The Shirley Jackson Awards are awarded for "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic." Lots of cool reading here, should anyone be so inclined. Now I'm really jonesing to go to Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts, July 8 through 11, where the winners will be announced.

Novel
Big Machine: A Novel, Victor LaValle
Last Days, Brian Evenson
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
Owl Killers, the, Karen Maitland
The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan
White is for Witching: A Novel, Helen Oyeyemi

Novella
The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough
Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca
“Sea-Hearts,” Margo Lanagan (X6, coeur de lion)
Shrike, Quentin Crisp
Vardoger, Stephen Volk
The Witnesses are Gone, Joel Lane

Novelette
“Catch Hell,” Laird Barron (Lovecraft Unbound)
“Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death,” Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer (Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness)
“Lonegan’s Luck,” Stephen Graham Jones (New Genre 6)
“Morality,” Stephen King (Esquire)
Night Cache, Andy Duncan

Short Story
“The Crevasse,” by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud (Lovecraft Unbound)
“Faces,” Aimee Bender (The Paris Review, Issue 191, Winter 2009)
“The Jacaranda Smile,” Gemma Files (Apparitions)
“The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy)
“Procedure in Plain Air,” Jonathan Lethem (The New Yorker, April 5, 2010)
“Strappado,” Laird Barron (Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe)

Single-Author Collection
Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover
Fugue State, Brian Evenson
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories (P.S.), Kevin Wilson
Zoo), Otsuichi

Edited Anthology
Apparitions, edited by Michael Kelly
British Invasion, edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore
Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, edited by Danel Olson
Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow
Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow