2010 Shirley Jackson – Novel Winner and Nominees

Big Machine

Victor LaValle

Ricky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter arrives, reminding hi…

Last Days

Brian Evenson

The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters

The Owl Killers

Karen Maitland

The Red Tree

Caitlín R. Kiernan

White is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi