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9780312206864

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312206864

  • ISBN10:

    0312206860

  • Edition: 12th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-07-30
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Summary

Over 250,000 words of the finest fantasy and horror A. S. ByattCharles de LintKaren Joy FowlerNeil GaimanLisa GoldsteinStephen KingEllen KushnerPatricia A. McKillipSteven MillhauserMichael Marshall SmithPeter StraubJane Yolen 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

Author Biography

Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as Sirens and other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling), Blood Is Not Enough, Lethal Kisses, and Off Limits, and has won the World Fantasy Award five times. She lives in New York City and currently edits the on-line magazine Event Horizon.

Terri Windling won the Mythopoeic Award for her first adult novel, The Wood Wife. She has edited numerous books and anthologies, including The Essential Bordertown and Silver Birch, Blood Moon, the most recent in a series of contemporary fairy tale anthologies, edited with Ellen Datlow. Honored five times with the World Fantasy Award, she divides her time between Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Summation 1998: Fantasy xiii
Terri Windling
Summation 1998: Horror lii
Ellen Datlow
Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1998 lxxxviii
Edward Bryant
Comics: 1998 ciii
Seth Johnson
Obituaries: 1998 cvii
James Frenkel
Travels with the Snow Queen
1(13)
Kelly Link
Running Dogs
14(11)
Steve Duffy
Wiglaf (poem)
25(2)
Marisa de los Santos
Mrs Mabb
27(20)
Susanna Clarke
Due West
47(19)
Rick Kennett
Kokopelli (poem)
66(2)
Catharine Savage Brosman
Taking Loup
68(4)
Bruce Glassco
The Evil Within
72(20)
Sara Douglass
Wile E. Coyote's Lament (poem)
92(2)
Larry Fontenot
The Rainmaker
94(14)
Mary Rosenblum
A Place to Stay
108(16)
Michael Marshall Smith
The Fantasma of Q___
124(9)
Lisa Goldstein
Hoopa, the White Deer Dance
133(9)
Ralph Salisbury
That Feeling, You can Only say What it is in French
142(12)
Stephen King
The Travails
154(8)
Karen Joy Fowler
Suburban Blight
162(26)
Terry Lamsley
Inside the Cackle Factory
188(15)
Dennis Etchison
The House of the Black Cat
203(4)
Kurahashi Yumiko
Every Angel is Terrifying
207(13)
John Kessel
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar
220(8)
Neil Gaiman
Great Sedna
228(6)
Lawrence Osgood
The Bird Chick
234(7)
Sylvia Brownrigg
Psyche
241(11)
Mark W. Tiedemann
Mrs. Beast (poem)
252(3)
Carol Ann Duffy
Become a Warrior
255(7)
Jane Yolen
Blackbirds
262(9)
Norman Partridge
Carp Man
271(4)
Nick DiChario
The Faerie Cony-catcher
275(9)
Delia Sherman
At The River of Crocodiles (poem)
284(3)
Zan Ross
Clair de Lune
287(6)
Steven Millhause
The Rose of Paracelsus
293(4)
Jorge Luis Borges
Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff
297(59)
Peter Straub
Revenge
356(14)
Michael Blumlein
The Tall, Upheaving One (poem)
370(2)
Holly Prado
Oak Hill
372(9)
Patricia A. McKillip
Jackdaw Jack
381(10)
Christopher Harman
Dark Moon (poem)
391(1)
Sarah Corbett
The Death of the Duke
392(9)
Ellen Kushner
Hershel
401(5)
Judy Budnitz
By the Time We Get to Uranus
406(8)
Ray Vukcevich
The Specialist's Hat
414(10)
Kelly Link
Twa Corbies
424(8)
Charles de Lint
Jenny Come to Play
432(24)
Terry Dowling
Blimunda
456(4)
Ilan Stavans
Mrs. Dumpty (poem)
460(2)
Chana Bloch
Cold
462(23)
A. S. Byatt
Honorable Mentions: 1998
485

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