Honorable Mentions

Allan, Nina, “Maggots” (novella), Five Stories High.

Barron, Laird, “An Atlatl” (novella), Limbus Inc. Book III.

Barron, Laird, “Oblivion Mode,” Children of Lovecraft.

Bell, Peter, “Southwold,” Phantasms.

Boatman, Michael, “Christmastime in Zombietown,” 13.

Bonfanti, Daniele, “Game” (novella), The Beauty of Death.

Boston, Bruce & Manzetti, Alessandro, “Slade, Mary And Pet” (poem), Sacrificial Nights.

Braum, Daniel, “How To Make Love and Not Turn to Stone,” The Beauty of Death.

Collings, Michael R., “Catacomb” (poem), Corona Obscura.

Gardner, Cate, “We Make Our Own Monsters Here,” Shadow Moths. Hargadon, Stephen, “Mittens,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Headley, Maria Dahvana, “Little Widow,” What the #@&% is That?

Hill, Susan, “The Front Room,” The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories.

Hirshberg, Glen, “Freedom is Space for the Spirit,” Tor.com, April 6.

Hodge, Brian, “The Weight of the Dead,” Tor.com, June 1.

Johnstone, Carole, “Wetwork,” Black Static #52.

Jones, Stephen Graham, “Eternal Troutland,” Children of Lovecraft.

Jones, Stephen Graham, “The Night Cyclist,” Tor.com, September 21.

Kiernan, Caitlín R., “Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille,” Children of Lovecraft.

Kiernan, Caitlín R., “The Line Between the Devil’s Teeth,” Sirenia Digest 130.

King, Michelle Ann, “My Sister, the Fairy Princess,” Black Static #52, May/June.

Langan, John, “Anchor” (novella), Autumn Cthulhu.

LaValle, Victor, “The Ballad of Black Tom” (novella), A Tor.com Book.

Larson, Richard, “Extraction Request,” Clarkesworld January #112.

LeFanu, Sarah, “Fran Nan’s Story,” Uncertainties Volume 1.

Lloyd, Rebecca, “For Two Songs,” Ragman & Other Family Curses.

Manuel, Derek, “Five Things Successful Clowns Must Do,” Clowns: The Unlikely …

Matheson, Richard Christian, “Sea of Atlas,” Zoopraxis.

Matsuura, Thersa, “The Carp-Faced Boy,” The Beauty of Death.

Morris, Mark, “Full Up,” Black Static #51.

Neal, Harmony, “Dare,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Nickle, David, “The Caretakers,” Tor.com, January 20.

Oates, Joyce Carol, “Big Mama,” EQMM March/April.

Oates, Joyce Carol, “The Crawl Space,” EQMM Sept./Oct.

Runge, Karen, “My Son, My Son,” Seven Sins.

Sanchez-Izenman, Jeanette, “She’ll Only Come Out at Night,” Black Candies.

Schweitzer, Darrell, “We Who Have Encountered Monsters” (poem), Spectral Realms #4.

Sharma, Priya, “Inheritance, or the Ruby Tear,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Shi, Eve, “Blood Like Water,” Asian Monsters.

Slatter, Angela, “Finnegan’s Field,” Tor.com, January 13.

Taylor, Lucy, “He Who Whispers the Dead Back to Life,” Into Painfreak.

Thomas, Scott, “The Girl with Pennies on Her Eyes” (poem), Spectral Realms #4.

Warren, Kaaron, “All Roll Over,” In Your Face.

Wehunt, Michael, “October Film Haunt: Under the House,” Greener Pastures.

Weighell, Ron, “The Letter Killeth” (novella), Pagan Triptych.

Wellington, David, “Lacey,” The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Williamson, Chet, “That Still, Bleeding Object of Desire,” Cemetery Riots.

Wise, A. C., “When the Stitches Come Undone,” Children of Lovecraft.

Wong, Alyssa, “You’ll Surely Drown Her If You Stay,” Uncanny 10.