Вручение 21 октября 2018 г.

Лауреатами премии также стали:
Художник - Джеффри Алан Лав (Jeffrey Alan Love);
Нехудожественное издание или сайт - Франческа Барбини "Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction";
Независимое издательство - Unsung Stories;
Периодическое издание - Журнал "Shoreline of Infinity" (ред. Ноэль Чидвик);
Фильм - Прочь (реж. Джордан Пил) /Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele):
Аудио - Нил Гейман "Сыновья Ананси" (адаптация Дирка Маггса).

Страна: Великобритания Место проведения: FantasyCon 2018, Честер Дата проведения: 21 октября 2018 г.

Лучший роман ужасов (Премия Августа Дерлета)

Лауреат
Виктор Лаваль 3.1
Аполлон и Эмма стараются быть хорошими родителями, но ребенок — это не только радость, но и бессонные ночи, хроническая усталость и постоянная тревога. Пока Аполлон борется с мистическими кошмарами детства, у него под носом разворачивается драма. Эмма жалуется, что кто-то присылает ей на телефон фотографии сына и мужа, а потом удаляет. Она говорит, что их сын — это не ребенок. Аполлон считает, что жена сходит с ума, но правда намного чудовищнее…
Сара Пинборо 3.9
Как поступить женщине, влюбленной в своего босса и в то же время связанной тесной дружбой с его женой? Тем более что сам Дэвид, начальник Луизы, в нее влюблен. Сердце ее подсказывает, что надо разрубить гордиев узел и резко порвать с обоими. Луиза уже готова принять тяжелое для нее решение, как неожиданно выясняется, что образцовый с виду брак красавицы подруги и ее идеального мужчины-начальника на самом деле далеко не безоблачен. А чем больше всплывает подробностей, тем более пугающая вырисовывается картина, и запутанная любовная история превращается в криминальную драму, финал которой непредсказуем.
М. Р. Кэри 4.0
Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.

The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world.

To where the monsters lived.
Элисон Литтлвуд 0.0
'There's an amazing sense of place and time in this novel, as Littlewood perfectly captures the literary style, attitudes, and class consciousness of Victorian England' - Publishers Weekly

Susan Hill meets Alfred Hitchcock in Alison Littlewood's latest chiller: mad-doctor Nathaniel is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston - but is she truly delusional? Or is she hiding secrets that should never be uncovered ...?

Haunted by his father's suicide, Nathaniel Kerner walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become a mad-doctor. He takes up a position at Crakethorne Asylum, but the proprietor is more interested in phrenology and his growing collection of skulls than the patients' minds. Nathaniel's only interesting case is Mrs Victoria Harleston: her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions - but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible.

Nathaniel is increasingly obsessed with Victoria, but when he has her mesmerised, there are unexpected results: Victoria starts hearing voices, the way she used to - her grandmother always claimed they came from beyond the grave - but it also unleashes her own powers of mesmerism ...and a desperate need to escape.

Increasingly besotted, Nathaniel finds himself caught up in a world of seances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Victoria and save her.

But constantly hanging over him is this warning: that doctors are apt to catch the diseases with which they are surrounded - whether of the body or the mind
Тим Леббон 0.0
There's an underground black market for arcane things. Akin to the trade in rhino horns or tigers' bones, this group trafficks in mummified satyrs, gryphons' claws, and more.

When Angela Gough's lover Vince goes missing, she sets out to find him whatever the risk. She learns that he was employed by the infamous London crime lord Frederick Meloy, providing bizarre objects beyond imagining. Descending into the city's underbelly, she uncovers a deadly side to the black market. It might have claimed Vince, and Angela may be next.

Gripping supernatural terror launching a new trilogy by the acclaimed author of Coldbrook (distinct, unique, and absorbing), The Silence (truly addictive), and the Alien-Predator Rage War.

Tim Lebbon's RELICS opens a darkly beautiful glimpse into another world, one lurking in the shadows, hovering at the corner of the eye. If Anne Rice and Clive Barker had written a story together, it might have looked something like this novel: richly imagined, fantastical, yet grounded in the grit and reality of modern-day London. I look forward to the wonders and terrors yet to come. --JAMES ROLLINS, New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Labyrinth

A magical, perilous drama full of characters who live and breathe, darkness you can feel... --Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat

"Tim Lebbon is an immense talent."--Joe R. Lansdale, creator of Hap and Leonard

Премия им. Сиднея Дж. Баундса лучшему дебютанту

Лауреат
Джаннет Инг 3.1
Во время правления королевы Виктории английские путешественники впервые посетили бескрайнюю, неизведанную Аркадию, землю фейри, обитель невероятных чудес, не подвластных ни пониманию, ни законам человека. Туда приезжает преподобный Лаон Хелстон, чтобы обратить местных жителей в христианство. Миссионера, проповедовавшего здесь ранее, постигла печальная участь при загадочных обстоятельствах, а вскоре и Лаон исчезает без следа. Его сестра, Кэтрин Хелстон, отправляется в опасное путешествие на поиски брата, но в Аркадии ее ждет лишь одинокое ожидание в зловещей усадьбе под названием Гефсимания. А потом приходит известие: Лаон возвращается – и за ним по пятам следует королева Маб со своим безумным двором. Вскоре Кэтрин убедится, что существуют тайны, которые лучше не знать, а Аркадия куда страшнее, чем кажется на первый взгляд.
Шеннон А. Чакраборти 4.3
Нари не верит в магию. При этом у нее есть необычные таланты – знание языков и способность заговаривать болезни. Это, как и другие трюки, помогает ей жить, занимаясь воровством и мелким мошенничеством на улицах Каира XVIII века. Она надеется, что ей улыбнется удача и она уедет в Стамбул для изучения медицины.

Скоро ей придется поверить в магию. Нари столкнется с демоническим ифритом и ордой гулей, а потом случайно вызовет могущественного джинна – лукавого и мрачного воителя. Он поведает удивительную историю о пустыне, населенной духами огня, о реках, в которых спят мариды, о руинах некогда великих человеческих империй, о горах, которые охраняют невиданные хищные птицы, и о лежащем за ними Дэвабаде, легендарном Латунном городе, в который рок приведет Нари.

Дэвабад за своими зачарованными латунными стенами и семью вратами шести племен джиннов, встретит ее не только чудесами, но и ложью, предательством и придворными интригами.

Появление Нари вызовет очередной виток смертельной вражды и магической войны, которая длится столетия…
Эд Макдональд 3.9
Под небом в трещинах, откуда доносится непрестанный вой, под солнцами иных миров раскинулся Морок, огромная и страшная пустыня, где нет ночи, где легко умереть, где можно встретиться с самым страшным кошмаром. Только Морок создали не монстры. Его создали люди в последней войне с Глубинными королями, таинственными, могущественными и жестокими созданиями. Рихальт Галхэрроу дышит пылью Морока уже двадцать лет, его отряд выслеживает монстров и тех, кто вернулся из пустоши другим. Когда он получает задание сопроводить богатую аристократку в пограничную крепость, Галхэрроу поневоле впутывается в сеть заговоров, которые не только грозят разрушить мир на границе с Мороком, но и ставят под удар единственное оружие людей против Глубинных королей.
RJ Barker 4.0
To catch an assassin, use an assassin...

Girton Club-foot, apprentice to the land's best assassin, still has much to learn about the art of taking lives. But his latest mission tasks him and his master with a far more difficult challenge: to save a life. Someone, or many someones, is trying to kill the heir to the throne, and it is up to Girton and his master to uncover the traitor and prevent the prince's murder.

In a kingdom on the brink of civil war and a castle thick with lies Girton finds friends he never expected, responsibilities he never wanted, and a conspiracy that could destroy an entire kingdom.
Anna Smith Spark 3.5
In this dark and gripping debut fantasy that Miles Cameron called "gritty and glorious!" the exiled son of the king must fight to reclaim his throne no matter the cost.

It is the richest empire the world has ever known, and it is also doomed--but only one man can see it.

Haunted by prophetic dreams, Orhan has hired a company of soldiers to cross the desert to reach the capital city. Once they enter the palace, they have one mission: kill the emperor, then all those who remain. Only from the ashes can a new empire be built.

The company is a group of good, ordinary soldiers for whom this is a mission like any other. But the strange boy Marith who walks among them is no ordinary soldier. Though he is young, ambitious, and impossibly charming, something dark hides in Marith's past--and in his blood.

Dark and brilliant, dive into this new fantasy series for readers looking for epic battle scenes, gritty heroes, and blood-soaked revenge.

Лучший роман в жанре фэнтези (Премия Роберта Холдстока)

Лауреат
Йен Уильямс 4.7
The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine. When eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza 'Vintage' de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind. But not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire collapse, and the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. For the Jure'lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall...
RJ Barker 4.0
To catch an assassin, use an assassin...

Girton Club-foot, apprentice to the land's best assassin, still has much to learn about the art of taking lives. But his latest mission tasks him and his master with a far more difficult challenge: to save a life. Someone, or many someones, is trying to kill the heir to the throne, and it is up to Girton and his master to uncover the traitor and prevent the prince's murder.

In a kingdom on the brink of civil war and a castle thick with lies Girton finds friends he never expected, responsibilities he never wanted, and a conspiracy that could destroy an entire kingdom.
Anna Smith Spark 3.5
Perfect for fans of Mark Lawrence and R Scott Bakker, The Court of Broken Knives is the explosive debut by one of grimdark fantasy’s most exciting new voices.
They’ve finally looked at the graveyard of our Empire with open eyes. They’re fools and madmen and like the art of war. And their children go hungry while we piss gold and jewels into the dust.

In the richest empire the world has ever known, the city of Sorlost has always stood, eternal and unconquered. But in a city of dreams governed by an imposturous Emperor, decadence has become the true ruler, and has blinded its inhabitants to their vulnerability. The empire is on the verge of invasion and only one man can see it.

Haunted by dreams of the empire’s demise, Orhan Emmereth has decided to act. On his orders, a company of soldiers cross the desert to reach the city. Once they enter the Palace, they have one mission: kill the Emperor, then all those who remain. Only from ashes can a new empire be built.

The company is a group of good, ordinary soldiers, for whom this is a mission like any other. But the strange boy Marith who walks among them is no ordinary soldier. Marching on Sorlost, Marith thinks he is running away from the past which haunts him. But in the Golden City, his destiny awaits him beautiful, bloody, and more terrible than anyone could have foreseen.
Джаннет Инг 3.1
Во время правления королевы Виктории английские путешественники впервые посетили бескрайнюю, неизведанную Аркадию, землю фейри, обитель невероятных чудес, не подвластных ни пониманию, ни законам человека. Туда приезжает преподобный Лаон Хелстон, чтобы обратить местных жителей в христианство. Миссионера, проповедовавшего здесь ранее, постигла печальная участь при загадочных обстоятельствах, а вскоре и Лаон исчезает без следа. Его сестра, Кэтрин Хелстон, отправляется в опасное путешествие на поиски брата, но в Аркадии ее ждет лишь одинокое ожидание в зловещей усадьбе под названием Гефсимания. А потом приходит известие: Лаон возвращается – и за ним по пятам следует королева Маб со своим безумным двором. Вскоре Кэтрин убедится, что существуют тайны, которые лучше не знать, а Аркадия куда страшнее, чем кажется на первый взгляд.

Лучшая повесть

Лауреат
Ellen Klages 4.0
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World's Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer "authentic" experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.

Six women find their lives as tangled with each other's as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.

Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages.
Emma Newman 4.0
The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards to snatch up a new apprentice. Talented mages are bought from their families at a tremendous price, while weak mages are snapped up for a pittance. For a lower middle class family like the Gunns, the loss of a son can be disastrous, so when seemingly magical incidents begin cropping up at home, they fear for their Ben's life and their own livelihoods.

But Benjamin Gunn isn't a talented mage. His sister Charlotte is, and to prevent her brother from being imprisoned for false reporting she combines her powers with his to make him seem a better prospect.

When she discovers a nefarious plot by the sinister Doctor Ledbetter, Charlotte must use all her cunning and guile to protect her family, her secret and her city.

Brother's Ruin is the first in a new gaslamp fantasy series by Emma Newman.
Элисон Литтлвуд 0.0
In 1917 the world was rocked by claims that two young girls - Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths - had photographed fairies in the sleepy village of Cottingley. A century later, we finally learn the true nature of these fey creatures. Correspondence has come to light that contains a harrowing account, written by village resident Lawrence Fairclough, laying bare the fairies' sinister malevolence and spiteful intent. Darkness festers in the heart of rural England.

A gripping, enchanting tale from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club hit The Cold Season.

"Alison Littlewood has a real talent for building atmosphere, loaded with the promise of things to come." - The Guardian

"Littlewood's descriptions are picturesque and her prose convincingly dated and beautifully lyrical." - Sunday Express

"Alison Littlewood is one of the brightest stars in the horror genre at the moment." - This is Horror
Tade Thompson 0.0
For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she's been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction.

Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also knows that as long as she survives she'll be hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to stop the tide of blood, or will she meet her end at the hand of a girl who looks just like her?
Лора Мауро 0.0
First there was darkness…

Alessa Spiteri survives a bombing incident on the London Underground only to discover that the horror she experienced there is only the beginning of the nightmare.

As she struggles to rebuild her life, she finds herself haunted by grotesque, shadowy creatures – monsters Alessa believes are hallucinations, born of her traumatised mind until she meets Casey, also the survivor of an Underground bombing, who tells her she can see the monsters too.

Together, the women plan their fightback against the creatures, a course of action which takes Alessa back into the tunnels beneath the city.

Back into the darkness.
Joanne M. Harris 3.9
I am as brown as brown can be,
And my eyes as black as sloe;
I am as brisk as brisk can be,
And wild as forest doe.
(The Child Ballads, 295)

So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless wild girl.

Only love could draw her into the world of named, tamed things. And it seems only revenge will be powerful enough to let her escape.

Beautifully illustrated by (TBC), this is a stunning and original modern fairytale.

Лучший рассказ

Нина Аллан 3.0
Ребекка Хэтауэй умерла от болезни Альцгеймера в возрасте 49 лет. Четыре абстрактные картины дают возможность заглянуть в непростой внутренний мир художницы, чья бурная личная жизнь находила отражение в ее произведениях.
Стивен Галлахер 3.5
1947 год. На один из островов на смену пожилому и больному доктору Лофтону прибывает молодой доктор Спенс. В своей практике он сталкивается с жестокими обычаями островитян.
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