The Best Horror of the Year – Volume One

Honorable Mentions

Allan, Nina

– "Ryman's Suitcase,"

A Thread of Truth.

Allen, Mike

– "deathmask,"

Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, winter.

Avery, Simon

– "101 Ways to Leave Paris,"

Crimewave, Now You See Me 10.

Barron, Laird

– "The Occultation,"

Clockwork Phoenix.

Bear, Elizabeth and Monette, Sarah

– "Boojum,"

Fast Ships, Black Sails.

Bestwick, Simon

– "The School House," (novella)

Houses on the Borderland.

Bird, Allyson

– "The Bone Grinder,"

Bull Running for Girls.

Block, Lawrence

– "Keller the Dogkiller,"

EQMM, May.

Bobet, Leah

– "Bell, Book, and Candle,"

Clockwork Phoenix.

Bulkin, Nadia

– "Intertropical Convergence Zone,"

ChiZine 37.

Campbell, Ramsey

– "Double Room,"

The New Uncanny.

Campbell, Ramsey

– "The Long Way," PS Publishing chapbook.

Cowdrey, Albert E.

– "The Overseer," (novella)

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March.

Dowling, Terry

– "The Fooly,"

Dreaming Again.

Duffy, Steve

– "The Oram County Whoosit,"

Shades of Darkness.

Emshwiller, Carol

– "Wilmer or Wesley,"

Asimov's Science Fiction, August.

Ferris, Joshua

– "The Dinner Party,"

The New Yorker, August 11 &18.

Finch, Paul

– "The Pumping Station,"

We Fade to Grey.

Grant, Helen

– "Grauer Hans,"

Shades of Darkness.

Grant, John

– "Will the Real Veronica LeBarr Stand Down,"

Postscripts 16.

Haines, Paul

– "Taniwha, Swim with Me,"

Midnight Echo 1.

Harland, Richard

– "A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead,"

Dreaming Again.

Hirshberg, Glen

– "Like Lick em Sticks, Like Tina Fey,"

KRDR.

Kiernan, Caitlín R.

– "The Steam Dancer (1896),"

Subterranean.

King, Stephen

– "N."

Just After Sunset.

– "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates,"

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov.

Kirk, John

– "The Talion Moth,"

Weird Tales 349, March/April.

Kosmatka, Ted

– "The Art of Alchemy,"

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June.

Laidlaw, Marc

– "Childrun,"

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August.

Lake, Jay

– " America, Such as She Is," (novella)

Alembical.

Lane, Joel

– "A Mouth to Feed,"

Shades of Darkness.

Lane, Joel

– "Even the Pawn,"

Crimewave 10.

Langan, Sarah

– "The Agathas,"

Unspeakable Horror.

Llewellyn, Livia

– "The Engine of Desire,"

Unspeakable Horror.

Ludwigsen, Will

– "In Search Of,"

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June.

Lynch, Mark Patrick

– "The Apartment of Bryony Hartwood,"

Shades of Darkness.

MacLeod, Ian R.

– "The Hob Carpet," (novella)

Asimov's Science Fiction, June.

McDermott, Kirstyn

– "Painlessness,"

GUD 2.

McHugh, Ian

– "Bitter Dreams,"

Writers of the Future volume XXIV.

Meloy, Paul

– "All Mouth,"

Black Static 6.

Monette, Sarah

– "The World Without Sleep,"

Postscripts 14.

Pile, Rog

– "The Pit,"

The Second Black Book of Horror.

Pinborough, Sarah

– "Our Man in the Sudan,"

The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror.

Probert, John Llewellyn

– "Don't Look Back,"

Coffin Nails.

Rickert, M.

– "Traitor,"

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May.

Roden, Barbara

– "Endless Night,"

Exotic Gothic.

Samphire, Patrick

– "At the Gates,"

Black Static 8.

Schweitzer, Darrell

– "Living with the Dead," (novella) PS Publishing chapbook.

Strantzas, Simon

– "Under the Overpass,"

Shades of Darkness.

Thomas, Jonathan

– "Into Your Tenement I'll Creep,"

Studies in the Fantastic 1.

Travis, Tia V.

– "No Need of Wings,"

Subterranean online winter 08.

Valentine, Genevieve

– "The Red Shoes (Continued),"

Journal of Mythic Arts final issue.

VanderMeer, Jeff

– "The Situation," (novella) PS Publishing chapbook.

Weiss, Ernst

– "The Rat Ship," (novella)

A Public Space 5.

Williams, Conrad

– "68Ú 07' 15"N, 31Ú 36' 44"W,"

Fast Ships, Black Sails.