"In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.” Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem has called Jackson “one of this century’s most luminous and strange American writers,” and multiple generations of authors would agree.

The Shirley Jackson Award will be voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics, with input from a Board of Advisors. The awards will be given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.."

(from the official site for the Awards at http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/)


The Shirley Jackson Awards have been presented at Readercon each July since 2007. I was surprised to find there was no Listopia for this particular award. I have started the list off with all winners in each category - Novel, Novella, Novelette, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology - as well as the finalists from the Novel category. (Some of the novellas and novelettes and most of the winners for the single Short Story category are not available on Goodreads. In some cases, the author has included the winning piece in a collection, so I've put the entire collection on this list.) Feel free to add finalists/nominees from the other categories to the list, as well. (I needed to limit my initial entries somehow, in light of the 100-book limit per list user.)

Please don't add books or stories to this list that are not or have not been official contenders for a Shirley Jackson award. I will remove books that can not be found on the lists at http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/. You can also view all the nominees and winners on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/....