Worthy material to consider for the 2010 World Fantasy Award

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First off, here are my picks --with word count and venue, for the best horror of 2009 (not including novellas, for which I had no room).

Lowland Sea Suzy McKee Charnas Poe 8200
The End of Everything Steve Eller Phantom 4600
Mrs Midnight Reggie Oliver The Fifth Black Book of Horror 9400
each thing I show you is a piece of my death Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer 8800 Clockwork Phoenix 2
The Nimble Men Glen Hirshberg The Rolling Darkness Review 4200
What Happens when you wake up in the night Michael Marshall Smith 2700 chapbook
Wendigo Micaela Morrissette Weird Tales Nov/Dec 2008 6500
In the Porches of My Ears Norman Prentiss This is the Summer of Love 4900
Lonegan’s Luck Stephen Graham Jones New Genre 6 9000
The Crevasse Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud Lovecraft Unbound 5900
The Lion’s Den Steve Duffy Cern Zoo 11,800
Lotophagi Edward Morris Farrago’s Wainscot 11 5900
The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall Kaaron Warren Exotic Gothic 3 7300
Dead Loss Carole Johnstone Black Static 13, October/Nov. 5200
Strappado Laird Barron Poe 6000
The Lammas Worm Nina Allan Strange Tales III 13,800
Technicolor John Langan Poe 12,000