Full Honorable Mention List for Best Horror of the Year volume 4
For those who are interested, here is my full list of the 608 Honorable Mentions for the year 2011. Only fifty of these appear in the physical book. I have no idea how many stories I read or skimmed to reach this number. But a LOT more than are here.
Abbott, Alana Joli “Missing Molly,” Haunted: Eleven Tales of Ghostly Horror.
Adams-Florou, Socrates “Dead Bird,” Murmurations.
Addison, Linda D. “Demon Dance,”(poem) How to Recognize a Demon Has Become…
Addison, Linda D.“How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend 1,”(poem)Ibid.
Afsharirad, David “Model Home,” Space and Time spring #114.
Aiken, Joan “Hair,” F&SF July/August/ The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories.
Alford, Andrew “China Doll Recall,” Supernatural Tales 19 summer.
Allan, Nina “The Muse of Copenhagen,” House of Fear.
Allen, Mike “Heart’s Delight,” (poem) Not One of Us #46.
Amick, Steve “Not Even Lions and Tigers,” Ghost Writers.
Amundsen, Erik “The Lily of the West,” Not One of Us #46.
Anderton, Joanne “The Sea at Night,” Dead Red Heart.
Andrew, Jason “Moonlight in Scarlet,” Cover of Darkness September.
Arnopp, Jason “The Screams Next Door,” Voices from the Past.
Atkins, Peter “All Our Hearts are Ghosts,” Gutshot.
Atkins, Peter “Dancing Like We’re Dumb,” Rumours of the Marvellous.
Austin, Alec “The Vigil,” (poem) Stone Telling #4.
Ausubel, Ramona “Atria,” The New Yorker, April 4.
Backshall, Annette “Hunting Rabbits,” More Scary Kisses.
Bacon, Stephen “Home by the Sea,” The Eighth Black Book of Horror.
Bacon, Stephen “Persistence of Vision,” BFS Journal spring.
Ball, Peter “The Last Thing Said Before Silence,” Weird Tales 357, spring.
Ballingrud, Nathan “A Ghost is a Hole in the Mind,” Blog in a Jar.
Ballingrud, Nathan “Sunbleached,” Teeth.
Barbieri, Suzanne “Flowerface,” Full Fathom Forty.
Barker, Brian “Uncle Z’s Toupee,” Indiana Review, winter 2010.
Barnett, Barbara A. “The Holy Spear,” Black Static 25.
Barron, Laird “The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven,” Supernatural Noir.
Barron, Laird “The Men From Porlock,” (novella) The Book of Cthulhu.
Barron, Laird “The Siphon,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Barzak, Christopher “Smoke City,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May.
Baxter, Alan “Punishment of the Sun,” Dead Red Heart.
Beagle, Peter S. “Music, When Soft Voices Die,” Ghosts By Gaslight.
Bear, Elizabeth “Needles,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Bear, Elizabeth “The Romance,” Supernatural Noir.
Bell, Peter “The Rites of Pentecost,” Delicate Toxins.
Bergmann, F.J. “Coil,” (poem) Paper Crow, fall.
Bergmann, F.J. “Teeth,” (poem) Star*Line January/March
Berguño, George “Flaubert’s Alexandrine,” The Exorcist’s Travelogue.
Berry, Jedediah “Twenty-Eight Scenes For Neglected Guests,” Cape Cod Noir.
Bestwick, Simon “Kiss the Wolf,” Gutshot.
Bestwick, Simon “The Children of Moloch,” Death Rattles.
Beynon, David “”Symbiosis,” Evolve Two.
Biancotti, Deborah “Bad Power,” Bad Power.
Biancotti, Deborah “Palming the Lady,” Bad Power.
Black, Archie “Sadak In Search of The Waters of Oblivion,” Pandemonium.
Black, Holly “Noble Rot,” Naked City.
Bonansinga, Jay “Mole,” Shivers VI.
Borski, Robert “Breadcrumbs,” (poem) Blood Wallah and Other Poems.
Borski, Robert “Breadcrumbs,” (poem) Blood Wallah.
Borski, Robert “Gavage,” (poem) Dreams & Nightmares #88.
Boston, Bruce “Genetically Incorrect,” (poem) Surrealities.
Boston, Bruce “Semi-Circular Lecture on the Disposition of …,” (poem) Surrealities.
Bowes, Richard “Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Bowes, Richard “Hoffman, Godzilla, and Me,” Icarus. Fall.
Bowes, Richard “Mortal Bait,” Supernatural Noir.
Bowler, Dick “Dread Equine,” (poem) Cover of Darkness May.
Boyle, T. Coraghessan “Good Home,” Playboy March.
Braunbeck, Gary A. “And Still You Wonder Why Our First …”The Monster’s Corner. Brenchley, Chaz “Hortus Conslusus,” House of Fear.
Breukelaar, J. S. “Fixed,” Ink.
Brogden, James “The Last Dance of Humphrey Bear,” BFS Journal, Summer.
Brown, Judith “Canis Lupus, Rosa Canina,” Albedo One #40.
Brown, Simon “Thin Air,” Dead Red Heart.
Bruce, Georgina “The Illustrated Dreams of the Ancestors, Dark Tales XV.
Bruchac, Joseph “Helper,” Indian Country Noir.
Bulkin, Nadia “Absolute Zero,” Fantasy Magazine October.
Bulkin, Nadia “Supernatural,” Chizine #47.
Burgess, Donna “Pastures,” (poem) Paper Crow spring/summer.
Burke, Chesya “Cue: Change,” Let’s Play White.
Burke, Chesya “The Teachings and Redemption of Ms.Fannie Lou Mason,”(novella)ibid.
Burke, Chesya “What She Saw When They Flew Away,” Let’s Play White.
Bush, Jeremy “Snapshots of a Killer’ Mind,” Comes the Night.
Calhoun, Kenneth “Then,” Tin House: The Mysterious.
Campbell, Byron Alexander “On the Generation of Insects,” Innsmouth FP#7.
Cantwell, Adam S. “The Filature,” Delicate Toxins.
Carroll, Jonathan “East of Furious,” Conjunctions: 56, Terra Incognita.
Carter, Scott William “The Time of His Life,” Realms of Fantasy February.
Cashmore, Stephen “The Ticket Collector,” Supernatural Tales 19 summer.
Castro, Adam-Troy “Cherub,” Demons.
Cavalchini, Damon “Renfield’s Wife,” Dead Red Heart.
Chiang, Ted “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny,” The Thackery T. Lamshead Cabinet of
Chislett, Michael “Endor,” Delicate Toxins.
Church, Suzanne, “The Needle’s Eye,” Chilling Tales.
Cisco, Michael “Bread and Water,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Claire, Regi “When the Red, Red Robin…” Murmurations.
Clark, Jennifer “Snake Wife,” (poem) Paper Crow, fall.
Clark, Stephen J. “Salmacis,” Delicate Toxins.
Clark, Stephen J. “The Horned Tongue,” Café Morphine.
Clitheroe, Heather “Forest Bathing,” Evolve Two.
Cluley, Ray “Pins and Needles,” Black Static 21, February/March.
Cluley, Ray “The Travellers Stay,” ,” Black Static 25.
Cluly, Ray “I Have Heard the Mermaids Sing,” Black Static #26.
Coffin, Lyn “Chute,” (poem) Stone Telling #6.
Colangelo, Michael R. “Blacklight,” Chilling Tales.
Colona, Sarah “Bluebeard’s First Wife,” (poem) Goblin Fruit, Autumn.
Colten, Marc “Critters,” Cover of Darkness May.
Connelly, Lawrence C. “The Executioner,” Gaslight Arcanum.
Conyers, David and Goodrich, John “The Masked Messenger,” Andromeda SIM #52.
Cooper, James “Cushing,” Black Static 21, February/March.
Coover, Robert “Going for a Beer,” The New Yorker, March 14.
Corrigan, John R. “Shooter,” AHMM April.
Cowdrey, Albert E. “Scatter My Ashes,” F&SF Mar/April.
Cowdrey, Albert E. “The Black Mountain,” F&SF Ma/June.
Cowdrey, Albert E. “The Bogle,” F&SF January/February.
Cowdrey, Albert E. “Where Have all the Young Men Gone,” F&SF September/October.
Crook, Jeff “Darnell Behind Glass,” Arcane spring.
Crowther, Peter “Ghosts with Teeth,” A Book of Horrors.
Curran, Tim “Long in the Tooth,” (novella) Bone Marrow Stew.
Curran, Tim “Night and Fog,” (novella) Bone Marrow Stew.
Currie, Bruce “The Head Gardener,” Dark Tales XV.
Danay, Brant “Beelzebub’s Messiah,” Weird Tales 358.
Danticat, Edwidge “Claire of the Sea Light. Haiti Noir.
Darbyshire, Peter “We Are All Ghosts,” Innsmouth Magazine #8.
Dare, Stephen M. “The House at the End of Smith Street,” What Fears Become.
David, Peter “Bronsky’s Dates with Death,” F&SF July/August.
Davidson, Craig “The Burn,” The Cincinnati Review, April.
Davis, Amanda C. “Drift,” Shock Totem #3.
Dorin, Ivan “Nosangreal,” Evolve Two.
Dorsey, Angela “Walled Gardens,” On Spec #84.
Dowling, Terry “The Shaddowesbox,” Ghosts By Gaslight.
DuBose, Preston P. “The Angry Stick,” Haunted: Eleven Tales of Ghostly Horror.
Due, Tananarive “The Lake,” The Monster’s Corner.
Duffy, Steve “X for Demetrious,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Duffy, Steve “Off the Tracks,” The Night Comes On.
Duffy, Steve “Widdershins the Barrow Round,” The Night Comes On.
Dyer, Thoraiya “The Bird, The Bees, and Thylacine,” ASIM 51.
East, Elyssa “Second Chance,” Cape Cod Noir.
Edwards, Jacob “Behind the Black Mask,” Dead Red Heart.
Edwards, Sarah L. “By Plucking Her Petals,” Interzone #232, Jan/Feb.
Ellingsen, Berit “Still Life of Hypnos,” Sein und Werden January.
Ellingsen, Berit “The Ascent,” Candle in the AtticWindow.
El-Mohtar, Amal “Pieces,” (poem) Stone Telling #4.
Abbott, Alana Joli “Missing Molly,” Haunted: Eleven Tales of Ghostly Horror.
Adams-Florou, Socrates “Dead Bird,” Murmurations.
Addison, Linda D. “Demon Dance,”(poem) How to Recognize a Demon Has Become…
Addison, Linda D.“How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend 1,”(poem)Ibid.
Afsharirad, David “Model Home,” Space and Time spring #114.
Aiken, Joan “Hair,” F&SF July/August/ The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories.
Alford, Andrew “China Doll Recall,” Supernatural Tales 19 summer.
Allan, Nina “The Muse of Copenhagen,” House of Fear.
Allen, Mike “Heart’s Delight,” (poem) Not One of Us #46.
Amick, Steve “Not Even Lions and Tigers,” Ghost Writers.
Amundsen, Erik “The Lily of the West,” Not One of Us #46.
Anderton, Joanne “The Sea at Night,” Dead Red Heart.
Andrew, Jason “Moonlight in Scarlet,” Cover of Darkness September.
Arnopp, Jason “The Screams Next Door,” Voices from the Past.
Atkins, Peter “All Our Hearts are Ghosts,” Gutshot.
Atkins, Peter “Dancing Like We’re Dumb,” Rumours of the Marvellous.
Austin, Alec “The Vigil,” (poem) Stone Telling #4.
Ausubel, Ramona “Atria,” The New Yorker, April 4.
Backshall, Annette “Hunting Rabbits,” More Scary Kisses.
Bacon, Stephen “Home by the Sea,” The Eighth Black Book of Horror.
Bacon, Stephen “Persistence of Vision,” BFS Journal spring.
Ball, Peter “The Last Thing Said Before Silence,” Weird Tales 357, spring.
Ballingrud, Nathan “A Ghost is a Hole in the Mind,” Blog in a Jar.
Ballingrud, Nathan “Sunbleached,” Teeth.
Barbieri, Suzanne “Flowerface,” Full Fathom Forty.
Barker, Brian “Uncle Z’s Toupee,” Indiana Review, winter 2010.
Barnett, Barbara A. “The Holy Spear,” Black Static 25.
Barron, Laird “The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven,” Supernatural Noir.
Barron, Laird “The Men From Porlock,” (novella) The Book of Cthulhu.
Barron, Laird “The Siphon,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Barzak, Christopher “Smoke City,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May.
Baxter, Alan “Punishment of the Sun,” Dead Red Heart.
Beagle, Peter S. “Music, When Soft Voices Die,” Ghosts By Gaslight.
Bear, Elizabeth “Needles,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Bear, Elizabeth “The Romance,” Supernatural Noir.
Bell, Peter “The Rites of Pentecost,” Delicate Toxins.
Bergmann, F.J. “Coil,” (poem) Paper Crow, fall.
Bergmann, F.J. “Teeth,” (poem) Star*Line January/March
Berguño, George “Flaubert’s Alexandrine,” The Exorcist’s Travelogue.
Berry, Jedediah “Twenty-Eight Scenes For Neglected Guests,” Cape Cod Noir.
Bestwick, Simon “Kiss the Wolf,” Gutshot.
Bestwick, Simon “The Children of Moloch,” Death Rattles.
Beynon, David “”Symbiosis,” Evolve Two.
Biancotti, Deborah “Bad Power,” Bad Power.
Biancotti, Deborah “Palming the Lady,” Bad Power.
Black, Archie “Sadak In Search of The Waters of Oblivion,” Pandemonium.
Black, Holly “Noble Rot,” Naked City.
Bonansinga, Jay “Mole,” Shivers VI.
Borski, Robert “Breadcrumbs,” (poem) Blood Wallah and Other Poems.
Borski, Robert “Breadcrumbs,” (poem) Blood Wallah.
Borski, Robert “Gavage,” (poem) Dreams & Nightmares #88.
Boston, Bruce “Genetically Incorrect,” (poem) Surrealities.
Boston, Bruce “Semi-Circular Lecture on the Disposition of …,” (poem) Surrealities.
Bowes, Richard “Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Bowes, Richard “Hoffman, Godzilla, and Me,” Icarus. Fall.
Bowes, Richard “Mortal Bait,” Supernatural Noir.
Bowler, Dick “Dread Equine,” (poem) Cover of Darkness May.
Boyle, T. Coraghessan “Good Home,” Playboy March.
Braunbeck, Gary A. “And Still You Wonder Why Our First …”The Monster’s Corner. Brenchley, Chaz “Hortus Conslusus,” House of Fear.
Breukelaar, J. S. “Fixed,” Ink.
Brogden, James “The Last Dance of Humphrey Bear,” BFS Journal, Summer.
Brown, Judith “Canis Lupus, Rosa Canina,” Albedo One #40.
Brown, Simon “Thin Air,” Dead Red Heart.
Bruce, Georgina “The Illustrated Dreams of the Ancestors, Dark Tales XV.
Bruchac, Joseph “Helper,” Indian Country Noir.
Bulkin, Nadia “Absolute Zero,” Fantasy Magazine October.
Bulkin, Nadia “Supernatural,” Chizine #47.
Burgess, Donna “Pastures,” (poem) Paper Crow spring/summer.
Burke, Chesya “Cue: Change,” Let’s Play White.
Burke, Chesya “The Teachings and Redemption of Ms.Fannie Lou Mason,”(novella)ibid.
Burke, Chesya “What She Saw When They Flew Away,” Let’s Play White.
Bush, Jeremy “Snapshots of a Killer’ Mind,” Comes the Night.
Calhoun, Kenneth “Then,” Tin House: The Mysterious.
Campbell, Byron Alexander “On the Generation of Insects,” Innsmouth FP#7.
Cantwell, Adam S. “The Filature,” Delicate Toxins.
Carroll, Jonathan “East of Furious,” Conjunctions: 56, Terra Incognita.
Carter, Scott William “The Time of His Life,” Realms of Fantasy February.
Cashmore, Stephen “The Ticket Collector,” Supernatural Tales 19 summer.
Castro, Adam-Troy “Cherub,” Demons.
Cavalchini, Damon “Renfield’s Wife,” Dead Red Heart.
Chiang, Ted “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny,” The Thackery T. Lamshead Cabinet of
Chislett, Michael “Endor,” Delicate Toxins.
Church, Suzanne, “The Needle’s Eye,” Chilling Tales.
Cisco, Michael “Bread and Water,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Claire, Regi “When the Red, Red Robin…” Murmurations.
Clark, Jennifer “Snake Wife,” (poem) Paper Crow, fall.
Clark, Stephen J. “Salmacis,” Delicate Toxins.
Clark, Stephen J. “The Horned Tongue,” Café Morphine.
Clitheroe, Heather “Forest Bathing,” Evolve Two.
Cluley, Ray “Pins and Needles,” Black Static 21, February/March.
Cluley, Ray “The Travellers Stay,” ,” Black Static 25.
Cluly, Ray “I Have Heard the Mermaids Sing,” Black Static #26.
Coffin, Lyn “Chute,” (poem) Stone Telling #6.
Colangelo, Michael R. “Blacklight,” Chilling Tales.
Colona, Sarah “Bluebeard’s First Wife,” (poem) Goblin Fruit, Autumn.
Colten, Marc “Critters,” Cover of Darkness May.
Connelly, Lawrence C. “The Executioner,” Gaslight Arcanum.
Conyers, David and Goodrich, John “The Masked Messenger,” Andromeda SIM #52.
Cooper, James “Cushing,” Black Static 21, February/March.
Coover, Robert “Going for a Beer,” The New Yorker, March 14.
Corrigan, John R. “Shooter,” AHMM April.
Cowdrey, Albert E. “Scatter My Ashes,” F&SF Mar/April.
Cowdrey, Albert E. “The Black Mountain,” F&SF Ma/June.
Cowdrey, Albert E. “The Bogle,” F&SF January/February.
Cowdrey, Albert E. “Where Have all the Young Men Gone,” F&SF September/October.
Crook, Jeff “Darnell Behind Glass,” Arcane spring.
Crowther, Peter “Ghosts with Teeth,” A Book of Horrors.
Curran, Tim “Long in the Tooth,” (novella) Bone Marrow Stew.
Curran, Tim “Night and Fog,” (novella) Bone Marrow Stew.
Currie, Bruce “The Head Gardener,” Dark Tales XV.
Danay, Brant “Beelzebub’s Messiah,” Weird Tales 358.
Danticat, Edwidge “Claire of the Sea Light. Haiti Noir.
Darbyshire, Peter “We Are All Ghosts,” Innsmouth Magazine #8.
Dare, Stephen M. “The House at the End of Smith Street,” What Fears Become.
David, Peter “Bronsky’s Dates with Death,” F&SF July/August.
Davidson, Craig “The Burn,” The Cincinnati Review, April.
Davis, Amanda C. “Drift,” Shock Totem #3.
Dorin, Ivan “Nosangreal,” Evolve Two.
Dorsey, Angela “Walled Gardens,” On Spec #84.
Dowling, Terry “The Shaddowesbox,” Ghosts By Gaslight.
DuBose, Preston P. “The Angry Stick,” Haunted: Eleven Tales of Ghostly Horror.
Due, Tananarive “The Lake,” The Monster’s Corner.
Duffy, Steve “X for Demetrious,” Blood and Other Cravings.
Duffy, Steve “Off the Tracks,” The Night Comes On.
Duffy, Steve “Widdershins the Barrow Round,” The Night Comes On.
Dyer, Thoraiya “The Bird, The Bees, and Thylacine,” ASIM 51.
East, Elyssa “Second Chance,” Cape Cod Noir.
Edwards, Jacob “Behind the Black Mask,” Dead Red Heart.
Edwards, Sarah L. “By Plucking Her Petals,” Interzone #232, Jan/Feb.
Ellingsen, Berit “Still Life of Hypnos,” Sein und Werden January.
Ellingsen, Berit “The Ascent,” Candle in the AtticWindow.
El-Mohtar, Amal “Pieces,” (poem) Stone Telling #4.