Spike notes The World Fantasy Awards winners were presented at a ceremony during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention.
Some details from Locus magazine:
Best Novel
WINNER: Once Was Willem, M.R. Carey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon)
- The Secret Market of the Dead, Giovanni De Feo (Saga)
- The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK)
- The Adventures of Mary Darling, Pat Murphy (Tachyon)
Best Long Fiction
WINNER: Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
- The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)
- “The Secret Diary of Mina Harker”, Theodora Goss (Letters from an Imaginary Country)
- “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories)
- The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
- “The Spotter”, Josh Malerman (You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction, Vol. 2)
- A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Best Short Fiction
WINNER: “The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home”, Renan Bernardo (Reactor 8/27/25)
- “In My Country”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
- “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days”, Samantha Mills (Uncanny 3-4/25)
- “St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls”, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Weird Horror Spring ‘25)
- “Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny 5-6/25)
[Spike notes: If we want to read one story, it looks like the winner has a main character called Adelaide!]
