Welcome to issue forty-six of Nightmare!
This month, we have original fiction from Gavin Pate (“Red House”) and writing team Rachel Swirsky and An Owomoyela (“Whose Drowned Face Sleeps”), along with reprints by Nick Mamatas (“Der Kommissar’s in Town”) and Seanan McGuire (“Anthony’s Vampire”).
We also have Tananarive Due writing the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a panel discussion about demon possession with Stoker Award-winner Paul Tremblay, Horrorstör author Grady Hendrix, and editor Jordan Hamessley London.
Nebula and Stoker Awards Results
We’re thrilled to report that Alyssa Wong’s story, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” from the Queers Destroy Horror! special issue of Nightmare (Oct. 2015), won the Nebula Award for best short story! Congrats to Alyssa and to all of the other winners. You can find a full list of the winners at SFWA.org/nebula-awards.
Lightspeed’s streak of losing Nebula Awards, however, has remained intact, and is now at fourteen-in-a-row and counting. Condolences (and another round of congratulations) to Amal El-Mohtar and Brooke Bolander who were also nominated this year for their stories in Lightspeed.
“Hungry Daughters” was also up for the Stoker Award, but, alas, it was not able to claim a rare Nebula-Stoker double-victory. For a full list of the winners, visit horror.org.
Locus Award Winners
In other awards news, the Locus Awards winners have now been announced. Alas, nothing Lightspeed or Nightmare-related won, but as they say: it is an honor to be nominated. “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” and Amal El-Mohtar’s “Madeleine” (Lightspeed, June 2015)—both up for best short story–lost to “Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld), and Brooke Bolander’s “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead” (Lightspeed, February 2015)—up for best novelette—lost to Neil Gaiman’s “Black Dog” (Trigger Warning). In the editor category, yours truly lost out to David G. Hartwell, who sadly passed away in January. In any case, congratulations again to Alyssa, Amal, and Brooke, and to all of the other finalists, and thanks to all who voted for them (and me). You’ll find a complete list of the winners and other finalists at locusmag.com.
Inaugural Eugie Award Finalists Announced
Finalists for the inaugural Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (the Eugie Award), which “honors stories that are irreplaceable, that inspire, enlighten, and entertain,” have been announced, and we’re pleased to report that “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong (Nightmare, Oct. 2015) is among them!
The winner will be honored at Dragon Con, to be held September 2-5, 2016 in Atlanta GA. Congrats to Alyssa and to all of the other finalists! For more information about the award, and a complete list of the finalists, visit www.eugiefoster.com.
John Joseph Adams Books News
In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just acquired two books in a new series by Molly Tanzer (author of Vermilion).
The first book is Creatures of Will and Temper, a Victorian-era urban fantasy inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which epee-fencing enthusiast Evadne Gray and her younger sister are drawn into a secret and dangerous London underworld of pleasure-seeking demons and bloodthirsty diabolists, with only Evadne’s skill with a blade standing between them and certain death.
Publication of book one will likely happen in late 2017. Can’t wait for you all to read it!
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That’s all we have to report this month. I hope you enjoy the issue, and thanks for reading!
