Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story
Aurealis Award for best horror short story | |
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Awarded for | Excellence in horror fiction short stories |
Country | Australia |
Presented by | Chimaera Publications, Continuum Foundation |
First awarded | 1995 |
Currently held by | Chris Mason (writer) |
Website | Official site |
The
Since their creation in 1995, awards have been given in various categories of
The results are decided by a panel of judges from a list of submitted nominees; the long-list of nominees is reduced to a short-list of finalists.[2] Ties can occur if the panel decides both entries show equal merit, however they are encouraged to choose a single winner.[6] The judges are selected from a public application process by the Award's management team.[7]
This article lists all the short-list nominees and winners in the best horror short story category, as well as short stories that have received honourable mentions or have been highly commended. A work of fiction is defined as a short story if it is fewer than 40,000 words long.[3] Since 2001, honourable mentions and high commendations have been awarded intermittently. Paul Haines has won the award four times, while three people have won the award twice – Simon Brown, Kaaron Warren and Sean Williams. Warren holds the record for most nominations, with nine. Robert Hood holds the record for most nominations without winning, having been a losing finalist four times.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the story's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a blue background have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Winners and joint winners
* Nominees on the shortlist
Year | Author(s) | Short story | Publisher or publication | Ref |
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1995 | Francis Payne* | "Olympia" | Bambada Press (Olympia) | [8][9] |
Terry Dowling | "Scaring the Train" | The Man Who Lost Red ) |
[8][9] | |
Leanne Frahm | "Entropy" | Sybylla (She's Fantastical) | [8][9] | |
Philip Neilsen | "Rock and Roll Has to Die" | Reed Books (Dark House ) |
[8][9] | |
Kaaron Warren | "Skin Holes" | Penguin (Strange Fruit) | [8][9] | |
1996 | Sean Williams* | "Passing the Bone" | Eidolon |
[10] |
Stephen Dedman | "Never Seen by Waking Eyes" | F&SF (Vol 91 No 2) |
[10] | |
Terry Dowling | "Beckoning Nightframe" | Eidolon |
[10] | |
Patricia MacCormack | "The Bloom of Decay" | Bloodsongs | [10] | |
Kaaron Warren | "The Hanging People" | Bloodsongs | [10] | |
1997 | Terry Dowling* | "Jenny Come to Play" | Eidolon |
[11] |
Bill Congreve | "The Mullet That Screwed John West" | MirrorDanse (Epiphanies of Blood) |
[9][11] | |
J. M. Earle | "Ten Minutes of Midnight" | Aurealis (#18) | [11] | |
Sean Williams | "The Freezing of Sarah" | Bloodsongs | [11] | |
1998 | Kaaron Warren* | "A Positive" | Bloodsongs | [12] |
Paul Brandon | "The Marsh Runners" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under ) |
[9][12] | |
Glyn Parry | "Dawn Chorus" | Fantastic Worlds ) |
[9][12] | |
Aaron Sterns | "The Third Rail" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under ) |
[9][12] | |
Kaaron Warren | "The Glass Woman" | Aurealis (#22) | [12] | |
1999 | Sean Williams & Simon Brown* | "Atrax" | Ticonderoga (New Adventures in Sci-Fi) | [9][13] |
Allan Baillie | "The Mouth" | Longman (SpinOuts) | [9][13] | |
Stephen Dedman | "Honest Ghosts" | Gothic.net | [13] | |
Kain Massin | "Escape from Stalingrad" | Harbinger | [13] | |
Alison Venugoban | "Funeral Rights" | Harbinger | [13] | |
2000 | Deborah Biancotti* | "The First and Final Game" | Altair | [14] |
Jack Dann | "Marilyn" | Eidolon |
[14] | |
Stephen Dedman | "A Sentiment Open to Doubt" | Ticonderoga Online | [14] | |
Robert Hood | "That Old Black Graffiti" | Tales from the Wasteland ) |
[9][14] | |
Michael Pryor | "Sewercide" | Aurealis | [14] | |
2001 | Simon Haynes* | "Sleight of Hand" | Potato Monkey | [15] |
Stephen Dedman | "Probable Cause" | Orb |
[15] | |
Robert Hood | "Rotten Times" | Aurealis | [15] | |
Rick Kennett & Paul Collins | "Whispers" | Cosmos Books (Stalking Midnight ) |
[9][15] | |
Alison Venugoban | "Happy Birthday to Me" | Nor of Human... ) |
[9][15] | |
2002 | Kim Westwood* | "Oracle" | Redsine | [16] |
Stephen Dedman | "Wastelands" | Agog! (Agog! Fantastic Fiction) | [9][16] | |
Claire McKenna | "What the Tide Brings" | Fables and Reflections | [16] | |
Chris McMahon | "Within Twilight" | Redsine | [16] | |
2003 | Simon Brown* | "Love is a Stone" | HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) | [9][17] |
Stephen Dedman | "The Wind Shall Blow For Ever Mair" | HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) | [9][17] | |
Sue Isle |
"Amy's Stars" | Orb |
[17] | |
Kyla Ward | "Kijin Tea" | Agog! (Agog! Terrific Tales) | [9][17] | |
Janeen Webb | "Blake's Angel" | HarperCollins (Gathering the Bones) | [9][17] | |
2004 | Paul Haines* | "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" | NFG | [18] |
Stephen Dedman | "Twilight of the Idols" | DAW (Conqueror Fantastic) | [9][18] | |
Richard Harland | "The Border" | Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories) | [9][18] | |
Ben Peek | "Dr Who (or the day I learned to love Tom Baker)" | Wakefield Press (Forever Shores) | [9][18] | |
Alinta Thornton | "Kathleen, Furnished with Bees" | Dark Animus | [18] | |
2005 | Lee Battersby* | "Pater Familias" | Shadowed Realms | [19] |
James Cain | "The Ride" | Dark Krypt | [19] | |
Paul Haines | "Doof, Doof, Doof" | Dark Animus | [19] | |
Chuck McKenzie | "Eight-Beat Bar" | Aurealis | [19] | |
Cat Sparks |
"Macciato Lane" | Ticonderoga Online | [19] | |
2006 | Stephen Dedman* | "Dead of Winter" | Weird Tales | [20] |
Margo Lanagan | "Winkie" | Red Spikes ) |
[9][20] | |
Chris Lawson | "Hieronymous Boche" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I ) |
[9][20] | |
Kaaron Warren | "Dead Sea Fruit" | Fantasy Magazine | [20] | |
Kaaron Warren | "Woman Train" | CSFG Publishing (The Outcast) | [9][20] | |
2007 | Anna Tambour* | "The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe" | Subterranean |
[21] |
Terry Dowling | "Toother" | Night Shade Books (Eclipse One) | [21][22] | |
Richard Harland | "Special Perceptions" | Ash-Tree Press (At Ease with the Dead) | [9][21] | |
Rick Kennett | "The Dark and What It Said" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (#28) | [21] | |
Ben Peek | "Black Betty" | Lone Star Stories | [21] | |
2008 | Kirstyn McDermott* | "Painlessness" | Greatest Uncommon Denominator |
[23] |
Lee Battersby | "In From the Snow'" | HarperVoyager (Dreaming Again ) |
[9][23] | |
Deborah Biancotti | "Pale Dark Soldier" | Midnight Echo |
[23] | |
Trent Jamieson | "Day Boy" | Murky Depths | [23] | |
Ian McHugh | "Bitter Dreams" | Galaxy Press (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XXIV) | [9][23] | |
2009 | Paul Haines* (tie) | "Slice of Life – A Spot of Liver" | The Mayne Press (Slice of Life) | [9][24] |
Paul Haines* (tie) | "Wives" | Coeur de Lion Publishing (X6) | [9][24] | |
Felicity Dowker | "Jesse's Gift" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (#40) | [24] | |
Christopher Green | "Having Faith" | Nossa Morte | [24] | |
Andrew J. McKiernan | "The Message" | Midnight Echo |
[24] | |
2010 | Richard Harland* | "The Fear" | Brimstone Press (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears) | [25] |
Bob Franklin | "Take the Free Tour" | Affirm Press (Under Stones) | [26] | |
Paul Haines | "Her Gallant Needs" | Twelfth Planet Press (Sprawl) | [26] | |
Robert Hood | "Wasting Matilda" | Constable & Robinson (Zombie Apocalypse!) | [26] | |
Martin Livings | "Lollo" | Apex Publishing (Close Encounters of the Urban Kind) |
[26] | |
2011 | Paul Haines* (tie) | "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt" | Brimstone Press (The Last Days of Kali Yuga) | [27] |
Lisa L. Hannett* (tie) | "The Short Go: a Future in Eight Seconds" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bluegrass Symphony) | [27] | |
Deborah Biancotti | "And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living" | Gilgamesh Press (Ishtar) | [28] | |
Margo Lanagan | "Mulberry Boys" | Tor Books (Blood and Other Cravings) | [28] | |
Angela Slatter | "The Coffin Maker's Daughter" | Quercus Books (A Book of Horrors) |
[28] | |
2012 | Kaaron Warren* | "Sky" | Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) | [29] |
Joanne Anderton | "Sanaa's Army" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bloodstones) | [30] | |
Jodi Cleghorn | "Elyora" | Review of Australian Fiction, Rabbit Hole Special Issue | [30] | |
Felicity Dowker | "To Wish Upon a Clockwork Heart" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bread And Circuses) | [30] | |
Robert Hood | "Escena de un Asesinato" | PS Publishing (Exotic Gothic 4) | [30] | |
2013 | Kim Wilkins* | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | [31][32] |
Joanne Anderton | "Fencelines" | FableCroft Publishing (The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories) | [31] | |
Terry Dowling | "The Sleepover" | PS Publishing (Exotic Gothic 5) | [31] | |
Kirstyn McDermott | "The Home for Broken Dolls" | Twelfth Planet Press (Caution: Contains Small Parts) | [31] | |
Kaaron Warren | "The Human Moth" | Miskatonic Press (The Grimscribe's Puppets) | [31] | |
2014 | Angela Slatter* | "Home and Hearth" | Spectral Press (Home and Hearth) | [33] |
Deborah Biancotti | "The Executioner Goes Home" | Review of Australian Fiction (Vol 11, No 6) | [34] | |
James Bradley | "Skinsuit" | Island Magazine (#137) | [34] | |
Kirstyn McDermott | "By The Moon's Good Grace" | Review of Australian Fiction (Vol 12, No 3) | [34] | |
Garth Nix | "Shay Corsham Worsted" | ChiZine Publications (Fearful Symmetries) | [34] | |
2015 | Joanne Anderton* | "Bullets" | AHWA (In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep) | [35] |
Lisa L. Hannett | "Consorting With Fish" | Cohesion Press (Blurring the Line) | [36] | |
Lisa L. Hannett | "Heirloom Pieces" | Apex Publications (Apex Magazine) |
[36] | |
Deborah Kalin | "The Briskwater Mare" | Twelfth Planet Press (Cherry Crow Children) | [36] | |
Tracie McBride | "Breaking Windows" | Aurealis (#84) | [36] | |
Kirstyn McDermott | "Self, Contained" | TDM Press (The Dark) | [36] | |
2016 | T. R. Napper* | "Flame Trees" | Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2016 | [37][38] |
R. P. L. Johnson | "Non Zero Sum" | Cohesion Press (SNAFU: Hunters) | [37] | |
Garth Nix | "Penny for a Match, Mister?" | Saga Press (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales |
[37] | |
Angela Slatter | "The Red Forest" | PS Publishing (Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales) | [37] | |
Kaaron Warren | "68 Days" | Broken Eye Books (Tomorrow's Cthulhu | [37] | |
Durand Welsh | "Life, or Whatever Passes For It" | Grey Matter Press (Peel Back the Skin) | [37] | |
2017 | J. Ashley Smith* | "Old Growth" | IFWG Publishing Australia (SQ Mag 31) | [39][40] |
Kat Clay | "Reef" | IFWG Publishing Australia (SQ Mag 31) | [39] | |
Lisa L. Hannett | "Outside, a Drifter" | Dim Shores (Looming Low) | [39] | |
Deborah Sheldon | "Angel Hair" | IFWG Publishing Australia (Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories) | [39] | |
Alfie Simpson | "The Endless Below" | Breach (#2) | [39] | |
J. Ashley Smith | "On the Line" | Australasian Horror Writer's Association (Midnight Echo 12) | [39] | |
2018 | Alfie Simpson* | "Sub-Urban" | Breach (#7) | [41][42] |
Michael Gardner | "The Offering" | Aurealis (#112) | [41] | |
Jason Nahrung | "Slither" | IFWG Publishing Australia (Cthulhu Deep Down Under 2) | [41] | |
Jessica Nelson-Tyers | "By Kindle Light" | AntipodeanSF (#235) | [41] | |
Jessica Nelson-Tyers | "Hit and Rot" | Breach (#8) | [41] | |
J. Ashley Smith | "The Further Shore" | Bourbon Penn (#15) | [41] | |
2019 | Chris Mason* | "Vivienne and Agnes" | (self-published) Beside the Seaside – Tales from the Day Tripper | [43] |
Joanne Anderton | "Loose Stones" | Xoum (Infinite Threads) | [44] | |
Grace Chan | "The Mark" | Monash University Publishing (Verge 2019, Uncanny) | [44] | |
Matthew R Davis | "Pilgrimage" | Breach (#10) | [44] | |
Terry Dowling | "The Unwrapping" | Saga Press (Echoes) | [44] | |
Jason Fischer | "Of Meat and Man" | Cohesion Press (SNAFU: Last Stand, Cohesion Press) | [44] | |
J Ashley Smith | "The Moth Tapes" | Aurealis (#117) | [44] | |
2020 | Jessica Nelson-Tyers* | "Phoenix Pharmaceuticals" | Deadset Press (Cancer, The Zodiac Series #7) | [45][46] |
Elaine Cuyegkeng | "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter" | Omnium Gatherum (Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women) | [45] | |
Martin Livings | "The Bone Fairy" | Midnight Echo (#15) | [45] | |
Garth Nix | "Many Mouths to Make a Meal" | Anchor Books (Final Cuts) | [45] | |
Helena O'Connor | "How We Felt" | Aurealis (#136) | [45] | |
2021 | Lisa Fuller | "Don’t Look!" | Wakefield Press (Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales) | [47][48][49] |
Ephiny Gale | "Traces of Us, Hot Enough for Dinner" | The Dread Machine (#1.3) | [47][49] | |
Maria Lewis | "The House that Hungers" | Aurealis (#146) | ||
Martin Livings | "The Quiet Room" | Midnight Echo (#16)
| ||
Tracie McBride | "Sins of the Mother" | IFWG (Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies) | ||
Antoinette Rydyr | "Mother Dandelion" | IFWG (Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies) |
Honourable mentions and high commendations
In the following table, the years correspond to the year of the book's eligibility; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature" article. Entries with a grey background have been noted as highly commended; those with a white background have received honourable mentions. If the short story was originally published in a book with other stories rather than by itself or in a magazine, the book title is included after the publisher's name.
* Highly commended
* Honourable mentions
See also
- Ditmar Award, an Australian science fiction award established in 1969
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