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Join twenty-five masterful authors and talented newcomers with more than 400 pages of the disturbing, unnerving, haunting, and strange. This outstanding annual exploration of the year's best dark fiction delivers tales of deathly possession, the weirdly surreal, mysterious melancholy, and frighteningly plausible futures.

Confront your own humanity and the fears that stir you--from the darkly supernatural and painfully familiar to the disquieting terror of the unknown.

Contents:

• xi - Introduction: Strange Days - essay by Paula Guran
• 1 - The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest - (2019) - short story by Rebecca Campbell
• 16 - Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart - (2019) - short story by Sam J. Miller
• 27 - The Surviving Child - (2019) - novella by Joyce Carol Oates
• 73 - The Promise of Saints - (2019) - short story by Angela Slatter
• 83 - Burrowing Machines - (2019) - short story by Sara Saab
• 94 - About the O'Dells - (2019) - short fiction by Pat Cadigan
• 121 - A Catalog of Storms - (2019) - short story by Fran Wilde
• 134 - Thoughts and Prayers - (2019) - short story by Ken Liu
• 152 - Logic Puzzles - (2019) - short story by Vaishnavi Patel
• 159 - A Strange Uncertain Light - (2019) - novelette by G. V. Anderson
• 199 - Conversations with the Sea Witch - (2019) - short story by Theodora Goss
• 208 - Haunt - (2019) - short story by Carmen Maria Machado
• 212 - Nice Things - (2019) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• 233 - Glass Eyes in Porcelain Faces - (2019) - short fiction by Jack Westlake
• 244 - Phantoms of the Midway - (2019) - short fiction by Seanan McGuire
• 265 - Hunting by the River - (2019) - short fiction by Daniel Carpenter
• 274 - Boiled Bones and Black Eggs - (2019) - short story by Nghi Vo
• 286 - His Heart Is the Haunted House - (2019) - short story by Aimee Ogden
• 300 - In That Place She Grows a Garden - (2019) - short story by Del Sandeen
• 317 - The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye - (2019) - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• 341 - The Coven of Dead Girls - (2019) - short story by L'Erin Ogle
• 348 - Blood Is Another Word for Hunger - (2019) - short story by Rivers Solomon
• 367 - The Thing, with Feathers - (2019) - novelette by Marissa Lingen
• 384 - Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future - (2019) - short story by Carlie St. George
• 395 - Read After Burning - (2019) - short story by Maria Dahvana Headley

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real... tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows.

This volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror offers more than four hundred pages of tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique?sure to delight as well as disturb!

Contents:

• xi - Introduction: Stranger Days - essay by Paula Guran
• 1 - Recognition - (2020) - short story by Victor LaValle
• 7 - Odette - (2020) - short fiction by Zen Cho
• 21 - Das Gesicht - (2020) - short fiction by Dale Bailey
• 38 - The Sycamore and the Sybil - (2020) - short story by Alix E. Harrow
• 65 - Desiccant - (2020) - short story by Craig Laurance Gidney
• 76 - Open House on Haunted Hill - (2020) - short story by John Wiswell
• 85 - The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter - (2020) - short story by Elaine Cuyegkeng
• 102 - Swanskin - (2020) - short story by Alison Littlewood
• 125 - Lusca - (2020) - short story by Soleil Knowles
• 133 - To Sail the Black - (2020) - short story by A. C. Wise
• 155 - Nobody Lives Here - (2020) - short story by H. Pueyo
• 162 - On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera - (2020) - short story by Elizabeth Bear
• 202 - The Owl Count - (2020) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• 225 - Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo - (2020) - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
• 251 - Ancestries - (2020) - short story by Sheree Renée Thomas?
• 262 - The Sound of the Sea, Too Close - (2020) - short fiction by James Everington
• 274 - Drunk Physics - (2020) - short fiction by Kelley Armstrong
• 297 - Call Them Children - (2020) - short story by Wenmimareba Klobah Collins
• 313 - Tea with the Earl of Twilight - (2020) - short story by Sonya Taaffe
• 326 - Wait for Night - (2020) - short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• 342 - Where the Old Neighbors Go - (2020) - short story by Thomas Ha
• 373 - And This Is How to Stay Alive - (2020) - novella by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
• 390 - Lacunae - (2020) - short fiction by V. H. Leslie
• 410 - The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods - (2020) - short story by Maria Dahvana Headley
• 417 - Monster - (2020) - novelette by Naomi Kritzer
• 446 - Last Night at the Fair - (2020) - short story by M. Rickert

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real... Such tales of the dark and the unknown have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows.

The latest volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror edited by fantasy aficionado Paula Guran offers more than four hundred pages of tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique including Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Elizabeth Hand and many more! Indulge if you dare, because these 23 tales of terror are sure to delight as well as disturb!

From paranormal plots to stories of the supernatural, tales of the unfamiliar have always fascinated us humans. To keep the tradition alive, fantasy aficionado Paula Guran has gathered the most delightfully disturbing work from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique!

No two mysterious shadows are alike, and the same can be said for the books in this series. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 4 contains more than three hundred pages of mystical fiction. Reader beware and indulge if you dare, because these chilling tales are sure to spook and surprise!

This is the first volume in what became Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1987: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1987: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• 1987: Horror and Fantasy on the Screen - essay by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries (1987) - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1987) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A World Without Toys - (1986) - shortstory by T. M. Wright
• DX - (1987) - poem by Joe Haldeman
• Friend's Best Man - (1987) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
• The Snow Apples - (1987) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• Ever After - (1987) - novelette by Susan Palwick
• My Name Is Dolly - (1987) - shortstory by William F. Nolan
• The Moon's Revenge - (1987) - shortstory by Joan Aiken
• Author's Notes - (1987) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Lake George in High August - (1987) - shortstory by John Robert Bensink
• Csucskári - (1987) - novelette by Steven Brust
• The Other Side - (1986) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Pamela's Get - (1987) - novelette by David J. Schow
• Voices in the Wind - (1987) - shortstory by Elizabeth S. Helfman
• Once Upon a Time, She Said - (1987) - poem by Jane Yolen
• The Circular Library of Stones - (1987) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Soft Monkey - (1987) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Fat Face - (1987) - novelette by Michael Shea
• Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair - (1987) - novelette by Charles de Lint
• The Pear-Shaped Man - (1987) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Delta Sly Honey - (1987) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• Small Heirlooms - (1987) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• The Improper Princess - (1987) - shortstory by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Fable of the Farmer and Fox - (1987) - shortstory by John Brunner
• Haunted - (1987) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• Dead Possums - (1987) - shortstory by Kathryn Ptacek
• Pictures Made of Stones - (1987) - poem by Lucius Shepard
• Splatter: A Cautionary Tale - (1987) - shortstory by Douglas E. Winter
• Gentlemen - (1987) - novelette by Craig Spector and John Skipp
• Demon Luck - (1987) - shortstory by Craig Shaw Gardner
• Words of Power - (1987) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Jamie's Grave - (1987) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• The Maid on the Shore - (1987) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
• Halley's Passing - (1987) - shortstory by Michael McDowell
• White Trains - (1987) - poem by Lucius Shepard
• Simple Sentences - (1987) - shortstory by Natalie Babbitt
• A Hypothetical Lizard - (1987) - novelette by Alan Moore
• Honorable Mentions: 1987 - essay by uncredited

Here is a splendid selection of horror and fantasy stories.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1988: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1988: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• 1988: Horror and Fantasy on the Screen - essay by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Death Is Different - (1988) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) - (1988) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• It Was the Heat - (1988) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• The Cutter - (1988) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• The Freezer Jesus - (1988) - shortfiction by John DuFresne
• Voices of the Kill - (1988) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• Secretly - (1988) - poem by Ruth Roston
• The Devil's Rose - (1988) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Wempires - (1988) - shortstory by Daniel M. Pinkwater
• Scatter My Ashes - (1988) - shortstory by Greg Egan
• Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh - (1988) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• Shoo Fly - (1988) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• The Thing Itself - (1988) - shortstory by Michael Blumlein
• The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow - (1988) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• Roman Games - (1988) - shortstory by Anne Gay
• The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn - (1988) - shortstory by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Book and Its Contents - (1988) - shortstory by Robert Kelly
• The Great God Pan - (1988) - novelette by M. John Harrison
• Lost Bodies - (1988) - shortstory by Ian Watson
• Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds - (1988) - shortstory by Dan Simmons
• Preflash - (1988) - shortstory by John M. Ford
• Life of Buddha - (1988) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Appointment with Eddie - (1988) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
• Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods - (1988) - shortstory by William Kotzwinkle
• Spillage - (1988) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Snowman - (1988) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
• The Scar - (1987) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
• Laiken Langstrand - (1988) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• The Last Poem About the Snow Queen - (1988) - poem by Sandra M. Gilbert
• Pinocchio - (1988) - poem by Sandra M. Gilbert
• Game in the Pope's Head - (1988) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Playing the Game - (1988) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Faces - (1987) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• Snowfall - (1988) - shortstory by Jessie Thompson
• Seal-Self - (1987) - shortstory by Sara Maitland
• No Hearts, No Flowers - (1988) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Boy Who Drew Unicorns - (1988) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• The Darling - (1988) - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
• Night They Missed the Horror Show - (1988) - shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
• Your Story - (1988) - shortstory by Rick DeMarinis
• Winter Solstice, Camelot Station - (1988) - poem by John M. Ford
• The Boy Who Hooked the Sun - (1985) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Clem's Dream - (1985) - shortstory by Joan Aiken
• Love in Vain - (1988) - novelette by Lewis Shiner
• In the Darkened Hours - (1988) - poem by Robert Frazier
• A Golden Net for Silver Fishes - (1988) - shortstory by Ru Emerson
• Dancing Among Ghosts - (1988) - novella by Jim Aikin
• Honorable Mentions: 1988 - essay by uncredited

Collecting the creme de la creme of the horror and fantasy fields, this third volume amasses the best from 1989, including works by Scott Baker, Pat Cadigan, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, Jonah Carroll, Robert McCammon and Bruce Sterling, as well as extensive overviews of the year in horror and fantasy, and Ed Bryant's survey of the year's movies.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1989: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1989: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy on the Screen: 1989 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries (1989) - essay by James R. Frenkel
• The Edge of the World - (1989) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Adder - (1989) - shortstory by Fred Chappell
• Cat in Glass - (1989) - shortstory by Nancy Etchemendy
• Monsters, Tearing Off My Face - (1989) - shortstory by Rory Harper
• Family - (1989) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
• A Dirge for Clowntown - (1990) - shortstory by James Powell
• Miss Carstairs and the Merman - (1989) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• Unknown Things - (1989) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• Return to the Mutant Rain Forest - (1989) - poem by Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier
• Date with a Bird - (1989) - shortstory by Tatyana Tolstaya (trans. original 1983)
• Them Bald-Headed Snays - (1989) - shortstory by Joseph A. Citro
• A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned - (1989) - novelette by Edward Bryant
• Hanging the Fool - (1989) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
• Hansel's Finger - (1989) - shortstory by Leif Enger
• Dogfaerie - (1989) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
• A Bird That Whistles - (1989) - shortstory by Emma Bull
• The Walled Garden - (1989) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• Varicose Worms - (1989) - novelette by Scott Baker
• The War with Things - (1989) - shortstory by Leszek Kolakowski
• The Faery Flag - (1989) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord - (1989) - shortstory by Zhaxi Dawa (trans. original 1985)
• The Illusionist - (1989) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
• Timeskip - (1989) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• Something Passed By - (1989) - shortstory by Robert R. McCammon
• Self-Portrait Mixed Media on Pavement, 1988 - (1988) - shortstory by Dan Daly
• The Plane Tree and the Fountain - (1989) - shortstory by Michael de Larrabeiti
• White as Sin, Now - (1989) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• The Power and the Passion - (1989) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Jack Straw - (1989) - shortstory by Midori Snyder
• The Sudd - (1989) - shortstory by J. N. Williamson
• Mr. Fiddlehead - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
• Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites - (1989) - shortstory by Dan Simmons
• Cinema Altéré - (1989) - shortstory by Andrew M. Stephenson
• Matters of Family - (1989) - shortstory by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary - (1989) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Find Me - (1989) - shortstory by Joan Aiken
• Unidentified Objects - (1989) - shortstory by James P. Blaylock
• Meeting the Author - (1989) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• The Lovers - (1989) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• "Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'N Purty..." He Said. (Page 243) - (1989) - shortstory by Chet Williamson
• Dori Bangs - (1989) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• The Steel Valentine - (1989) - shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
• Equilibrium - (1989) - shortstory by John Shirley
• Time Lapse - (1989) - poem by Joe Haldeman
• White Noise - (1989) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
• Terrible Kisses - (1989) - shortstory by Robley Wilson
• Sleepside Story - (1988) - novella by Greg Bear
• Honorable Mentions: 1989 - essay by uncredited

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions -- all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1990: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1990: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1990 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries - essay by uncredited
• Freewheeling - (1990) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• Coming Home - (1990) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Sweeper - (1990) - shortstory by George Szanto
• Ladies and Gentlemen - (1990) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
• Freaktent - (1990) - shortstory by Nancy A. Collins
• Missolonghi 1824 - (1990) - shortstory by John Crowley
• The Last Feast of Harlequin - (1990) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light - (1991) - poem by David Memmott
• Harvest - (1990) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Fantasy in the Real World - (1990) - essay by Susan Cooper
• The Dream - (1990) - shortstory by Dyan Sheldon
• Moths - (1990) - shortstory by John Brunner
• Frozen Charlottes - (1990) - poem by Susan Prospere
• Little Nightmares, Little Dreams - (1990) - shortstory by Rachel Simon
• Timekeeper - (1990) - novelette by John Morressy
• Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble - (1990) - poem by Ellen Kushner
• Death of a Right Fielder - (1990) - shortstory by Stuart Dybek
• Not from Around Here - (1990) - novelette by David J. Schow
• Lieserl - (1990) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Last Game - (1990) - shortstory by Sharon M. Hall
• Offerings - (1990) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
• The Muses of Rooms - (1990) - poem by Vern Rutsala
• A Touch of the Old Lilith - (1990) - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Calling - (1990) - shortstory by David B. Silva
• TV People - (1990) - shortstory by Haruki Murakami
• In the Trees - (1990) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts - (1990) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
• Green - (1990) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks - (1990) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
• The Panic Hand - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
• Bestseller - (1990) - novelette by Michael Blumlein
• Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride - (1990) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind - (1990) - shortstory by Jack Womack
• Midwife to the Fairies - (1990) - shortstory by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
• The Phone Woman - (1990) - shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
• Ladder - (1990) - shortstory by T. E. D. Klein
• Alice, Falling - (1990) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
• Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost - (1987) - shortstory by Angela Carter
• Face to Face - (1990) - shortstory by Adrian Cole
• The Dog's Tale - (1933) - shortstory by Karel Capek
• Stephen - (1990) - novelette by Elizabeth Massie
• A Short Guide to the City - (1990) - shortstory by Peter Straub
• The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study - (1988) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The First Time - (1990) - shortstory by K. W. Jeter
• Coyote v. Acme - (1990) - shortstory by Ian Frazier
• Arousal - (1990) - shortstory by Richard Christian Matheson
• The Waiting Wolf - (1990) - poem by Gwen Strauss
• The Beast - (1990) - poem by Gwen Strauss
• Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague - (1990) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• Two Words - (1989) - shortstory by Isabel Allende
• The All-Consuming - (1990) - novelette by Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
• The Sadness of Detail - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
• Honorable Mentions: 1990 - essay by uncredited

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions -- all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1991: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1991: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1991 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries - essay by uncredited
• The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves - (1991) - novelette by David Morrell
• In Carnation - (1991) - shortstory by Nancy Springer
• The Somewhere Doors - (1991) - novelette by Fred Chappell
• Poe at the End - (1991) - poem by R. H. W. Dillard
• Angels in Love - (1991) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• Vivian - (1991) - novelette by Midori Snyder
• True Love - (1991) - shortstory by K. W. Jeter
• The Second Most Beautiful Woman in the World - (1991) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
• The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death - (1991) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
• The Ragthorn - (1991) - novelette by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth
• The Smell - (1991) - shortstory by Patrick McGrath
• The Tenth Scholar - (1991) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
• Fisher Death - (1991) - poem by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Walk in Sable - (1991) - poem by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Cut Man - (1991) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
• The Kind Men Like - (1991) - shortstory by Karl Edward Wagner
• The Coon Suit - (1991) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
• Queen Christina and the Windsurfer - (1991) - shortfiction by Alison Fell
• Chui Chai - (1991) - shortstory by S. P. Somtow
• Mama Gone - (1991) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Peter - (1991) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• Our Lady of the Harbour - (1991) - novella by Charles de Lint
• The Visitors' Book - (1991) - shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
• At the End of the Day - (1991) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Monster - (1991) - shortfiction by Nina Katerli
• Hummers - (1991) - novelette by Lisa Mason
• Santa's Way - (1991) - shortfiction by James Powell
• Call Home - (1991) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
• The Braille Encyclopaedia - (1991) - shortstory by Grant Morrison
• The Poisoned Story - (1991) - shortstory by Rosario Ferré (trans. of El cuento envenenado 1985)
• Blood - (1991) - shortstory by Janice Galloway
• Dogstar Man - (1991) - shortstory by Nancy Willard
• Persistence of Memory - (1991) - shortfiction by Joanne Greenberg
• You'll Never Eat Lunch on This Continent Again - (1991) - shortfiction by Adam Gopnik
• The Glamour - (1991) - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
• The Peony Lantern - (1991) - shortstory by Kara Dalkey
• To Be a Hero - (1991) - poem by Nancy Springer
• The Same in Any Language - (1991) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Teratisms - (1991) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• The Life of a Poet - (1991) - shortstory by Kobo Abe
• The Witch of Wilton Falls - (1991) - shortfiction by Gloria Ericson
• Home by the Sea - (1991) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch - (1991) - poem by Nancy Willard
• The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire - (1991) - novelette by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Pavilion of Frozen Women - (1991) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
• Moon Songs - (1990) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• The Afternoon of June 8, 1991 - (1991) - shortfiction by Ian Frazier
• Gwydion and the Dragon - (1991) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• A Story Must Be Held - (1991) - poem by Jane Yolen
• The Ogre's Wife - (1991) - shortfiction by Pierrette Fleutiaux
• Honorable Mentions: 1991 - essay by uncredited

More than four dozen stories and poems, featuring writings by Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Yolen, Harlan Ellison, and many others, investigate the outermost perimeters of the human imagination.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1992: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1992: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1992 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries - essay by uncredited
• Silver or Gold - (1992) - novelette by Emma Bull
• Tinker - (1992) - shortstory by Jack Cady
• Queequeg - (1992) - shortstory by Craig Curtis
• Anima - (1992) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
• Skin - (1992) - poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Homunculus: A Novel in One Chapter - (1992) - shortstory by Reginald McKnight
• The Annunciation - (1991) - shortstory by Cristina Peri Rossi
• The Bone Woman - (1992) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• The Story of the Eldest Princess - (1991) - novelette by A. S. Byatt
• Calcutta, Lord of Nerves - (1992) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
• In the Looking Glass, Life Is Death - (1992) - poem by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Parakeet and the Cat - (1992) - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
• Glory - (1992) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• Murder Mysteries - (1992) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• Hungry - (1992) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Playing With - (1992) - shortstory by M. R. Scofidio
• Human Remains - (1992) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• It Comes and Goes - (1992) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Bewitched Burr - (1992) - shortstory by Grozdana Olujic
• Swimming Lesson - (1992) - shortstory by Charlotte Watson Sherman
• Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop - (1992) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
• Bats - (1992) - shortstory by Diane de Avalle-Arce
• Origami Mountain - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Farmer
• Ruby Laughter, Tears of Pearl - (1992) - shortstory by James Powell
• I Sing of a Maiden - (1992) - novelette by Judith Tarr
• Also Starring - (1991) - shortstory by Cliff Burns
• On Edge - (1992) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
• Martyrdom - (1992) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Second Bakery Attack - non-genre - (1992) - shortstory by Haruki Murakami
• A Little Night Music - (1992) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• Tom and Jerry visit England - (1992) - poem by Jo Shapcott
• The Sluice - (1992) - shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
• Ratbird - (1992) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun - (1992) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• On Death and the Deuce - (1992) - shortstory by Richard Bowes
• The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore - (1991) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Graves - (1992) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• The Ugly File - (1992) - shortstory by Ed Gorman
• Elfhouses - (1992) - shortstory by Midori Snyder
• Candles on the Pond - (1992) - shortstory by Sue Ellen Sloca
• Tree of Life, Book of Death - (1992) - novelette by Grania Davis
• Puja - (1992) - shortstory by D. R. McBride
• Hermione and the Moon - (1992) - shortstory by Clive Barker
• Absence of Beast - (1992) - shortstory by Graham Masterton
• Rat Catcher - (1992) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Will - (1992) - poem by Jane Yolen
• The Question of the Grail - (1992) - poem by Jane Yolen
• In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells - (1992) - novella by John Brunner
• The Blue Stone Emperor's Thirty-Three Wives - (1991) - shortstory by Sara Gallardo
• Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room - (1990) - shortstory by Angela Carter
• Replacements - (1992) - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• The Ghost Village - (1992) - novelette by Peter Straub
• Honorable Mentions: 1992 - essay by uncredited

An appealing and eclectic anthology of some of the finest horror and fantasy tales written over the last year includes works by Patricia A. McKillip, Ursula K. Le Guin, Dan Simmons, Jane Yolen, Robert Silverberg, Joyce Carol Oates, and others.

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• Summation 1993: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Comics 1993 - essay by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull and Laura Poehlman
• Summation 1993: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1993 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries - essay by James R. Frenkel
• The Poacher - (1993) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• England Underway - (1993) - novelette by Terry Bisson
• The Woman in the Painting - (1993) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap - (1993) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• Memo for Freud - (1993) - poem by Daina Chaviano
• The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw - (1993) - shortstory by Nancy A. Collins
• Breath - (1993) - shortstory by Adam Corbin Fusco
• Knives - (1993) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Mrs. Jones - (1993) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Snow Man - (1993) - novelette by John Coyne
• One Night, or Scheherazade's Bare Minimum - (1993) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• Dead Man's Shoes - (1993) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• The Lodger - (1993) - shortstory by Fred Chappell
• The Erl-King - (1993) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• The Chrysanthemum Spirit - (1993) - shortstory by Osamu Dazai (trans. of Seihintan 1941)
• Angel - (1993) - shortstory by Mary Ellis
• The Taking of Mr. Bill - (1993) - shortstory by Graham Masterton
• The Saint - (1993) - shortstory by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. of La santa 1992)
• Cottage - (1993) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• Doodles - (1993) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Dying in Bangkok - (1993) - novelette by Dan Simmons
• Prisoners of the Royal Weather - (1993) - poem by Bruce Boston
• The Snow Queen - (1993) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
• Troll-Bridge - (1993) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• The Storyteller - (1993) - shortstory by Rafik Schami
• Rice and Milk - (1993) - shortfiction by Rosario Ferré
• Ridi Bobo - (1993) - shortstory by Robert Devereaux
• Playing with Fire - (1993) - novelette by Ellen Kushner
• Later - (1993) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• Distances - (1993) - shortfiction by Sherman Alexie
• Crash Cart - (1993) - shortstory by Nancy Holder
• Some Strange Desire - (1993) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• The Dog Park - (1993) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
• Wooden Druthers - (1993) - shortstory by Gene Stewart
• Inscription - (1993) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• In Camera - (1992) - novelette by Robert Westall
• The Wealth of Kingdoms (An Inflationary Tale) - (1993) - shortstory by Daniel Hood
• The Crucian Pit - (1993) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• The Ecology of Reptiles - (1993) - shortstory by John Coyne
• The Last Crossing - (1993) - shortstory by Thomas Tessier
• Small Adjustments - (1993) - shortstory by Caila Rossi
• Precious - (1993) - shortstory by Roberta Lannes
• Susan - (1993) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Freud at Thirty Paces - (1992) - shortstory by Sara Paretsky
• If Angels Ate Apples - (1993) - poem by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Exogamy - (1993) - shortstory by John Crowley
• The Princess Who Kicked Butt - (1993) - shortstory by Will Shetterly
• The Apprentice - (1993) - shortstory by Miriam Grace Monfredo
• Alvyta (A Lithuanian Fairy Tale) - (1993) - shortstory by O. V. de L. Milosz
• The Pig Man - (1993) - shortstory by Augustine Funnell
• Tattoo - (1993) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
• Lady of the Skulls - (1993) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
• To Scale - (1993) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Roar at the Heart of the World - (1993) - shortstory by Danith McPherson
• Honorable Mentions 1993 - (1994) - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book- (1994) - essay by uncredited

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions -- all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1994: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1994: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics 1994 - essay by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
• Obituaries - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Transmutations - (1994) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
• Bottom's Dream - (1994) - poem by Rachel Wetzsteon
• La Promesa - (1994) - shortstory by Leroy Quintana
• Aweary of the Sun - (1994) - novelette by Gregory Feeley
• A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings - (1994) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
• Who Will Love the River God? - (1994) - shortstory by Emily Newland
• Brothers - (1994) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
• Subsoil - (1994) - shortstory by Nicholson Baker
• Elvis's Bathroom - (1989) - shortstory by Pagan Kennedy
• Yet Another Poisoned Apple for the Fairy Princess - (1994) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
• The Big Game - (1994) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• Buenaventura and the Fifteen Sisters - (1994) - shortstory by Margarita Engle
• De Natura Unicorni - (1994) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Blue Motel - (1994) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• A Friend Indeed - (1994) - shortstory by David Garnett
• Sometimes, in the Rain - (1994) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
• Rain Falls - (1994) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• That Old School Tie - (1994) - novelette by Jack Womack
• Animals Behind Bars! - (1994) - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
• Monuments to the Dead - (1994) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Unterseeboot Doktor - (1994) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Young Woman in a Garden - (1994) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• The Man in the Black Suit - (1994) - shortstory by Stephen King
• "In the Tradition ..." - (1994) - essay by Michael Swanwick
• Words Like Pale Stones - (1994) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Marchen - (1994) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Giants in the Earth - (1994) - shortstory by Dale Bailey
• A Conflagration Artist - (1994) - shortstory by Bradley Denton
• Report - (1993) - shortstory by Carme Riera
• The Village of the Mermaids - (1994) - poem by John Bradley
• —And the Horses Hiss at Midnight - (1994) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
• The Entreaty of the Wiideema - (1994) - shortstory by Barry Lopez
• White Chapel - (1994) - novelette by Douglas Clegg
• The Stone Woman - (1994) - poem by Linda Weasel Head
• Coyote Stories - (1993) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• The Box - (1994) - shortstory by Jack Ketchum
• A Fear of Dead Things - (1994) - shortstory by Andrew Klavan
• He Unwraps Himself - (1994) - poem by Darrell Schweitzer
• Chandira - (1994) - shortstory by Brian Mooney
• Fever - (1994) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Best Things in Life - (1994) - shortstory by Lenora Champagne
• Mending Souls - (1994) - shortstory by Judith Tarr
• The Ocean and All Its Devices - (1994) - novelette by William Browning Spencer
• Strings - (1994) - shortstory by Kelley Eskridge
• Superman's Diary - (1994) - shortstory by B. Brandon Barker
• Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring - (1994) - novelette by M. John Harrison
• The Sisterhood of Night - (1994) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
• Winter Bodies - (1994) - shortstory by Noy Holland
• The Sloan Men - (1994) - shortstory by David Nickle
• Is That Them? - (1994) - shortstory by Kevin Roice
• The Kingdom of Cats and Birds - (1994) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Angel Combs - (1994) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Snow, Glass, Apples - (1995) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Honorable Mentions 1994 - essay by uncredited

This renowned series, recipient of three World Fantasy Awards, continues to captivate and fascinate readers. Stories by such notables as: Scott Bradfield, A.S. Byatt, Pat Cadigan, Peter Crowther, Charles De Lint, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Patricia A. McKillip, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Douglas E. Winter, and thirty-three other acclaimed writers show off the very best of contemporary fantasy and horror, while comprehensive and exhaustive summations add critical depth to this unique anthology. This book is essential for all fans of the weird and wonderful.

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• Summation 1995: Fantasy - (1996) - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1995: Horror - (1996) - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1995 - (1996) - essay by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Home for Christmas - (1995) - novella by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Heartfires - (1994) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• Screens - (1995) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
• King of Crows - (1995) - shortstory by Midori Snyder
• Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros - (1995) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• The Hunt of the Unicorn - (1995) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
• More Tomorrow - (1995) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• Penguins for Lunch - (1995) - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
• Ether OR - (1995) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Paper Lantern - (1995) - shortstory by Stuart Dybek
• Lunch at the Gotham Café - (1995) - novelette by Stephen King
• Queen of Knives - (1995) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Dragon-Rain - (1995) - novelette by Eileen Kernaghan
• Llantos de La Llorona: Warnings from the Wailer - (1995) - poem by Pat Mora
• Too Short a Death - (1995) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• The James Dean Garage Band - (1995) - shortstory by Rick Moody
• Because of Dust - (1995) - shortstory by Chris Kenworthy
• Loop - (1995) - novelette by Douglas E. Winter
• La Loma, La Luna - (1995) - shortstory by Sue Kepros Hartman
• Women's Stories - (1995) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Swan/Princess - (1995) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Switch - (1995) - shortstory by Lucy Taylor
• Scaring the Train - (1994) - novelette by Terry Dowling
• Blood Knot - (1995) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Girl Who Married the Reindeer - (1995) - poem by Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin
• The Otter Woman - (1995) - poem by Mary O'Malley
• Resolve and Resistance - (1995) - shortstory by S. N. Dyer
• La Dame - (1995) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Circe's Power - (1996) - poem by Louise Gluck
• Dragon's Fin Soup - (1995) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
• The Granddaughter - (1995) - shortstory by Vivian Vande Velde
• Daphne and Laura and So Forth - (1995) - poem by Margaret Atwood
• A Lamia in the Cévennes - (1995) - shortstory by A. S. Byatt
• The Guilty Party - (1995) - shortstory by Susan Moody
• She's Not There - (1995) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• The White Road - (1995) - poem by Neil Gaiman
• Refrigerator Heaven - (1995) - shortstory by David J. Schow
• After the Elephant Ballet - (1995) - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Henry V, Part 2 - (1995) - shortstory by Marcia Guthridge
• Mrs. Greasy - (1995) - novelette by Robert Reed
• ¦¦¦¦¦ - (1995) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Printer's Daughter - (1995) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• Prayer - (1995) - poem by Nancy Willard
• Jacob and the Angel - (1995) - poem by Jane Yolen
• The Lion and the Lark - (1995) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
• Honorable Mentions: 1995 - (1996) - essay by uncredited

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Bryant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen, and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions-all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1996: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1996: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1996 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics 1996 - essay by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries (1996) - essay by James R. Frenkel
• The Last Rainbow - (1978) - novelette by Parke Godwin
• Lily's Whisper - (1996) - novelette by Jay Russell
• The Reason for Not Going to the Ball - (1996) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Among the Handlers or, The Mark 16 Hands On Assembly of Jesus Risen, Formerly Snake-o-rama - (1996) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Phantom Church - (1996) - shortstory by Ana Blandiana
• Birthdream - (1996) - shortstory by Laurie Kutchins
• Disillusion - (1996) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Diana of the Hundred Breasts - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• La Llorona - (1996) - shortstory by Yxta Maya Murray
• Teatro Grottesco - (1996) - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
• The Secret Shih Tan - (1996) - novelette by Graham Masterton
• In the Matter of the Ukdena - (1996) - shortstory by Bruce Holland Rogers
• O, Rare and Most Exquisite - (1996) - shortstory by Douglas Clegg
• Never Seen by Waking Eyes - (1996) - novelette by Stephen Dedman
• Walking the Dog - (1996) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
• The Goatboy and the Giant - (1996) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
• Gourd - (1996) - poem by Olive Senior
• The Phoenix - (1996) - shortstory by Isobelle Carmody
• Caribe Magico - (1996) - shortstory by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. of Caribe Magico 1981)
• The Witch's Heart - (1996) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• Plumas - (1996) - shortstory by Patricia Preciado Martin
• Crow Girls - (1995) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• Rapunzel's Exile - (1996) - shortstory by Lisa Russ Spaar
• The Witches of Junket - (1996) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
• The Cruel Countess - (1996) - shortstory by Chris Bell
• Little Beauty's Wedding - (1996) - shortstory by Chang Hwang
• Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) - (1996) - poem by Neil Gaiman
• Angel - (1996) - shortstory by Philip Graham
• Elk Man - (1996) - poem by Amy Breau
• Beckoning Nightframe - (1996) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• The Dead Cop - (1996) - novelette by Dennis Etchison
• Ursus Triad, Later - (1996) - shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Olen Butler
• ... Warmer - (1996) - novelette by A. R. Morlan
• Not Waving - (1996) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu - (1996) - novelette by Susanna Clarke
• Wilderness - (1996) - shortstory by Ron Hansen
• Oshkiwiinag: Hearlines on the Trickster Express - (1996) - shortstory by Gerald Vizenor
• Persephone Sets the Record Straight - (1996) - shortstory by Shara McCallum
• Cruel Sisters - (1996) - shortstory by Patricia C. Wrede
• The House of Seven Angels - (1996) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Radio Waves - (1995) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Honorable Mentions: 1996 - essay by uncredited

Culled from the best of a wide variety of sources, this eleventh annual collection of fantasy fiction features contributions by Kim Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Kushner, Jack Womack, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.

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• Summation 1997: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1997: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1997 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics: 1997 - essay by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries: 1997 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• The Tale of the Skin - (1997) - short story by Emma Donoghue
• Beauty and the Beast - (1997) - poem by Jaimes Alsop
• Gulliver at Home - (1997) - novelette by John Kessel
• It Had to Be You - (1997) - novelette by Nancy Pickard
• The Skull of Charlotte Corday - (1995) - short story by Leslie Dick
• I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes - (1997) - short story by Douglas Clegg
• Coffee Jerk at the Gates of Hell - (1997) - poem by Christopher Jones
• Riding the Black - (1997) - novelette by Charles L. Grant
• In the Fields - (1997) - short story by Christopher Harman
• Mbo - (1997) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• Winner Take All - (1997) - short story by Jeffrey Shaffer
• Safe - (1997) - novella by Gary A. Braunbeck
• El Castillo de la Perseverancia - (1995) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• The Sin-Eater's Tale - (1997) - short story by Brennen Wysong
• A Visit - (1997) - short story by Steven Millhauser
• A Globe of Glass - (1997) - short story by Sonia Gernes
• The Fall of the Kings - (1997) - novelette by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
• Coyote and the White Folks - (1997) - poem by Bill Lewis
• Sheela Na Gig - (1997) - poem by Bill Lewis
• The Flounder's Kiss - (1997) - short story by Michael Cadnum
• Residuals - (1997) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman
• The Psychomantium - (1997) - short story by Molly Brown
• In the Black Mill - (1997) - short story by Michael Chabon
• Dust Motes - (1997) - short story by P. D. Cacek
• La Muerte - (1997) - poem by Pat Mora
• Spanky's Back in Town - (1997) - novelette by Christopher Fowler
• Marriage - (1997) - poem by Denise Duhamel
• Kingyo no fun - (1997) - novelette by Nicholas Royle
• Bucket of Blood - (1997) - short story by Norman Partridge
• Mermaid - (1997) - poem by A. Alvarez
• Estate - (1997) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Sin of Elijah - (1997) - short story by Steve Stern
• Driving Blind - (1997) - novelette by Ray Bradbury
• The Sky-Blue Ball - (1997) - short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Black Fairy's Curse - (1997) - short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Last Song of Sirit Byar - (1996) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Marina's Fragrance - (1997) - short story by Mayra Santos-Febres
• Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings - (1996) - poem by Emily Warn
• Rabbit Hole - (1997) - short story by Jane Yolen
• Wild Horses - (1997) - novelette by Charles de Lint
• Princess - (1997) - poem by Matthew Sweeney
• Audience - (1997) - short story by Jack Womack
• Merlin - (1997) - short story by Robert Clinton
• The Crawl - (1997) - novelette by Stephen Laws
• The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden - (1997) - short story by Katherine Vaz
• Dharma - (1994) - short story by Vikram Chandra
• Honorable Mentions: 1997 - essay by uncredited

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

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. 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 fantasy and horror, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1999: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1999: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 1999 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics: 1999 - essay by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries: 1999 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Darkrose and Diamond - (1999) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Chop Girl - (1999) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Girl Detective - (1999) - novelette by Kelly Link
• The Transformation - (1999) - shortstory by N. Scott Momaday
• Carabosse - (1999) - poem by Delia Sherman
• Harlequin Valentine - (1999) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Toad - (1999) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
• Washed in the River - (1999) - poem by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
• The Dinner Party - (1999) - shortstory by Robert Girardi
• Heat - (1999) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Wedding at Esperanza - (1999) - shortstory by Linnet Taylor
• Redescending - (1999) - poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
• You Don't Have to Be Mad ... - (1999) - novelette by Kim Newman
• The Paper-Thin Garden - (1999) - shortstory by Thomas Wharton
• The Anatomy of a Mermaid - (1999) - shortstory by Mary Sharratt
• The Grammarian's Five Daughters - (1999) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• The Tree Is My Hat - (1999) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Welcome - (1999) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Pathos of Genre - (1999) - shortstory by Douglas E. Winter
• Shatsi - (1999) - shortstory by Peter Crowther
• Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story - (1999) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• What You Make It - (1999) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Parwat Ruby - (1999) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
• Odysseus Old - (1999) - poem by Geoffrey Brock
• The Smell of the Deer - (1999) - shortstory by Kent Meyers
• Chorion and the Pleiades - (1999) - poem by Sarah Van Arsdale
• Crosley - (1998) - shortstory by Elizabeth Engstrom
• Naming the Dead - (1999) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• The Stork-men - (1999) - shortstory by Juan Goytisolo
• The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman - (1999) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
• White - (1999) - novella by Tim Lebbon
• Dear Floods of Her Hair - (1999) - shortstory by James Sallis
• Mrs. Santa Decides to Move to Florida - (1999) - shortstory by April Selley
• Tanuki - (1999) - shortstory by Jan Hodgman
• At Reparata - (1999) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Skin So Green and Fine - (1999) - novelette by Wendy Wheeler
• Old Merlin Dancing on the Sands of Time - (1999) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Sailing the Painted Ocean - (1999) - shortstory by Denise Lee
• Grandmother - (1999) - poem by Laurence Snydal
• Small Song - (1999) - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
• The Emperor's Old Bones - (1999) - shortstory by Gemma Files
• The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse - (1999) - shortstory by Susanna Clarke
• Halloween Street - (1999) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Kiss - (1999) - novelette by Tia V. Travis
• The Beast - (1999) - poem by Bill Lewis
• The Hedge - (1999) - poem by Bill Lewis
• Pixel Pixies - (1999) - novelette by Charles de Lint
• Falling Away - (1999) - shortstory by Elizabeth Birmingham
• Honorable Mentions: 1999 - (1999) - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - essay by uncredited

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories by Jack Cady, Ramsey Campbell, Susanna Clarke, Jack Dann, Terry Dowling, Dennis Etchison, Greer Gilman, Nalo Hopkinson, Kelly Link, Kathe Koja, Paul J. McAuley, Delia Sherman. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 2000: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 2000: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2000 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics: 2000 - essay by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries: 2000 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Incognita, Inc. - (2001) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Maria de Jesus - (2000) - shortstory by Claudia Barbosa Nogueira
• Le Mooz - (2000) - shortstory by Louise Erdrich
• Gretel in Berkeley - (2000) - poem by Eve Sweetser
• Granny Weather - (2000) - novelette by Charles de Lint
• The Shape of Things - (2000) - shortstory by Ellen Steiber
• No Strings - (2000) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Marilyn - (2000) - shortstory by Jack Dann
• Greedy Choke Puppy - (2000) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• The Crone - (2000) - poem by Delia Sherman
• Achilles' Grave - (2000) - novelette by Ben Pastor
• Down Here in the Garden - (2000) - shortstory by Tia V. Travis
• Meeting the Graiae - (2000) - poem by Laurence Goldstein
• Riding the Black Horse - (2000) - shortstory by Elizabeth Engstrom
• At Eventide - (2000) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• The Saltimbanques - (2000) - novelette by Terry Dowling
• The Monster of Childhood - (2000) - poem by Janet McAdams
• Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky - (2000) - shortstory by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
• Mr. Dark's Carnival - (2000) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
• The Cavemen in the Hedges - (2000) - shortstory by Stacey Richter
• Circe - (2000) - poem by Carol Ann Duffy
• Little Red-Cap - (2000) - poem by Carol Ann Duffy
• Basic Black - (2000) - novelette by Terry Dowling
• The Man on the Ceiling - (2000) - novelette by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
• Climbing Down from Heaven - (2000) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
• Jeremiah - (2000) - novelette by Jack Cady
• Three Questions - (2000) - poem by Jane Yolen
• The Penny Drops - (2000) - shortstory by Ian Rodwell and Steve Duffy
• The Train, the Lake, the Bridge - (2000) - shortstory by Bret Lott
• Buttons - (2000) - shortstory by Claudia Adriázola
• Snow Blindness - (2000) - poem by Elizabeth Howkins
• Jack Daw's Pack - (2000) - shortstory by Greer Gilman
• The Artificial Cloud - (2000) - shortstory by Justin Tussing
• No Story in It - (2000) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• A Migrant Bird - (2000) - shortstory by John F. Deane
• The Thousandth Night - (2000) - poem by Donelle R. Ruwe
• The Pottawatomie Giant - (2000) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• George Is All Right - (1997) - shortstory by Howard Wandrei
• Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower - (2000) - novella by Susanna Clarke
• Bones - (2000) - shortstory by Francesca Lia Block
• The Abortionist's Horse (A Nightmare) - (2000) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Endless Summer - (2000) - shortstory by Stewart O'Nan
• The Heidelberg Cylinder - (2000) - novella by Jonathan Carroll
• Gone - (2000) - shortstory by Jack Ketchum
• An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings - (2000) - shortstory by John Crowley
• Atasdi: Fish Story - (2000) - shortfiction by Dawn Karima Pettigrew
• Tooth Fairy - (2000) - poem by Amy Wack
• The Sandman - (2000) - poem by Amy Wack
• Tasting Songs - (2000) - shortstory by Leone Ross
• My Present Wife - (2000) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
• The Flaying Season - (2000) - shortstory by Jeffrey Thomas
• Bone Orchards - (2000) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• Instructions - (2000) - poem by Neil Gaiman
• Hallowmass - (2000) - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• Honorable Mentions: 2000 - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - (2001) - essay by uncredited

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. 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 fantasy and horror, a new Year's Best section, on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 2001: Fantasy - (2001) - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 2001: Horror - (2001) - essay by Ellen Datlow
• The Year in Media of the Fantastic - (2001) - essay by Edward Bryant
• Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2001 - (2001) - essay by Charles Vess
• Manga and Anime in 2001: Through the Looking Glass - essay by Joan D. Vinge
• Obituaries: 2001 - (2001) - essay by James R. Frenkel
• The Hunter's Wife - (2001) - shortstory by Anthony Doerr
• The Cowardly Coffin - (2001) - poem by Marin Sorescu
• In These Final Days of Sales - (2001) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• To Dream of White Horses - (2001) - shortstory by June Considine
• Skin - (2001) - poem by Charlee Jacob
• Prussian Snowdrops - (2000) - novelette by Marion Arnott
• The Honeyed Knot - (2001) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• Timmy Gobel's Bug Jar - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Libling
• The God of Dark Laughter - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Chabon
• The Adolescence of Orpheus - (2001) - poem by Kurt Leland
• Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café - (2001) - novelette by Charles de Lint
• Louise's Ghost - (2001) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Fairy Tale Pantoum - (2001) - poem by Ellen Wernecke
• The Puppet and the Train - (2001) - shortstory by Scott Thomas
• Crocodile Lady - (2001) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
• The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Views - (2001) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Becoming Bird - (2001) - poem by Bob Hicok
• Sop Doll - (2001) - shortstory by Milbre Burch
• Plenty - (2001) - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
• The Bones of the Earth - (2001) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• What the Story Weaves, the Spinner Tells - (2001) - poem by Terry Blackhawk
• Onion - (2001) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Where the Woodbine Twineth - (2001) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
• Struwwelpeter - (2001) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
• Outfangthief - (2001) - shortstory by Gala Blau
• Rites: Cleaning the Last Bones - (2001) - poem by Gavin J. Grant
• Watch Me When I Sleep - (2001) - shortstory by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of Regarde-moi quand je dors 2000)
• The Tattoo Artist - (2001) - shortstory by Patrick Roscoe
• Cleopatra Brimstone - (2001) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
• Grass - (2001) - shortstory by Lawrence Miles
• If Death, A Preprimer - (2001) - poem by Sandra J. Lindow
• The Bird Catcher - (2001) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
• Black Dust - (2001) - shortstory by Graham Joyce
• Annabelle's Alphabet - (2001) - shortstory by Tim Pratt
• Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresby - (2001) - novelette by Susanna Clarke
• Gestella - (2001) - novelette by Susan Palwick
• The Legend - (2001) - shortstory by Ray Gonzalez
• Oh, Glorious Sight - (2001) - novelette by Tanya Huff
• Home Cooking - (2001) - shortstory by Daniel Ulanovsky Sack
• Queen - (2001) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Project - (2001) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• The Man in the Comic Strip - (2001) - poem by Liz Lochhead
• Strange Things About Birds - (2001) - shortstory by Scott Thomas
• What We Did That Summer - (2001) - shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• Aesculapius in the Underworld - (2001) - poem by Ryan G. Van Cleave
• Scarecrow - (2001) - shortstory by Gregory Maguire
• The Bockles - (2001) - shortstory by Melissa Hardy
• His Own Back Yard - (2001) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
• Honorable Mentions: 2001 - (2001) - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - (2001) - essay by uncredited

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. 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 fantasy and horror, new Year's Best sections on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories by Kelly Link, Kim Newman, Corey Marks, Eric Schaller, M. Shayne Bell, Helga M. Novak, Terry Dowling, Michael Libling, Zoran Zivkovic, Bentley Little, Carlton Mellick III, Brian Hodge, Conrad Williams, Tom Disch, Melissa Hardy, Joel Lane, Nicholas Royle, Tracina Jackson-Adams, Karen Joy Fowler, Jackie Bartley, Peter Dickerman, Ramsey Campbell, Adam Roberts, Robert Phillips, Jay Russell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Margaret Lloyd, Stephen Gallagher, Robin McKinley, Haruki Murakami, Theodora Goss, Kathy Koja, Lucy Taylor, Elizabeth Hand, Kevin Brickmeier, Sharon McCartney, Susan Power, Don Tumasonis, Nan Fry. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, Year's Best sections on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 2002: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 2002: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2002 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2002 - essay by Charles Vess
• Manga and Anime 2002: The Light and Dark Fantastic - essay by Joan D. Vinge
• Obituaries: 2002 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Lull - (2002) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Egyptian Avenue - (2002) - shortstory by Kim Newman
• A Letter of Explanation - (2002) - poem by Corey Marks
• Details - (2002) - shortstory by China Miéville
• The Assistant to Dr. Jacob - (2002) - shortstory by Eric Schaller
• The Pagodas of Ciboure - (2002) - novelette by M. Shayne Bell
• The Coventry Boy - (2002) - novelette by Graham Joyce
• The Wild Hunt - (2002) - poem by Helga M. Novak
• The Green Word - (2002) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Stitch - (2002) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• Puce Boy - (2001) - novelette by Michael Libling
• The Violin-Maker - (2002) - shortstory by Zoran Živkovic
• Maya's Mother - (2002) - novelette by Bentley Little
• Porno in August - (2002) - shortstory by Carlton Mellick, III
• Nesting Instincts - (2002) - novelette by Brian Hodge
• The Machine - (2002) - shortstory by Conrad Williams
• Hansel, A Retrospective, or, The Danger of Childhood Obesity - (2002) - poem by Thomas M. Disch
• Aquerò - (2002) - shortstory by Melissa Hardy
• The Receivers - (2002) - shortstory by Joel Lane
• Standard Gauge - (2002) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• Creation - (2002) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes - (2002) - poem by Tracina Jackson-Adams
• What I Didn't See - (2002) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Reading Myth to Kindergartners - (2002) - poem by Jackie Bartley
• Mermaid Song - (2002) - novelette by Peter Dickinson
• Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky - (2002) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• No End of Fun - (2002) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• Swiftly - (2002) - novelette by Adam Roberts
• The Green Man - (2002) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
• Some Other Me - (2002) - shortstory by Brian Hodge
• The Snow Queen - (2002) - poem by Robert Phillips
• Hides - (2002) - novelette by Jay Russell
• Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush - (2002) - shortstory by Luis Alberto Urrea
• First Night With Lancelot - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
• Second Night - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
• From the Walls - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
• Guinevere: On Hearing of Galahad's Birth - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
• Elaine Watches Galahad - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
• Little Dead Girl Singing - (2002) - shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
• A Pool in the Desert - (2002) - novella by Robin McKinley
• Thailand - non-genre - (2001) - shortstory by Haruki Murakami
• The Rose in Twelve Petals - (2002) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• Road Trip - (2002) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• Unspeakable - (2002) - shortstory by Lucy Taylor
• Inside Out: On Henry Darger - (2002) - essay by Elizabeth Hand
• The Green Children - (2002) - shortstory by Kevin Brockmeier
• After the Chuck Jones Tribute on Teletoon - (2002) - poem by Sharon McCartney
• Feeders and Eaters - (2002) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Roofwalker - (2002) - shortstory by Susan Power
• The Prospect Cards - (2002) - novelette by Don Tumasonis
• Hide and Seek - (2002) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• The Wolf's Story - (2002) - poem by Nan Fry
• The Least Trumps - (2002) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
• Honorable Mentions: 2002 - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - essay by uncredited

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant 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 fantasy and horror and Year's Best sections--on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge and on film and television by Edward Bryant. This is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

*Terry Bisson *Kevin Brockmeier *Dan Chaon *Peter Crowther *Theodora Goss *Daphne Gottlieb *Glen Hirshberg *Brian Hodge *Nina Kiriki Hoffman *Kij Johnson *Paul LaFarge *Thomas Ligotti *Sara Maitland *Maureen F. McHugh *Steve Rasnic Tem *Benjamin Rosenbaum *Michael Marshall Smith *Michael Swanwick *Karen Traviss *Megan Whalen Turner

Table of Contents:

• Summation 2003: Fantasy - essay by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
• Summation 2003: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Media of the Fantastic: 2003 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics and Graphic Novels: 2003 - essay by Charles Vess
• Anime and Manga: 2003 - essay by Joan D. Vinge
• Music of the Fantastic: 2003 - essay by Charles de Lint
• Obituaries: 2003 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• At the Mouth of the River of Bees - (2003) - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• Why I Became a Plumber - (2003) - shortstory by Sara Maitland
• Bread and Bombs - (2003) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• The Red Bow - (2003) - shortstory by George Saunders
• The Wife - (2003) - shortstory by Vandana Singh
• Only Partly Here - (2003) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Bone - (2003) - poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Old Virginia - (2003) - novelette by Laird Barron
• A Study in Emerald - (2003) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• You Go Where It Takes You - (2003) - shortstory by Nathan Ballingrud
• L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) - (2003) - shortstory by Dean Francis Alfar
• Harvey's Dream - (2003) - shortstory by Stephen King
• Woeful Tales from Mahigul - (2003) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• King Rat - (2003) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Hortlak - (2003) - novelette by Kelly Link
• With Acknowledgements to Sun Tzu - (2003) - novelette by Brian Hodge
• Ash City Stomp - (2003) - shortstory by Richard Butner
• King Dragon - (2003) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
• Invisible Geese: A Theory - (2003) - poem by Patrick O'Leary
• The Perfect City - (2003) - poem by Patrick O'Leary
• Bedfordshire - (2003) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• N0072-JK1 - (2003) - shortstory by Adam Corbin Fusco
• Cell Call - (2003) - shortstory by Marc Laidlaw
• The Fishie - (2003) - shortstory by Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
• Hunger: A Confession - (2003) - shortstory by Dale Bailey
• Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe - (2003) - shortstory by Scott Emerson Bull
• The Baby in the Night Deposit Box - (2003) - novelette by Megan Whalen Turner
• Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur - (2003) - shortstory by Paul LaFarge
• The Silence of the Falling Stars - (2003) - novelette by Mike O'Driscoll
• At the Mythical Beast - (2003) - poem by Jon Woodward
• The Fluted Girl - (2003) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Brief History of the Dead - (2003) - shortstory by Kevin Brockmeier
• Flotsam - (2003) - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Bees - (2003) - shortstory by Dan Chaon
• Dancing Men - (2003) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
• Lily, with Clouds - (2003) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• The Man Who Did Nothing - (2003) - shortstory by Karen Traviss
• Husband - (2003) - shortstory by Shelley Jackson
• Open Doors - (2003) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Valley of Giants - (2004) - shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Purity - (2003) - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
• Ancestor Money - (2003) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• Final Girl II: The Frame - (2003) - poem by Daphne Gottlieb
• Almost Home - (2003) - novelette by Terry Bisson
• Honorable Mentions: 2003 - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - (2003) - essay by uncredited

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories by M. T. Anderson, Laird Barron, Simon Bestwick, Simon Brown, Stepan Chapman, Douglas Clegg, D. Ellis Dickerson, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jean Esteve, John Farris, Mélanie Fazi, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Stephen Gallagher, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Alice Hoffman, Shelley Jackson, John Kessel, Margo Lanagan, Tanith Lee, Bentley Little, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Gregory Maguire, China Miéville, Richard Mueller, Joyce Carol Oates, Frances Oliver, Chuck Palahniuk, Tina Rath, Philip Raines and Harvey Welles, M. Rickert, Anna Ross, Alison Smith, R.T. Smith, Peter Straub, Lucy Sussex, Catherynne M. Valente, Greg Van Eekhout, and Conrad Williams. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and sections on comics, by Charles Vess, on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, on media, by Ed Bryant, and on music, by Charles de Lint. With a long list of Honorable Mentions, this is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 2004: Fantasy - essay by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
• Summation 2004: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2004 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics and Graphic Novels: 2004 - essay by Charles Vess
• Anime and Manga: 2004 - - essay by Joan D. Vinge
• Fantasy and Horror in Music: 2004 - essay by Charles de Lint
• Obituaries: 2004 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• The Oakthing - (2004) - novelette by Gregory Maguire
• Horton's Store - (2004) - poem by R. T. Smith
• Rite of Spring - (2004) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• A Hazy Shade of Winter - (2004) - shortstory by Simon Bestwick
• The Skin of the World - (2004) - shortstory by Douglas Clegg
• Zora and the Zombie - (2004) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• The Changeling - (2001) - poem by Theodora Goss
• Revenge of the Calico Cat - (2004) - novelette by Stepan Chapman
• Frozen Charlottes - (2003) - shortstory by Lucy Sussex
• Reports of Certain Events in London - (2004) - novelette by China Miéville
• House of Ice - (2004) - poem by Jean Esteve
• Restraint - (2004) - shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
• The Baum Plan for Financial Independence - (2004) - shortstory by John Kessel
• Dancing on Air - (2004) - shortstory by Frances Oliver
• Cold Fires - (2004) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead - (2004) - shortstory by Richard Mueller
• A Trick of the Dark - (2004) - shortstory by Tina Rath
• The Bad Magician - (2004) - shortstory by Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
• Speir-Bhan - (2004) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland - (2002) - shortstory by John Farris
• Guts - (2004) - shortstory by Chuck Palahniuk
• Water Babies - (2004) - novelette by Simon Brown
• Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle - (2004) - novella by Peter Straub
• We Find Things Old - (2004) - shortstory by Bentley Little
• Wonderwall - (2004) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• Postcretaceous Era - (2004) - shortstory by D. Ellis Dickerson
• Watch and Wake - (2004) - shortstory by M. T. Anderson
• The Oracle Alone - (2004) - poem by Catherynne M. Valente
• A Night in the Tropics - (2004) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• Clownette - (2004) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• Stripping - (2004) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
• Seven Feet - (2004) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
• Singing My Sister Down - (2004) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• Bulldozer - (2004) - novelette by Laird Barron
• These Various Methods of Brightness - (2004) - poem by Anna Ross
• The Cajun Knot - (2004) - shortstory by Mélanie Fazi (trans. of Le noeud cajun 2000)
• Tales from the City of Seams - (2004) - shortstory by Greg van Eekhout
• The Specialist - (2004) - shortstory by Alison Smith
• Here Is the Church - (2004) - shortstory by Shelley Jackson
• The Witch of Truro - (2004) - shortstory by Alice Hoffman
• Lapland, or Film Noir - (2004) - shortstory by Peter Straub
• What Her Mother Said - (2004) - poem by Theodora Goss
• The Owl - (2004) - shortstory by Conrad Williams
• The Silver Dragon - (2004) - novelette by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• Honorable Mentions: 2004 - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - essay by uncredited

For nearly two decades, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this 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 works ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magic realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and sections on graphic novels, by Charles Vess; on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge; on media, by Ed Bryant; and on music, by Charles de Lint. With a long list of Honorable Mentions, this is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 2005: Fantasy - essay by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
• Summation 2005: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2005 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Graphic Novels: 2005 - essay by Charles Vess
• Anime and Manga: 2005 - essay by Joan D. Vinge
• Music of the Fantastic: 2005 - essay by Charles de Lint
• Obituaries: 2005 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Walpurgis Afternoon - (2005) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• The Mushroom Duchess - (2005) - shortstory by Deborah Roggie
• An Incident at Agate Beach - (2005) - novelette by Marly Youmans
• Among the Tombs - (2005) - shortstory by Reggie Oliver
• Obedience, or The Lying Tale - (2005) - poem by Jennifer Chang
• American Morons - (2005) - shortstory by Glen Hirshberg
• Shallaballah - (2005) - shortstory by Mark Samuels
• Night Train: Heading West - (2005) - poem by Sarah Monette
• Denial - (2005) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• Northwest Passage - (2004) - novelette by Barbara Roden
• Proboscis - (2005) - novelette by Laird Barron
• Kronia - (2005) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• Omens - (2005) - poem by Kelly Everding
• Follow Me Light - (2005) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
• Boatman's Holiday - (2005) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On) - (2005) - shortfiction by Howard Waldrop
• Where Angels Come In - (2005) - shortstory by Adam Nevill
• Twilight States - (2005) - shortstory by Albert E. Cowdrey
• Jolly Bonnet - (2005) - poem by Andrew Bonia
• The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai - (2005) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The Souls of Drowning Mountain - (2005) - shortstory by Jack Cady
• The Last One - (2005) - shortstory by Robert Coover
• The Ball Room - (2005) - shortfiction by China Miéville and Emma Bircham and Max Schaefer
• Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus - (2005) - poem by Theodora Goss
• Vacation - (2005) - shortstory by Daniel Wallace
• Cruel Sistah - (2005) - shortstory by Nisi Shawl
• Ding-Dong-Bell - (2005) - shortstory by Jay Russell
• A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility - (2005) - shortstory by Stacey Richter
• The Scribble Mind - (2005) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Scarecrow - (2005) - shortstory by Tom Brennan
• Going the Jerusalem Mile - (2005) - shortstory by Chaz Brenchley
• Grief - (2005) - poem by Willa Schneberg
• Boman - (2005) - shortstory by Pentti Holappa
• The Machine of a Religious Man - (2005) - shortstory by Ralph Robert Moore
• Hot Potting - (2005) - shortstory by Chuck Palahniuk
• My Father's Mask - (2005) - novelette by Joe Hill
• The Guggenheim Lovers - (2005) - shortstory by Isabel Allende
• A Statement in the Case - (2005) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
• The Pavement Artist - (2004) - shortstory by Dave Hutchinson
• The Gypsies in the Wood - (2005) - novella by Kim Newman
• Honorable Mentions: 2005 - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - essay by uncredited

For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, it consistently presents the strangest, the funniest, the darkest, the sharpest, the most original-in short, the best fantasy and horror. The current collection, marking a score of years, offers more than forty stories and poems from almost as many sources. Summations of the field by the editors are complemented by articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint, and Jeff VanderMeer, highlighting the best of the fantastic in, respectively, media, music, and comics, as well as honorable mentions-notable works that didn't quite make the cut, but are nonetheless worthy of attention. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection is a cornucopia of fantastic delights, an unparalleled resource and indispensable reference that captures the unique excitement and beauty of the fantastic in all its gloriously diverse forms, from the lightest fantasy to the darkest horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 2006: Fantasy - essay by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
• Summation 2006: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2006 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2006 - essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• Music of the Fantastic: 2006 - essay by Charles de Lint
• Obituaries: 2006 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter - (2006) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• First Kisses from Beyond the Grave - (2006) - novelette by Nik Houser
• The Last to Be Found - (2006) - shortstory by Christopher Harman
• Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery - (2006) - shortstory by John Schoffstall
• Becoming the Villainess - (2006) - poem by Jeannine Hall Gailey
• Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks - (2006) - poem by Jeannine Hall Gailey
• The Night Whiskey - (2006) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• In the House of the Seven Librarians - (2006) - novelette by Ellen Klages
• Drowning Palmer - (2006) - novelette by Sarah Monette
• Landfill - (2006) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
• Another Word for Map is Faith - (2006) - shortstory by Christopher Rowe
• Lionflower Hedge - (2006) - shortstory by Ira Sher
• A Fearful Symmetry - (2006) - shortstory by Minsoo Kang
• Messages - (2006) - shortstory by Brett Alexander Savory
• Ballade - (2005) - poem by William Hope Hodgson
• My Babe, My Babe - (1912) - poem by William Hope Hodgson
• The Box - (2006) - shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
• Halfway House - (2006) - shortstory by Frances Hardinge
• La Fée Verte - (2006) - novelette by Delia Sherman
• Father Muerte & the Flesh - (2006) - shortstory by Lee Battersby
• Winkie - (2006) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• Tell - (2006) - poem by Nathalie Anderson
• Dog Person - (2006) - shortstory by Scott Nicholson
• The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness - (2006) - shortstory by Simon Clark
• Cup and Table - (2006) - shortstory by Tim Pratt
• The Churring - (2006) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
• Dead Sea Fruit - (2006) - shortstory by Kaaron Warren
• Directions - (2006) - shortstory by Caleb Wilson
• La Profonde - (2006) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• Journey into the Kingdom - (2006) - novelette by M. Rickert
• The Good Ones Are Already Taken - (2006) - novelette by Ben Fountain
• A Pig's Whisper - (2006) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• 31/10 - (2006) - shortstory by Stephen Volk
• Sob in the Silence - (2006) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• Yep, I Said Camel - (2006) - poem by Josh Bell
• Femaville 29 - (2006) - shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
• A Siege of Cranes - (2006) - novelette by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Is Rain My Bearskin? - (2006) - poem by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
• The Lineaments of Gratified Desire - (2006) - novella by Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Raphael - (2006) - novelette by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Muldoon - (2006) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
• Honorable Mentions: 2006 - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - essay by uncredited

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