ホラーサスペンスたいしょう
Public rookie literary award targeting full-length novels rich in horror and suspense elements.
- Established
- 2000
- Organizer
- Gentosha, Shinchosha, TV Asahi
- Category
- Genre Fiction
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
Public rookie literary award targeting full-length novels rich in horror and suspense elements. Features Grand Prize and Special Prize. Odd-numbered edition Grand Prize winners are published by Shinchosha, even-numbered by Gentosha, and Special Prize by the publisher not handling the Grand Prize work. Additionally, the winner's first post-award single-volume book is published by the publisher that did not publish the award-winning work.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Publication of single-volume editions for Grand Prize and Special Prize winning works
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4th edition | Ōsawa Zaichō, Kirino Natsuo, Yuiikawa Megumi | — | — |
| 5th to 6th editions | Ayatsuji Yukito, Kirino Natsuo, Yuiikawa Megumi | — | — |
Related Awards
- Mystery novel awards
- Japan Mystery Suspense Grand Prize
- Shincho Mystery Club Award
- Shincho Mystery Grand Prize
Past Winners
Kitai is a horror-suspense novel in which a ritual by high school students to revive a dead friend leads to terror eighteen years later. As those who know the old secret are targeted, the story turns youthful guilt into revenge-driven fear.
A resurrection ritual from eighteen years earlier returns as a nightmare that kills the old friends.
Time Quietly Trembles is a horror-suspense novel that begins with a child consultation center director overwhelmed by abuse reports and moves toward the hidden pattern behind seemingly random killings. Social anxiety and a disturbing vision of human evolution converge.
Behind seemingly random murders, a disturbing law of human evolution begins to surface.
A suspense novel in which a husband's disappearance causes a mother and son's everyday life to collapse into unease. It depicts loneliness and obsession inside the home, approaching fear through a realistic texture.
As if September will not end, the shadow of disappearance covers the family's time.
A horror mystery in which uncanny eyes in a mountain village connect with a disappearance. Folkloric fear and logical investigation run side by side, giving the early novel its distinctive unease.
A gaze that should not be seen leads the reader toward a past crime.
A horror suspense story in which a man senses the final images seen by others, drawing him into a chain of memory, fear, and violence.
A horror suspense story in which a man senses the final images seen by others, drawing him into a chain of memory, fear, and violence.
A suspense novel where malice invades teenagers' everyday lives through phones and a network, combining urban-legend dread with youthful unease.
A suspense novel where malice invades teenagers' everyday lives through phones and a network, combining urban-legend dread with youthful unease.
ギニョル by 佐藤ラギ is known as a ホラーサスペンス大賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
ギニョル is an award-recognized work by 佐藤ラギ.
邪光 by Izumi Makimura is known as a ホラーサスペンス大賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
邪光 is an award-recognized work by Izumi Makimura.
Rika is a horror-suspense novel in which an ordinary office worker meets a woman through an online dating service and is driven into terror by her obsessive stalking. It amplifies the fear of intrusion through familiar communication tools by creating a monstrous central figure.
A casual impulse in ordinary life turns into inescapable terror born of obsession.
Homura no Yakata is a horror-suspense novel in which strange events in a newly built apartment building expose unconscious harm and small acts of malice. Blending fantasy with visceral fear, it turns the building itself into a place of judgment.
Inside a new home, overlooked malice rises like flame.
そして粛清の扉を is a work by 黒武洋. It was recognized by ホラーサスペンス大賞.
そして粛清の扉を, recognized by ホラーサスペンス大賞.
鬼子母神 is a work by 安東能明. It was recognized by ホラーサスペンス大賞.
鬼子母神, recognized by ホラーサスペンス大賞.