All six books on the British Fantasy Awards 2026 shortlist for Best Horror Novel, ranked ahead of FantasyCon in Glasgow. Stephen Graham Jones, Dan Howarth, Grady Hendrix, MK Hardy, Kat Dunn and Gretchen Felker-Martin are all in the running for the August Derleth Award. Here is where each one lands, and why.
Dan Howarth follows Last Night of Freedom with Lionhearts, a political horror novel about grief curdling into hate somewhere Northern and thoroughly let down. Our Lionhearts book review looks at Henry Oswald, the staccato prose, and an ending that turns a depressed landscape florid, charged and brutal. Bring paracetamol.
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