Honorable Mentions 2017-Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten

Allan, Nina “Four Abstracts,” New Fears.
Allred, Rebecca J. “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Allred, Rebecca J. “When Dark Ophelia Sings,” Nightscript III.
Anderson, G.V. “I Am Not I,” F&SF July/August.
Anderson, M. K. “Grizzly,” Nightscript III.
Aposhian, Ahna Wayne “Old Hag,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Arkenberg, Megan “But Thou, Proserpina, Sleep,” A Breath from the Sky.
Arnoldi, Oliver “Katharine,” The Stinging Fly #35.
Arnzen, Michael A. “Fresh Catch,” The Beauty of Death II.
Bailey, Michael “Underwater Ferris Wheel,” The Beauty of Death volume II.
Balázs, Thomas P. “Waiting for Mrs. Hemley,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Baptiste, Tracey “Ma Laja,” Sycorax’s Daughters.
Barron, Laird “Swift to Chase,” Adam’s Ladder.
Bartlett, Matthew M. “Deep into the Skin,” Tales from a Talking Board.
Baxter, Alan “The Book Club,” (novella) PS.
Benedict, A.K. “Departures,” New Fears.
Benedict, R. S. “My English Name,” F&SF May/June.
Berry, Patrick “Divided They Fall,” Blood Business from Beyond.
Bestwick, Simon “The Tarn,” The Beauty of Death volume II.
Blooms, Ashley “Fallow,” Shimmer 37, May.
Boley, Rob E. “The Hygienist,” Better Alive Than Dead.
Bond, Charlotte “The Lies We Tell,” Great British Horror 2: Dark Satanic Mills.
Bonfanti, Daniele “The Gorge of Children,” The Beauty of Death volume II.
Booth III, Max “Disintegration is Quite Painless,” Shadows over Main Street volume 2.
Booth, Ruth E. J. “The Anniversary,” Black Static #61, November/December.
Boskovich, Deserina “Cargo,” Ride the Star Wind.
Boston, Bruce “Deserted Altars in the Mutant Rain Forest, (poem)Visions of the Mutant..
Boston, Bruce “Ghost Devils Deep in the Mutant Rain Forest,” (poem)Visions of the..
Bradley, Regina N. “Letty” Sycorax’s Daughters.
Braum, Daniel “Palankar,” Nightscript III.
Braum, Daniel “The Fourth Bell,” The Beauty of Death volume II.
Braum, Daniel “This Is the Sound of Your Dreams Dying,” The Wish Mechanics.
Brazos, Rhoads “The Blue Ruin of Victor Junípero…”,The book of Blasphemous Words.
Brenchley, Chaz “The Fold in the Heart,” New Fears.
Broaddus, Maurice “The Ache of Home,” Uncanny 17.
Bruce, Georgina “Little Heart,” Imposter Syndrome.
Bulkin, Nadia “Live through This,” Looming Low.
Bulkin, Nadia “May You Live in Interesting Times,” Tales from a Talking Board.
Bulkin, Nadia “No Gods, No Masters,” She Said Destroy.
Bunker, Karl “Delicious, Delicious SQ 30, March.
Burke, Kealan Patrick “Go Warily After Dark,” Tales From the Lake Volume 4.
Burke, Kealan-Patrick “The Mannequin Challenge,” Halloween Carnival Volume Four.
Byrne, Lucy Sweeney “To Cure a Body,” The Stinging Fly #35.
Cacek, P. D. “One Small Change,” Tales from the Miskatonic Library.
Cade, Octavia “The Better Part of Drowning,” The Dark 30, November.
Cahill, Martin “Salamander Six-Guns,” Shimmer 38.
Calder, Natasha “Troll Song,” (poem), The Stinging Fly #35.
Campbell, Ramsey “Speaking Still,” New Fears.
Campbell, Rebecca “On Highway 18,” F&SF Sept/October.
Campeau, Chris “Our One Night a Year,” The Furious Gazelle, Halloween.
Carey, Mike “In That Quiet Earth,” Nights of the Living Dead.
Casey, Meghan “Banewort,” On Spec #104.
Casson, Tim “The Process of Chuddar,” Black Static #58, May/June.
Chambers, James “A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills,” Shadows over Main St 2.
Chin, YZ “To Dance Is Feline,” Black Static July/August.
Clark, Chloe N. “Like the Desert Dark,” Gamut #5.
Clark, Stephen J. Out of Bounds,” (novella) Murder Ballads.
Clarke, Stephen J. “On the Edge of Utterance,” Nightscript III.
Cluley, Ray “In the Light of St Ives,” Terror Tales of Cornwall.
Cluley, Ray “The Swans,” Black Static #60 September/October.
Coney, S. L. “Prey,” Gamut 10.
Cook, C. Michael “The Night Crier,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Cosby, M. R. “The Other Side of the Hill,” Nightscript III.
Crooks, Morgan “Implicit Order,” Lamplight #2, December.
Crow, Jennifer “Masques and Mayhem,” (poem), Mythic Delirium, Sept.
Curran, Tim “Night of the Hopfrog,” The Children of Gla’aki.
Curzon, Colette de “Paymon’s Trio,” chapbook.
Cypess, Leah “Neko Brushes,” F&SF May/June.
Daniels, Gillian “Scott and Lara Go to the Woods,” Not One of Us #57.
Darlington, Andrew “The Shifter System,” Hellfire Crossroads 6.
Dawson, Len “Z Haulers,” Hellfire Crossroads 6.
Dean, Claire “Bremen,” Nightjar chapbook.
Dean, Claire “The Unwish,” Nightjar Chapbook.
Demchuk, David “Dacian,” The Bone Mother.
Demchuk, David “Gregor,” The Bone Mother.
DeMeester, Kristi “The Language of Endings,” The Dark 23, April.
DeMeester, Kristi “The Small Deaths of Skin and Plastic,” Looming Low.
DeMeester, Kristi “When We Are Open Wide,” Black Static #59, July/Aug.
DeMeester, Kristi “Yesnogoodbye,” Tales from a Talking Board.
Devlin, Malcolm “The Last Meal He Ate Before…” You Will Grow into Them.
Devlin, Malcolm “We Can Walk It Off in the Morning,” Shadows and Tall Trees 7.
Doig, James “Early Stages,” Darkly Haunting.
Dornan, Clare “Dark Time,” The Dark Half of the Year.
Dowling, Terry “No Nets Can Catch,” The Night Shop.
Dowling, Terry “Still Life, with Stranging Glass,” The Night Shop.
Dowling, Terry “The Other Séance at Kenmyre,” The Night Shop.
Eads, Sean “Predestination’s a Bitch,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Edelman, Scott “Faking It Until Forever Comes,” Liars, Fakers, and the Dead..
Edwards, Malon “Shadow Man,” Shimmer 35.
English, Tom “A Handful of Dust,” Weirdbook 35.
Erdelac, Edward M. “Hear the Eagle Scream,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Evenson, Brian “Line of Sight,” Shadows and Tall Trees 7.
Evenson, Brian “Lord of the Vats,” Ride the Star Wind.
Evenson, Brian “Sisters,” Haunted Nights.
Evenson, Brian “The Second Door,” Looming Low.
Files, Gemma “Distant Dark Places,” Looming Low.
Files, Gemma “Lagan,” Unspeakable Horror 2.
Ford, Douglas “Count von Cosel’s Great Love,” Mrs Rochester’s Attic.
Ford, Jeffrey “Five Pointed Spell,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Ford, Jeffrey “The Murmurations of Vienna Von Drom,” Black Feathers.
Ford, Jeffrey “The Twilight Pariah,” (novella) Tor.com Books.
Ford, Jeffrey “Witch Hazel,” Haunted Nights.
Fosgate, Tony “Just Visiting,” Hellfire Crossroads 6.
Fox, Andrew “Youth Will Be Served,” Nightmare 53 February.
Fracassi, Philip “Mandala,” Behold the Void.
Fracassi, Philip “Soft Construction of a Sunset,” Behold the Void.
Fracassi, Philip “The Baby Farmer,” Murder Ballads.
Fracassi, Philip “The Horse Thief,” Behold the Void.
Frazier, Robert “The Tale Within,” Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest.
Freivald, Patrick “Earl Pruitt’s Smoker,” Behold: Oddities, Curiosities & Undefinable…
French, Gillian “The Mumbler,” Weirdbook 36.
Freudenberg, Andrew “The Cardiac Ordeal,” Great Brit Hor 2: Dark Satanic Mills.
Fricke, Carla “Good Creatures, Small things,” The Masters Review.
Fry, Gary “The Tidier,” Supernatural Tales 36.
Gam, Doungjai “blood, cold like ice,” Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
Gardner, Cate “Fragments of a Broken Doll,” Great Brit Horror 2: Dark Satanic Mills.
Gavin, Richard “Banishments,” Looming Low.
Gladstone, Max “Crispin’s Model,” Tor.com, October 4.
Golaski, Adam “The Beasts Are Sleep,” Nightscript III.
Golden, Brady “The Family Car,” New Fears.
Golden, Christopher “The Abduction Door,” New Fears.
Goodfellow, Cody “Diablitos,” A Breath From the Sky.
Goodfellow, Cody “The Last Night in Sodom,” Darker Companions.
Grant, Helen “Gold, “ Supernatural Tales 35.
Grau, T. E. “To the Hills,” Tales From the Lake Volume 4.
Gray, Caspian “Promises of Spring,” Nightmare 58, July.
Gray, Murial “Roundabout,” New Fears.
Grey, Michael “Grind,” Pacific Monsters.
Griffin, Michael “Meriwether,” Darker Companions.
Griswold, Amy “Still Tomorrow’s Going to Be Another Working Day,” F&SF, Sept/Oct.
Grunigen, Jenn “Figs Detached,” Nightmare 55, April.
Haddon, Grace “The Cloud Monster,” Mrs Rochester’s Attic.
Haddon, Mark “The Bunker,” Eight Ghosts.
Halbert, Marianne “Housing the Hobgoblins,” Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
Hambling, David “The Mystery of the Cursed Cottage,” Black Wings VI.
Hamilton, Steve D. “That Brightest Void,” Hellfire Crossroads 6.
Hanberry, Gerard “Freckles,” (poem) The Stinging Fly #35.
Hand, Elizabeth “Eat the Worm,” Mixed Up.
Hand, Elizabeth “Fire,” Fire. Plus.
Hannett, Lisa L. “Outside, a Drifter,” Looming Low.
Hannett, Lisa L. “Something Close to Grace,” Murder Ballads.
Hardy, K. S. “The Daemons,” (poem), Not One of Us #58.
Hargadon, Stephen “A Short History of Tedium,” Tales from the Shadow Booth 1.
Harrison, M. John “The Crisis,” You Should Come With Me Now.
Hart, Megan “A Bad Romance,” HWA Poetry Showcase IV.
Haskins, Maria “Hare’s Breath,” Shimmer 39, September.
Haskins, Maria “Metal, Sex, Monsters,” Gamut #5.
Headley, Maria Dahvana “The Orange Tree,” The Weight of Words.
Heller, Jason “Numeral Eleven,” Blood Business from Beyond.
Hellisen, Cat “A Green Silk Dress and a Wedding-Death,” F&SF, March/April.
Henneman, Noelle “Skin,” Lamplight #2, December.
Hensley, Chad “The Chimera,” (poem) Weirdbook 36.
Heuler, Karen “The Reordering of Tonia Vivian,” Aliterate, spring.
Hill, Joe “Loaded,” (novella) Strange Weather.
Hill, Joe “Rain,” (novella) Strange Weather.
Hill, Matt Neil “Thou Shalt Not Suffer,” Witches, Weirdbook Annual 1.
Hinton, Billie Trauma Tattoo,” Not One of Us #57.
Hobb, Robin “Her Father’s Sword,” The Book of Swords.
Hodge, Brian “I’ll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky” chapbook
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki “Rings,” F&SF May/June.
Holman, Peter “No Surrender,” Darkly Haunting.
Holmes, Carly “A Small Life,” Black Static #61, November/December.
Howard, John “Speck,” The Scarlet Soul.
Hurley, Andrew Michael “Mr Lanyard’s Last Case,” Eight Ghosts.
Insole, Colin “Bluebells I’ll Gather,” Darkly Haunting.
Insole, Colin “Old Maid,” Murder Ballads.
Jacobs, John Hornor “Luminaria,” Apex, March.
Jakeman, Jane “In the Rigging,” Supernatural Tales 36.
Jarvis, Timothy J. “And Yet Speaketh,” Murder Ballads.
Jarvis, Timothy J. “The Yellow Book,” The Scarlet Soul.
Jarvis, Timothy J. “Who Is That on the Other Side of You,” Imposter Syndrome.
Johnson, Clay F. “Krysten,” (poem) Weirdbook 36.
Johnson, L. S. “To Us Whom Grace Has Been Given,” Gigantosaurus, Oct.
Johnson, MP “Necksnapper,” The Dark 31, December.
Johnstone, Carole “/’d3Λst/” Great British Horror 2: Dark Satanic Hills.
Johnstone, Carole “Skyshine (or Death by Scotland)” Black Static #60, Sept/Oct.
Johnstone, Carole “The Eyes Are White and Quiet,” New Fears.
Johnstone, Tom “How I Learned the Truth About Krampus,” chapbook.
Johnstone, Tom “Oldstone Gardens,” Horror Library Volume 6.
Johnstone, Tom “The Chiromancer,” Supernatural Tales 36.
Jones, Holly Goddard “Parts,” Gamut #5.