World Fantasy Awards 2024: Complete list of winners

The 2024 World Fantasy Awards have announced their winners, and this year’s selections showcase the genre’s growing embrace of distinctive voices and fresh perspectives. The World Fantasy Awards, one of the most prestigious honors in speculative fiction, recognized The Reformatory by Tananarive Due as Best Novel—a powerful work that ventures into haunted American history with Due’s characteristic blend of historical rigor and supernatural dread. The award season also crowned Josh Malerman’s “Half the House Is Haunted” as Best Novella and Nghi Vo’s “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” as Best Short Fiction, continuing a trend we’ve seen across major award ceremonies this year: judges increasingly rewarding stories that ground fantasy and horror in real-world contexts and marginalized perspectives.

What’s particularly striking about this year’s World Fantasy Awards winners is how they resist easy categorization. Due’s novel, Malerman’s novella, and Vo’s short fiction each demonstrate that contemporary fantasy isn’t confined to epic world-building or escapist thrills—instead, today’s most honored writers are using fantastical and horrific elements to interrogate power, identity, and legacy. These selections feel less like a departure from the World Fantasy Awards’ storied tradition and more like a natural evolution of what the award has always championed: imaginative excellence that challenges readers.

Below, you’ll find complete details on these winners and the full slate of 2024 honorees.

Best Novel

• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Best Novella

• “Half the House Is Haunted” by Josh Malerman

Best Short Fiction

• “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” by Nghi Vo