The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

by Datlow, Ellen; Windling, Terri

• ISBN13: 9780312157005
• ISBN10: 0312157002
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: St Martins Pr

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii	(3)
Summation 1996: Fantasy	xi	(27)
Terri Windling
Summation 1996: Horror	xxxviii	(37)
Ellen Datlow
Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1996	lxxv	(18)
Edward Bryant
Comics 1996	xciii	(4)
Seth Johnson
Obituaries	xcvii
James Frenkel
THE LAST RAINBOW	1	(26)
Parke Godwin
LILY'S WHISPER	27	(18)
Jay Russell
THE REASON FOR NOT GOING TO THE BALL	45	(5)
Tanith Lee
AMONG THE HANDLERS	50	(31)
Michael Bishop
THE PHANTOM CHURCH	81	(16)
Ana Blandiana
THE SNOW PAVILION	97	(13)
Angela Carter
BIRTHDREAM (poem)	110	(2)
Laurie Kutchins
DISILLUSION	112	(13)
Edward Bryant
DIANA OF THE HUNDRED BREASTS	125	(19)
Robert Silverberg
LA LLIORONA	144	(6)
Yxta Maya Murray
TEATRO GROTTESCO	150	(14)
Thomas Ligotti
THE SECRET SHIH TAN	164	(18)
Graham Masterton
IN THE MATTER OF THE UKDENA	182	(14)
Bruce Holland Rogers
O, RARE AND MOST EXQUISITE	196	(10)
Douglas Clegg
NEVER SEEN BY WAKING EYES	206	(20)
Stephen Dedman
WALKING THE DOG	226	(27)
Terry Lamsley
THE GOATBOY AND THE GIANT	253	(6)
Garry Kilworth
GOURD (poem)	259	(2)
Olive Senior
THE PHOENIX	261	(15)
Isobelle Carmody
CARIBE MAGICO	276	(3)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
THE WITCH'S HEART	279	(17)
Delia Sherman
PLUMAS	296	(5)
Patricia Preciado Martin
CROW GIRLS	301	(14)
Charles de Lint
RAPUNZEL'S EXILE	315	(2)
Lisa Russ Spaar
THE WITCHES OF JUNKET	317	(16)
Patricia A. McKillip
THE CRUEL COUNTESS	333	(11)
Chris Bell
LITTLE BEAUTY'S WEDDING	344	(10)
Chang Hwang
EATEN (SCENES FROM A MOVING PICTURE) (poem)	354	(6)
Neil Gaiman
ANGEL	360	(12)
Philip Graham
ELK MAN (poem)	372	(2)
Amy Breau
BECKONING NIGHTFRAME	374	(16)
Terry Dowling
THE DEAD COP	390	(16)
Dennis Etchison
URSUS TRIAD, LATER	406	(6)
Kathe Koja
Barry N. Malzberg
JFK SECRETLY ATTENDS JACKIE AUCTION	412	(8)
Robert Olen Butler
... WARMER	420	(17)
A. R. Morlan
NOT WAVING	437	(20)
Michael Marshall Smith
THE LADIES OF GRACE ADIEU	457	(17)
Susanna Clarke
WILDERNESS	474	(6)
Ron Hansen
OSHKIWINAG: HEARTLINES ON THE TRICKSTER EXPRESS	480	(15)
Gerald Vizenor
PERSEPHONE SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT	495	(2)
Shara McCallum
CRUEL SISTERS	497	(9)
Patricia C. Wrede
THE HOUSE OF SEVEN ANGELS	506	(3)
Jane Yolen
RADIO WAVES	509	(16)
Michael Swanwick
Honorable Mentions: 1996	525