The shortlists for this year's World Fantasy Awards have just been released. Winners will be announced at a star-studded gala banquet at this year's World Fantasy Convention in Austin, Texas. (Hope to see many of you there.)

Novel:

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

Novella:

• Laird Barron, "The Imago Sequence" (Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2005)
• Michael Cunningham, "In the Machine" (Specimen Days, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Joe Hill, Voluntary Committal (Subterranean Press)
• Tanith Lee, "UOUS" (The Fair Folk, Science Fiction Book Club)
• Kelly Link, "Magic for Beginners" (Magic for Beginners, Small Beer Press; Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2005)
• Simon Morden, Another War (Telos Publishing)

Short Fiction:

• Peter S. Beagle, "Two Hearts" (Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005)
• Joe Hill, "Best New Horror" (Postscripts 3, Spring 2005)
• Holly Phillips, "The Other Grace" (In the Palace of Repose, Prime Books)
• Caitlín R. Kiernan, "La Peau Verte" (To Charles Fort, With Love, Subterranean Press)
• George Saunders, "CommComm" (The New Yorker, 08/01, 2005)

Anthology:

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

Collection:

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

Artist:

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

Special Award: Professional:

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

Special Award: Non-Professional:

• The Friends of Arthur Machen (for Faunus, Machenalia, and The Life of Arthur Machen)
• Leo Grin (for The Cimmerian)
• David Howe and Stephen Walker (for Telos Books)
• Jess Nevins (for The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, from MonkeyBrain Books)
• Rodger Turner, Neil Walsh, and Wayne MacLaurin (for SF Site)

I'd say "good luck to all the nominees," but I'm a judge this year, and that would be a bit disingenuous. I will say that all of this stuff is top-quality and hope that the WFA shortlist will help shine some light on some of the lesser-known items on it.