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Bound proofs of Naked City giveaway for donations to Japan

This just now occurred to me. I've got a few extra bound uncorrected proofs of Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy which will be out in July from St Martin's Press.
All three are now spoken for...but come over to the next rock--I'm going to offer some other items.


For a $50 donation to a charity of your choice benefiting the people of Japan, affected by the earthquake and tsunami, I will send the first THREE people to forward me proof of a monetary donation a copy of the bound galleys signed by
Ellen Datlow
Richard Bowes
Matthew Kressel
Ellen Kushner
Delia Sherman

US only.
Not only will you be getting a nice fat all original anthology four months in advance of publication, but you will be doing a good deed.

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy


Curses Jim Butcher
How the Pooka Came To New York City Delia Sherman
On the Slide Richard Bowes
The Duke of Riverside Ellen Kushner
Oblivion by Calvin Klein Christopher Fowler
Fairy Gifts Patricia Briggs
Picking up the Pieces Pat Cadigan
Underbridge Peter S. Beagle
Priced To Sell Naomi Novik
The Bricks of Gelecek Matthew Kressel
Weston Walks Kit Reed
The Projected Girl Lavie Tidhar
The Way Station Nathan Ballingrud
Guns for the Dead Melissa Marr
And Go Like This John Crowley
Noble Rot Holly Black
Daddy Long Legs of the Evening Jeffrey Ford
The Skinny Girl Lucius Shepard
The Colliers’ Venus Caitlín R. Kiernan
King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree Elizabeth Bear

Books out papers in

Rob Killheffer moved 8 cartons (some small most large) of books from my apt and we put them into storage. We removed 4 cartons of correspondence and brought them TO my apartment so that they can be shipped (hopefully soon) to The University of Liverpool.

The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan

Here's The Lost Thing, the charming, moving Oscar-winning video by Shaun Tan-enjoy!

another view of the quake

I find this Park in Chiba City especially terrifying, as I've always had a fear of the ground opening in an earthquake, swallowing me, and the closing back up

Chiba City was built on landfill.

via jezebel

Honorable Mentions Best Horror of the Year volume three part 2

Kendall, Rachel "Eat Me, Eat Me," The Bride Stripped Bare.
Kendall, Rachel "Holesale," Null Immortalis.
Kendall, Rachel "The Bride Stripped Bare," The Bride Stripped Bare.
Kendall, Rachel "The Seedy Underbelly," The Bride Stripped Bare.
Kenyon, Nate "Breeding the Demons," When the Night Comes Down.
Kenyon, Nate "The Dreamcatcher," Horror Library volume 4.
Ketchum, Jack "Bully," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
Keyton, Michael "Mr. Nousel's Mirror," Supernatural Tales 17.
Kiernan, Caitlin R "R is for Radula," Sirenia Digest 57.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. "As Red as Red" Haunted Legends.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. "Exuvium," Sirenia Digest 48.
Kiernan, Caitlin R. "Fairy Tale of the Maritime" Sirenia Digest 57.
Kiernan, Caitlin R. "O is for Oyster," Sirenia Digest 57.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. "On the Reef," Sirenia Digest 59.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. "Sanderlings," chapbook.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. "Tempest Witch," Sirenia Digest 54.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. "The Prayer of Ninety Cats," Sirenia Digest #60.
Kiesselbach, Dore "Pulp," (poem) The Greensboro Review, Spring.
Kilpatrick, Nancy "Hope and the Maiden," The Bleeding Edge.
Kilpatrick, Nancy "Traditions in Future Perfect," The Bitten Word.
King, Stephen "1922," (novella) Full Dark, No Stars.
King, Stephen "Big Driver," Full Dark, No Stars.
Knight, Brian "Deathbed," Cemetery Dance #64.
Knippling, DeAnna "The Edge of the World," Three-Lobed Burning Eye #20.
Knutsson, Catherine "Lily," Cabinet des Fées volume 1, No. 3.
Kofmel, Kim "Crossroads," Cabinet des Fées volume 1, No. 3.
Kontis, Alethea "Blue and Gray & Black and Green," Legends of the Mountain State 4.
Kornher-Stace, Nicole "Two Views from the Shore," (poem), Goblin Fruit spring.
Kosyrev, Dmitry "The Coat That Smelled Like Earth," Moscow Noir.
Kuch, Terence "Other Things," Sybil's Garage #7.
Kuznetsov, Sergei "Moscow Reincarnations," Moscow Noir.
Laben, Carrie "Plastic Sargasso," Chizine #44.
Lackey, Jamie "The Other Side," The Living Dead 2.
Lake, Jay "The Houses of the Favored," Visitants.
Lalumière, Claude "All You Can Eat, All the Time," eVolVe.
Lane, Joel "All Dead Years," The End of the Line.
Lane, Joel "Black Country" Nightjar chapbook.
Lane, Joel "Crow's Nest," Shadows & Tall Trees, #1.
Lane, Joel "Morning's Echo," The Seventh Black Book of Horror.
Lane, Joel "Never Always Comes," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
Lane, Joel "The Drowned Market," Null Immortalis.
Lane, Joel "The Hostess," Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts.
Lane, Joel "The Last Witness," Where the Heart Is.
Langan, John "The Shallows," Cthulhu's Reign.
Langan, Sarah "Are You Trying to Tell Me This is Heaven?" The Living Dead 2.
Lansdale, Joe R. "Christmas with the Dead," PS Holiday chapbook 6.
Lansdale, Joe R. "Dread Island," Classics Mutilated.
Lansdale, Joe R. "The Boy Who Became Invisible," The Bleeding Edge.
Lansdale, Joe R. "The Crawling Sky," Son of Retro Pulp Tales.
Lansdale, Joe R. "The Stars Are Falling," Stories.
Lauppe-Dunbar, Anne "Sing Sorrow Sorrow," Sing Sorrow Sorrow.
Lebbon, Tim "In the Dust," The New Dead.
Lebbon, Tim "Nothing Heavenly," (novella) Last Exit for the Lost.
Lee, Tanith "Sea Warg," Full Moon City.
Lethem, Jonathan "The Salon," The Dark End of the Street.
Levene, Rebecca "23:45 Mordern (via Bank)," The End of the Line.
Lewis, D.F. "So," Where the Heart Is.
Libling, Michael "Why That Crazy Old Lady, Goes up the Mountain, F&SF May/June.
Liss, David "What Maisie Knew," The New Dead.
Little, Bentley "Jammers," Horror Library volume 4.
Little, Bentley "Strange Skin," Werewolves and Shapeshifters.
Little, Bentley "We," Cemetery Dance #64.
Littlefield, Sophie "Truegood," Needle #3.
Littlewood, Alison J. "4 A.M., When the Walls Are Thinnest," Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts.
Littlewood, Alison J. "In on the Tide," Never Again.
Littlewood, Alison J. "The Empty Spaces," Black Static 16, April/May.
Littlewood. Alison J. "Scairt," Not One of Us #44.
Liu, Marjorie M. "After the Blood," Songs of Love and Death.
Llewellyn, Livia "Her Deepness," (novella) Subterranean Online.
Llewellyn, Livia "Panopticon," The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction #4.
Lockley, Steve "Imaginary Friends," The Sixth Black Book of Horror.
Loory, Ben 'The Well," JMWW.
Loory, Ben "The Hunter's Head," Space and Time 111.
Loory, Ben "The Sea Monster," Annalemmer.
Lorenson, Michael "Random Access Memory," Tesseracts 14.
Love, Penelope "Border Crossing," How Far Would You Go?
Lovegrove, James "Siding 13," The End of the Line.
Lowrance, Heath "It Will All Be Carried Away," Chizine #44.
Lynch, Mark Patrick "All That Remains of Silence," Supernatural Tales 18.
Lynch, Mark Patrick "Jango Says," AHMM April.
Lynch, Mark Patrick "Ways Out," Where the Heart Is.
Mackiewicz, Amy "Among a Million Flowers," (poem) Electric Velocipede 20.
Mackiewicz, Amy "South of the Woods," (poem) Electric Velocipede 20.
MacLeod, Catherine "Hydden," Tesseracts 14.
MacLeod, Catherine "Stone," Horror Library volume 4.
MacLeod, Ian R. "Recrossing the Styx," F&SF July/August.
Malfi, Ronald "Closing In," Dark Discoveries 17.
Maloney, Geoffrey and Bakery, Andrew "Sleeping Dogs," Midnight Echo #4.
Mamatas, Nick "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Jesus Christ," Dark Faith.
Mantel, Hilary "Comma," Guardian August 14, Summer Fiction.
Mantooth, John "Walk the Wheat," On Spec spring.
Martin, Gail Z. "Vanities," The Bitten Word.
Massie, Elizabeth "The Devil's Yo-Yo," Cemetery Dance 63.
Matheson, Richard and Matheson, R.C. "Madri-Gall," The Bleeding Edge.
Maxey, James "Return to Sender," OSC's Intergalactic Medicine Show #16.
McClellan, Elizabeth "Anything So Utterly Destroyed," (poem) Apex October.
McCrumb, Sharyn "A Wing and a Prayer," Blood Lite II: Overbite.
McDermid, Val "I've Seen That Movie Too," The Dark End of the Street.
McDermott, Kirstyn "Monsters Among Us," Macabre.
McDermott, Kirstyn "We All Fall Down," Aurealis 44.
McGeever, Fox "Lession's Tower," Beneath Ceaseless Skies 58.
McGrath, Martin "Eskragh," Albedo One #39.
McHugh, Ian "Annicca," GUD #6.
McHugh, Ian "Red Dirt," Beneath Ceaseless Skies 58.
McHugh, Maureen "The Naturalist," Subterranean, spring.
McIntosh, Will "Frankenstein, Frankenstein," Asimov's SF Magazine October/November.
McKiernan, Andrew J. "The Desert Song," Scenes from the Second Storey.
McKinney, Joe "Blemish," (novella) Dark Recesses #1.
McKinney, Joe "Survivors," Dead Set.
McMahon, Gary "A Rustle of Paper," Pieces of Midnight.
McMahon, Gary "All the Lonely Places," Pieces of Midnight.
McMahon, Gary "Before She Leaves," Pieces of Midnight.
McMahon, Gary "Dead to the World," The Dead That Walk.
McMahon, Gary "Diving Deep," The End of the Line.
McMahon, Gary "My Autumn Hands," Pieces of Midnight.
McMahon, Gary "Paint it Black," (novella) Pieces of Midnight.
McMahon, Gary "Safety Dance," Pieces of Midnight.
McMahon, Gary "The Harm," (novella) chapbook.
McMahon, Gary "Thos Damned Kids," The Bitten Word.
McMahon, Gary "We Are the Doorway," Where the Heart Is.
McMullen, Sean "The Precedent," F&SF July/August.
Meckley, Philip "Faithful Midnight," Dark Horizons 56.
Meikle, William and Hurray, Graeme "The Blue Hag," Something Wicked #10.
Melican, Sean "Absence of Water," Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 26.
Meloy, Paul "Bullroarer," The End of the Line.
Merchant, Judith "Monopoly," EQMM March/April.
Messingham, Simon "Dead of the Day," Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, #45.
Miller, Gregory "Ms. Jennings' Family," Madness of the Mind.
Millering, Chris "The Isthmus Variation," Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue 46.
Milligan, Noah "Jesse James' Revolver," (poem) Minnetonka Review fall.
Moore, Alison "When the Door Closed, It Was Dark," chapbook.
Moore, Jennifer "United," How Far Would You Go?
Moore, Ralph Robert "In the Tunnels of the Agogs," Dark Horizons 55.
Moore, Ralph Robert "Rain Turns to Snow," Dark Horizons 56.
Moran, James K. "Glimpses Through the Trees," Curtain Call.
Morgan, Louise "Murderess Lane," Hub 127.
Morton, Lisa "Joe and Abel in the Field of Rest," The Dead That Walk.
Murphy, C.E. "Blended," Running with the Pack.
Murr, Joel L. "The Franchise," Dark Pages.
Murray, Ross "The Number Made Flesh," Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #48.
Myers, E.C. "My Father's Eyes," Sybil's Garage #7.
Neilson, Robert "Nightwork," Dark Pages.
Neville, Stuart "Queen of the Hill," Requiems for the Departed.
Newton, Kurt "The Hand That Feeds," The Bleeding Edge.
Newton, Kurt "The TV Inside of Me," Polluto #6.
Nickels, Tim "Supermarine," (novella) Null Immortalis.
Nikitas, Derek "My Dolly," The New Dead.
Norminton, Gregory "The Time Traveler's Breakdown," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
O'Driscoll, Mike "One Last Wild Waltz," Black Static 16, April/May.
O'Driscoll, Mike "Summerhouse," Where the Heart Is.
Oates, Joyce Carol "Fossil-Figures," Stories.
Oates, Joyce Carol "Spotted Hyenas," Atlantic Monthly for Kindle, fall.
Ochse, Weston "An Artist in Still Life," Terrible Beauty Fearful Symmetry.
Odasso, Adrienne J. "Martyrs' Tales," (poem) Star*Line May/June.
Ogden, Helen "Blackberries," Cabinet des Fées volume 1, No. 3.
Oliver, Reggie "Minos or Rhadamanthus," The Seventh Black Book of Horror.
Oliver, Reggie "You Have Nothing to Fear," Null Immortalis.
Onspaugh, Mark "Good Neighbor Sam," Dead Set.
Otis, Abbey, Mei "Sweetheart," Tor.com.
Owen, Laura C.J. "The Execution Trick," American Short Fiction winter 2009.
Palmer, Jason "Be Mine," Terrible Beauty Fearful Symmetry.
Parker, Rosalie "Chanctonbury Ring," The Old Knowledge.
Parker, Rosalie "The Cook's Story," The Old Knowledge.
Parker, Rosalie "The Supply Teacher," The Old Knowledge.
Parkhurst, Carolyn "Unwell," Stories.
Pearlman, Daniel "A Giant in the House," Null Immortalis.
Pearson, Scott "In the Hot Zone," (poem) Paper Crow #1, spring /summer.
Peek, Ben "White Crocodile Jazz," Sprawl.
Percy, Benjamin "The Long Black Coat," Cemetery Dance #64.
Perry, Matthew F. "The Child," Albedo One, #38.
Pflug-Back, Kelly Rose "Tarantelle," (poem) Mythic Delirium 22.
Phillips, Holly "Country Mothers' Sons," Full Moon City.
Piccirilli, Tom "Holding the Line," Specters in Coal Dust.
Piccirilli, Tom "Traveling," Futile Efforts.
Piccirilli, Tom "You'd Better Watch Out," (novella). Festive Fear.
Pile, Rog "Walk to the Sea," The Seventh Black Book of Horror.
Pinborough, Sarah "When the Darkness Comes," Brighton Shock.
Polson, Aaron " Cargo," Dark Pages.
Popkes, Steven "The Crocodiles," S&SF May/June.
Porter, Robert E. "Gigris," Dreams and Nightmares 85.
Power, Tim "Parallel Lines," Stories.
Prentiss, Norman "Distance," Commutability.
Prentiss, Norman "Invisible Fences," (novella) chapbook.
Preston, M.G. "Extreme Latitude," Black Static 16, April/May.
Priest, Cherie "The Catastrophe Box," Son of Retro Pulp Tales.
Probert, John Llewellyn "An Element of Emotion," (novella) Against the Darkness.
Probert, John Llewellyn "Happily Ever After," Against the Darkness.
Probert, John Llewellyn "The Girl in the Glass," The End of the Line.
Probert, John Llewellyn "The Mirror of Tears," Wicked Delights.
Pugmire W. H. "Inhabitants of Wraithwood," Black Wings.
Pugmire, Wilum "The Tangled Muse," The Tangled Muse.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "Devil's Got the Walkin' Blues," SIN & ashes.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "Engravings," Black Wings.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "First There Is a Mountain…Then" SIN & ashes.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "In the White Walls of Silence," SIN & ashes.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "Lonesome Separate Ways," SIN & ashes.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "Perfect Grace," SIN & ashes.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "Scarlet Obeisance," (poem) The Tindalos Cycle.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "The Delirium of a Worm-Wizard," (poem) SIN & ashes.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "The Last Few Nights in a Life of Frost," The Weird Fiction Review 1, fall.
Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. "When the Deal Goes Down," SIN and ashes.
Pyle, Daniel "Barewolf," Blood Lite II: Overbite.
Reaves, Michael "Make-Believe," F&SF March/April.
Reed, Kit "The Chaise," The Kenyon Review, spring.
Reed, Robert "The Cull," Clarkesworld September #48.
Reisman, Jessica "A Feather's Weight," Three-Lobed Burning Eye #19.
Richards, Tony "Mr Smyth," / Dead.
Richards, Tony "The In-Betweeners," The Seventh Black Book of Horror.
Riedel, Kate "To Sleep in Peace," On Spec spring.
Rivera, Mercurio D. "Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us," Black Static 18, August.
Rodriguez, Abraham, Jr., "Celebration," The Dark End of the Street.
Roessner, Michaela "Crumbs," F&SF November/December.
Rogers, Bruce Holland " Fallen, Realms of Fantasy June.
Rogers, Ian "Cabin D" Supernatural Tales 17.
Rohrer, D. Brad "Blood Junkie," The Pinch, fall.
Rollins, James "The Pit," Warriors.
Romine, Andrew Penn "Take it Off," Rigor Amortis.
Rose, Rhea "Alia's Angel," eVolVe.
Ross, Stephen "Monsieur Alice is Absent," AHMM October.
Ross, Stephen "The Man With One Eye," EQMM December.
Rotundo, Matthew S. "Right Before Your Very Eyes," OSC's Intergalactic Medicine Show #19.
Royle, Nicholas "Lovebites," Bloody Vampires.
Royle, Nicholas "Rotterdam," Black Wings.
Royle, Nicholas "The Children," Back from the Dead. 4900 *
Royle, Nicholas "The Lure," The End of the Line.
Rozan, S.J. "Daybreak," The Dark End of the Street.
Rucker, Lynda E. "The Moon Will Look Strange," Black Static 16, April/May
Runolfson, J. C. "Kindler," (poem) Star*Line May/June.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn "Death Stopped for Miss Dickinson," Classics Mutilated.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn "Red Letter Day," Analog September.
Russell, Karen "The Dredgeman's Revelation," The New Yorker, July 26.
Russell, Karen "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis," Conjunctions 55:Urban Arias.
Russell, R. B. "An Unconventional Exorcism," The Sixth Black Book of Horror.
Russell, R. B. "Another Country," Literary Remains and Other Stories.
Russell, R. B. "Literary Remains," Literary Remains and Other Stories.
Russell, R. B. "Una Furtiva Lagrima," Literary Remains and Other Stories.
Russell, R. B." The Beautiful Room," chapbook, Nightjar Press.
Russell, R.B. "A Revelation," Literary Remains and Other Stories.
Russell, R.B. "Where They Cannot Be Seen," Literary Remains and Other Stories.
Russo, Patricia "Sticky," Tales of the Unanticipated 30.
Rutherford, Derek "Yellow Water Pike," Dark Pages.
Ryan, Carrie "Flotsam & Jetsam," The Living Dead 2.
Ryan, Jeff "Table for Two," Blood Lite II: Overbite.
Sachdeva, Anjali "Pleiades," Gulf Coast, winter/spring.
Samphire, Patrick "Camelot," Interzone #230.
Sanford, Jason "Into the Depths of Illuminated Seas," Interzone #226.
Santoro, Larry "Then, Just a Dream," Starshipsofa Stories, vol. 2.
Sargent, Pamela "The True Darkness," World Literature Today May.
Sargent, Stanley C. "Black Brad of Dunwich," Black Wings.
Sarrantonio, Al "The Cult of the Nose," Stories.
Sathyamurthy, Jayaprakash "Come Tomorrow," The Virtuous Medlar Circle.
Saylor, Steve "The Eagle and the Rabbit," Warriors.
Schow, David J. "Denker's Book," Black Wings.
Schutz, Aaron "Dr. Death vs. the Vampire," F&SF May/June.
Schwader, Ann K. "The Shore of Madness," (poem) The Tindalos Cycle.
Schwaeble, Hank "To Judge the Quick," Horror Library volume 4.
Schweitzer, Darrell "Howling in the Dark," Black Wings.
Schweitzer, Darrell "In the Absence of Ghosts," (poem) Mythic Delirium #23.
Schweitzer, Darrell "The Werewolf of Camelot," Curse of the Full Moon.
Scott, Donna "Lord of the Lyceum," The Bitten Word.
Sedia, Ekaterina "You Dream," Dark Faith.
Shapiro, Eric "Forgiven," Werewolves and Shapeshifters.
Sharma, Priya "The Nature of Bees," Albedo One, #38.
Shea, Kieran "The Shrewd Variant," Needle #1.
Shearman, Robert "Featherweight," Visitants.
Shearman, Robert "Granny's Grinning," The Dead That Walk.
Sheehan, Michael "Jean Takes a Moment to Respond," Conjunctions 54: Shadow Selves.
Shepard, Lucius "The Company He Keeps," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
Sherwood, Carolee "When the Wife Brings Love Back from the Dead..." (poem), Goblin Fruit autumn.
Shipp, Jeremy "The Sun Never Rises in the Big City," Fungus of the Heart.
Shirley, John "Faces in Walls," Black Static 17, June/July.
Shirley, John "Raise Your Hand If You're Dead," Dark Discoveries 17.
Shoulders, Felicity "Conditional Love," Asimov's Science Fiction, January.
Sigler, Scott "The Tank," The Crypt: Booke One-Crew Stories.
Silverman, Leah "The Pickup," Tesseracts 14.
Simon, Marge "Troot," Null Immortalis.
Singleton, Sarah "Death By Water," Black Static 15, February/ March.
Skeet, Michael "Red Blues," eVolVe.
Skipp, John and Goodfellow, Cody "The Price of a Slice," The Living Dead 2.
Slatter, Angela "Ash," Sourdough.
Slatter, Angela "Brisneyland by Night," Sprawl.
Slatter, Angela "Dibblespin," Sourdough.
Slatter, Angela "Gallowberries," Sourdough.
Slatter, Angela "Lost Things," Sourdough.
Slatter, Angela "The Bone Mother," The Girl With No Hands.
Slatter, Angela "The Living Book," The Girl With No Hands.
Slatter, Angela "The Navigator," Sourdough.
Slatter, Angela "The Shadow Tree," Sourdough.
Slatter, Angela and Hannett, L. L. "The February Dragon, "Scary Kisses.
Smith, Claudia "Catgirl," Lone Star Noir.
Smith, Michael Marshall "Substitutions," Black Wings.
Smith, Michael Marshall "Unbelief," Stories.
Snyder, Maria V. "Mongrel," Running with the Pack.
Somers, Jeffrey "Sift, Almost Invisible, Through, Crimes by Moonlight.
Southard, Nate "Going Home, Ugly Stick in Hand," Black Static 20.
Southard, Nate "He Stepped Through," (chapbook) Bloodletting Press.
Southard, Nate "The Taste of Memories," Dark Faith: Last Rites.
Spedding, Amanda J. "The Whims of My Enemy," Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Mag #48.
Spelman, Lucien E.G. "The Stain of the Psychopomp King," Dark Pages.
Spencer, William Browning "The Unorthodox Dr. Draper," Subterranean fall.
Spencer, William Browning "Usurped," Black Wings.
Stableford, Brian "The Truth About Pickman," Black Wings.
Steele, Allen "The Jekyll Island Horror," Asimov's Science Fiction, January.
Steele, James "Migration," The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction #3.
Stewart, W. Gregory & Kopaska-Merkel, David C. "Seasons of the Worm," (poem)Goblin Fruit winter.
Stiles, Paula "Zombieville," Something Wicked #10.
Stone, Danny "Dead Air," (poem) ASIM 46.
Stone, Sam "Fool's Gold," The Bitten Word.
Storey, Josh "Seek Him I'th'Other Place Yourself," Shimmer #12.
Strantzas, Simon "Everything Floats," Shadows & Tall Trees, #1.
Strantzas, Simon "Out of Touch," Cemetery Dance #64.
Straub, Peter "A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter," (novella) chapbook.
Strom-Martin, Hannah "Father Peña's Last Dance," Realms of Fantasy August.
Sunseri, John "The Eternal Chinaman," Cthulhu's Dark Cults.
Swirsky, Rachel"The Lady Who Plucked RedFlowersBeneaththeQueen'sWindow,"Subterranean summ
Taaffe, Sonya "Heaven and Sea, Horatio," (poem) Mythic Delirium 22.
Taaffe, Sonya "In the Earth in Those Days," (poem) Not One of Us #44.
Tambour, Anna "Cooks' Tricks Nix Sticks," (poem) Mythic Delirium #21.
Taylor, N. E. "Notre Dame," (poem) Tales of the Talisman volume VI issue 1.
Taylor, Pamela K. "50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire," Apex November.
Tem, Melanie "Braids," Werewolves and Shapeshifters.
Tem, Melanie and Tem, Steve Rasnic "Bees From the Hive," In Concert.
Tem, Steve Rasnic "Chain Reaction," Black Static 19, October/November.
Tem, Steve Rasnic "Grandfather Wolf," Werewolves and Shapeshifters.
Tem, Steve Rasnic "How to Play Dead," (poem) Halloween: New Pieces.
Tem, Steve Rasnic "Mt. Belano's Visit," Legends of the Mountain State 4.
Tem, Steve Rasnic "Old Men on Porches," Specters in Coal Dust.
Tem, Steve Rasnic "Red Light, The Bleeding Edge.
Tem, Steve Rasnic "The Figure in Motion," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
Tentchoff, Marcie Lynn "Silt," (poem) Star*Line July/August.
Tessier, Thomas "Torching the Escalade," Cemetery Dance 63.
Thomas Jeffrey "The Possessed," (novella) Nocturnal Emissions.
Thomas, Jeffrey "Nocturnal Emissions," (novella) Nocturnal Emissions.
Thomas, Jonathan "Tempting Providence," Black Wings.
Thomas, Jonathan "Tempting Providence," Tempting Providence and Other Stories.
Thomas, Lee "Flicker," Horror Library volume 4.
Thomas, Lee "Inside Where It's Warm," Dead Set.
Thomas, Scott "The Sunken House," Quill & Candle.
Thomas, Scott "Three White Boxes," Quill & Candle.
Thompson, Lee "A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky," Festive Fear.
Thompson, Lee "At Least the Dead," Dark Recesses May.
Thompson, Lee "Daddy Screamed With Us," Darkside Digital March.
Tidhar, Lavie "The Last Butterfly," GUD #6
Tidhar, Lavie "The Wound Dresser," Black Static 19, October/November.
Tierney, Richard L. "Kingsport," (poem) Savage Menace.
Tierney, Richard L. "Shelob," (poem) Savage Menace.
Tobler, E. Catherine "Liminal," Fantasy, November.
Totton, Sarah "A Sip from the Cup of Enlightenment," Animythical Tales.
Travis, John "A Victim of Natural Selection," Where the Heart Is.
Treleaven, Lou "Sweet Things," Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers March.
Tremblay, Paul "Growing Things," In the Mean Time.
Trimm, Mikal "Who's Gonna Miss You When You're Gone," Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts.
Tullis, S. D. "The Return," Null Immortalis.
Tuttle, Lisa "His Wolf," Songs of Love and Death.
Ubidia "Abdón "3 Funventions," AHMM November.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "A Different Morecambe," Lost Places.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "A Man of Ice and Sorrow," Black Static 18, August.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "A Meeting of Gemmologists," Lost Places.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "Scale Hall," Where the Heart Is.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "The Animal Game," Lost Places.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "The Baking of Cakes," Lost Places.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "The Derwentwater Shark," Lost Places.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "The Knitted Child," Black Static 15, February/March.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "The Pennine Tower Restaurant," Lost Places.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "Traffic Stream," The Sixth Black Book of Horror.
Valente, Catherynne M. "Secretario," Weird Tales 356 summer.
Valentine, Genevieve "And the Next, and the Next," The Living Dead 2.
Valentine, Genevieve "The Dire Wolf," Running with the Pack.
Valentine, Mark "A Revelation of Cormorants," chapbook, Nightjar Press.
Vanderhooft, JoSelle ""The Chorus of Dead Girls,"(poem) Apex September.
VanderMeer, Jeff "The Quickening," The Third Bear.
Vaughn, Carrie "God's Creatures," Dark and Stormy Knights.
Vella, Lindsay "Poor summer, she doesn't know she's dying," Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 26.
Vernon, Steve "The Takashi Miike Seal of Approval," Do-overs and Detours.
Villegas, Halli "An Unexpected Thing," The Hair Wreath and Other Stories.
Villegas, Halli "Salvage," The Hair Wreath and Other Stories.
Vincent, Bev "A Murder of Vampires," eVolVe.
Vincent, Bev "Purgatory Noir," When the Night Comes Down.
Vincent, Bev "Zombies on a Plane," Dead Set.
Volk, Stephen "In the Coliseum," The End of the Line.
Wallis, Kevin " The Taking of Michael McConnolly," Beneath the Surface of Things.
Wan, Michelle "Here With Us," Gothic Toronto, Writing the City Macabre.
Ward, C.E. "Behind the Curtain," Seven Ghosts and One Other.
Ward, Kyla "Erina Hearn and the Gods of Death," Macabre.
Wardle, Susan "Here Be Monsters," Macabre.
Warren, Kaaron "Loss," Sprawl.
Warren, Kaaron "Sins of the Ancestors," Dead Sea Fruit.
Warren, Kaaron "The Coral Gatherers," Dead Sea Fruit.
Warren, Kaaron "The New Rat in Town," Worlds Next Door.
Warren, Kaaron "The Rude Little Girl," Black Static 17, June/July.
Warzel, Desmond "The Elephant in the Marble," Night Terrors.
Waters, Daniel "Many Happy Returns," Kiss Me Deadly.
Watts, Peter "The Things," Clarkesworld January #40.
Webb, Don "The Man Who Scared Lovecraft," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
Welles, Harvey and Raines, Philip "The Cruel Ship's Captain," Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 26.
Welles, Harvey and Raines, Philip "The Cruel Ship's Captain," Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 26.
Wellington, David "Good People," The Living Dead 2.
Wellington, David "Weaponized," The New Dead.
White, Wrath James "House of Murderers," (poem) Vicious Romantic.
White, Wrath James "Hunter's Moon," (poem) Vicious Romantic.
Whitlock, Dean "Nanosferatu," F&SF January/February.
Wickwire, J.P. "The Torturer's Boy," (poem) Bull Spec, summer.
Wilhelm, Kate "Changing the World," Asimov's SF Magazine October/November.
Wilhelm, Kate "The Late Night Train," F&SF January/February.
Williams, Conrad "Exit Sounds," The End of the Line.
Williams, Conrad "The Fold," Visitants.
Williams, Jennifer "The Sea, the Sea, the Sea," Hub 121.
Williams, Tad "The Storm Door," The New Dead.
Williams, Tim L. "To Catch a Star," Not One of Us #44.
Witteveen, David "Perfect Skin," Cthulhu's Dark Cults.
Witteveen, David and Conyers, David "Sweet as Decay," Macabre.
Wright, T. M. "Making Ready the Celebration," Halloween: New Poems.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn "The Spinning Wheel Compleat," Visitants.
Yoachim, Caroline M. 'What Happens in Vegas," GUD #6.
Yoachim, Caroline M. "Stone Wall Truth," Asimov's Science Fiction February.
Yolen, Jane "The Gospel of the Rope," (poem) Mythic Delirium #23.
Zumpe, Lee Clark "Wild with Hunger," Dead History.

Full Honorable Mentions List for 2010 part 1

Abbott, J. L. "Grappler," Albedo One #39.
Adams, Guy "Ain't No Angel Gonna Greet Me," Darkness on the Edge.
Allan, Nina "Bellony," Blind Swimmer.
Allan, Nina "Wilkolak," Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts.
Allen, Mike "Her Acres of Pastoral Playground," Cthulhu's Reign.
Altabef, Ken "The Lost Elephants of Kenyisha," F&SF July/August.
Anderson, Colleen "Exegesis of the Insecta Apocrypha," Horror Library volume 4.
Ang, Arlene "Trees Are Only X-Rays of Bone," (poem) Chizine #46.
Aronovitz, Mike "How Bria Died," Weird Tales 356 summer.
Atkins, Ace "Nine Below Zero," Delta Blues.
Aurelian, Robin "Bait," F&SF January/February.
Bacon, Stephen "Last Summer," Where the Heart Is.
Bacon, Stephen "Room Above the Shop," The Sixth Black Book of Horror.
Bacon, Stephen "The Other Side of Silence," Dark Horizons 57.
Bacon, Stephen "The Toymaker of Bremen," Null Immortalis.
Bailey, Dale "Eating at the End-of –the World Café," F&SF September/October.
Bailey, Dale "Silence," F&SF May/June.
Bain, Matthew Lee "God's Work," Horror Library volume 4.
Ball, David "The Scroll," Warriors.
Barkauskas, Cheryl "The Watcher Thorn," Sybil's Garage #7.
Barker, Christopher "Drill Head," Tenebrous Tales.
Barker, Christopher "Subtle Differences," Tenebrous Tales.
Barker, Christopher "The Melancholy Haunting of Nicholas Parkes," Tenebrous Tales.
Barker, Christopher "The Sinister Cupboard," Tenebrous Tales.
Barnhill, Kelly "Hush," Dark Faith.
Barnhill, Kelly "The Taxidermist's Other Wife," Clarkesworld December #51.
Barron, Laird "Mysterium Tremendum," (novella) Occultation.
Barron, Laird "Six Six Six," Occultation.
Barron, Laird "The Broadsword," Black Wings.
Barron, Laird "The Redfield Girls," Haunted Legends.
Barron, Laird "Vastation," Cthulhu's Reign.
Beagle, Peter S. "Dirae," Warriors.
Beagle, Peter S. "La Lune "T'Attend," Full Moon City.
Beckett, Chris "The Desiccated Man," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
Bell, Matt "Mantodea," PANK 4/How They Were Found.
Bell, Matt "The Receiving Tower," Willow Springs 65/How They Were Found.
Bell, Matt "Wolf Parts," chapbook Keyhole Press/How They Were Found.
Bell, Naomi "Dust," Dark Pages.
Bell, Peter "A Midsummer's Ramble in the Carpathians," The Light of the World.
Bell, Peter "Inheritance," The Light of the World.
Bell, Peter "The Tunnel," Supernatural Tales 17.
Bender, Aimee "Among Us," The New Dead.
Bergmann, F. J. "Red Silk," (poem) Mythic Delirium #21.
Bestwick, Simon "Sons of the City," (novella) The End of the Line.
Bestwick, Simon "Winter's End," Where the Heart Is.
Beukes, Lauren "One-Minute Weird Tale," Weird Tales 356 summer.
Bick, Ilsa J. "Where the Bodies Are," Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts.
Bissette, Stephen R. "Copper," (novella) The New Dead.
Black, Holly "The Dog King," The Poison Eaters and Other Stories.
Blackford, Jenny "Adam," Kaleidotrope 9, July.
Blackmore, Stephen "For the Children," Needle #2.
Blake, Polenthe "Recipe for Eternal Youth," (poem) Star*Line July/August.
Blevins, Brenta "A Loss for _____" Chizine #46.
Block, Lawrence "Catch and Release," Stories.
Block, Lawrence "Clean Slate," Warriors.
Bolduc, Claude trans Sheryl Curtis "The Morning After," eVolVe.
Boston, Bruce "Faith of the Torturer," (poem) Dark Matters.
Boston, Bruce "From the Damnation Cemetery," (poem) Dark Matters.
Bourke, Liz "Oracle," (poem) Goblin Fruit winter.
Bowes, Richard "Pining to Be Human," F&SF July/August.
Bowes, Richard "Waiting for the Phone to Ring," F&SF March/April.
Boyce, Niall "The Frames," Dark Horizons 56.
Bradley, Lisa "The Haunted Girl," (poem), Goblin Fruit autumn.
Braum, Daniel "The Moon and The Mesa," Midnight Echo #4.
Braunbeck, Gary A. "A Certain Disquieting Darkness," The Bleeding Edge.
Braunbeck, Gary A. "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer," Dark Faith.
Brenchley, Chaz "Hothouse Flowers," The Bitten Word.
Brennan, Marie "Comparison of Efficacy Rates for Seven …." Running with the Pack.
Brewer, Steve "Limbo," Crimes by Moonlight.
Brooks, Max "Closure Limited," The New Dead.
Brown, Simon "Sweep," Sprawl.
Bruce, Georgina "Crow Voodoo," Clockwork Phoenix 3.
Bulkin, Nadia "Pugilbone," Chizine #46.
Burke, John "The Stare," Back from the Dead.
Burroughs, Elizabeth "The Flinchfield Dance," Black Static 17, June/July.
Burton, Jeffrey B. "The Soul Fish," Cemetery Moon #6.
Butner, Richard "Holderhaven," Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts.
Cadigan, Pat "Funny Things," The End of the Line.
Cadigan, Pat "The Taste of Night," Is Anybody Out There?
Calvillo, Michael Lewis "The Pathology of Human Sound," Blood & Gristle.
Calvillo, Michael Lewis "Zoo Etiquette," Blood & Gristle.
Campbell, Ramsey "Chucky Comes to Liverpool," Haunted Legends.
Campbell, Ramsey "The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash," Black Wings.
Campbell, Ramsey "The Rounds," The End of the Line.
Campbell, Ramsey "With the Angels," Visitants.
Cardin, Matt "Chimeras & Grotesques," Dark Faith.
Carey, Mike "Second Wind," The New Dead.
Carroll, Debi "Acid," ASIM 46.
Case, David "Penny Wise," Pelican Cay & Other Disquieting Tales.
Casson, Tim "The Overseer," Black Static 16 April/May.
Castro, Adam-Troy "Pieces of Ethan," Werewolves and Shapeshifters.
Castro, Adam-Troy "The Anteroom," The Living Dead 2.
Chappell, Fred "Remnants," (novella) Cthulhu's Reign.
Cheek, Kater "Gingerbread House," Weird Tales #355.
Chinn, Mike "Sailors of the Skies," Dark Horizons 55.
Christian, Charles "Taking Tea With the General," (poem) Dark Horizons 56.
Chua, Dave "Last Days," Chizine #46.
Cisco, Michael "Violence, Child of Trust," Black Wings.
Clark, Simon "They Will Not Rest," Black Static 19, October/November.
Clarke, Roger "Gallybagger," Back from the Dead.
Clinton, Ron "Pumpkin," Terrible Beauty Fearful Symmetry.
Collins, Nancy A. "From Hell's Heart," Classics Mutilated.
Comeau, J. L. "Of the Flesh," Terrible Beauty Fearful Symmetry.
Cone, Temple "Blessed," (poem) Minnetonka Review fall.
Congreve, Bill "The Traps of Tumut," Aurealis 43.
Conlon, Christopher "Grace," Horror Drive-In January 19.
Connolly, Lawrence C. " Reckoning," This Way to Egress.
Connolly, Lawrence C. "Die Angle," Darkness on the Edge.
Conquest, Lawrence "The Face in the Sand," Night Terrors.
Constantine, Storm "Where the Vampires Live," The Bitten Word.
Cooney, C.S. E. "The Big Bah-ha," chapbook.
Cooney, C.S.E. "Braiding the Ghosts," Clockwork Phoenix 3.
Cooper, James "Eight Small Men," Black Static 15 February/March.
Cooper, James "The Farmer's Wife," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
Cortez, A.N. "The Ballad of Nosferatu," Bites of Passion.
Cowdry, Albert E. "Mr. Sweetpants and the Living Dead," F&SF July/August.
Crow, Jennifer "Thirteen Paper Ghosts," (poem) Not One of Us #44.
Crow, Mary "One Night's Architecture," (poem) Minnetonka Review fall.
Crowder, Nathan "Frames of Reference," Close Encounters of the Urban Kind.
Crowther, Peter "Memories," Cemetery Dance 63.
Cruise, Jonathan "The Forgotten Island," Back from the Dead.
D'Lacey, Joseph "The Quiet Ones," When the Night Comes Down.
Dalrymple, Scott "Queen of the Kanguellas," Realms of Fantasy December.
Davidson, Rjurik "Int. Morgue. Night.," The Library of Forgotten Books.
Davies, Deborah Kay "Box," Sing Sorrow Sorrow.
Davis, Sean and Craig "Phadder's Sins," Something Wicked #10
Dawson, Sam "Body of Work," Supernatural Tales 18.
Day, Holly "Rabbit," (poem) Midnight Echo #4.
Day, Rebecca W. "Bricks," Cabinet des Fées volume 1, No. 3.
Deaver, Jeffery "The Therapist," Stories.
Dinan, Kurt "With These Hands," Darkness on the Edge.
Dines, Steven J. "Lost Lying on Your Back," GUD #5.
Dixon, J.P. "Dreaming the Dark," Back from the Dead.
Dixon, John and Browne, Adam "The Laughing Girl of Bora Fanang," ASIM 46.
Dorfman, Ariel "Asylum," Playboy April.
Dowker, Felicity "The Blind Man," Scenes from the Second Storey.
Doyle, Roddy "Blood," Stories.
Drake, Ennis "The Fishing of Dahlia," Horror Library volume 4.
Drayden, Nicky "You Had Me at Rarrrgg," Shimmer #12.
Dubé, Marcelle "Vanishing Woman," On Spec spring.
Dubois, Brendan "The Trespassers," Crimes by Moonlight.
Duffy, Steve "Nightmare Farm," Tragic Life Stories.
Duffy, Steve "Tantara," Tragic Life Stories.
Duffy, Steve "The Fabric of Things," Tragic Life Stories.
Duffy, Steve "The First Time," (novella) Tragic Life Stories.
Duncan, Alexandra "The Door in the Earth," F&SF September/October.
Dunn, Meghan "Weeds in the Garden," On Spec spring.
Eckhardt, Jason C. " From the Realms of Glory," The Weird Fiction Review 1, fall.
Edelman, Scott "Tell Me Like You Done Before," The Dead That Walk.
Edelman, Scott "What Will Come After," What Will Come After.
Edwards, Martin "Bedside Manners," EQMM November.
Ee, Susan "Shadow City," The Dragon and the Stars.
Evenson, Brian "Dapplegrim," My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me.
Everson, John "In Memoryum," Terrible Beauty Fearful Symmetry.
Farris, John "Earthfall," More Stories From the Twilight Zone.
Farrow, Gemma "Bracken Row," Supernatural Tales 18.
Farrugia, Mark "A Bag Full of Arrows," Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #48.
Faulkner, Ian "Rewind," chapbook.
Fernando, Roshi "Three Cuts," Sing Sorrow Sorrow.
Fielding, Graham "The Movie," Midnight Echo #4.
Files, Gemma "Copy Degradation," Black Static 17, June/July.
Files, Gemma "Hell Friend," Clockwork Phoenix 3.
Files, Gemma "The Underneath," Shroud 8.
Files, Gemma "When I'm Armouring My Belly," eVolVe.
Finch, Paul "Crow-Raven," (novella) One Monster Is Not Enough.
Finch, Paul "Fathoms Green and Noisome," Walkers in the Dark.
Finch, Paul "Hag Fold," One Monster is Not Enough.
Finch, Paul "Red in Beak and Claw," One Monster is Not Enough.
Finch, Paul "The Coils Unseen," (novella) Craddock.
Finch, Paul "The Daftie," Where the Heart Is.
Finch, Paul "The Doom," The Sixth Black Book of Horror.
Finch, Paul "The Formless," Walkers in the Dark.
Fischer, Jason "Gunning for a Tinkerman," Aurealis 44.
Flantz, Geordie Williams "The Ghost Days of Melody Brown," (novella) Shadows & Tall Trees, #1.
Flinthart, Dirk "Walker," Sprawl.
Ford, Jeffrey "Dr. Lash Remembers," Steampunk Reloaded.
Ford, Jeffrey "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," Stories
Ford, Jeffrey "The Witch of Donegal," Crackpot Palace, May 30.
Ford, M. Alan "Testaville, Ohio," Horror Library volume 4.
Forest, Susan "The Director's Cut," Tesseracts 14.
Fowler, Christopher "Beautiful Men," Visitants.
Fowler, Christopher "Down," The End of the Line.
Fowler, Christopher "Locked," Back from the Dead.
Fowler, Christopher "The Conspirators," Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts.
Fowler, Christopher "The Rulebook," The Dead That Walk.
Francisco, Allison "The Better to See You With," Albedo One, #38.
Franklin, Bob "Take the Free Tour," Under Stones.
Fray, Gary "Keeping it in the Family," The Sixth Black Book of Horror.
Fredrickson, Jack "Tadesville," Crimes by Moonlight.
Freed, Lynn "Sunshine," The Dark End of the Street.
Freeman, Brian James "The Painted Darkness," (novella chapbook).
Frost, Gregory "Lucyna's Gaze," Clockwork Phoenix 3.
Frost, Gregory "The Bank Job," Full Moon City.
Frost, Gregory "The Seals of New R'lyeh," Cthulhu's Reign.
Fry, Gary "Strings Attached," Null Immortalis.
Fuller, Andrew S. "The Circus Wagon," Damnation Books e-book.
Fultz, John "The Taste of Starlight," Lightspeed October.
Fultz, John R. "This is How the World Ends," Cthulhu's Reign.
Gage, Joshua "The Shoemaker's Daughters," (poem) Paper Crow #1, spring /summer.
Gailey, Jeannine Hall "The Animal Heart: She Warns Him," (poem) Mythic Delirium #21.
Gaiman, Neil "The Thing About Cassandra," Songs of Love and Death.
Gaiman, Neil "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountain," Stories.
Garbe, Jacob "Fraternis," (poem), Goblin Fruit autumn.
Gardner, Catherine J. "The Hollow Framework for the Cotton Man," The Company He Keeps,PS 22/23.
Gay, Roxane "Down to Bone," Mid-American Review volume XXX.
Genge, Sara "Little Gods," Dark Faith: Last Rites.
Genge, Sara "Sins of the Father," Asimov's Science Fiction, December.
German, Wade "Mooncalf," (poem) Star*Line July/August.
German, Wade "The Propagule," (poem) Hidden.
Gladstone, Max "The Four Modernizations," Necrotic Tissue January.
Glaze, Violet "Rough Trade Marks the Spot," The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction #4.
Glaze, Violet "Warm in Your Coat," Werewolves and Shapeshifters.
Godsell, Abigail "The Guitar Case," Something Wicked #10.
Golden, Christopher "Nesting" chapbook.
Goodfellow, Cody "The Devil's Diamonds," Cthulhu's Dark Cults.
Goodfellow, Cody Winchester "Black Wind," chapbookl, Perilous Press.
Graham, Jennifer Griffin "Cuts," Zahir #22.
Grant, John "The Life Business," Requiems for the Departed.
Grant, Mira "Everglades," The Living Dead 2.
Green, Christopher "Jumbuck," Aurealis 44.
Green, Christopher "Linger," ASIM 46.
Green, Simon R. "He Said, Laughing," The Living Dead 2.
Grey, April "Exile," Terrible Beauty Fearful Symmetry.
Griffiths, Niall "Puck's Tale," Sing Sorrow Sorrow.
Guffey, Robert "Ticks," Flurb #9.
Gwyn, Aaron "Drive," The Gettysburg Review, winter 2009.
Haines, Paul "Her Gallant Needs," Sprawl.
Haines, Paul "The Past is a Bridge Best Left Burnt," The Last Days Of Kali Yuga.
Haldeman, Philip "Tunnels," Black Wings.
Hall, Parnell "Death of a Vampire," Crimes by Moonlight.
Hall, Tina May "Skinny Girls' Constitution and Bylaws," The Physics of Imaginary Objects.
Hannett, L.L. "Tiny Drops," Midnight Echo #4.
Hanover, M.L.N. "Hurt Me," Songs of Love and Death.
Hardy, Peter "Drive-In," The Company He Keeps, PS 22/23.
Harrison, Myc "A Good Offense," Back from the Dead.
Harvey, Euan "Halloween," Realms of Fantasy October.
Harvey, Euan "Hanuman's Bridge," Realms of Fantasy April.
Harvey, Euan "The Demon of Hochgarten," Realms of Fantasy February.
Hautala, Rick "Ghost Trap," The New Dead.
Hayes, Martin "13 Nassau Street," Supernatural Tales 17.
Hecklenberg,Don "No Parent Should Ever Have to Bury HisChildAlive,"The Onion.4/29
Henderson, Samantha "Skin in the Game," Running with the Pack.
Hergenrader, Trent "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter," Zahir #22.
Herrad, Imogene Rhia "Rhiannon's Bird," Sing Sorrow Sorrow.
Hill, Conrad "An Outing with H," Back from the Dead.
Hill, Joe "The Devil on the Staircase," Stories.
Hill, Joe "Twittering From the Circus of the Dead," The New Dead.
Hix, H. Edgar 'Ghazal 1," (poem) Paper Crow #2, fall/winter.
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki "Daycare of the Damned," Blood Lite II: Overbite.
Holladay, Cary "Ghost Walk," Philadelphia Noir.
Honkonen, Janos "On the Beaten Path," Black Static 17, June/July.
Hood, Robert "Ego," Scenes from the Second Storey.
Hook, Andrew "Red or White" The Bitten Word.
Hopkinson, Nalo "Blushing," Gothic Toronto, Writing the City Macabre.
Howard, Kat "A Life in Fictions," Stories.
Hubbard, S.W. "House of Horrors," Crimes by Moonlight.
Huddy, Lachlan "The Bunyipslayer," Aurealis 43.
Hudson, Michael Derrick "Man vs Nature," (poem) The Greensboro Review, Fall.
Huff, Tanya "Quid Pro Quo," eVolVe.
Hughes, Tristan "Just Like Honey," Sing Sorrow Sorrow.
Hunt, Arlene "Sliabh Ban," Requiems for the Departed.
Hunter, Ian "The Circle," Dark Horizons 55.
Ingram, Dayna "Mary's Waltz," Collective Fallout January.
Irwin, Stephen M. "Hive," Macabre.
Italiano, Marcy "I Bought," Terrible Beauty Fearful Symmetry.
Jansen, Patty Little Boy Lost," Midnight Echo #4.
Jemisin, N.K. "Red Riding Hood's Child," Running with the Pack.
Johnson, Kij "Ponies," Tor.com, November.
Johnstone, Carole "Stomping Ground," Where the Heart Is.
Jones, Cynan "The Epilept," Sing Sorrow Sorrow.
Jones, Stephen Graham "The Lazarus Complex," Wrong Tree Review volume 1, issue. 1.
Jones, Stephen Graham "Crawlspace," (novella) The Ones That Got Away.
Kastin, Shawna Lenore "Four and Twenty Blackbirds," (poem) Mythic Delirium 22.
Kasturi, Sandra "Let the Night In," (poem) eVolVe.
Kasturi, Sandra "The Coming of Ghosts," Shadows & Tall Trees, #1.
Katigbak, Ruby "The Blackberry Boy," (poem), Goblin Fruit spring.
Kaysen, Daniel "Babylon's Burning," Black Static 15, February/March.
Kaysen, Daniel "The Lady in the Tigris," Black Static 17, June/July.
Keefe, Anne "Charm," (poem) The Greensboro Review, Fall.
Keevil, Tyler "Hibakusha," Interzone #226.
Kelly, Michael "A Song of Knives," Undertow & Other Laments.
Kelly, Michael "The Face That Looks Back at You," Supernatural Tales 18.
Kelly, Michael "The Teeth of the World," Undertow & Other Laments.
Kemble, Gary "Feast or Famine," Macabre.
Kempshall, Pete "Signature Walk," Sprawl.
Kendall, Rachel "51 Weeks," The Bride Stripped Bare.
Kendall, Rachel "Blood Money," The Bride Stripped Bare.

Time Capsule Mansion Opened After 100 Years

Time Capsule Mansion Opened After 100 Years and of course I covet the duelling frogs.

thanks to David Morrell

Honorable Mentions Best Horror of the Year volume three

For those interested. This is the list that will appear in the book itself. I'll be posting the entire (much larger) list at some point in the future.

The below includes (but is not limited to) the stories that were on my short list when I started my final culling.

Aronovitz, Mike "How Bria Died," Weird Tales 356 summer.
Bacon, Stephen "Last Summer," Where the Heart Is.
Bacon, Stephen "Room Above the Shop," The Sixth Black Book of Horror.
Barron, Laird "Mysterium Tremendum," (novella) Occultation.
Barron, Laird "Six Six Six," Ibid.
Barron, Laird "The Broadsword," Black Wings.
Barron, Laird "The Redfield Girls," Haunted Legends.
Bell, Matt "The Receiving Tower," Willow Springs 65/How They Were Found.
Bell, Matt "Wolf Parts," chapbook Keyhole Press/How They Were Found.
Bestwick, Simon "Winter's End," Where the Heart Is.
Bick, Ilsa J. "Where the Bodies Are," Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts.
Castro, Adam-Troy "The Anteroom," The Living Dead 2.
Edelman, Scott "Tell Me Like You Done Before," The Dead That Walk.
Edelman, Scott "What Will Come After," What Will Come After.
Files, Gemma "The Underneath," Shroud 8.
Finch, Paul "The Daftie," Where the Heart Is.
Ford, Jeffrey "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," Stories.
Freed, Lynn "Sunshine," The Dark End of the Street.
Jones, Stephen Graham "Crawlspace," (novella) The Ones That Got Away.
Kasturi, Sandra "The Coming of Ghosts," Shadows & Tall Trees, #1.
Langan, John "The Shallows," Cthulhu's Reign.
Lansdale, Joe R. "The Crawling Sky," Son of Retro Pulp Tales.
Lansdale, Joe R. "The Stars Are Falling," Stories.
Liss, David "What Maisie Knew," The New Dead.
Little, Bentley "Jammers," Horror Library volume 4.
Lynch, Mark Patrick "Jango Says," AHMM April.
Mamatas, Nick "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Jesus Christ," Dark Faith.
Mantooth, John "Walk the Wheat," On Spec spring.
McHugh, Maureen "The Naturalist," Subterranean, spring.
Moran, James K. "Glimpses Through the Trees," Curtain Call.
Oliver, Reggie "You Have Nothing to Fear," Null Immortalis.
Pinborough, Sarah "When the Darkness Comes," Brighton Shock.
Rucker, Lynda E. "The Moon Will Look Strange," Black Static 16, April/May
Russell, R. B." The Beautiful Room," chapbook, Nightjar Press.
Sharma, Priya "The Nature of Bees," Albedo One, #38.
Slatter, Angela "Brisneyland by Night," Sprawl.
Slatter, Angela "Lost Things," Sourdough.
Smith, Michael Marshall "Substitutions," Black Wings.
Southard, Nate "Going Home, Ugly Stick in Hand," Black Static 20.
Spencer, William Browning "The Unorthodox Dr. Draper," Subterranean fall.
Tem, Melanie and Tem, Steve Rasnic "Bees From the Hive," In Concert.
Tem, Steve Rasnic "Chain Reaction," Black Static 19, October/November.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "Scale Hall," Where the Heart Is.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt "The Pennine Tower Restaurant," Lost Places.
Valentine, Genevieve "And the Next, and the Next," The Living Dead 2.
Valentine, Genevieve "The Dire Wolf," Running with the Pack.
VanderMeer, Jeff "The Quickening," The Third Bear.
Watts, Peter "The Things," Clarkesworld January #40.

Home and very nice mail

The flight home was easy and I got in the door before 9pm, which made me and the cats happy.

First, a quote from the forthcoming review in the June Realms of Fantasy (not yet proofed so may be slightly changed)

".....this collection is filled with gems." ......."This collection masterfully conveys the complexity of the concept, with nary a clunker to be found, and is a must-have for any vampire fan out there."

And I received one hardcover copy and one trade copy of the actual finished book! It looks beautiful. There will be at least one reading/event in NYC: at the Jefferson Market Library in June. More info to come.

Plus I received a carton of the bound galleys of Naked City. It looks good too and I'm eager to have them both out.
I may hold some kind of competition for a few of the advance reading copies of NC.
There will be a reading of NC in Cambridge, the evening that Readercon begins.

And for today's update in sunny Florida

Get Low did not happen for me last night. We went to the movie at the clubhouse,there were problems getting it started, with the film flipping ahead and back and all over the damned place but not the beginning. I was about to walk out when it started working correctly. Started getting really interesting then about 25 minutes in stopped dead. Then skipped a scene. I walked out and waiting for my mom in the lobby, reading whatever magazines were lying around. I hate having movies spoiled by crap like that. I assume it was either the DVD or the player. Don't know. Don't care. I grew with with my mom always late (hi mom!) and so we'd end up getting to movies in the middle. In those days you could sit through as many shows as you wanted so we would kind of figure out where we were in the movie and then sit through the first half. This experience reminded me how I always hated that and felt cheated. So I've just rented in on netflix instead and will just ff award to where the movie stopped.

Today, we went to see Unknown a brand new thriller with Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Frank Langella, Bruno Ganz, and January Jones. Biology researcher arrives in Berlin to give a talk, leaves his briefcase in the cab to the hotel and when he realizes this, takes another cab back to the airport to retrieve it. I won't give away any spoilers but it's interesting and I think, after discussing it with my mom, that it all kind of works (as much as this sort of thing can). A couple of very good car chases. Liam Neeson has been doing a bunch of movie thrillers of different types in the past few years and he's always earnest. It's a little difficult for me to watch anything with him in it since the tragic death of his wife, Natasha Richardson in 2009.

Tonight after eating dinner at the fabulous Lucille's barbecue joint, we watched House (new episode)-and I actually liked it--possibly because this one was more about his personal life than about a "case" (although there was a case--even two of them). Then we watched Harry Brown with Michael Caine. My mom had already seen it (that's what comes of her sending me into the Publix to pick out a movie on my own). Ugly,violent housing estate in England, and elderly protagonist takes on the bastards. Nicely done and both Caine and Emily Mortimer did some good work in it.

Made my flight reservations to Renovation. Reno here I come!