Meet the 2020 Shirley Jackson Award nominees

The nominees for the 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced.

The prize was established in 2007 to honor the best psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantastic literature.

Winners will be revealed August 15.

A complete list of nominees is available on the Shirley Jackson Awards website; here are the contenders for select categories. 

Novel

• Sisters, by Daisy Johnson

• Death in Her Hands, by Ottessa Moshfegh

• Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 

• Plain Bad Heroines, by Emily M. Danforth 

• The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones 

• True Story, by Kate Reed Petty 

Novella

• The Best of Both Worlds, by S. P. Miskowski

• History of an Executioner, by Clancy McGilligan 

• Night of the Mannequins, by Stephen Graham Jones 

• Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark

• Agatha’s Barn: A Carpenter’s Farm Story, by Michael Bailey

• Her Mad Song, by C J Halbard