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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twenty-First Annual Collection
Synopsis
As in every year since 1988, the editors tirelessly scoured story collections, magazines, and anthologies worldwide to compile a delightful, diverse feast of tales and poems. On this anniversary, the editors have increased the size of the collection to 300,000 words of fiction and poetry, including works by Billy Collins, Ted Chiang, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Hand, Glen Hirshberg, Joyce Carol Oates, and new World Fantasy Award winner M. Rickert. With impeccably researched summations of the field by the editors, Honorable Mentions, and articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint and Jeff VanderMeer on media, music and graphic novels, this is a heady brew topped off by an unparalleled list of sources of fabulous works both light and dark.
Table of Contents:
- Summation 2007: Fantasy - essay by Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link
- Summation 2007: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
- The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2007 - essay by Edward Bryant
- Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2007 - essay by Jeff VanderMeer
- Music of the Fantastic: 2007 - essay by Charles de Lint
- Obituaries: 2007 - essay by James R. Frenkel
- The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics - (2007) - novelette by Daniel Abraham
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove - (2007) - shortstory by Karen Russell
- Holiday - (2007) - shortstory by M. Rickert
- Hum Drum - (2007) - shortstory by Gary McMahon
- Scenes of Hell - (2007) - poem by Billy Collins
- Splitfoot - (2007) - shortstory by Paul Walther
- The House of Mechanical Pain - (2007) - shortstory by Chaz Brenchley
- The Last Worders - (2007) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
- The Monsters of Heaven - (2007) - shortstory by Nathan Ballingrud
- The Fiddler of Bayou Teche - (2007) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
- Monkey - (2007) - poem by Eliza Griswold
- Mr Poo-Poo - (2007) - shortstory by Reggie Oliver
- Winter's Wife - (2007) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
- Troll - (2007) - poem by Nathalie Anderson
- The Tenth Muse - (2007) - shortstory by William Browning Spencer
- The Drowned Life - (2007) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- The Swing - (2007) - novelette by Don Tumasonis
- Follow Me Home - (2007) - poem by Sonya Taaffe
- The Forest - (2007) - novelette by Laird Barron
- Fragrant Goddess - (2007) - shortstory by Paul Park
- Up the Fire Road - (2007) - novelette by Eileen Gunn
- The Gray Boy's Work - (2007) - novelette by M. T. Anderson
- The Seven Devils of Central California - (2007) - poem by Catherynne M. Valente
- The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - (2007) - novelette by Ted Chiang
- Valentine, July Heat Wave - (2007) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
- A Thing Forbidden - (2007) - shortstory by Donald Mead
- A Reversal of Fortune - (2007) - shortstory by Holly Black
- Village Smart - (2007) - poem by Maggie Smith
- Rats - (2007) - shortstory by Veronica Schanoes
- A Perfect and Unmappable Grace - (2007) - shortstory by Jack M. Haringa
- The Boulder - (2007) - shortstory by Lucy Kemnitzer
- The Hill - (2007) - novelette by Tanith Lee
- Lovers: (Jaafar the Winged) - (2007) - poem by Khaled Mattawa
- The Ape Man - (2007) - shortstory by Alexander MacBride
- The Hide - (2007) - shortstory by Liz Williams
- England and Nowhere - (2007) - shortstory by Tim Nickels
- Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again - (2007) - novelette by Garth Nix
- Toother - (2007) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
- Closet Dreams - (2007) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
- The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change - (2007) - novelette by Kij Johnson
- Honorable Mentions: 2007 - essay by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link
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