Australian Shadows Awards

Honourable mentions

• "Silk and Pearls", K. J. Bishop, Shadowed Realms #9
• "The Cup of Nestor", Simon Brown (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear, Terry Dowling (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• The Mother, Brett McBean (Lothian Books)

Honourable mentions

• The Spiraling Worm, David Conyers & John Sunseri (Chaosium)
• "Cooling the Crows", Kaaron Warren, In Bad Dreams (Eneit Press)
• "The Wildflowers", Marty Young, Fantastic Wonder Stories (Ticonderoga Publications)

Winner

• Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)

Nominees

• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Red Queen, Honey Brown (Penguin Australia)
• "Wives", Paul Haines, X6 (Coeur de Lion Publishing)
• The Dead Path, Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)

Winner

• Grants Pass, Jennifer Brozek & Amanda Pillar (Morrigan Books)

Nominees

• Festive Fear, Stephen Clark (Tasmaniac Publications)
• Aurealis #42, Stuart Mayne, (Chimaera Publications)

Winner

• "Six Suicides", Deborah Biancotti, A Book of Endings (Twelfth Planet Press)

Nominees

• "The Emancipated Dance", Felicity Dowker, Midnight Echo #2
• "Busking", Jason Fischer, Midnight Echo #3
• "The Message", Andrew J. McKiernan, Midnight Echo #2
• "The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfalls", Kaaron Warren, Exotic Gothic 3, Ash-Tree Press

Winner

• Under Stones, Bob Franklin (Affirm Press)

Nominees

• Bleed, Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Guardian of the Dead, Karen Healy (Allen & Unwin)
• Madigan Mine, Kirstyn McDermott (Picador Australia)
• The Girl With No Hands, Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga Publications)

Winner

• Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears, Angela Challis & Marty Young (eds) (Brimstone Press)

Nominees

• Midnight Echo #4, Lee Battersby (ed) (Australian Horror Writers Association)
• Scary Kisses, Liz Grzyb (ed) (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Scenes From The Second Storey, Amanda Pillar & Pete Kempshall (eds) (Morrigan Books)

Winner

• "She Said", Kirstyn McDermott, Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books)

Nominees

• "Bread and Circuses", Felicity Dowker, Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "Brisneyland by Night", Angela Slatter, Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "All The Clowns In Clowntown", Andrew J. McKiernan, Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears (Brimstone Press)
• "Dream Machine", David Conyers, Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books)

Winner

• No award

Honourable Mention

• The Broken Ones, Stephen M. Irwin (Random House)

Winner

• "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt", Paul Haines, The Last Days of Kali Yuga (Brimstone Press)

Nominees

• "And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living", Deborah Biancotti, Ishtar (Gilgamesh Press)
• "Sleeping and the Dead", Cat Sparks, Ishtar (Gilgamesh Press)
• "From the Teeth of Strange Children", Lisa L. Hannett, Bluegrass Symphony (Ticonderoga Publications)

Winner

• "Shovel Man Joe", Amanda J. Spedding, Shades of Sentience

Nominees

• "Out Hunting for Teeth", Joanne Anderton, Midnight Echo #6
• "The Sea at Night", Joanne Anderton, Dead Red Heart (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "Taking It for the Team", Tracie McBride, Dead Red Heart (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "The Wanderer in Darkness", Andrew J. McKiernan, Midnight Echo #6

Winner

• Dead Red Heart, Russell B. Farr (ed) (Ticonderoga Publications)

Nominees

• More Scary Kisses, Liz Grzyb (ed) (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Midnight Echo #6, David Kernot, David Conyers and Jason Fischer (eds) (Australian Horror Writers Association)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (eds) (Ticonderoga Publications)

Winner

• Tales of Sin and Madness, Brett McBean (Thunderstorm Books/Legume Man Books)

Nominees

• Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga Publications)
• The Last Days of Kali Yuga, Paul Haines (Brimstone Press)
• Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies, Lucy Sussex (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Apocrypha Sequence, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (self-published)

Winner

• Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum Publishing)

Nominees

• The Corpse Rat King, Lee Battersby (Angry Robot Books)
• Blood and Dust, Jason Nahrung (Xoum Publishing)

Winner

• "Sky", Kaaron Warren, Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)

Nominees

• "Critique", Daniel I. Russell (Dark Continents Publishing)
• "Escena de un Asesinato", Robert Hood, Exotic Gothic 4 (PS Publishing)

Winner

• "Birthday Suit", Martin Livings, Living with the Dead (Dark Prints Press)

Nominees

• "To Wish On A Clockwork Heart", Felicity Dowker, Bread and Circuses (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "Pigroot Flat", Jason Fischer, Midnight Echo #8
• "Birthday Suit", Martin Livings, Living with the Dead (Dark Prints Press)
• "They Don't Know That We Know What They Know", Andrew J. McKiernan, Midnight Echo #8
• "Creek", Kaaron Warren, Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "Mountain", Kaaron Warren, Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "Road", Kaaron Warren, Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "A Monstrous Touch", Marty Young, Dangers Untold (Alliteration Ink)

Winner

• Surviving The End, Craig Bezant (Dark Prints Press)

Nominees

• Cthulhu Unbound 3, David Conyers and Brian M. Sammons (eds) (Permuted Press)
• The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (eds) (Ticonderoga Publications)

Winner

• Through Splintered Walls, Kaaron Warren (Twelfth Planet Press)

Nominees

• Bread and Circuses, Felicity Dowker (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Living With The Dead, Martin Livings (Dark Prints Press)

Winner

• 809 Jacob Street, Marty Young (Black Beacon Books)

Nominees

• Undead Kelly, Timothy Bowden (Severed Press)
• Topsiders, Scott Tyson (Legume Man Books)

Winner

• "The Unwanted Women of Surrey", Kaaron Warren, Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (Tor Books)

Nominees

• "Soul Killer", Robert Hood, Zombies vs Robots: Diplomacy (IDW Publishing)
• "The Home For Broken Dolls", Kirstyn McDermott, Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press)

Winner

• "Caterpillars", Debbie Cowens, Baby Teeth - Bite Sized Tales of Terror (Paper Road Press)

Nominees

• "Nip, Tuck, Zip, Pluck", John Paul Fitch, Psychopomp Volume 4 (Artifice Comics)
• "Fence Lines", Joanne Anderton, The Bone Chime Song and other stories (FableCroft Publishing)
• "The Nest", C. S. McMullen, Nightmare Magazine #12
• "The Dead Way", J. C. Hart, Baby Teeth - Bite Sized Tales of Terror (Paper Road Press)

Winner

• Baby Teeth - Bite Sized Tales of Terror, Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray (eds) (Paper Road Press)

Nominees

• Midnight Echo #9, Geoff Brown (ed) (Australian Horror Writers Association)
• A Killer Among Demons, Craig Bezant (ed) (Dark Prints Press)
• Star Quake 1, Sophie Yorkston (ed) (IFWG Publishing)

Winner

• The Bone Chime Song and other stories, Jo Anderton (FableCroft Publishing)

Nominees

• There was no nominee shortlist in 2013.

Winner

• Wolf Creek: Origin, Aaron Sterns and Greg McLean (Penguin)

Nominees

• Suicide Forest, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein Books)
• Book of the Dead, Greig Beck (Momentum Books)
• Dark Deceit, Lauren Dawes (Momentum Books)
• Davey Ribbon, Matthew Tait (HodgePodge Press)

Winner

• Dreams of Destruction, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (self-published)

Nominees

• Ghost Camera, Darcy Coates (self-published)
• "The Shark God Covenant", Robert Hood, Dimension6 #3

Winner

• "Shadows of the Lonely Dead", Alax Baxter, Suspended in Dusk (Books of the Dead Press)

Nominees

• "Mephisto", Alan Baxter, Daily Science Fiction
• "Mummified Monk", Rebecca Fung, Daylight Dims Volume 2
• "Bones", Michelle Jager, SQ Mag #14
• "Last Year When We Were Young", Andrew J. McKiernan, Last Year When We Were Young (Satalyte Publishing)

Winner

• SQ Mag #14, Sophie Yorkston (ed) (IFWG Publishing)

Nominees

• SNAFU, Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding (eds) (Cohesion Press)
• Suspended in Dusk, Simon Dewar (ed) (Books of the Dead Press)

Winner

• Last Year When We Were Young, Andrew J. McKiernan (Satalyte Publishing)

Nominees

• There was no nominee shortlist in 2014.

Winner

• In Vaulted Halls Entombed – Alan Baxter

Nominees

• The Haunting of Gillespie House – Darcy Coates
• Night Shift – Dirk Flinthart
• The Whimper – Robert Hood

Winner

• Blurring the Line – Marty Young

Nominees

• Bloodlines – Amanda Pillar
• Lighthouses – Cameron Trost
• Midnight Echo 11 – Kaaron Warren

Winner

• Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories – Rob Hood

Nominees

• The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After – Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• Cherry Crow Children – Deborah Kalin

Winner

• Mine Intercom – Kaaron Warren

Nominees

• The Bone Maiden – Greg Chapman
• Eight Seconds – Pandora Hope
• El Caballo Muerte – Martin Livings
• Perfect Little Stitches – Deborah Sheldon

Winner

• The Road to Golgotha – G.N. Braun & Amanda J Spedding

Nominees

• Troll – Michael Michalandos
• The Monster – Ben Rosenthal
• Undad – Shane W. Smith

Winner

• The Literary Gothic – Marija Elektra Rodriguez

Winner

• The Catacombs – Jeremy Bates

Nominees

• The Haunting of Blackwood House – Darcy Coates
• The Transgressions Cycle: The Mothers – Mike Jones
• The Transgressions Cycle: The Reparation – Mike Jones
• The Big Smoke – Jason Nahrung

Winner

• "His Shining Day", Richard Harland (Dreaming in the Dark)

Nominees

• "D Is for Death", Pete Aldin (C is for Chimera)
• "Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel", Terry Dowling (Dreaming in the Dark)
• "Protege", Anthony Ferguson (Monsters Among Us)
• "No Other Men in Mitchell", Rose Hartley (Nightmare 2/16)
• "Selfie", Lee Murray (SQ Mag 5/16)
• "What the Sea Wants", Deb Sheldon (SQ Mag 2/16)
• "Uncontainable", Helen Stubbs (Apex 12/16)
• "All Roll Over", Kaaron Warren (In Your Face)
• "Fade to Grey", Janeen Webb (Dreaming in the Dark)

Winner

• Crow Shine, Alan Baxter (Ticonderoga)

Nominees

• Concentration, Jack Dann (PS)
• Everything Is Fine, Grant Stone (Racket House)

Winner

• Dead of Night, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, ed. (Australian Horror Writers Association)

Nominees

• Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)
• At the Edge, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray, eds. (Paper Road)

Winner

• The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG)

Nominees

• Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum)
• The Devil’s Prayer, Luke Gracias (self-published)
• Presumed Dead, Rick Kennett (self-published)
• The Invasion, Brett McBean (Sinister Grin)
• Into the Mist, Lee Murray (Cohesion)
• Unbidden, TJ Park (HarperImpulse)
• Devil Dragon, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)

Winner

• "Tipuna Tapu", Dan Rabarts (And Then…: The Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales, Vol I)

Nominees

• Box Of Bones, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein)
• "Served Cold", Alan Baxter (Dreaming in the Dark)
• The Eschatologist, Greg Chapman (Voodoo)
• The Heart of the Mission, Matthew R Davis (Oz Horror Con)
• "Burnt Sugar", Kirstyn McDermott (Dreaming in the Dark)

Winner

• The Body Horror Book, Claire Fitzpatrick (Oscillate Wildly Press)

Nominees

• "101 Weird Writers #46 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa", Kat Clay (Weird Fiction Review)
• Literary Serial Killer Fiction: The Evolution of a Genre, William Cook (Victoria University, Wellington NZ)
• It Follows is the Millennial STD Parable of Our Time, Maria Lewis (SBS)
• "A Shared Ambition: Horror Writers in Horror Fiction", Kyla Lee Ward (AHWA, Midnight Echo #12)

Winner

• Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1, Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens (IFWG Publishing)

Nominees

• Midnight Echo #12, Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Anthony P Ferguson (AHWA)
• Below the Stairs – Tales from the Cellar, Steven Dillon (Things in the Well)

Winner

• Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Publishing)

Nominees

• Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)

Winner

• "The Banksia Boys", Matthew J Morrison (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #66)

Nominees

• "Outside a Drifter, Lisa L. Hannett (Looming Low Vol.1, Dim Shores Press)
• "The Hand Walker", Rue Karney (Pacific Monsters, Fox Spirit Press)
• "The Circle Line", Martin Livings (Between the Tracks, Things in the Well)
• "The Little Mermaid", in Passing, Angela Slatter (The Review of Australian Fiction, April 2017)
• "The Big Reveal", David Stevens (Kaleidotrope)

Winner

• "Ismail’s Expulsion", Brian Craddock (Between the Tracks, Things in the Well)

Nominees

• Hope and Walker, Andrew Cull (Vermillion2One)
• "This Impossible Gift", Matthew R Davis (Midnight Echo #12, AHWA)
• "No Good Deed", Angela Slatter (New Fears, Titan Books)
• "Furtherest", Kaaron Warren (Dark Screams Vol.7, Cemetery Dance)
• Eden in the End, Ashlee Scheuerman (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)

Winner

Corpselight (Verity Fassbinder Book 2), Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher Books)

Nominees

• Aletheia, J.S. Breukelaar (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Slithers, W.W. Mortensen (Self Published)
• Soon, Lois Murphy (Transit Lounge)
• Providence Place, Matthew Tait (Dark Crib Publications)