Another year done, another of my annual favourite short stories of the year posts. Same 'rules' as before (you can find links to lists from previous years here). For each story, I've linked to the publication where I read the story, which isn't always where they were first published.
Ruth Barber: Unfinished Business (Uncertainties 6, Swan River Press)
James Bennett: The Changing Dust (The Dark #99)
Méabh de Brún: This House Is Haunted (Irish Independent)
Ramsey Campbell: The Render Of The Veils (The Inhabitant Of The Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants, Drugstore Indian Press)
Ramsey Campbell: The Plain Of Sound (The Inhabitant Of The Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants, Drugstore Indian Press)
Ray Cluley: The Final Girl's Daughter (All That's Lost, Black Shuck Books)
Dan Coxon: Far From Home (Nox Pareidolia, Nightscape Press)
Libby Cudmore: The Rituals Of Bathing (The Dark #99)
Kayleigh Dobbs: The Last Word (The Perfectly Fine Neighbourhood, French Press)
S.L. Edwards: In The Vastness Of The Sovereign Sky (Nox Pareidolia, Nightscape Press)
Brian Evenson: The Room Above (Nox Pareidolia, Nightscape Press)
Kurt Fawver: Merge Now (Nox Pareidolia, Nightscape Press)
Neil Gaiman: How To Talk To Girls At Parties (Fragile Things, Headline Review)
Neil Gaiman: Pages From A Journal Found In A Shoebox Left In A Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma & Louisville, Kentucky (Fragile Things, Headline Review)
William Gibson: New Rose Hotel (Burning Chrome, Gateway)
William Gibson: Johnny Mnemonic (Burning Chrome, Gateway)
William Gibson: The Winter Market (Burning Chrome, Gateway)
Adam Golaski: (Rabbit) (Strange Little Stories Newsletter, David Surface)
LC von Hessen: Herr Scheintod (Nox Pareidolia, Nightscape Press)
Timothy J. Jarvis: And Yet Speaketh (Treatises On Dust, Swan River Press)
Timothy J. Jarvis: The Yellow Book (Treatises On Dust, Swan River Press)
Brian Keene: Where The Heart Is (The Perfectly Fine Neighbourhood, French Press)
Micheal Kelly: The Devils Curve (IZ Digital)
Garry Kilworth: Fata Morgana (Bloodmoon & Other Stories, Infinity Plus)
Gwendolyn Kiste: When The Nightingale Devours The Stars (Nox Pareidolia, Nightscape Press)
Annie Knox: Incorporeal Tax (The Perfectly Fine Neighbourhood, French Press)
Thomas Ligotti: The Greater Festival Of Masks (Songs Of A Dead Dreamer, Penguin)
J.A.W. McCarthy: No Baggage (Hungry Shadow Press)
Avra Margariti: Pulmonary (The Rumpus)
Alison Moore: Where Are They Now? (Uncertainties 6, Swan River Press)
Joyce Carol Oates: Sign Of The Beast (Night-Gaunts & Other Tales Of Suspense, Head Of Zeus)
Joyce Carol Oates: Night Gaunts (Night-Gaunts & Other Tales Of Suspense, Head Of Zeus)
Kate Orman: Saltier (IZ Digital)
Jorja Osha: The Fish's Wife (The Dark #103)
Sarah Royston: She Walks In Fields Of Light (The Rumpus)
Sarah Royston: In the Shrine there stood a Statue with a Stone set in its Foot, which was called Lady of the Spring (Full House Literary)
Lynda E. Rucker: The Vestige (Now It's Dark, Swan River Press)
Lynda E. Rucker: The Unknown Chamber (Now It's Dark, Swan River Press)
Robert Shearman: Jason Zerrilo Is An Annoying Prick (We All Hear Stories In The Dark, PS Publishing)
Alan Sillitoe: Noah's Ark (The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, Harper Perennial)
Alan Sillitoe: Uncle Ernest (The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, Harper Perennial)
Teika Marija Smits: The November Room Or Leaving The Labyrinth (IZ Digital)
Steve Toase:: Uprooted (IZ Digital)
Steve Toase: Safe (author's website)
Lisa Tuttle: Closet Dreams (Pseudopod)
Peter Watts: The Things (Clarkesworld #40)
Michael Wehunt: Hello (Nox Pareidolia, Nightscape Press)
Michael Wehunt: It Takes Slow Sips (Pseudopod)
Neil Williamson: A Moment Of Zugzwang (author's website)
Neil Williamson: Thirty-Two Tumbling Teeth (Black Static 78/79)