Following two rounds of nomination and voting by members of the British Fantasy Society and FantasyCon, the British Fantasy Awards has reached its jury stage. The 2018 shortlisted entrants are:

Best Anthology

• 2084, ed. George Sandison (Unsung Stories)
• Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2, ed. Steve Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
• Imposter Syndrome, ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth (Dark Minds Press)
• New Fears, ed. Mark Morris (Titan Books)
• Pacific Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir (Fox Spirit)

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Jeffrey Alan Love
• Victo Ngai
• Daniele Sera
• Sophie E Tallis
• Sana Takeda

Best Audio

• Anansi Boys (by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Dirk Maggs for Radio 4)
• Brave New Words podcast (Ed Fortune and Starburst Magazine)
• Breaking the Glass Slipper podcast (Lucy Hounsom, Charlotte Bond & Megan Leigh)
• Ivory Towers (by Richard H Brooks, directed by Karim Kronfli for 11th Hour Audio Productions)
• PseudoPod podcast (Alasdair Stuart and Escape Artists)
• Tea & Jeopardy podcast (Emma & Peter Newman)

Best Collection

• Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
• Strange Weather, by Joe Hill (Gollancz)
• Tanith by Choice, by Tanith Lee (Newcon Press)
• Tender: Stories, by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
• You Will Grow Into Them, by Malcolm Devlin (Unsung Stories)

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Bitch Planet Vol 2: President Bitch, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Taki Soma & Valentine de Landro (Image)
• Grim & Bold, by Joshua Cornah (Kristell Ink)
• Monstress, Vol. 2, by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
• Tomorrow, by Jack Lothian & Garry Mac (BHP Comics)
• The Wicked + The Divine Vol 5: Imperial Phase Part 1, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Age of Assassins, by RJ Barker (Orbit)
• The Court of Broken Knives, by Anna Smith Spark (HarperVoyager)
• The Ninth Rain, by Jen Williams (Headline)
• Under the Pendulum Sun, by Jeanette Ng (Angry Robot)

Best Film / Television Production

• Black Mirror, Series 4, by Charlie Brooker (Netflix)
• Get Out, by Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
• The Good Place, Season 1, by Michael Schur (Netflix)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi, by Rian Johnson (Lucasfilm)
• Stranger Things, Season 2, by Matt & Ross Duffer (Netflix)
• Twin Peaks: the Return, by Mark Frost & David Lynch (Sky Atlantic)
• Wonder Woman, by Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg & Jason Fuchs (Warner Bros.)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough (Harper Collins)
• The Boy on the Bridge, by MR Carey (Orbit)
• The Changeling, by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• The Crow Garden, by Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Relics, by Tim Lebbon (Titan Books)

Best Independent Press

• Fox Spirit
• Grimbold Books
• Newcon Press
• Salt Publishing
• Unsung Stories

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Grimdark Magazine, ed. Adrian Collins
• Interzone, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
• Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)

• RJ Barker, for Age of Assassins (Orbit)
• SA Chakraborty, for The City of Brass (HarperVoyager)
• Ed McDonald, for Blackwing (Orion)
• Jeanette Ng, for Under the Pendulum Sun (Angry Robot)
• Anna Smith Spark, for The Court of Broken Knives (HarperVoyager)

Best Non-Fiction

• Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. FT Barbini (Luna Press)
• Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
• Luminescent Threads, ed. Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (12th Planet Press)
• No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, by Ursula K Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction, by Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, by Maura McHugh (Electric Dreamhouse Press)

Best Novella

• Brother’s Ruin, by Emma Newman (Tor.com)
• Cottingley, by Alison Littlewood (Newcon Press)
• The Murders of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
• Naming the Bones, by Laura Mauro (Dark Minds Press)
• Passing Strange, by Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
• A Pocketful of Crows, by Joanne Harris (Gollancz)

Best Short Story

• “The Anniversary,” by Ruth EJ Booth (in Black Static #61) (TTA Press)
• “Four Abstracts,” by Nina Allan (in New Fears) (Titan Books)
• “Illumination,” by Joanne Hall (in Book of Dragons) (Kristell Ink)
• “The Little Gift,” by Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
• “Looking for Laika,” by Laura Mauro (in Interzone #273) (TTA Press)
• “Shepherd’s Business,” by Stephen Gallagher (in New Fears) (Titan Books)

The Award winners for each category will be announced on 21st October at FantasyCon 2018.