The finalists for the World Fantasy Awards , set to be handed out at the World Fantasy Convention, have been announced:

NOVEL

• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (Harvill; Knopf)
• The Limits of Enchantment, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Atria)
• Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf; Macmillan)
• Od Magic, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
• A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park (Tor)
• Vellum, Hal Duncan (Macmillan; Del Rey)

NOVELLA

• Another War, Simon Morden (Telos Publishing)
• “The Imago Sequence”, Laird Barron (F&SF May 2005)
• “In the Machine”, Michael Cunningham (Speciman Days, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• “Magic for Beginners”, Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners, Small Beer Press; F&SF Sep 2005)
• “UOUS”, Tanith Lee (The Fair Folk, SFBC)
• Voluntary Committal, Joe Hill (Subterranean Press)

SHORT FICTION

• “Best New Horror”, Joe Hill (Postscripts #3, Spr 2005)
• “CommComm”, George Saunders (The New Yorker 1 Aug 2005)
• “The Other Grace”, Holly Phillips (In the Palace of Repose, Prime Books)
• “La Peau Verte”, Caitlin R. Kiernan (To Charles Fort, With Love, Subterranean Press)
• “Two Hearts”, Peter S. Beagle (F&SF Oct/Nov 2005)

ANTHOLOGY

• Adventure Vol. 1, Chris Roberson, ed. (MonkeyBrain Books)
• The Fair Folk, Marvin Kaye, ed. (SFBC)
• Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, eds. (Crescent Books)
• Polyphony 5, Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, eds. (Wheatland Press)
• Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, Stephen Jones, ed. (Fedogan & Bremer)

COLLECTION

• 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
• In the Palace of Repose, Holly Phillips (Prime Books)
• The Keyhole Opera, Bruce Holland Rogers (Wheatland Press)
• Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
• To Charles Fort, with Love, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)

ARTIST

• Kinuko Y. Craft
• James Jean
• Dave McKean
• Edward Miller (Les Edwards)
• John Jude Palencar

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

• Susan Allison & Ginjer Buchanan (for Ace Books)
• Lou Anders (for editing at Pyr)
• Peter Lavery (for Pan MacMillan UK/Tor UK)
• Chris Roberson & Allison Baker (for MonkeyBrain Books)
• Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)
• S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemanowicz, eds. (for Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

• David Howe & Stephen Walker (for Telos Books)
• The Friends of Arthur Machen (for Faunus, Machenalia, and The Life of Arthur Machen) (http://www.machensoc.demon.co.uk/)
• Rodger Turner, Neil Walsh & Wayne MacLaurin (for SF Site) (http://www.sfsite.com/)
• Leo Grin (for The Cimmerian) (http://www.thecimmerian.com/)
• Jess Nevins (for The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, MonkeyBrain Books)