Honorable Mentions.
Addison, Linda D. “Mud,” Don’t Turn Out the Lights.
Bailey, Dale “Das Gesicht,” Final Cuts.
Barrett, E. C. “We Aren’t Violent People,” Bourbon Penn #20.
Barron, Laird “Ode to Joad the Toad,” Miscreations
Burke, Kealan Patrick “I Used to Live Here,” A Winter’s Tale.
Day, Victoria “The Mosaic Maze,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Mazes.
Duffy, Steve “White Noise in a White Room,” Weird Horror, issue 1, fall.
Evenson, Brian “The Cabin,” Come Join Us By the Fire Season 2.
Ferrell, Keith “Cronenberg Concerto,” It Came From the Multiplex.
Files, Gemma “Carmagnole,” The Willows: Complete Anthology.
Hand, Elizabeth “The Owl Count,” Grendel’s Kin, Conjunctions 74.
Ho, Millie “A Moonlit Savagery,” Nightmare 91, April.
Hodge, Brian “Insanity Among the Penguins,” Final Cuts.
Houser, Chip “Smilers,” Bourbon Penn #20.
Howell, A.P. “5:37,”Translunar Travelers Lounge Issue 3, August.
Iglesias, Gabino “The Song of the Lady Rose,” Come Join Us By the Fire Season 2.
Jennings, Kathleen Flyaway, (novella) Tor.com.
Jones, Stephen Graham “Wait for Night,” Tor.com September 2.
Jones, Stephen Graham Night of the Mannequins (novella) Tor.com
Kadrey, Richard “Razor Pig,” Tales of Dark Fantasy 3.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Cherry Street Tango, Sweatbox Waltz,” Tales of Dark Fantasy 3.
Kilworth, Garry “Lirpaloof Island,” The Alchemy Book of Horrors #2.
Kornher-Stace, Nicole “Getaway,” Uncanny 33.
Langan, John “Altered Beast, Altered Me,” (novella) Final Cuts.
Littlewood, Alison “Swanskin,” After Sundown.
Malerman, Josh “One Last Transformation,” Miscreations.
Malik, Usman T. “City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat” Tor.com October 21.
Manzetti, Alessandro “From Hell,” (poem) Whitechapel Rhapsody.
Marr, Melissa “Of Roses and Kings,” Tor.com April 27
Mason, Rena “To the Marrow,” Weird Tales 364.
Mason, Rena “To the Marrow,” Weird Tales 364.
Moraine, Sunny “If Living is Seeing I’m Holding My Breath,” Come Join Us…Season 2.
Nix, Garth “Many Mouths to Make a Meal,” Final Cuts.
Parenti, Dino “Blue Was Her Favorite Color,” Arterial Bloom.
Parker, Michael “Las Llorasangres,” Penumbra No.#1.
Rebecca, Parfitt “Sometimes They Come Late,” New Gothic Review #2.
Richardson, Endria Isa “The Black Menagerie,” Fiyah #15.
Rickert, M. “The Little Witch,” Tor.com Tor.com October 28.
Rogers, Ian “Go Fish,” Tor.com April 15.
Van Samson, Steve “No God But Hunger,” Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire.
Volk, Stephen “The Naughty Step,” After Sundown.
Wagner, Wendy N. “The Smell of Night in the Basement, PseudoPod 730.
Ward, C.E. “Real Estate,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Mazes.
Watson, D.A. “Restless Natives,” Footsteps in the Dark.