Locus All-Centuries ballot

Fantasy novel (20c)

The Course of the Heart – M. John Harrison Bellefleur – Joyce Carol Oates The Magus – John Fowles The Land of Laughs – Jonathan Carroll Shadow Land – Peter Straub Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King The Iron Dragon’s Daughter – Michael Swanwick Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay Martin Dressler – Steven Millhauser Days Between Stations – Steve Erickson

SF novel (20c)

The Affirmation – Christopher Priest The Drought – J. G. Ballard Pavane – Keith Roberts Roadside Picnic – Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Ice – Anna Kavan The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell The Kraken Wakes – John Wyndham Memoirs of a Survivor – Doris Lessing

Novella (20c)

The Fifth Head of Cerberus – Gene Wolfe Dolan’s Cadillac – Stephen King The Willows – Algernon Blackwood The Case of Charles Dexter Ward – H. P. Lovecraft The Miraculous Cairn – Christopher Priest The Necrophiliac – Gabrielle Wittkop The Royal Game – Stefan Zweig Weinachtsabend – Keith Roberts The Ruins of Contracoeur – Joyce Carol Oates The Buffalo Hunter – Peter Straub

Novelette (20c)

The Swords – Robert Aickman The Dunwich Horror – H. P. Lovecraft Palely Loitering – Christopher Priest The Sound Sweep – J. G. Ballard Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock The Barnum Museum – Steven Millhauser Lunch at the Gotham Cafe – Stephen King Don’t Look Now – Daphne Du Maurier The Chop Girl – Ian R. MacLeod The Last Feast of Harlequin – Thomas Ligotti

Short story (20c)

A Distant Episode – Paul Bowles The Dead Astronaut – J. G. Ballard Pan – Bruno Schulz A Young Man’s Journey to Viriconium – M. John Harrison An Infinite Summer – Christopher Priest The Aleph – Jorge Luis Borges The Edge of the Sea – Algis Budrys In the Hills, The Cities – Clive Barker The Doll – Joyce Carol Oates The Daemon Lover – Shirley Jackson

Fantasy novel (21c)

Darkmans – Nicola Barker Beyond Black – Hilary Mantel My Tango With Barbara Strozzi – Russell Hoban Hav – Jan Morris White is for Witching – Helen Oyeyemi

SF novel (21c)

The Separation – Christopher Priest Light – M. John Harrison The Road – Cormac McCarthy The Dervish House – Ian McDonald Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Novella (21c)

Magic For Beginners – Kelly Link Her Deepness – Livia Llewellyn The Lost Trumps – Elizabeth Hand Voluntary Committal – Joe Hill The Witnesses Are Gone – Joel Lane

Novelette (21c)

Last Evenings on Earth – Roberto Bolano Cold Snap – Robert Shearman Horses – Livia Llewellyn The Faerie Handbag – Kelly Link My Father’s Mask – Joe Hill

Short Story (21c)

Best New Horror – Joe Hill Granny’s Grinning – Robert Shearman The Things They Left Behind – Stephen King Singing my Sister Down – Margo Lanagan The Bird Painter in Time of War – Carol Emshwiller