Since all the cool kids are posting the honorable mentions from Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant) that their magazines accrued, I thought I’d do so as well.

But first, reprinted in the book are:

• Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter by Geoff Ryman
• Another Word for Map is Faith by Christopher Rowe
• Journey into the Kingdom by M. Rickert
• The Lineaments of Gratified Desire by Ysabeau Wilce

Honorable Mentions:

• Hallucigenia by Laird Barron
• El Regalo by Peter S. Beagle
• Billy & the Fairy by Terry Bisson
• Parsival by James Cambais
• Perfect Stranger by Amy Sterling Casil
• John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner by Susanna Clarke
• Animal Magnetism by Albert E. Cowdrey
• Czesko by Ef Deal *
• Killers by Carol Emshwiller
• Passing Through by Charles Coleman Finlay
• Terms of Engagement by C. S. Friedman
• Damascus by Daryl Gregory
• The Boy in Zaquitos by Bruce McAllister
• The Moment of Joy Before by Claudia O’Keefe
• Intolerance by Robert Reed
• Show Me Yours by Robert Reed
• With By Good Intentions by Carrie Richerson
• The Christmas Witch by M. Rickert
• The Horse Year Woman by Michaela Roessner
• Memory of a Thing That Never Was by Jerry Seeger *
• Penultima Thule by Chris Willrich
• Bea & Her Bird Brother by Gene Wolfe

* Slush Survivor