Australian Shadows Awards

• Guest judge: Kim Wilkins
• Award Director: Marty Young

• "Father Muerte and the Flesh", Lee Battersby, Aurealis #36

• "Pater Familias", Lee Battersby, Shadowed Realms #3
• Shadow Box, Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Angela Challis (eds) (Brimstone Press)
• "The Red Priest's Homecoming", Dirk Flinthart, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17
• The Grinding House, Kaaron Warren (CSFG Publishing)

• Judging panel: David Schembri, Miranda Siemienowicz, Mark Smith-Briggs
• Guest judge: Robert Hood
• Award Director: Marty Young

• The Pilo Family Circus, Will Elliott (ABC Books)

• "Father Renoir's Hands", Lee Battersby, Through Soft Air (Prime Books)
• "The Dying Light", Deborah Biancotti, Eidolon I (Eidolon Books)
• "The Blow-Off", Stephen Dedman, Brutarian #47
• "The Bridal Bier", Carol Ryles, Eidolon I (Eidolon Books)

• "Silk and Pearls", K. J. Bishop, Shadowed Realms #9
• "The Cup of Nestor", Simon Brown (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear, Terry Dowling (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• The Mother, Brett McBean (Lothian Books)

• Judging panel: Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Gary Kemble, Mark Smith-Briggs
• Guest judge: Richard Harland
• Award Director: Kirstyn McDermott

• "Toother", Terry Dowling, Eclipse 1 (Night Shade Books)

• "Between the Memories", Matthew Chrulew, Aurealis #38/39
• "Subtle Invasion", David Conyers, The Black Book of Horror (Mortbury Press)
• "The Dark and What It Said", Rick Kennett, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #28
• "There Was Darkness", Martin Livings, Fantastic Wonder Stories (Ticonderoga Publications)
• The Darkness Within, Jason Nahrung (Hachette Livre)

• The Spiraling Worm, David Conyers & John Sunseri (Chaosium)
• "Cooling the Crows", Kaaron Warren, In Bad Dreams (Eneit Press)
• "The Wildflowers", Marty Young, Fantastic Wonder Stories (Ticonderoga Publications)

• Judging panel: Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Brett McBean, Chuck McKenzie
• Guest judge: Sarah Endacott
• Award Director: Kirstyn McDermott

• "The Claws of Native Ghosts", Lee Battersby, The Beast Within (Graveside Books)

• "This Way To The Exit", Sara Douglass, Dreaming Again (HarperVoyager)
• "Rick Gets A Job", Jason Fischer, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37
• "Lakeside", Christopher Green, Dreaming Again (HarperVoyager)
• "Her Collection of Intimacy", Paul Haines, Black: Australian Dark Culture #2

• Judging panel: Craig Bezant, Stephanie Gunn, Chuck McKenzie
• Guest judges: Bill Congreve (Short Fiction), James Doig (Edited Publication), Martin Livings (Long Fiction)
• Award Director: Shane Jiraiya Cummings

• Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)

• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Red Queen, Honey Brown (Penguin Australia)
• "Wives", Paul Haines, X6 (Coeur de Lion Publishing)
• The Dead Path, Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)

• Grants Pass, Jennifer Brozek & Amanda Pillar (Morrigan Books)

• Festive Fear, Stephen Clark (Tasmaniac Publications)
• Aurealis #42, Stuart Mayne (Chimaera Publications)

• "Six Suicides", Deborah Biancotti, A Book of Endings (Twelfth Planet Press)

• "The Emancipated Dance", Felicity Dowker, Midnight Echo #2
• "Busking", Jason Fischer, Midnight Echo #3
• "The Message", Andrew J. McKiernan, Midnight Echo #2
• "The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfalls", Kaaron Warren, Exotic Gothic 3, Ash-Tree Press

• Judging panel: Craig Bezant, Stephanie Gunn, Jeff Ritchie
• Guest judges: Kaaron Warren (Short Fiction), Rocky Wood (Edited Publication), Chuck McKenzie (Long Fiction)
• Award Director: Shane Jiraiya Cummings

• Under Stones, Bob Franklin (Affirm Press)

• Bleed, Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Guardian of the Dead, Karen Healy (Allen & Unwin)
• Madigan Mine, Kirstyn McDermott (Picador Australia)
• The Girl With No Hands, Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga Publications)

• Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears, Angela Challis & Marty Young (eds) (Brimstone Press)

• Midnight Echo #4, Lee Battersby (ed) (Australian Horror Writers Association)
• Scary Kisses, Liz Grzyb (ed) (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Scenes From the Second Storey, Amanda Pillar & Pete Kempshall (eds) (Morrigan Books)

• "She Said", Kirstyn McDermott, Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books)

• "Bread and Circuses", Felicity Dowker, Scary Kisses (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "Brisneyland by Night", Angela Slatter, Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "All The Clowns In Clowntown", Andrew J. McKiernan, Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears (Brimstone Press)
• "Dream Machine", David Conyers, Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books)

• Judging panel: Marty Young, James A. Moore

• No award

• The Broken Ones, Stephen M. Irwin (Random House)

• "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt", Paul Haines, The Last Days of Kali Yuga (Brimstone Press)

• "And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living", Deborah Biancotti, Ishtar (Gilgamesh Press)
• "Sleeping and the Dead", Cat Sparks, Ishtar (Gilgamesh Press)
• "From the Teeth of Strange Children", Lisa L. Hannett, Bluegrass Symphony (Ticonderoga Publications)

• "Shovel Man Joe", Amanda J. Spedding, Shades of Sentience

• "Out Hunting for Teeth", Joanne Anderton, Midnight Echo #6
• "The Sea at Night", Joanne Anderton, Dead Red Heart (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "Taking It for the Team", Tracie McBride, Dead Red Heart (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "The Wanderer in Darkness", Andrew J. McKiernan, Midnight Echo #6

• Dead Red Heart, Russell B. Farr (ed) (Ticonderoga Publications)

• More Scary Kisses, Liz Grzyb (ed) (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Midnight Echo #6, David Kernot, David Conyers and Jason Fischer (eds) (Australian Horror Writers Association)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (eds) (Ticonderoga Publications)

• Tales of Sin and Madness, Brett McBean (Thunderstorm Books/Legume Man Books)

• Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga Publications)
• The Last Days of Kali Yuga, Paul Haines (Brimstone Press)
• Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies, Lucy Sussex (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Apocrypha Sequence, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (self-published)

• Short Stories/Collections/Edited Works panel: Steve Gerlach, Greg Chapman, Stephen Clark
• Novels/Novellas panel: Gerry Huntman, Jenny Blackford, B. Michael Radburn

• Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum Publishing)

• The Corpse Rat King, Lee Battersby (Angry Robot Books)
• Blood and Dust, Jason Nahrung (Xoum Publishing)

• "Sky", Kaaron Warren, Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)

• "Critique", Daniel I. Russell (Dark Continents Publishing)
• "Escena de un Asesinato", Robert Hood, Exotic Gothic 4 (PS Publishing)

• "Birthday Suit", Martin Livings, Living with the Dead (Dark Prints Press)

• "To Wish On A Clockwork Heart", Felicity Dowker, Bread and Circuses (Ticonderoga Publications)
• "Pigroot Flat", Jason Fischer, Midnight Echo #8
• "Birthday Suit", Martin Livings, Living with the Dead (Dark Prints Press)
• "They Don't Know That We Know What They Know", Andrew J. McKiernan, Midnight Echo #8
• "Creek", Kaaron Warren, Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "Mountain", Kaaron Warren, Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "Road", Kaaron Warren, Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press)
• "A Monstrous Touch", Marty Young, Dangers Untold (Alliteration Ink)

• Surviving The End, Craig Bezant (Dark Prints Press)

• Cthulhu Unbound 3, David Conyers and Brian M. Sammons (eds) (Permuted Press)
• The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (eds) (Ticonderoga Publications)

• Through Splintered Walls, Kaaron Warren (Twelfth Planet Press)

• Bread and Circuses, Felicity Dowker (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Living With The Dead, Martin Livings (Dark Prints Press)

• Short Stories/Collections/Edited Works panel: Steve Gerlach, Gitte Christensen, Lee Pletzers
• Novels/Novellas panel: Gerry Huntman, Geoff Brown, Chuck McKenzie

• 809 Jacob Street, Marty Young (Black Beacon Books)

• Undead Kelly, Timothy Bowden (Severed Press)
• Topsiders, Scott Tyson (Legume Man Books)

• "The Unwanted Women of Surrey", Kaaron Warren, Queen Victoria's Book of Spells (Tor Books)

• "Soul Killer", Robert Hood, Zombies vs Robots: Diplomacy (IDW Publishing)
• "The Home For Broken Dolls", Kirstyn McDermott, Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press)

• "Caterpillars", Debbie Cowens, Baby Teeth - Bite Sized Tales of Terror (Paper Road Press)

• "Nip, Tuck, Zip, Pluck", John Paul Fitch, Psychopomp Volume 4 (Artifice Comics)
• "Fence Lines", Joanne Anderton, The Bone Chime Song and other stories (FableCroft Publishing)
• "The Nest", C. S. McMullen, Nightmare Magazine #12
• "The Dead Way", J. C. Hart, Baby Teeth - Bite Sized Tales of Terror (Paper Road Press)

• Baby Teeth - Bite Sized Tales of Terror, Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray (eds) (Paper Road Press)

• Midnight Echo #9, Geoff Brown (ed) (Australian Horror Writers Association)
• A Killer Among Demons, Craig Bezant (ed) (Dark Prints Press)
• Star Quake 1, Sophie Yorkston (ed) (IFWG Publishing)

• The Bone Chime Song and other stories, Jo Anderton (FableCroft Publishing)

• There was no nominee shortlist in 2013.

• Short Stories/Collections/Edited Works panel: Christine Ferdinands, Natalie Satakovski, B. R. de Loryn
• Novels/Novellas panel: Jay Caselberg (novellas only), Kathy Williams-DeVries, Lee Pletzers, B. R. de Loryn

• Wolf Creek: Origin, Aaron Sterns and Greg McLean (Penguin)

• Suicide Forest, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein Books)
• Book of the Dead, Greig Beck (Momentum Books)
• Dark Deceit, Lauren Dawes (Momentum Books)
• Davey Ribbon, Matthew Tait (HodgePodge Press)

• Dreams of Destruction, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (self-published)

• Ghost Camera, Darcy Coates (self-published)
• "The Shark God Covenant", Robert Hood, Dimension6 #3

• "Shadows of the Lonely Dead", Alan Baxter, Suspended in Dusk (Books of the Dead Press)

• "Mephisto", Alan Baxter, Daily Science Fiction
• "Mummified Monk", Rebecca Fung, Daylight Dims Volume 2
• "Bones", Michelle Jager, SQ Mag #14
• "Last Year When We Were Young", Andrew J. McKiernan, Last Year When We Were Young (Satalyte Publishing)

• SQ Mag #14, Sophie Yorkston (ed) (IFWG Publishing)

• SNAFU, Geoff Brown and Amanda J. Spedding (eds) (Cohesion Press)
• Suspended in Dusk, Simon Dewar (ed) (Books of the Dead Press)

• Last Year When We Were Young, Andrew J. McKiernan (Satalyte Publishing)

• There was no nominee shortlist in 2014.

• In Vaulted Halls Entombed, Alan Baxter

• The Haunting of Gillespie House, Darcy Coates
• Night Shift, Dirk Flinthart
• The Whimper, Robert Hood

• Blurring the Line, Marty Young

• Bloodlines, Amanda Pillar
• Lighthouses, Cameron Trost
• Midnight Echo 11, Kaaron Warren

• Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories, Rob Hood

• The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• Cherry Crow Children, Deborah Kalin

• "Mine Intercom", Kaaron Warren

• "The Bone Maiden", Greg Chapman
• "Eight Seconds", Pandora Hope
• "El Caballo Muerte", Martin Livings
• "Perfect Little Stitches", Deborah Sheldon

• The Road to Golgotha, G. N. Braun & Amanda J. Spedding

• Troll, Michael Michalandos
• The Monster, Ben Rosenthal
• Undad, Shane W. Smith

• The Literary Gothic, Marija Elektra Rodriguez

• The Catacombs, Jeremy Bates

• The Haunting of Blackwood House, Darcy Coates
• The Transgressions Cycle: The Mother, Mike Jones
• The Transgressions Cycle: The Reparation, Mike Jones
• The Big Smoke, Jason Nahrung

• "His Shining Day", Richard Harland (Dreaming in the Dark)

• "D Is for Death", Pete Aldin (C is for Chimera)
• "Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel", Terry Dowling (Dreaming in the Dark)
• "Protege", Anthony Ferguson (Monsters Among Us)
• "No Other Men in Mitchell", Rose Hartley (Nightmare 2/16)
• "Selfie", Lee Murray (SQ Mag 5/16)
• "What the Sea Wants", Deb Sheldon (SQ Mag 2/16)
• "Uncontainable", Helen Stubbs (Apex Magazine 12/16)
• "All Roll Over", Kaaron Warren (In Your Face)
• "Fade to Grey", Janeen Webb (Dreaming in the Dark)

• Crow Shine, Alan Baxter (Ticonderoga)

• Concentration, Jack Dann (PS)
• Everything Is Fine, Grant Stone (Racket House)

• Dead of Night, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, ed. (Australian Horror Writers Association)

• Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann, ed. (PS Australia)
• At the Edg'e, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray, eds. (Paper Road)

• The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG)

• Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum)
• The Devil’s Prayer, Luke Gracias (self-published)
• Presumed Dead, Rick Kennett (self-published)
• The Invasion, Brett McBean (Sinister Grin)
• Into the Mist, Lee Murray (Cohesion)
• Unbidden, TJ Park (HarperImpulse)
• Devil Dragon, Deborah Sheldon (Severed)

• "Tipuna Tapu", Dan Rabarts (And Then…: The Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales, Vol I)

• "Box Of Bones", Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein)
• "Served Cold", Alan Baxter (Dreaming in the Dark)
• "The Eschatologist", Greg Chapman (Voodoo)
• "The Heart of the Mission", Matthew R. Davis (Oz Horror Con)
• "Burnt Sugar", Kirstyn McDermott (Dreaming in the Dark)

• The Body Horror Book, Claire Fitzpatrick (Oscillate Wildly Press)

• "101 Weird Writers #46 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa", Kat Clay (Weird Fiction Review)
• Literary Serial Killer Fiction: The Evolution of a Genre, William Cook (Victoria University, Wellington NZ)
• It Follows is the Millennial STD Parable of Our Time, Maria Lewis (SBS)
• "A Shared Ambition: Horror Writers in Horror Fiction", Kyla Lee Ward (AHWA, Midnight Echo #12)

No award.

• Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1, Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce J. Stevens (IFWG Publishing)

• Midnight Echo #12, Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Anthony P. Ferguson (AHWA)
• Below the Stairs – Tales from the Cellar, Steven Dillon (Things in the Well)

• Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Publishing)

• Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)

• "The Banksia Boys", Matthew J. Morrison (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #66)

• "Outside a Drifter", Lisa L. Hannett (Looming Low Vol.1, Dim Shores Press)
• "The Hand Walker", Rue Karney (Pacific Monsters, Fox Spirit Press)
• "The Circle Line", Martin Livings (Between the Tracks, Things in the Well)
• "The Little Mermaid", in Passing, Angela Slatter (The Review of Australian Fiction, April 2017)
• "The Big Reveal", David Stevens (Kaleidotrope)

• "Ismail's Expulsion", Brian Craddock (Between the Tracks, Things in the Well)

• "Hope and Walker", Andrew Cull (Vermillion2One)
• "This Impossible Gift", Matthew R. Davis (Midnight Echo #12, AHWA)
• "No Good Deed", Angela Slatter (New Fears, Titan Books)
• "Furtherest", Kaaron Warren (Dark Screams Vol. 7, Cemetery Dance)
• "Eden in the End", Ashlee Scheuerman (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)

• Corpselight (Verity Fassbinder Book 2), Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher Books)

• Aletheia, J. S. Breukelaar (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Slithers, W. W. Mortensen (Self Published)
• Soon, Lois Murphy (Transit Lounge)
• Providence Place, Matthew Tait (Dark Crib Publications)

• "Revenants of the Antipodes", Kyla Lee Ward (HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume V)

• "Polarity", Jay Caselberg (The Literary Hatchet 8-9/18)
• "The Middle of the Night", Rebecca Fraser (Breach #09)
• "Your Mortician Knows", Bee Nielsen (A Little Ray of Obsidian Black)
• "Matinee", Hester J. Rook (Chrome Baby 4/12/18)

• The Demon: Hell is Earth, Andrew Constant, Brad Walker, Andrew Hennessy & Chris Sotomayor (DC)

• Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Horror, Lee Murray, ed. (Adrenaline)

• Behind the Mask, Steve Dillon, ed. (Oz Horror Con)
• Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud and Cthulhu Deep Down Under, Volume 2, Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce J. Stevens, eds. (IFWG)

• Shadows on the Wall, Steven Paulsen (IFWG Publishing)

• Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• Bones, Andrew Cull (Vermillion2One)
• The Dalziel Files, Brian Craddock (Broken Puppet Books)
• Exploring Dark Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren, Eric J. Guignard, ed. (Dark Moon)
• Beneath the Ferny Tree, David Schembri (Close-Up)

• "Riptide", Dan Rabarts (Suspended in Dusk II)

• "The House of Jack’s Girls", Lee Battersby (PseudoPod 10/12/18)
• "The Ward of Tindalos", Debbie Cowens & Matt Cowens (Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud)
• "Planned and Expected", Piper Mejia (Breach #09)
• "Slither", Jason Nahrung (Cthulhu Deep Down Under, Volume 2)

• "The Black Sea", Chris Mason (Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep)

• "Time and Tide", Robert Hood (Cthulhu Deep Down Under, Volume 2)
• "Thylacines", Deborah Sheldon (Severed)
• "Love Thee Better", Kaaron Warren (Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein)

• Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

• Devouring Dark, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)
• Teeth of the Wolf, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Contrition, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG)

• "Taxonomy of Captured Roses", Hester J. Rook (Kaleidotrope, Autumn '19)

• "Separation", Jay Caselberg (The Literary Hatchet #23)
• "Please Do Not Feed the Animals", Anne Casey (out of emptied cups)
• "Ode to a Black Hole", Charles Lovecraft (Spectral Realms Winter '19)
• "Brine and Vanishings", Hester J. Rook (Luminality #21)
• "Boat of a Million Years", Kyla Lee Ward (The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities)

• The Demon: Hell is Earth, Andrew Constant, Brad Walker, Andrew Hennessy & Chris Sotomayor (DC)

• Midnight Echo Volume 14, Deborah Sheldon, ed. (Australasian Horror Writers Association)

• Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Day-Tripper, Steve Dillon, ed. (self-published)
• Trickster's Treats, Volume 3: The Seven Deadly Sins Edition, Marie O'Regan & Lee Murray, eds. (self-published)

• Served Cold, Alan Baxter (Grey Matter)

• Collision: Stories, J. S. Breukelaar (Meerkat)
• Figments and Fragments, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG)

• "Steadfast Shadowsong", Matthew R. Davis (Dig Two Graves)

• "The Ocean Hushed the Stones", Alan Baxter (Served Cold)
• "Ave Rune", J. S. Breukelaar (Collision: Stories)
• "Vivienne & Agnes", Chris Mason (Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Daytripper)

• "Supermassive Black Mass", Matthew R. Davis

• "1862", C. J. Halbard (Man on Fire)
• "Enemy of My Enemy", Rick Kennett (War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia)
• "Out of Darkness", Chris Mason (Tales of the Lost, Volume 1)
• "The Neverwhere Line", Matthew J. Morrison (Midnight Echo #14)

• Shepherd, Catherine Jinks (Text)

• The Flower and the Serpent, Madeleine D'Este (self-published)
• Fusion, Kate Richards (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Contrition, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG)

• "The Danse Macabre", Kyla Lee Ward (The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities)

• "Suffer the Little Children", Kris Ashton (Aurealis #119)
• "Horror and the paranormal", Eugen Bacon (Writing Speculative Fiction)
• "Horror Movies That Mean Something and Childhood Trauma Manifested", Maria Lewis (flicks.com.au)