The Paranormal Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Supernatural Fiction. The Paranormal Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) is looking for the best books Paranormal books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird otherworldly stories, superhumans (ex. Jessica Jones, Wonder Woman), magical beings & supernatural entities (ex. Harry Potter), vampires & werewolves (ex. Twilight), angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, and magical systems.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Paranormal Supernatural Fiction entries to the 2023 Paranormal Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 Paranormal Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at Four Points by Sheraton in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Paranormal Book Awards novel competition for Supernatural Fiction!

Join us in cheering on these Long List authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

• T.E. MacArthur – The Skin Thief
• Gregory Haley – Stranger in the Valley
• Daniela Valenti – Take my Heart, Burn my Soul
• Michele L. Sayre – A Ghoulish Good Time – Tales to Make You Scream
• Yun Johnson – The Book of Lost Spirits
• Lydia M. Hawke – Becoming Crone
• Derek Wachter – The Cabin at the End of Herrick Road
• Gary Stuart – Hide and Be
• Jennifer Anne Gordon – Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent
• Maria Mercurio – Survival
• Jack E. Mohr – I Can’t Believe My Girlfriend’s a Zombie
• Arjay Lewis – Digger
• K.R. Gastreich – Soul Masters
• Sue C Dugan – Walk-Ins Welcome
• Fionn Mac Meldrum – The Shadow of Banshee Hill
• J.J. Alo – The Street Between the Pines
• Michele L. Sayre – Darke Realms: Enraged (Gorgon 1)
• Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy, The Winters Sisters Book 5
• James McKenna – An October’s Journey: Poe’s Final Gift
• Jo Deniau – Hologram
• Douglas Bachmann – Afterlife
• L. R. Braden – Personal Demons
• T.E. Lane – The Cornbread Letters
• Diane Corso – Broken Things
• Joe Lyon – The Molossus of Old Man Moyer
• JC Compton – The Strange Story of Stanley Suspect
• Christopher C. Tyler – Something of a Tall Tale
• Maryanne Melloan Woods – Lazarus
• Alex Paul – The Amarrat Invasion
• Lloyd Jeffries – A Measure of Rhyme, Ages of Malice, Book II
• J. L. Delavega – Ash Like Vengeance (the Revere Trilogy #2)
• Jenny Allen – Rose of Jericho (book 2 in the Lilith Adams Series)
• Darin Werkmeister – Volk
• Nola Nash – House of Mirrors
• E. Alan Fleischauer – The Doctor is Invisible
• Jennifer Ivy Walker – The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven
• JP McLean – Ghost Mark (A Dark Dreams Novel)
• K.M.Messina – Gemja – The Message
• E. Alan Fleischauer – Invisible Death
  
• Claire Fraise – They Stay
• T.K. Sheffield – The Valentine Lines
• Kaylin McFarren – Black Wing Sky

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2022 PARANORMAL Awards is:

COLD AS HELL

By Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

The 2022 PARANORMAL Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2024 PARANORMAL Book Awards are open until the end of September. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!