Sarà compito dei giudici Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, e Andrew Wheeler stabilire i nomi dei vincitori che saranno scelti dalla rosa pubblicata dal sito ufficiale del World Fantasy Awards, uno dei premi più importanti per la letteratura fantasy.

La comunicazione ufficiale sarà data nel corso della cerimonia ufficiale che si terrà nell’ambito della World Fantasy Convention a Austin, Texas, dal 2 al 5 novembre 2006.

Ecco l'elenco dei finalisti:

Romanzo

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)

Romanzo breve

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)

Racconto

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)

Antologia

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)

Antologia personale

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)

Artista

Kinuko Y. Craft

James Jean

Dave McKean

Edward Miller (Les Edwards)

John Jude Palencar

Premio speciale per i professionisti

Susan Allison & Ginjer Buchanan (for Ace Books)

Lou Anders (per editing at Pyr)

Peter Lavery (per Pan MacMillan UK/Tor UK)

Chris Roberson & Allison Baker (per MonkeyBrain Books)

Sean Wallace (per Prime Books)

S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemanowicz, eds. (per Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press)

Premio speciale per i non professionisti

David Howe & Stephen Walker (per Telos Books)

The Friends of Arthur Machen (per Faunus, Machenalia, and The Life of Arthur Machen) (www.machensoc.demon.co.uk

Rodger Turner, Neil Walsh & Wayne MacLaurin (per SF Site) (www.sfsite.com

Leo Grin (per The Cimmerian) (www.thecimmerian.com

Jess Nevins (per The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, MonkeyBrain Books)