Although horror isn't our focus, we do review horror stories that turn up in our regular magazines, so in honor of Halloween, here are 28 outstanding SF/F horror stories from 2019 that were finalists for major SF/F 🏆awards, included in "year's best" SF/F 📙anthologies, or recommended by prolific 👍reviewers in short fiction (see Q&A). That's 28 out of 330+ best SF/F stories from 2019. A story's score is the sum of the +n points in it's "Recommended By" list (click the Details link to see the awards, year's best, and reviewers and the points).Observations:
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- 14 are free online (highlighted in default view), 7 have podcasts.
- 8 are Science Fiction, 13 are Fantasy, and 7 are Unknown (not reviewed by RSR but a finalist for one or more horror awards and Year's Best horror anthologies).
- Among 📚Publications, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Uncanny Magazine tied for the most here with 4 stories each (14%).
- Among ️️✒️Authors, none had more than one story in the list.
- SF/F horror stories are 16% of SF/F 🏆Awards finalists with 16 stories (of which eight are Shirley Jackson or Bram Stoker award finalists) out of 99 total award-nominated stories from the 2019 Best SF/F.
- SF/F horror stories did a bit worse (11%) among "year's best" 📙Anthologies with 13 stories out of 122 total included stories from the 2019 Best SF/F. Paula Guran's anthology has 4 of the 13, followed by the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Jonathan Strahan's anthologies with 3 each.
- They did better (13%) among prolific 👍Reviewers with 14 stories out of 105 total award-worthy stories from the 2019 Best SF/F. A.C. Wise thought 4 of the 14 were award worthy.
- As for RSR, we recommended 10 stories, were neutral on 8 stories, recommended against 3 stories, and did not review 7 stories (view by RSR rating).
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