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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror)

by Ellen Datlow

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Publisher Comments:

For nearly two decades, 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 works 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 graphic novels, 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.

Review:

"The excellent 19th volume in this distinguished anthology series offers 40 stories and poems sure to please fantasy and horror connoisseurs. Highlights by relatively new talent include Delia Sherman's winning suburban fantasy, 'Walpurgis Afternoon'; Glenn Hirshberg's 'American Morons,' a disturbing tale of the second Gulf War; and Mark Samuels's gruesomely powerful 'Shallaballah.' Notable contributions by veterans include Bruce Sterling's 'Denial,' a fantasy unlike his cybernetic science fiction; Howard Waldrop's wild vaudeville 'The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On)'; and Isabel Allende's 'The Guggenheim Lovers,' a beautiful story about lovers within Bilboa's Guggenheim Museum. Datlow, Link and Grant, assisted by various sub-editors, provide thorough summations of the year in each genre and various media as well as a list of honorable mentions for 2005." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"The editors present a veritable feast of fantasy and horror, some of which readers will relish, and others of which, in the grand tradition of the genres, may turn stomachs." VOYA

Review:

"[A]ll-around high-quality storytelling." Library Journal

Synopsis:

Datlow and Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of fiction and poetry, ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales.

About the Author

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780312356149
Subtitle:
19th Annual Collection
Author:
Datlow, Ellen
Editor:
Grant, Gavin
Editor:
Datlow, Ellen; Link, Kelly; Grant, Gavin
Editor:
Link, Kelly
Editor:
Grant, Gavin; Link, Kelly; Datlow, Ellen
Editor:
Grant, Gavin; Link, Kelly; Frenkel, James
Author:
Grant, Gavin; Link, Kelly; Datlow, Ellen
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin
Subject:
Fantasy - General
Subject:
Fantasy - Anthologies
Subject:
Horror - Anthologies
Subject:
Horror tales
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Edition Description:
First Paperback
Series:
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
Publication Date:
August 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
608
Dimensions:
8.92x5.92x1.57 in. 1.48 lbs.

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