These are the shortlists for the British Fantasy Awards 2015.

Four nominees in each category were decided by the votes of BFS members and the attendees of FantasyCon 2014 and FantasyCon 2015. The exceptions are the collection and non-fiction categories, in which two items drawing for fourth place could not be separated and both were put through to the shortlist.

Up to two further nominees in each category were added by the juries as “egregious omissions” under the rules.

Best anthology

The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2, ed. Jan Edwards and Jenny Barber (The Alchemy Press)

Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease, ed. by Joel Lane and Tom Johnstone (Gray Friar Press)

Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue, ed. Christie Yant (Lightspeed Magazine)

The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, ed. Mark Morris (Spectral Press)

Terror Tales of Wales, ed. Paul Finch (Gray Friar Press)

Best artist

Ben Baldwin

Vincent Chong

Les Edwards

Sarah Anne Langton

Karla Ortiz

Daniele Serra

Best collection

Black Gods Kiss, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)

The Bright Day Is Done, Carole Johnstone (Gray Friar Press)

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

Nick Nightmare Investigates, Adrian Cole (The Alchemy Press and Airgedlámh Publications)

Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites, Hal Duncan (Lethe Press)

Best comic/graphic novel

Cemetery Girl, Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden and Don Kramer (Jo Fletcher Books)

Grandville Noël, Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape)

Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)

Seconds, Bryan Lee O’Malley (SelfMadeHero)

Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (Margaret K. McElderry Books)

The Wicked + The Divine, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (Image Comics)

Best fantasy novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

Breed, KT Davies (Fox Spirit Books)

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

Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s Books)

A Man Lies Dreaming, Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Moon King, Neil Williamson (NewCon Press)

The Relic Guild, Edward Cox (Gollancz)

Best film/television episode

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Black Mirror: White Christmas, Charlie Brooker (Channel 4)

Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (Marvel Studios)

Interstellar, Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan (Paramount Pictures)

Under the Skin, Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer (Film4 et al)

Best horror novel (the August Derleth Award)

The End, Gary McMahon (NewCon Press)

The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey (Orbit)

The Last Plague, Rich Hawkins (Crowded Quarantine Publications)

No One Gets Out Alive, Adam Nevill (Macmillan)

Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel (Picador/Knopf)

The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)

Best independent press

The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards)

Fox Spirit Books (Adele Wearing)

NewCon Press (Ian Whates)

Spectral Press (Simon Marshall-Jones)

Best magazine/periodical

Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)

Holdfast Magazine, ed. Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee (Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee)

Interzone, ed. by Andy Cox (TTA Press)

Lightspeed, ed. John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed Magazine)

Sein und Werden, ed. Rachel Kendall (ISMs Press)

Best newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

Edward Cox, for The Relic Guild (Gollancz)

Sarah Lotz, for The Three (Hodder & Stoughton)

Laura Mauro, for Ptichka (Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease)

Den Patrick, for The Boy with the Porcelain Blade (Gollancz)

Jen Williams, for The Copper Promise (Headline)

Best non-fiction

D.F. Lewis Dreamcatcher Real-Time Reviews, D.F. Lewis (D.F. Lewis)

Ginger Nuts of Horror, ed. Jim McLeod (Jim McLeod)

Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961–1971, ed. S.T. Joshi (PS Publishing)

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions, Hal Duncan (Lethe Press)

Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews, Adam Roberts (Steel Quill Books )

Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic, John Howard (The Alchemy Press)

You Are the Hero: A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, Jonathan Green (Snowbooks)

Best novella

Cold Turkey, Carole Johnstone (TTA Press)

Drive, Mark West (Pendragon Press)

Newspaper Heart, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)

Water For Drowning, Ray Cluley (This Is Horror)

Best short story

A Change of Heart, Gaie Sebold (Wicked Women)

The Girl on the Suicide Bridge, J.A. Mains (Beside the Seaside)

Ptichka, Laura Mauro (Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease)

A Woman’s Place, Emma Newman (Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets)

The winners of these awards will now be decided by the previously announced juries, while the British Fantasy Society committee has the task of deciding the winner of the special award (the Karl Edward Wagner Award). The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday, 25 October 2015, at FantasyCon 2015 in Nottingham.

The British Fantasy Awards constitution can be read here.

Please send any queries and corrections to the awards administrator, Stephen Theaker, at bfsawards@britishfantasysociety.org.