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9780312356149

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 19th Annual Collection

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312356149

  • ISBN10:

    0312356145

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-08-22
  • Publisher: Griffin
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Summary

The legendary anthology is back, with witches and warlocks, fairy rings and gothic tales. The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 presents the best short stories and poetry published in this genre, and takes readers into the most fantastic realms imaginable. Culled from thousands of annuals, acclaimed writers and genre specialists Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant offer a broad range of fantastical and horrific fiction, including work from Jeffery Ford, China Miville, Bruce Sterling, Mark Samuels, Barbara Rhoden and many more. In addition, this critically renowned series offers an extensive overview of the year in fantasy and horror. The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 is the best source for fans or nascent readers of 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 Dark. She has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor once, the World Fantasy Award seven times, and the International Horror Guild Award for The Dark. She and Terri Windling also won the Bram Stoker Award forThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: SeventeenthAnnual Collection and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection. She currently edits fiction for SCIFI.COM.
 
Kelly Link and Gavin Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (“tiny but celebrated”---The Washington Post) for seven years.
 
Kelly Link’s first collection of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by Salon, Locus, and The Village Voice. Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards. Her most recent short stories have appeared in The Dark and The Faery Reel. She recently published Magic for Beginners, and when she isn’t writing, she edits the anthology Trampoline.
 
Originally from Scotland, Gavin Grant regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include Scifiction, Strange Horizons, The Third Alternative, and Singularity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Summation 2005: Fantasy
Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
xv
Summation 2005: Horror
Ellen Datlow
xli
Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2005
Edward Bryant
lxxxi
Graphic Novels: 2005
Charles Vess
xcvii
Anime and Manga: 2005
Joan D. Vinge
cv
Music of the Fantastic: 2005
Charles de Lint
cix
Obituaries: 2005
James Frenkel
cxv
Walpurgis Afternoon
Delia Sherman
1(16)
The Mushroom Duchess
Deborah Roggie
17(8)
An Incident at Agate Beach
Marley Youmans
25(22)
Among the Tombs
Reggie Oliver
47(13)
Obedience, or The Lying Tale (poem)
Jennifer Chang
60(2)
American Morons
Glen Hirshberg
62(10)
Shallaballah
Mark Samuels
72(6)
Night Train: Heading West (poem)
Sarah Monette
78(2)
Denial
Bruce Sterling
80(12)
Northwest Passage
Barbara Roden
92(21)
Proboscis
Laird Barron
113(16)
Kronia
Elizabeth Hand
129(3)
Omens (poem)
Kelly Everding
132(1)
Follow Me Light
Elizabeth Bear
133(10)
Boatman's Holiday
Jeffrey Ford
143(10)
The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On)
Howard Waldrop
153(13)
Where Angels Come In
Adam L.G. Nevill
166(11)
Twilight States
Albert E. Cowdrey
177(13)
Jolly Bonnet
Andrew Bonia
190(2)
The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai
Geoff Ryman
192(22)
The Souls of Drowning Mountain
Jack Cady
214(9)
The Last One
Robert Coover
223(8)
The Ball Room
China Miéville, Emma Bircham, and Max Schäfer
231(9)
Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus (poem)
Theodora Goss
240(1)
Vacation
Daniel Wallace
241(10)
Cruel Sistah
Nisi Shawl
251(7)
Ding-Dong-Bell
Jay Russell
258(13)
A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility
Stacey Richter
271(6)
The Scribble Mind
Jeffrey Ford
277(18)
Scarecrow
Tom Brennan
295(4)
Going the Jerusalem Mile
Chaz Brenchley
299(12)
Grief (poem)
Willa Schneberg
311(2)
Boman
Pentti Holappa
313(21)
The Machine of a Religious Man
Ralph Robert Moore
334(14)
Hot Potting
Chuck Palahniuk
348(7)
My Father's Mask
Joe Hill
355(14)
The Guggenheim Lovers
Isabel Allende
369(7)
A Statement in the Case
Theodora Goss
376(7)
The Pavement Artist
Dave Hutchinson
383(15)
The Gypsies in the Wood
Kim Newman
398(63)
Honorable Mentions: 2005 461

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