
• Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoka Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton (Soft Skull Press US/Tilted Axis UK)
• We All Hear Stories in the Dark by Robert Shearman (PS Publishing)
• Nine Bar Blues: Stories of an Ancient Future by Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man Books)

Artist

• Rovina Cai
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Reiko Murakami
• Daniele Serra
• Charles Vess

Special Award – Professional

• Clive Bloom, for The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Jo Fletcher, for Jo Fletcher Books
• Maria Dahvana Headley, for Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD X FSG Originals  US/Scribe UK)
• Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, for The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press)
• C.C. Finlay, for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editing

Special Award – Non-Professional

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Brian Attebery, for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications
• Arley Sorg and Christie Yant, for Fantasy Magazine
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine

Judges: Tobias Buckell, Siobhan Carroll, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Brian Evenson, Patrick Swenson