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Summary

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 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 stories 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 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.

Author Biography

Ellen Datlow has won the World Fantasy Award six times. She lives in New York City and currently edits fiction for SCIFI.COM Terri Windling won the Mythopoeic Award for her first adult novel. She has edited numerous books and anthologies. Honored six times with the World Fantasy Award, she divides her time between Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona

Summation 2001: Fantasy	p. xv
Summation 2001: Horror	p. xlvi
The Year in Media of the Fantastic	p. lxxxvi
Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2001	p. ci
Manga and Anime in 2001: Through the Looking Glass	p. cxi
Obituaries: 2001	p. cxxii
The Hunter's Wife	p. 1
The Cowardly Coffin	p. 20
In These Final Days of Sales	p. 22
To Dream of White Horses	p. 38
Skin	p. 50
Prussian Snowdrops	p. 54
The Honeyed Knot	p. 78
Timmy Gobel's Bug Jar	p. 89
The God of Dark Laughter	p. 102
The Adolescence of Orpheus	p. 116
Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Cafe	p. 121
Louise's Ghost	p. 138
Fairy Tale Pantoum	p. 159
The Puppet and the Train	p. 160
Crocodile Lady	p. 173
The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Views	p. 187
Becoming Bird	p. 198
Sop Doll	p. 200
Plenty	p. 206
The Bones of the Earth	p. 216
What the Story Weaves, the Spinner Tells	p. 228
Onion	p. 230
Where the Woodbine Twineth	p. 251
Struwwelpeter	p. 256
Outfangthief	p. 280
Rites: Cleaning the Last Bones	p. 293
Watch Me When I Sleep	p. 295
The Tattoo Artist	p. 303
Cleopatra Brimstone	p. 308
Grass	p. 345
If Death, A Preprimer	p. 356
The Bird Catcher	p. 358
Black Dust	p. 379
Annabelle's Alphabet	p. 389
Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresby	p. 395
Gestella	p. 420
The Legend	p. 436
Oh, Glorious Sight	p. 438
Home Cooking	p. 451
Queen	p. 455
The Project	p. 460
The Man in the Comic Strip	p. 472
Strange Things About Birds	p. 474
What We Did That Summer	p. 477
Aesculapius in the Underworld	p. 486
Scarecrow	p. 488
The Bockles	p. 496
His Own Back Yard	p. 510
Honorable Mentions: 2001	p. 527
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Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

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