Finalists have been named in multiple categories for this year's World Fantasy Awards, which will be presented at the World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio, October 28-31. You can find a complete list of nominees at Locus magazine. Shortlist highlights include:
Novel
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The City & The City by China Miéville
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
Anthology
Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, edited by Danel Olson
Eclipse Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, edited by Peter Straub
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, edited by Gordon Van Gelder
Collection
We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle
Fugue State by Brian Evenson
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Northwest Passages by Barbara Roden
Everland and Other Stories by Paul Witcover
The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe
Special Award--Professional
Peter & Nicky Crowther (for PS Publishing)
Ellen Datlow (for editing anthologies)
Hayao Miyazaki (for Ponyo)
Barbara and Christopher Roden (for Ash-Tree Press)
Jonathan Strahan (for editing anthologies)
Jacob and Rina Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)
Special Award--Non-professional
John Berlyne (for Powers: Secret Histories)
Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan and Sean Wallace (for Clarkesworld)
Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw and Eric M. Van (for Readercon)
Ray Russell & Rosalie Parker (for Tartarus Press)