Nominacije za World Fantasy Awards 2026.

Objavljeni su finalisti za ovogodišnju World Fantasy Award. Nagrade se svake godine dodjeljuju najboljim djelima fantastike objavljenima u prethodnoj godini. Ovogodišnje nagrade će biti dodijeljene u sklopu događanja World Fantasy Convention, koje će se održati od 22. do 25. listopada, u Oaklandu, u Kaliforniji.

Roman:

• Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon Publications)
• Once Was Willem, M. R. Carey (Orbit/Orbit UK)
• The Secret Market of the Dead, Giovanni De Feo (Saga Press)
• The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor Books/Tor UK)
• The Adventures of Mary Darling, Pat Murphy (Tachyon Publications)

Novela:

• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom/Arcadia)
• The Secret Diary of Mina Harker, Theodora Goss (Letters from an Imaginary Country)
• Uncertain Sons, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories)
• The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe Press)
• The Spotter, Josh Malerman (You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction, Vol. 2)
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
• A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

Kratka priča:

• “The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home”, Renan Bernardo (Reactor, kolovoz 2025.)
• “In My Country”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld magazine #223, travanj 2025.)
• “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny magazine #63, ožujak-travanj 2025.)
• “St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls”, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Weird Horror Issue 10, proljeće 2025.)
• “Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny magazine #64, svibanj-lipanj 2025.)

Antologija:

• Night & Day, urednik Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
• Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, urednici Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett i Craig Laurance Gidney (Essential Dreams)
• The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 urednik Michael Kelly (Undertow Press)
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Three urednik Stephen Kotowych (Ansible Press)
• Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror urednik Hollie Starling (Chatto & Windus)

Zbirka:

• Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon Publications)
• Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow Publications)
• The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon Publications)
• The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories, Salman Rushdie (Random House/Jonathan Cape)
• Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, preveo Alex Shvartsman (Fairwood Press)

Umjetnik:

• Galen Dara
• Kathleen Jennings
• Daniele Serra
• Rachel Smythe
• Charles Vess

Posebna nagrada za profesionalni rad:

• Clive Bloom, za London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic)
• Blumhouse i Dave Schilling, za Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse (Simon & Schuster/Simon Element)
• Jaymee Goh, Jill Roberts i Jacob Weisman, za Tachyon Publications
• Tim Lucas, za Succubus (Necronomicon) (PS Publishing/Electric Dreamhouse)
• Becky Siegel Spratford, za Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature (Saga Press)
• Richard Wolinsky, za Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends (Tachyon Publications)

Posebna nagrada za neprofesionalni rad:

• Scott H. Andrews, za Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazin
• Andy Cox, za Remains magazin
• Patrick Swenson, za Fairwood Press i za the Rainforest Writers Village Retreat
• Elise C. Tobler, za The Deadlands magazin
• Wendy Wagner, za Nightmare magazin