Вручение 16 сентября 2023 г.

Лауреатами премии также стали:
Художник - Винс Хейг (Vince Haig),
Нехудожественное издание или сайт - Юджин Бэкон "An Earnest Blackness"
Независимое издательство - Luna Press,
Периодическое издание - Журнал "Interzone",
Аудио - The Stranger Times (C.K. McDonnell),
Легенды Fantasy Con - Рой Грэй из "TTA Press" за постоянную поддержку Fantasycon'а

Страна: Великобритания Место проведения: FantasyCon 2023, Бирмингем Дата проведения: 16 сентября 2023 г.

Лучший роман ужасов (Премия Августа Дерлета)

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Just Like Home
Sarah Gailey 2.8
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories -- she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there.

Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren’t alone. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back, and is slowly stripping Vera’s childhood for spare parts. He insists that he isn’t the one leaving notes around the house in her father’s handwriting… but who else could it possibly be?

There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. Vera must face them, and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes.
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Страшные истории Сандайла
Катриона Уорд 3.7
32-летняя Роб всего лишь хочет нормальной жизни, ведь у нее для этого есть всё: муж, двое детей и миленький домик в пригороде. Но тут появляется новый повод для тревог - ее старшая дочь Колли, странная и подозрительная девочка, начинает собирать кости животных и разговаривать с вымышленными друзьями. Роб видит в дочери тьму, которая слишком сильно напоминает ей о собственном прошлом.

Женщина понимает, что пришло время вернуться туда, где она выросла, и вместе с Колли отправляется в Сандайл - местечко, расположенное в безлюдной пустыне Мохаве. И здесь начинают происходить жуткие вещи… Теперь черед Колли остерегаться своей матери: Роб зачем-то копает ямы на заднем дворе и рассказывает безумные истории из своего детства о загадочной сестре-близнеце. Кажется, лишь одна из них сможет выбраться из этой пустыни живой.
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Full Immersion
Gemma Amor 0.0
A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette.

When Magpie discovers her own dead body one misty morning in Bristol, it prompts her to uncover the truth of her untimely demise. Her investigations take her on a terrifying journey through multiple realities, experimental treatments, technological innovations and half-memories in a race against time and sanity. Accompanied by a new friend who is both familiar and strange, and constantly on the run from the terrifying, relentless presence of the mysterious predator known only as Silhouette, Magpie must piece together the parts of her life previously hidden. In doing so, she will discover the truth about her past, her potential, and her future.
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The Hollows
Daniel Church 0.0
In a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death.


But the facts don't add up: the dead man is clutching a knife in one hand, and there's evidence he was hiding from someone. Someone who watched him die. Stranger still, an odd mark has been drawn onto a stone beside his body.

The next victims are two families on the outskirts of town. As the storm rises and the body count grows, Ellie realises she has a terrifying problem on her hands: someone – or some thing – is killing indiscriminately, attacking in the darkness and using the storm for cover.


The killer is circling ever closer to the village. The storm's getting worse... and the power's just gone out.
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Miracle Growth
Tim Mendees 0.0
Tim Mendees does it again, with this novella that will have you screaming in fear and laughing out loud.

More Humus than Human

Bizarre things are unfolding in a sleepy Cornish town right in the middle of the annual fruit and vegetable show.

What was once a fun and enjoyable affair of roots, assorted pies, and blue ribbon pickles, has rival green-fingered neighbours turning to an untested miracle fertilizer to win the coveted Rosette. But all hell is about to break loose and it’s up to a team of bumbling locals to put an end to the insidious horror that threatens not just the town, but the whole world.

Can they stop the contamination before it spreads or will the vegetation prove to be un-beet-able?

You won't find any bland veggies in this book. Man-eating marrows and vicious vines are just a few of the nightmares that lurk within the idyllic countryside in this novella of cosmic horror. Weird, disturbing, and brilliantly funny.

You haven't read anything like this before.
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Morta
James Bennett 0.0
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Премия им. Сиднея Дж. Баундса лучшему дебютанту

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Leech
Hiron Ennes 3.5
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies.

For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed.

In the frozen north, the Institute's body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder. A parasite is spreading through the baron's castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear. The two will make war on the battlefield of the body. Whichever wins, humanity will lose again.
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The Book Eaters
Sunyi Dean 2.9
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.
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Дети Богов и Воинов
Шона Лоулес 4.1
Роман, основанный на реальной истории Ирландии, первая часть цикла "Гэльская Песнь". Фоула — одна из потомков Туата Де Дананн, и мир людей пугает ее своей бессмысленной жестокостью. Но ее легкомысленная сестра нарушает недавно принятый запрет, и теперь может быть изгнана или даже казнена другими Потомками. Чтобы помочь ей, Фоула соглашается стать инструментом в руках верховного друида. Гормлат — прекрасная вдова старого короля Дублина и одна из последних наследников крови фоморов в Ирландии. Она должна посадить своего смертного сына на трон Дублина, если хочет отомстить потомкам Туата Де Дананн… Или она сделает это ради свободы и любви к сыну?
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Kalyna the Soothsayer
Elijah Kinch Spector 0.0
Kalyna’s family has had the Gift for generations: the ability to see and predict the future. For decades, they have traveled around the four connected kingdoms of the Tetrarchia—one country with four monarchs—selling their services as soothsayers. The Gift is their calling and what defines them. Every child of their family has the Gift.

Except Kalyna. Born without the Gift, for years, she’s supported her father—who is losing sight of reality under the weight of his confused visions of the future—and her cruel grandmother on the strength of her wits, using informants and trickery to fake prophecies and scrounge a living. But it’s getting harder every year.

And poverty turns to danger when, on the strength of her reputation, Kalyna is “hired” (kidnapped, she would call it) by Lenz, the spymaster to the prince of Rotfelsen. Lenz wants Kalyna to use her talent for prophecy to uncover threats against Rotfelsen’s king, and he’s willing to hold her family hostage against her good behavior. But Rotfelsenisch politics are devious; the King’s enemies abound; and Kalyna’s skills for investigation and deception are tested to the limit. Worse, the conspiracy she begins to uncover points to a threat not only to the King of Rotfelsen but to all four monarchs of the Tetrarchia, when they meet for their annual governing “Council of Barbarians.” A Council that happens to fall at precisely the same time that Kalyna’s father has prophesied the catastrophic downfall of the Tetrarchia.

Kalyna is determined to protect her family (even Grandmother!), and her newfound friends—and to save the Tetrarchia too. But as she is drawn deeper into palace intrigue, she’s not sure if her manipulations are helping prevent the Tetrarchia’s destruction—or if her lies will bring it about.
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Starless and Bible Black
Susan York 0.0
This is a collection of 17 amazing short stories from Susan York - a new and exciting voice in the world of horror, sci-fi, mythology, and everything in between.
Exciting, unexpected and original, this collection will stay in the memory long after the final story.
With two introductions from Gary Couzens and Allen Ashley, story notes, and a stunning cover illustration by Kate Probert, this book will not disappoint.

“Starless and Bible Black is Susan York’s first collection and its seventeen stories are a fine showcase for her talent and abilities.
While the collection is firmly rooted in horror, the stories vary to take in both psychological as well as supernatural darkness, and science fiction and fantastical scenarios.
I recommend you read on.”

Gary Couzens

“Susan York’s collection Starless and Bible Black is a fulsome, wide-ranging and welcome publication from a British genre author who is certainly one to watch. And read.
Heartily recommended.”
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Лучший роман в жанре фэнтези (Премия Роберта Холдстока)

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The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez 4.0
Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this new epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds.

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Tordotcom, BookPage, LitHub

The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.

But that god cannot be contained forever.

With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.
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The Bone Orchard
Sara A. Mueller 5.0
"A masterfully woven plot with refreshing narrators " — Publishers Weekly

Sara A. Mueller's The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic--where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire.

Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow.

Charm is a prisoner, and a survivor. Charm tends the trees and their clattering fruit for the sake of her children, painstakingly grown and regrown with its fruit: Shame, Justice, Desire, Pride, and Pain.

Charm is a whore, and a madam. The wealthy and powerful of Borenguard come to her house to buy time with the girls who aren't real.

Except on Tuesdays, which is when the Emperor himself lays claim to his mistress, Charm herself.

But now--Charm is also the only person who can keep an empire together, as the Emperor summons her to his deathbed, and charges her with choosing which of his awful, faithless sons will carry on the empire---by discovering which one is responsible for his own murder.

If she does this last thing, she will finally have what has been denied her since the fall of Inshil — her freedom. But she will also be betraying the ghosts past and present that live on within her heart.

Charm must choose. Her dead Emperor’s will or the whispers of her own ghosts. Justice for the empire or her own revenge.
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Cast Long Shadows
Кэт Хеллисен 0.0
Marjeta Petrell.
Replacement bride, shadow of a dead and perfect wife, step-mother to a duke's treasured daughter.
A girl out of her depth, alone and afraid.
Magic runs deep in her veins, stitched in blood ties, embroidered with kindness and pain.
In an unfamiliar court, Marjeta must discover who are her friends and who are enemies; who she can trust before she is accused of witchcraft and executed.
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Glitterati
Oliver Langmead 0.0
Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides – and brutal judgements - of fashion, he is immaculate. To be anything else is to be unfashionable, and no one wants to be unfashionable, or even worse, ugly…

When Simone accidentally starts a new fashion with a nosebleed at a party, another Glitterati takes the credit. Soon their rivalry threatens to raze their opulent utopia to the ground, as no one knows how to be vicious like the beautiful ones.

Enter a world of the most fantastic costumes, grand palaces in the sky, the grandest parties known to mankind and the unbreakable rules of how to eat ice cream. A fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and the feckless billionaire class.
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The Oleander Sword
Tasha Suri 5.0
"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Oleander Sword continues Tasha Suri's acclaimed Burning Kingdoms trilogy, in which a powerful priestess and a vengeful princess will change the fate of an empire.

The prophecy of the nameless god—the words that declared Malini the rightful empress of Parijatdvipa—has proven a blessing and curse. She is determined to claim the throne that fate offered her. But even with rage in her heart and the army of loyal men by her side, deposing her brother is going to be a brutal and bloody fight.

The power of the deathless waters flows through Priya’s blood. Now a thrice born priestess and an Elder of Ahiranya, she dreams of seeing her country rid of the rot that plagues it: both Parijatdvipa's poisonous rule, and the blooming sickness that is spreading through all living things. But she doesn’t yet understand the truth of the magic she carries.

Their chosen paths once pulled them apart. But Malini and Priya's souls remain as entwined as their destinies. And saving their kingdom from those who would rather see it burn will come at a terrible price.


Praise for the Burning Kingdoms trilogy:"Will undoubtedly reshape the landscape of epic fantasy for years to come."—Booklist (starred review)

"Lush and stunning...this sapphic fantasy will rip your heart out." —BuzzFeed News

"Raises the bar for what epic fantasy should be.” —Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights

"This cutthroat and sapphic novel will grip you until the very end." —Vulture (Best of the Year)

"It left me breathless." —Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

"I loved it." —Alix E. Harrow, Hugo award-winning author of The Once and Future Witches

"Suri's incandescent feminist masterpiece hits like a steel fist inside a velvet glove." —Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun
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Path of War
David Green 0.0
The Banished have made their move, now Haltveldt answers back.
Reeling from the events at Solitude, Calene Alpenwood embarks on a journey to find meaning in all that she's seen, and discover the answers she so desperately seeks. Finding herself more alone than ever, Calene is trapped between doing what's right, and doing what needs to be done.
Meanwhile, Kade Besem continues his search for his son, Arlo, and the strange warrior-monk Tilo. His hunt takes him deep into Banished territory and into the jaws of danger.
Revelations are revealed, ancient secrets are uncovered and those who stand in the Empire's way can't hope to win when Haltveldt walks the Path of War.

REVIEWS FOR EMPIRE OF RUIN SERIES
"In this fast paced, twisty action packed sequel, I learned so much more, and in desperate need for book 3!" - Anat Eliraz, author of Jewels of Smoky Quartz
"David Green has become an insta-buy for absolutely any and EVERY thing he releases. Brilliant, BRILLIANT author." - Rachel Rener, author of The Lightning Conjurer Series
"The work of a fantasy writer who knows his craft." - JMD Reid, author of the Illumination Cycle
"For any epic fantasy fans out there - this one is for you. Just trust me on this." - Catrin Russell, author of The Light Of Darkness series
"There's no mercy shown outside of a few, and even that mercy buys time not clemency... I can't wait to see where this series goes next." - Rachael Boucker, author of The Night Order Series
"David Green continues his epic fantasy with diverse and flawed characters, battles to blow your mind, and a story that makes jaws drop and profanities fall from lips." - Neen Cohen, author of Cold as Hell
"Hands down one of the best books I've read this year" - The Magic Book Corner
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The Queen of the High Fields
Rhiannon A. Grist 0.0
Two misfits, Carys Price and Angharad 'Hazard' Evans, strike out from their disenfranchised seaside town to take ownership of the High Fields, a mythical island brimming with world-bending promise.
Objecting to the demands of modern society, they hope to find a place where they can live as they choose, but instead they find an ancient power that tears their friendship apart.
Ten years later, Carys returns to the collapsing world of the High Fields to face the terrifying power of the friend-turned-goddess she left behind.
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And Then I Woke Up
Malcolm Devlin 3.0
"Intelligent, compassionate and unsettling."―The New York Times

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us.

In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it’s hard to be certain of anything…

Spence is one of the “cured” living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him to help her find her old crew. But if he can’t tell the truth from the lies, how will he know if he has earned the redemption he dreams of? How will he know he hasn’t just made things worse?
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The Entropy of Loss
Stewart Hotston 0.0
Sarah Shannon is a scientist working at the cutting edge of black hole research. She is also a woman seeking to cope with the impending death of her wife, Rhona, the love of her life. Unable to come to terms with this inevitable loss, she has embarked on an affair with her work colleague, Akshai; and that's only the start of things getting complicated.

Something has gone wrong with Sarah and Akshai's ground-breaking simulations of black holes. When they are able to correct the errors the system abandons their simulations, instead spitting out equations as if demanding a response. When they answer, the system takes over their lab and starts to transform their equipment - forcing them to flee. They are left suspecting the impossible: First Contact.

As Sarah's employer steps in and seeks to take control, she risks losing access to her own work. Worse still, when they fled the lab she and Akshai had to leave Rhona behind, and Sarah will do whatever it takes to get her back.
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Interference
Terry Grimwood 0.0
The Grubby Dance of Politics didn't end when we left the solar system, it followed us to the stars.
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Ogres
Адриан Чайковски 4.0
It’s always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call.

Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It’s always been that way. It’s the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes.

But when the headman’s son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord’s son, he sets himself on a path to learn the terrible truth about the Ogres, and about the dark sciences that ensured their rule.
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Pomegranates
Priya Sharma 0.0
Pomegranates is a dystopian tale, where climate change is an all-too-real backdrop to the events of the novella. Persephone is in the Underworld, relating her family’s history to a human who’s found his way there. As events unfold, and we see the horror her anger has unleashed on the world, we’re drawn deeper and deeper into the heart of this amazing story. The author has drawn a vivid picture of the world’s decay set against the backdrop of the repercussions of a dysfunctional family. And what a family it is―the gods themselves, bringing destruction on us all.
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The Call of El Tunche
Shona Kinsella 0.0
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Neil Williamson 0.0
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