Tunneling to the Center of the Earth has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in the category of single-author collection.  The Shirley Jackson Awards, given in memory of writer Shirley Jackson (author of the short story, “The Lottery”, and the novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle), “have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.”