The World Fantasy Convention was hold this weekend in Saratoga Springs , New York , where the winners of the 2015 World Fantasy Awards have been announce !

Here are the victor :

Novel

David Mitchell , The Bone Clocks ( Random House / Sceptre UK )

Katherine Addison , The Goblin Emperor ( Tor Books )

Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Stairs ( Broadway Books / Jo Fletcher Books )

Jeff VanderMeer , Area X : The Southern Reach Trilogy ( Farrar , Straus and Giroux Originals )

Jo Walton , My Real Children ( Tor Books US / Corsair UK )

Novella

Daryl Gregory , We Are All Completely Fine ( Tachyon Publications )

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen , “ Where the Trains Turn ” ( Tor.com , Nov. 19 , 2014 )

Michael Libling , “ Hollywood North ” ( The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Nov./Dec . 2014 )

Mary Rickert , “ The Mothers of Voorhisville ” ( Tor.com , Apr. 30 , 2014 )

Rachel Swirsky , “ Grand Jeté ( The Great Leap ) ” ( Subterranean Press magazine , Summer 2014 )

Kai Ashante Wilson , “ The Devil in America ” ( Tor.com , April 2 , 2014 )

Short Story

Scott Nicolay , Do You Like to take care at Monsters ? ( Fedogan & Bremer , chapbook )

Kelly Link , “ I Can See flop Through You ” ( McSweeney ’s 48 )

Ursula Vernon , Jackalope Wives ( Apex Magazine , January 2014 )

Kaaron Warren , “ decease ’s Door Café ” ( Shadows & Tall Trees 2014 )

Alyssa Wong , “ The Fisher Queen ” ( The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , May / June 2014 )

Anthology

Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant , eds . , Monstrous Affections : An Anthology of Beastly Tales ( Candlewick Press )

Ellen Datlow , ed . , Fearful Symmetries ( ChiZine Publications )

George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois , eds . , Rogues ( Bantam Books / Titan Books )

Rose Fox and Daniel José Older , eds . , Long Hidden : Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History ( Crossed Genres )

Michael Kelly , ed . Shadows & Tall Trees 2014 ( Undertow Publications )

Collection

Angela Slatter , The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings ( Tartarus Press )

Helen Marshall , Gifts for the One Who come After ( ChiZine Publications )

Rebecca Lloyd , Mercy and Other Stories ( Tartarus Press )

Robert Shearman , They Do the Same Things Different There ( ChiZine Publications )

Janeen Webb , Death at the Blue Elephant ( Ticonderoga Publications )

Artist

Samuel Araya

Galen Dara

Jeffrey Alan Love

Erik Mohr

John Picacio

Special Award—Professional

Sandra Kasturi and Brett Alexander Savory , for ChiZine Publications

John Joseph Adams , for editing anthologies and Nightmare and Ligthspeed magazines

Jeanne Cavelos , for Odyssey penning workshops

Gordon Van Gelder , for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Jerad Walters , for Centipede Press

Special Award—Non-professional

Ray B. Russell and Rosalie Parker , for Tartarus Press

Scott H. Andrews , for Beneath Ceaseless Skies : Literary Adventure Fantasy

Matt Cardin , for Born to Fear : Interviews with Thomas Ligotti ( Subterranean Press )

Stefan Fergus , for Civilian Reader

Patrick Swenson , for Fairwood Press

Life Achievement Winners

Ramsey CampbellSheri S. Tepper

Also interesting to mention : it was announced that this is the last year that the honour figurine – which features a impersonation of H.P. Lovecraft , will be strike out .

WorldFantasy2015Award announces this is the last yr of the Lovecraft statuette .

— Locus Magazine ( @locusmag)November 8 , 2015

The statue has come under fire in recent years , with author such asNnedi OkoraforandDaniel José Olderpointing out that the repugnance generator ’s views on backwash are make him an uncomfortable build to habituate . There ’s no tidings on what will interchange the statue incite forrad .

[ Locus ]

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