The British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, also known as the August Derleth Award, is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards. The award is named after the American writer and editor August Derleth. The August Derleth Award was previously given to the best novel of the year, before the awards were reorganized in 2012.
Winners and shortlists
* Winners
Year Author Work Publisher 2012 * Pan Books Gollancz 11/22/63 Hodder & Stoughton Cyber Circus NewCon Harper Voyager 2013 * Last Days Macmillan Publishers PS Publishing Some Kind of Fairy Tale Gollancz Roc Books Silent Voices Solaris Books 2014 * HarperCollins NOS4A2 Gollancz Gollancz Path of Needles Jo Fletcher House of Small Shadows Pan Books Mayhem Jo Fletcher 2015 * No One Gets Out Alive Macmillan Publishers Crowded Quarantine Jo Fletcher Station Eleven Knopf NewCon Orbit Books 2016 * Rawblood Weidenfeld & Nicolson Welcome to Night Vale Orbit UK Titan Books Jo Fletcher Lost Girl Pan Books Gollancz 2017 * Disappearance at Devil's Rock Titan Books 13 Minutes Gollancz Jo Fletcher PS Publishing 2018 Spiegel & Grau Behind Her Eyes HarperCollins Orbit Books Jo Fletcher Relics Titan Books 2019 * Little Eve Weidenfeld & Nicolson Titan Books PS Publishing Wolf's Hill Snowbooks 2020 * Ritual Limited Hodder & Stoughton Titan Books Mistletoe Jo Fletcher Titan Books Titan Books 2021 * Mexican Gothic Jo Fletcher Beneath the Rising Solaris Books Saga Press Saga Press Plain Bad Heroines Borough Survivor Song Titan Books 2022 * Viper Penguin Books Solaris Books Nyx Publishing / Orbit Books My Heart Is a Chainsaw Titan Books Nothing but Blackened Teeth Titan Books 2023 * Just Like Home Hodder & Stoughton Full Immersion Angry Robot Angry Robot Miracle Growth Eerie River Publishing Sundial Viper 2024 Don't Fear the Reaper Titan Books Titan Books Boys in the Valley Orbit Books How to Sell a Haunted House Titan Books Looking Glass Sound Viper One Life Left Eerie River Publishing 2025 * My Darling Dreadful Thing Poisoned Pen Press Withered Hill Canelo Horror Angry Robot Among The Living Titan Books Bury Your Gays Titan Books Feast While You Can Grand Central Publishing 2026 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Tor Nightfire Titan Books Hungerstone Manilla Press Solaris Books Lionhearts Northern Republic Press Black Flame Titan Books
See also British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, formerly known as the August Derleth Award
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