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9780312314248

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312314248

  • ISBN10:

    0312314248

  • Edition: 16th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-08-29
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Summary

For more than a decade, readers have turned toThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horrorto 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.

Author Biography

Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as Blood is Not Enough, Little Deaths, Alien Sex, Vanishing Acts, and the forthcoming The Dark: New Ghost Stories. She has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor once and the World Fantasy Award six times. She and Terri Windling also won The Bram Stoker Award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection. She lives in New York City and currently edits fiction for Scifi.com.

Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. She has won six World Fantasy awards for her editorial work and the Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Wood Wife. She has edited over thirty anthologies, many in collaboration with Ellen Datlow--including the Snow White, Blood Red adult fairy-tale series, The Armless Maiden, Sirens, The Green Man, and Swan Sister. She has also written children's books and articles on myth and folklore, and she edits the Endicott Studio Online Journal of Mythic Arts website. She divides her time between homes in Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.

Table of Contents

Summation 2001: Fantasyp. xv
Summation 2001: Horrorp. xlvi
The Year in Media of the Fantasticp. lxxxvi
Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2001p. ci
Manga and Anime in 2001: Through the Looking Glassp. cxi
Obituaries: 2001p. cxxii
The Hunter's Wifep. 1
The Cowardly Coffinp. 20
In These Final Days of Salesp. 22
To Dream of White Horsesp. 38
Skinp. 50
Prussian Snowdropsp. 54
The Honeyed Knotp. 78
Timmy Gobel's Bug Jarp. 89
The God of Dark Laughterp. 102
The Adolescence of Orpheusp. 116
Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Cafep. 121
Louise's Ghostp. 138
Fairy Tale Pantoump. 159
The Puppet and the Trainp. 160
Crocodile Ladyp. 173
The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Viewsp. 187
Becoming Birdp. 198
Sop Dollp. 200
Plentyp. 206
The Bones of the Earthp. 216
What the Story Weaves, the Spinner Tellsp. 228
Onionp. 230
Where the Woodbine Twinethp. 251
Struwwelpeterp. 256
Outfangthiefp. 280
Rites: Cleaning the Last Bonesp. 293
Watch Me When I Sleepp. 295
The Tattoo Artistp. 303
Cleopatra Brimstonep. 308
Grassp. 345
If Death, A Preprimerp. 356
The Bird Catcherp. 358
Black Dustp. 379
Annabelle's Alphabetp. 389
Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresbyp. 395
Gestellap. 420
The Legendp. 436
Oh, Glorious Sightp. 438
Home Cookingp. 451
Queenp. 455
The Projectp. 460
The Man in the Comic Stripp. 472
Strange Things About Birdsp. 474
What We Did That Summerp. 477
Aesculapius in the Underworldp. 486
Scarecrowp. 488
The Bocklesp. 496
His Own Back Yardp. 510
Honorable Mentions: 2001p. 527
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