It’s been a nice year for horror and all things strange, and although I’ve not read as much as I would like, there was plenty of good stuff to choose from for this list. In no particularly order…

• One – Conrad Williams
• Different Skins – Gary McMahon
• The Impelled and Other Head Trips – Gary Fry*
• Nemonymous 9: Cern Zoo – Various authors
• Phantasy Moste Grotesk – Felicity Dowker
• Pictures of the Dark – Simon Bestwick
• Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist*
• The Culled – Simon Spurrier*
• Depraved – Bryan Smith
• Dangerous Red – Mehitobel Wilson*

* – Not a 2009 release. What the hell, it rocked.