Finalist, Best Novella, 2025
What Feasts at Night
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Alex Easton goes to their family's hunting lodge in the mountains of Gallacia to find the caretaker dead, and something in the dark.
The ballot
- The Tusks of ExtinctionRay NaylerTordotcomWinner
- The Butcher of the ForestPremee MohamedTordotcomRunner-up
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the ChainSofia SamatarTordotcom
- The Brides of High HillNghi VoTordotcom
- Navigational EntanglementsAliette de BodardTordotcom