Best Novel WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK) Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking...
Best Novel
WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.
Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late.
Plot Summary
Best Novella
WINNER: “Half the House Is Haunted”, Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)
Short summary
Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories--and in this spine-chilling collection he spins five twisted tales from the shadows of the human soul:
A sister insists to her little brother that "Half the House Is Haunted" by a strange presence. But is it the house that's haunted--or their childhoods?
Best Short Fiction
WINNER: “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood”, Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)
Best Anthology
WINNER: The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Best Collection
WINNER: No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
Definitely feel like the winners are heavy on the horror this year. Not sure how typical that is!
Best Novel
WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late.
Plot Summary
Best Novella
WINNER: “Half the House Is Haunted”, Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn)
Short summary
Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories--and in this spine-chilling collection he spins five twisted tales from the shadows of the human soul:A sister insists to her little brother that "Half the House Is Haunted" by a strange presence. But is it the house that's haunted--or their childhoods?
Best Short Fiction
WINNER: “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood”, Nghi Vo (New Suns 2)
Best Anthology
WINNER: The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Best Collection
WINNER: No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
Definitely feel like the winners are heavy on the horror this year. Not sure how typical that is!