favourite short horror reads of 2005

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And these were the best horror or gothic short stories I read in 2005. I tried to get the list down to ten, but I’ve read so many god short stories this year that I just couldn’t.

Ambrose Bierce, Beyond the Wall
Algernon Blackwood, Ancient Sorceries
Poppy Z. Brite & Christa Faust, Saved
F. Marion Crawford, The Screaming Skull
Gérard de Nerval, The Green Monster
Erckman-Chatrian, The Invisible Eye
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Hall Bedroom
Nalo Hopkinson, Slow Cold Chick
Robert E. Howard, The Skull of Silence
Arthur Machen, The White People
H. H. Munro ("Saki") , Sredni Vashtar
Edith Nesbit, Man-Size in Marble
Oliver Onions, The Beckoning Fair One
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
Clark Ashton Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Vera