WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

The shortlist for this year's World Fantasy Awards has been announced. As you know, Jeff was on the judges panel, along with Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss and Andrew Wheeler. Jeff is unable to blog right now, but he asked me to post the following message: "Congrats to all the finalists. I really enjoyed working with the other judges, it was a wonderful experience."

And the nominees are:

NOVEL

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (Harvill; Knopf)

The Limits of Enchantment, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Atria)

Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf; Macmillan)

Od Magic, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)

A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park (Tor)

Vellum, Hal Duncan (Macmillan; Del Rey)

NOVELLA

Another War, Simon Morden (Telos Publishing)

"The Imago Sequence", Laird Barron (F&SF May 2005)

"In the Machine", Michael Cunningham (Speciman Days, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

"Magic for Beginners", Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners, Small Beer Press; F&SF Sep 2005)

"UOUS", Tanith Lee (The Fair Folk, SFBC)

Voluntary Committal, Joe Hill (Subterranean Press)

SHORT FICTION

"Best New Horror", Joe Hill (Postscripts #3, Spr 2005)

"CommComm", George Saunders (The New Yorker 1 Aug 2005)

"The Other Grace", Holly Phillips (In the Palace of Repose, Prime Books)

"La Peau Verte", Caitlin R. Kiernan (To Charles Fort, With Love, Subterranean Press)

"Two Hearts", Peter S. Beagle (F&SF Oct/Nov 2005)

ANTHOLOGY

Adventure Vol. 1, Chris Roberson, ed. (MonkeyBrain Books)

The Fair Folk, Marvin Kaye, ed. (SFBC)

Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, eds. (Crescent Books)

Polyphony 5, Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, eds. (Wheatland Press)

Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, Stephen Jones, ed. (Fedogan & Bremer)

COLLECTION

20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill (PS Publishing)

In the Palace of Repose, Holly Phillips (Prime Books)

The Keyhole Opera, Bruce Holland Rogers (Wheatland Press)

Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)

To Charles Fort, with Love, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

James Jean

Dave McKean

Edward Miller (Les Edwards)

John Jude Palencar

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Susan Allison & Ginjer Buchanan (for Ace Books)

Lou Anders (for editing at Pyr)

Peter Lavery (for Pan MacMillan UK/Tor UK)

Chris Roberson & Allison Baker (for MonkeyBrain Books)

Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)

S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemanowicz, eds. (for Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

David Howe & Stephen Walker (for Telos Books)

The Friends of Arthur Machen (for Faunus, Machenalia, and The Life of Arthur Machen) (http://www.machensoc.demon.co.uk/)

Rodger Turner, Neil Walsh & Wayne MacLaurin (for SF Site) (http://www.sfsite.com/)

Leo Grin (for The Cimmerian) (http://www.thecimmerian.com/)

Jess Nevins (for The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, MonkeyBrain Books)