The committee for the SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD has announced the finalists.  The award is given for the best work published in the preceding calendar year in the following categories: Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.

These are the finalists for 2007:

NOVEL

• Baltimore, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (Bantam Spectra)
• Generation Loss, Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
• Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow (William Heinemann Ltd)
• The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
• Tokyo Year Zero, David Peace (Knopf)

NOVELLA

• 12 Collections, Zoran Zivkovic (PS Publishing)
• Illyria, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
• The Mermaids, Robert Edric (PS Publishing)
• "Procession of the Black Sloth," Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Night Shade Books)
• The Scalding Rooms, Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)
• "Vacancy," Lucius Shepard (Subterranean #7, 2007)

NOVELETTE

• "The Forest," Laird Barron (Inferno, Tor)
• "The Janus Tree," Glen Hirshberg (Inferno, Tor)
• "The Swing," Don Tumasonis (At Ease with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press)
• "The Tenth Muse," William Browning Spencer (Subterranean #6, 2007)
• "Thumbprint," Joe Hill (Postscripts #10, March 2007)

SHORT STORY

• "Holiday," M. Rickert (Subterranean #7, 2007)
• "The Monsters of Heaven," Nathan Ballingrud (Inferno,Tor)
• "A Murder of Crows," Elizabeth Ziemska (Tin House 31, Spring 2007)
• "Something in the Mermaid Way," Carrie Laben (Clarkesworld, March 2007)
• "The Third Bear," Jeff VanderMeer (Clarkesworld, April 2007)
• "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse," Andy Duncan (Eclipse One, Night Shade Books)

COLLECTION

• The Bone Key, Sarah Monette (Prime Books)
• The Entire Predicament, Lucy Corin (Tin House)
• The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
• Like You'd Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard (Knopf)
• Old Devil Moon, Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)

ANTHOLOGY

• At Ease with the Dead, edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
• Dark Delicacies 2, edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Running Press)
• Inferno, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
• Logorrhea, edited by John Klima (Bantam Spectra)
• Wizards, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (Berkley)

Source: Shirley Jackson Awards

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