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- ↑ "Bibliography: The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection". ISFDB . Retrieved 2015-05-17.
- ↑ "Bibliography: The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Volume 1)". ISFDB . Retrieved 2015-05-17.
- ↑ "Bibliography: The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories". ISFDB . Retrieved 2015-05-17.
- ↑ "Weird Writers #30 — Margo Lanagan". Weird Fiction Review. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
- ↑ International Horror Guild – IHG Award Recipients