We are delighted to announce the short lists for this year’s two IGA Book Prizes: the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the monograph best advancing the field of Gothic studies and the inaugural Justin D. Edwards Prize for the edited collection best advancing the field of Gothic studies.

This year we had 28 books long listed across the two prizes. This is our largest ever field, and a clear testament to the thriving scholarship of Gothic studies. The panel members generously dedicated weeks of their summer to reading the 14 (or, in some cases, 28) books: a significant time commitment, for which we sincerely thank them all.

The Monographs prize committee, in alphabetical order, comprised Professor Carol Davison, Professor Marie Mulvey Roberts, Professor Catherine Spooner, and Dr Sara-Patricia Wasson (Chair). The Edited Collections committee comprised Dr Joseph Crawford, Professor Carol Davison, Professor Jason Haslam, Dr Tim Jones, and Dr Sara-Patricia Wasson (Chair). Huge thanks are also due to Dr Matthew Foley for careful and meticulous work as Secretary of the prize and liaison with publishers.

Before announcing the shortlists, we would like to congratulate every single author on the long list. It was a privilege to read your work, and every panellist had a very difficult task to narrow down the works to be shortlisted. We hope that every long-listed author feels proud of their achievement.

The shortlisted works in each prize are as follows.

Shortlist for the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2024 for a monograph best advancing the field of gothic studies, in alphabetical order:

• Chloé Germaine, The Dark Matter of Children’s ‘Fantastika’ Literature: Speculative Entanglements (Bloomsbury)
• Sam Hirst, Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834 (Anthem)
• Laura Kremmel, Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (University of Wales Press)
• Bernice Murphy, The California Gothic in Fiction and Film (Edinburgh University Press)
• Jamil Mustafa, The Blaxploitation Horror Film: Adaptation, Appropriation and the Gothic (University of Wales Press)
• Joan Passey, Cornish Gothic 1830-1913 (University of Wales Press)
• Andrew Smith, Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One (Edinburgh University Press)
• Jeffrey Weinstock, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety (Fordham University Press)

Shortlist for the Justin D. Edwards Prize 2024 for an edited collection best advancing the field of gothic studies, in alphabetical order:

• Rebecca Duncan (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (Edinburgh University Press)
• Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Hoglund (eds.), Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (Minnesota University Press)
• Sam George and Bill Hughes (eds.), In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children (Manchester University Press)
• Karen Grumberg (ed.), Middle Eastern Gothic (University of Wales Press)
• Ardel Haefele-Thomas (ed.), Queer Gothic (Edinburgh University Press)
• Sorcha Ni Fhlainn and Bernice M. Murphy (eds.), Twentieth-Century Gothic (Edinburgh University Press)
• Dale Townshend, Angela Wright and Catherine Spooner (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Gothic (Cambridge University Press)

The Prizes will be announced at the IGA Conference at Mount-Saint Vincent University in Halifax in late July. If a prize winner is not present at the conference, the Chair will contact them by email after the awards announcement. After the conference has ended, a blog post will also celebrate the prize winners.

Congratulations to all the short-listed authors!