Confira as obras nomeadas para o Shirley Jackson Awards deste ano

 Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) foi uma célebre autora influencer para muitos escritores renomados, como Stephen King, Nigel Kneale e Richard Matheson. Shirley é bastante conhecida por sua obra distópica ''The Lottery'' por apresentar seu dom na escrita fantástica sombria, tornando assim, esta obra uma das mais assustadoras publicadas no The New Yorker.

 Os ''Shirley Jackson Awards'' são prêmios literários ocorridas desde 2007, criado com o intuito de reconhecimento ao legado da escritora Shirley Jackson, que marcou grande passagem pelas suas obras extraordinárias de horror, suspense psicológico e fantástico sombrio. Obras como ''O bazar dos sonhos ruins'' de Stephen KIng e ''Aniquilação'' de Jeff VanderMeer, incluem nas listas de vencedores anteriores.

 Confira os indicadores ao Shirley Jackson Awards deste ano:

 NOVEL

The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter (Two Dollar Radio)

Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand (Little, Brown and Co)

Goodnight Stranger, Miciah Bay Gault (Park Row Books)

Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Gollancz-UK/Flatiron Books-US)

Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson (Ecco)

Tinfoil Butterfly, Rachel Eve Moulton (MCD x FSG Originals)

 

NOVELLA

Into Bones Like Oil, Kaaron Warren (Meerkat Press)

Late Returns, Joe Hill (Full Throttle)

The Monster of Elendhaven, Jennifer Giesbrecht (Tor.com)

Ormeshadow, Priya Sharma (Tor.com)

This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Gallery/Saga Press)

 

NOVELETTE

Black Bequeathments, Simon Strantzas (Dim Shores)

The Couvade, Joanna Koch (Demain Publishing)

“Deeper, Darker Things,” Steve Dillon (Deeper, Darker Things and Other Oddities)

Luminous Body, Brooke Warra (Dim Shores)

Pwdre Ser, Kurt Fawver (Dim Shores)

“Taproot,” M. R. Carey (Ten-Word Tragedies)

 

SHORT FICTION

“How to Become a Witch-Queen,” Theodora Goss (Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery)

“Kali_Na,” Indrapramit Das (The Mythic Dream)

“The Truth About Josh Enloe,” Nick Straatmann (Parhelion)

“The Well,” Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell (issue 55.1 of The Southern Review)

“Whistle, My Lad, and I Will Come,” Gina Ochsner (The Pink Issue of Fairy Tale Review)

 

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

Collision: Stories, J. S. Breukelaar (Meerkat Press, LLC)

Every Human Love: Stories, Joanna Pearson (Acre Books)

Homesick, Nino Cipri (Dzanc Books)

Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell (Riverhead Books)

Song for the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)

Wounds, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga Press)

 

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)

The Mythic Dream, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien (Saga Press)

The Twisted Book of Shadows, edited by Christopher Golden & James A. Moore (Twisted Publishing)

The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison, edited by Preston Grassmann (PS Publishing)

Wonderland: An Anthology of Works Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane (Titan Books) 

Detalhes sobre a cerimônia do Shirley Jackson Awards deste ano serão divulgados em breve. Sobretudo, um sincero parabéns a todos escritores nomeados.

Fonte: The Shirley Jackson Awards