Finalists for the Shirley Jackson Awards, established this year to honour 'outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic', have been announced. The Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 20th, 2008, at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts. Here's the full list of nominees; more information can be found at the Shirley Jackson Awards website.

2007 Shirley Jackson Awards Finalists
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)