2022 is almost here. Time to share our Literary Horror-themed favorites of '21! As usual, I'll stick to mostly books published in '21, and categories similar to the Shirley Jackson awards.
Favorite anthologies: Tim Jeffreys (ed.), Dark Lane 10
Favorite short fiction: Brian Evenson, To Breathe The Air Brian Evenson, Justle Brian Evenson, The Devil's Hand Brian Evenson, The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell Patricia Lillie, The Cuckoo Girls Patricia Lillie, Notes on the Events Leading Up to the Mysterious Disappearance of Miss Lotte Clemens Isabel Yap, Good Girls Isabel Yap, Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez? Maggie Siebert, Messes Francesco Corigliano, The Owner Julia Elliott, Another Frequency Merl Fluin, The Objective
Favorite novels:
Karin Tidbeck, The Memory Theater
Favorite collections:
Brian Evenson, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
Alex diFrancesco, Transmutation: Stories
Maggie Siebert, Bonding
Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever
Patricia Lillie, The Cuckoo Girls
Favorite anthologies:
Tim Jeffreys (ed.), Dark Lane 10
Favorite short fiction:
Brian Evenson, To Breathe The Air
Brian Evenson, Justle
Brian Evenson, The Devil's Hand
Brian Evenson, The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell
Patricia Lillie, The Cuckoo Girls
Patricia Lillie, Notes on the Events Leading Up to the Mysterious Disappearance of Miss Lotte Clemens
Isabel Yap, Good Girls
Isabel Yap, Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez?
Maggie Siebert, Messes
Francesco Corigliano, The Owner
Julia Elliott, Another Frequency
Merl Fluin, The Objective
Favorite graphic novels:
Michael DeForge, Heaven No Hell
Michael DeForge, Familiar Face
Favorite non-fiction:
M. Kitchell, The Abyss is the Foundation of the Possible: Writing On and Through Film, 2007-2018