2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards - Winners

The winners of the inaugural Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards were announced in July!

Winners is green.


Best Collection

• Collision: Stories, J.S. Breukelaar
• Ghosts of You, Cathy Ulrich
• Little Paranoias, Sonora Taylor
• Out of Water, Sarah Read

Best Debut

• The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read
• Little Darlings, Melanie Golding
• The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling
• Theme Music, T. Marie Vandelly

Best Poetry Collection

• Mary Shelley Makes a Monster, Octavia Cade
• Choking Back the Devil, Donna Lynch
• The Apocalyptic Mannequin, Stephanie M. Wytovich

Best Novel (Tie)

• Bunny, Mona Awad
• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
• River of Souls, T.L. Bodine
• The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
• Without Condition, Sonora Taylor

Best Novella

• Dear Laura, Gemma Amor
• The Ladderman, Angela Archer
• The Festering Ones, S.H. Cooper
• Halloween Fiend, C.V. Hunt
• To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger

Best Young Adult

• Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal
• House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig
• Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall
• Wilder Girls, Rory Power

Short Fiction

Honorable Mentions

• ‘Till Death Do Us Part, Peggy Christie (Dark Doorways)
  
• A Song for Wounded Mouths, Kristi DeMeester (PseudoPod 641: Artemis Rising 5)
  
• Jack-O-Lantern, Gabrielle Faust (#ScaryStories)
  
• Sun Dogs, Laura Mauro (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
  
• What Throat, Annie Neugebauer (PseudoPod 640: Artemis Rising 5)
  
• Butterflies, Samanta Schweblin (Mouthful of Birds)
  
• The Woman Next Door, Ha Seong-nan (Flowers of Mold)
  
• Quadrapocalypse, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)
  
• Weary Bones, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)