Nominations:
Whispers in the Dark
The Murmurous Paleoscope (I can already predict this one is going to win.)
Cry Room
Honorable mentions:
Riding Atlas
Apotropaics
Bunraku
Boxed
Cell Call
I loved hearing "The Yellow Sign." It's one of my all-time favorites. And, honestly, the story that terrified me the most this year and made me feel like I was slowly going insane was "At the End of the Passage." However, I can't bring myself to nominate stories by long-dead authors either. They just don't need the exposure. Until Pseudopod finds a way to bring them back from the grave. You guys are working on that, right?