The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:
Life Achievement:
- Susan Cooper
- Tanith Lee
Novel:
- The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
- Crandolin, Anna Tambour (Chômu)
- Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)
Novella:
- “Hand of Glory”, Laird Barron (The Book of Cthulhu II)
- “Let Maps to Others”, K.J. Parker (Subterranean Summer ’12)
- The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)
- “The Skull”, Lucius Shepard (The Dragon Griaule)
- “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
Short Story:
- “The Telling”, Gregory Norman Bossert (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/29/12)
- “A Natural History of Autumn”, Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 7-8/12)
- “The Castle That Jack Built”, Emily Gilman (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/26/12)
- “Breaking the Frame”, Kat Howard (Lightspeed 8/12)
- “Swift, Brutal Retaliation”, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
Anthology:
- Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
- Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer)
- Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
- Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)
- Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)
Collection:
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
- Where Furnaces Burn, Joel Lane (PS Publishing)
- The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
- Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
- Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg)