begin in 1972 , the British Fantasy Awards ( in the beginning name the August Derleth Fantasy Awards ) have been present annually by the British Fantasy Society . The BFS just announced their finalist for the award .
Here ’s the nominees :
Best Fantasy Novel ( the Robert Holdstock Award )
City of Stairs , Robert Jackson Bennett ( Jo Fletcher )
The Relic Guild , Edward Cox ( Gollancz )
Breed , K.T. Davies ( Fox Spirit )
Cuckoo Song , Frances Hardinge ( Macmillan Children ’s )
A Man Lies Dreaming , Lavie Tidhar ( Hodder & Stoughton )
The Moon King , Neil Williamson ( NewCon )
Best Horror Novel ( the August Derleth Award )
The Last Plague , Rich Hawkins ( Crowded Quarantine )
The Unquiet House , Alison Littlewood ( Jo Fletcher )
Station Eleven , Emily St. John Mandel ( Knopf )
The oddment , Gary McMahon ( NewCon )
The Girl With All the Gifts , M.R. Carey ( Orbit )
No One get Out live , Adam Nevill ( Macmillan )
Best Novella
“ Water For Drowning ” , Ray Cluley ( This Is Horror )
Cold Turkey , Carole Johnstone ( TTA )
“ Newspaper Heart ” , Stephen Volk ( The Spectral Book of Horror Stories )
Drive , Mark West ( Pendragon )
Best Short Story
“ The Girl on the Suicide Bridge ” , J.A. Mains ( Beside the Seaside )
“ Ptichka ” , Laura Mauro ( Horror Uncut : Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease )
“ A Woman ’s Place ” , Emma Newman ( Two Hundred and Twenty - One Baker Streets )
“ A Change of Heart ” , Gaie Sebold ( Wicked Women )
Best Collection
Nick Nightmare Investigates , Adrian Cole ( Alchemy & Airgedlámh )
Scruffians ! Stories of Better Sodomites , Hal Duncan ( Lethe )
The Bright Day Is Done , Carole Johnstone ( Gray Friar )
Gifts for the One Who derive After , Helen Marshall ( ChiZine )
Black Gods Kiss , Lavie Tidhar ( PS )
Best Anthology
The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2 , Jan Edwards & Jenny Barber , eds . ( Alchemy )
Terror Tales of Wales , Paul Finch , ed . ( Gray Friar )
Horror Uncut : Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease , Joel Lane & Tom Johnstone , eds . ( Gray Friar )
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories , Mark Morris , ed . ( Spectral )
Lightspeed : Women Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue , Christie Yant , male erecticle dysfunction . ( Lightspeed )
Best Independent Press
The Alchemy Press ( Peter Coleborn )
Fox Spirit Books ( Adele Wearing )
NewCon Press ( Ian Whates )
Spectral Press ( Simon Marshall - Jones )
Best Non - Fiction
Rhapsody : Notes on Strange Fictions , Hal Duncan ( Lethe )
You Are the Italian sandwich : A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks , Jonathan Green ( Snowbooks )
Touchstones : Essays on the Fantastic , John Howard ( Alchemy )
letter to Arkham : The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth , 1961 - 1971 , S.T. Joshi , ed . ( PS )
D.F. Lewis Dreamcatcher Real - Time Reviews , D.F. Lewis ( D.F. Lewis )
Ginger Nuts of Horror , Jim McLeod , ed . ( Jim McLeod )
Sibilant Fricative : Essays & Reviews , Adam Roberts ( Steel Quill )
Best Magazine / Periodical
Black Static , Andy Cox , ed . ( TTA )
Holdfast Magazine , Laurel Sills & Lucy Smee , eds . ( Laurel Sills & Lucy Smee )
Interzone , Andy Cox , ed . ( TTA )
Lightspeed , John Joseph Adams , ed . ( Lightspeed )
Sein und Werden , Rachel Kendall , ed . ( ISMs )
Best Artist
Ben Baldwin
Vincent Chong
Les Edwards
Sarah Anne Langton
Karla Ortiz
Daniele Serra
Best Comic / Graphic Novel
Through the Woods , Emily Carroll ( Margaret K. McElderry )
The Wicked + The Divine , Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie ( Image )
Cemetery Girl , Charlaine Harris , Christopher Golden & Don Kramer ( Jo Fletcher )
Seconds , Bryan Lee O’Malley ( SelfMadeHero )
Grandville Noël , Bryan Talbot ( Jonathan Cape )
Saga , Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples ( Image )
Best Film / Television Episode
Birdman : Or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance )
Black Mirror : “ White Christmas ”
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
Under the hide
Best Newcomer ( the Sydney J. Bounds Award )
Edward Cox , for The Relic Guild ( Gollancz )
Sarah Lotz , for The Three ( Hodder & Stoughton )
Laura Mauro , for “ Ptichka ” ( Horror Uncut : Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease )
Den Patrick , for The Boy with the Porcelain Blade ( Gollancz )
Jen Williams , for The Copper Promise ( Headline )
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