World Fantasy Awards: proglašeni su ovogodišnji dobitnici

U sklopu konvencije World Fantasy Convention 2026., koja se održala od 22. do 25. listopada u Oaklandu, u Kaliforniji, proglašeni su ovogodišnji dobitnici World Fantasy Awards, nagrade koja se svake godine dodjeljuju najboljem djelu fantastike objavljenom u prethodnoj godini.

Roman:

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

Novela:

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

Kratka priča:

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

Antologija:

• Dobitnik: Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology urednici Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett i Craig Laurance Gidney (Essential Dreams)
• Night & Day urednik Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
• 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:

• Dobitnik: Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow Publications)
• Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon 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, K. A. Teryna, preveo Alex Shvartsman (Fairwood Press)

Umjetnik:

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

Posebna nagrada za profesionalni rad:

• Dobitnici: Jaymee Goh, Jill Roberts i Jacob Weisman, za Tachyon Publications
• 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)
• 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:

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

Životno djelo:

• Clive Barker
• Joyce Carol Oates