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Shirley Jackson Award for Dark Literature

For outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. These are both the nominees and the winners.

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A better angel : stories /

Adrian, Chris, 1970-

Adult Fiction ADRIAN

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Sharp teeth /

Barlow, Toby.

Adult Fiction BARLOW

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The Imago sequence : and other stories /

Barron, Laird

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection in 2007.

Adult Fiction BARRON

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Occultation : and other stories /

Barron, Laird

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection in 2010.

Adult Fiction BARRON

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The reapers are the angels : a novel /

Bell, Alden

Adult Fiction BELL

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Mr. Shivers /

Bennett, Robert Jackson, 1984-

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2010.

Adult Fiction BENNETT

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My mother she killed me, my father he ate me : forty new fairy tales /

Bernheimer, Kate

Adult Fiction

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The entire predicament : stories /

Corin, Lucy.

Adult Fiction CORIN

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Ghosts by gaslight : stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense /

Dann, Jack & Nick Gevers, editors

Adult SciFi Fantasy Book

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Wizards /

Dann, Jack, editor

Adult SciFi Fantasy Book

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Teeth : vampire tales /

Datlow, Ellen & Terri Windling, editors

Teen Fiction Book

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Supernatural noir /

Datlow, Ellen, editor

Adult SciFi Fantasy Book

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Blood and other cravings /

Datlow, Ellen, editor

Adult SciFi Fantasy Book

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Haunted legends /

Datlow, Ellen, editor

Adult Fiction

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Poe : 19 new tales of suspense, dark fantasy, and horror inspired by Edgar Allan

Datlow, Ellen, editor

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology in 2009.

Adult Fiction Book

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Lovecraft unbound : twenty stories /

Datlow, Ellen, editor

Adult Fiction Book

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Inferno : new tales of terror and the supernatural /

Datlow, Ellen, editor

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology in 2007

Adult Fiction Book

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Alive in Necropolis /

Dorst, Doug.

Adult Fiction DORST

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The last werewolf /

Duncan, Glen, 1965-

Adult Fiction DUNCAN

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Fugue state : stories /

Evenson, Brian, 1966-

Adult Fiction EVENSON

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Last days /

Evenson, Brian, 1966-

Adult Fiction EVENSON

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The shadow year /

Ford, Jeffrey, 1955-

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2008.

Adult Fiction FORD

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Old devil moon : short stories /

Fowler, Christopher.

Adult Fiction FOWLER

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What I didn't see : and other stories /

Fowler, Karen Joy.

Adult Fiction FOWLER

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Stories : all-new tales /

Gaiman, Neil & Al Sarrantonio, ed

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology in 2010.

Adult SciFi Fantasy Book

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Feed /

Grant, Mira

Adult Fiction GRANT

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Pandemonium /

Gregory, Daryl

Adult Fiction GREGORY

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Generation loss : a novel /

Hand, Elizabeth.

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2007.

Adult Fiction HAND

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Witches on the road tonight /

Holman, Sheri.

Adult Fiction HOLMAN

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The ones that got away /

Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

Adult Fiction JONES

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Black wings of Cthulhu : twenty-one new tales of Lovecraftian horror /

Joshi, S.T., editor

Adult Fiction Book

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The silent land : a novel /

Joyce, Graham, 1954-

Adult Fiction JOYCE

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The girl on the fridge /

Keret, Etgar, 1967-

Adult Fiction KERET

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The red tree /

Kiernan, Caitlin R.

Adult Fiction KIERNAN

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Just after sunset /

King, Stephen, 1947-

Adult Fiction KING

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Tender morsels /

Lanagan, Margo, 1960-

Children's Fiction LANAGAN

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Big machine : a novel /

LaValle, Victor D., 1972-

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2009.

Adult Fiction LAVALLE

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The owl killers : a novel /

Maitland, Karen.

Adult Fiction MAITLAN

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After the apocalypse : stories /

McHugh, Maureen F.

Adult Fiction MCHUGH

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Baltimore, or, The steadfast tin soldier and the vampire /

Mignola, Michael.

Adult Fiction MIGNOLA

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Dangerous laughter : thirteen stories /

Millhauser, Steven.

Adult Fiction MILLHAU

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The bone key /

Monette, Sarah.

Adult Fiction MONETTE

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The resurrectionist : a novel /

O'Connell, Jack, 1959-

Adult Fiction O'CONNE

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Wild nights! : stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and H

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Adult Fiction OATES

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The corn maiden and other nightmares /

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Adult Fiction OATES

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The diving pool : three novellas /

Ogawa, Yoko, 1962-

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection in 2008.

Adult Fiction OGAWA

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White is for witching /

Oyeyemi, Helen.

Adult Fiction OYEYEMI

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Tokyo year zero /

Peace, David.

Adult Fiction PEACE

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There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby : scary fairy tal

Petrushevskaia, Liudmila.

Adult Fiction PETRUSH

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The devil all the time /

Pollock, Donald Ray, 1954-

Adult Fiction POLLOCK

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Like you'd understand, anyway : stories /

Shepard, Jim.

Adult Fiction SHEPARD

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The terror : a novel /

Simmons, Dan, 1948-

Adult Fiction SIMMONS

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A dark matter : a novel /

Straub, Peter, 1943-

Adult Fiction STRAUB

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The man on the ceiling /

Tem, Steve Rasnic, 1950-

Adult Fiction TEM

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Fast ships, black sails /

VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff, editors

Adult Fiction Book

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The Thackery T. Lambshead cabinet of curiosities /

VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff, editors

Adult SciFi Fantasy Book

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The third bear /

VanderMeer, Jeff.

Adult Fiction VANDERM

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The little stranger /

Waters, Sarah, 1966-

Adult Fiction WATERS

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Tunneling to the center of the earth : stories /

Wilson, Kevin, 1978-

Tied for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection in 2009.

Adult Fiction WILSON

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