The World Fantasy Awards Ballot for works published in 2014 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, November 5-8, 2015 in Saratoga Springs NY. The Lifetime Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, will go to Ramsey Campbell and Sheri S. Tepper, and were announced earlier this month.

A correction to the ballot was posted on July 11, 2015, moving the Wilson title to Novella, and adding “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon to Short Fiction.

The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:

Novel:

The Goblin Emperor , Katherine Addison (Tor)

, Katherine Addison (Tor) City of Stairs , Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)

, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher) The Bone Clocks , David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)

, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre) Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy , Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)

Novella:

We Are All Completely Fine , Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)

, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon) “Where the Trains Turn”, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Tor.com 11/19/14)

“Hollywood North”, Michael Libling (F&SF 11-12/14)

“The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)

“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)

“The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com, 4/2/14)

Short Fiction:

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

Do You Like to Look at Monsters? , Scott Nicolay (Fedogan & Bremer)

, Scott Nicolay (Fedogan & Bremer) “Jackalope Wives”, Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/14)

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

) “The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5-6/14)

Anthology:

Fearful Symmetries , Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)

, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine) Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History , Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)

, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres) Shadows & Tall Trees 2014 , Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)

, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow) Monstrous Affections , Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (Candlewick)

, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (Candlewick) Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam; Titan)

Collection:

Mercy and Other Stories , Rebecca Lloyd (Tartarus)

, Rebecca Lloyd (Tartarus) Gifts for the One Who Comes After , Helen Marshall (ChiZine)

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

, Robert Shearman (ChiZine) The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings , Angela Slatter (Tartarus)

, Angela Slatter (Tartarus) Death at the Blue Elephant, Janeen Webb (Ticonderoga)

Artist:

Samuel Araya

Galen Dara

Jeffrey Alan Love

Erik Mohr

John Picacio

Special Award – Professional:

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

Jeanne Cavelos, for Odyssey writing workshops

Sandra Kasturi & Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications

Gordon Van Gelder, for F&SF

Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

Special Award – Nonprofessional: