ADVANCED SEARCH  

Support WWEnd

WWEnd Blog

WWEnd BookTrackr™

Synopsis

For more than a decade, readers have looked to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to showcase the highest achievements of fantastic fiction. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this volume a valubale reference source as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1998: Fantasy - (1999) - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1998: Horror - (1999) - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1998 - (1999) - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics: 1998 - (1999) - essay by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries: 1998 - (1999) - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Travels with the Snow Queen - (1996) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Running Dogs - (1998) - shortstory by Steve Duffy
• Wiglaf - (1998) - poem by Marisa de los Santos
• Mrs Mabb - (1998) - novelette by Susanna Clarke
• Due West - (1997) - novelette by Rick Kennett
• Kokopelli - (1998) - poem by Catharine Savage Brosman
• Taking Loup - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Glassco
• The Evil Within - (1998) - novelette by Sara Douglass
• Wile E. Coyote's Lament - (1998) - poem by Larry Fontenot
• The Rainmaker - (1998) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• A Place to Stay - (1998) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Fantasma of Q____ - (1998) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• Hoopa, the White Deer Dance - (1998) - shortstory by Ralph Salisbury
• That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French - (1998) - shortstory by Stephen King
• The Travails - (1998) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Suburban Blight - (1998) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
• Inside the Cackle Factory - (1998) - novelette by Dennis Etchison
• The House of the Black Cat - (1989) - shortstory by Yumiko Kurahashi
• Every Angel Is Terrifying - (1998) - shortstory by John Kessel
• Shoggoth's Old Peculiar - (1998) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Great Sedna - (1998) - shortstory by Lawrence Osgood
• The Bird Chick - (1998) - shortstory by Sylvia Brownrigg
• Psyché - (1998) - shortstory by Mark W. Tiedemann
• Mrs. Beast - (1998) - poem by Carol Ann Duffy
• Become a Warrior - (1998) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Blackbirds - (1998) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
• Carp Man - (1998) - shortstory by Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Faerie Cony-Catcher - (1998) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
• At the River of Crocodiles - (1998) - poem by Zan Ross
• Clair de Lune - (1998) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
• The Rose of Paracelsus - (1998) - shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of La rosa de Paracelso 1983)
• Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff - (1997) - novella by Peter Straub
• Revenge - (1998) - shortstory by Michael Blumlein
• The Tall, Upheaving One - (1998) - poem by Holly Prado
• Oak Hill - (1998) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
• Jackdaw Jack - (1998) - shortstory by Christopher Harman
• Dark Moon - (1998) - poem by Sarah Corbett
• The Death of the Duke - (1998) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
• Hershel - (1998) - shortstory by Judy Budnitz
• By the Time We Get to Uranus - (1998) - shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
• The Specialist's Hat - (1998) - shortstory by Kelly Link
• Twa Corbies - (1998) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• Jenny Come to Play - (1997) - novelette by Terry Dowling
• Blimunda - (1998) - shortstory by Ilan Stavans
• Mrs. Dumpty - (1998) - poem by Chana Bloch
• Cold - (1998) - novella by A. S. Byatt
• Honorable Mentions: 1998 - (1999) - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - (1999) - essay by uncredited

Excerpt

No excerpt currently exists for this novel.

Reviews

There are currently no reviews for this novel. Be the first to submit one! You must be logged in to submit a review in the BookTrackr section above.

Images

No alternate cover images currently exist for this novel.