Where and When:
Readercon 34,
Burlington MA :
July 19, 2025
Eligibility Year:
2024
Novelette
- Winner: The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster, Kurt Fawver (Dim Shores)
- “All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn”, Eric LaRocca (This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances)
- “The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes”, Lyndsey Croal (Split Scream Vol. 5)
- His Unburned Heart, David Sandner (Raw Dog Screaming)
- “Ready Player (n+1)”, M. Shaw (All Your Friends are Here)
- Stay on the Line, Clay McLeod Chapman (Shortwave)
Single-author Collection
- Winner: Midwestern Gothic, Scott Thomas (Inkshares)
- The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories, Devon A. Mihesuah (University of Oklahoma Press)
- Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations, Carina Bissett (Trepidatio)
- A Place Between Waking and Forgetting, Eugen Bacon (Raw Dog Screaming)
- These Things That Walk Behind Me, David Surface (Lethe)
Edited Anthology
- Winner: Why Didn't You Just Leave, Nadia Bulkin & Julia Rios, eds. (Cursed Morsels)
- Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, Sofia Ajram, ed. (Ghoulish)
- The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread, dave ring, ed. (Neon Hemlock)
- Monsters in the Mills, Christa Carmen & L. E. Daniels, eds. (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
- The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power, Terry J. Benton-Walker, ed. (Tor)