Claim: British Fantasy Award categories include Best Fantasy Novel and Best Horror Novel.

The British Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society -LRB- BFS -RRB- and were first awarded in 1976 . Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards -LRB- see August Derleth Award -RRB- . First awarded in 1972 -LRB- The Knight of Swords by Michael Moorcock -RRB- only for novels , the number of award categories increased and in 1976 the BFS renamed them collectively the British Fantasy Awards . The current award categories are Best Fantasy Novel -LRB- the Robert Holdstock Award -RRB- , Best Horror Novel -LRB- the August Derleth Award -RRB- , Best Novella , Best Short Story , Best Independent Press , Best Artist , Best Anthology , Best Collection , Best Comic/Graphic Novel , Best Non-Fiction , and Best Newcomer -LRB- the Sydney J. Bounds Award -RRB- , while the Karl Edward Wagner Award for `` important contribution to the genre or the Society '' is given at the discretion of the BFS committee . The membership of the BFS vote to determine the shortlists of the awards , the winners being decided by juries .