Synopses & Reviews
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 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 o Kim Newman o Corey Marks o Eric Schaller o M. Shayne Bell o Helga M. Novak o Terry Dowling o Michael Libling o Zoran Zivkovic o Bentley Little o Carlton Mellick III o Brian Hodge o Conrad Williams o Tom Disch o Melissa Hardy o Joel Lane o Nicholas Royle o Tracina Jackson-Adams o Karen Joy Fowler o Jackie Bartley o Peter Dickerman o Ramsey Campbell o Adam Roberts o Robert Phillips o Jay Russell o Luis Alberto Urrea o Margaret Lloyd o Stephen Gallagher o Robin McKinley o Haruki Murakami o Theodora Goss o Kathy Koja o Lucy Taylor o Elizabeth Hand o Kevin Brickmeier o Sharon McCartney o Susan Power o Don Tumasonis o 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.
Synopsis
Highly acclaimed for collecting the finest short fiction in fantasy and horror, the World Fantasy Award-winning annual series continues its eclectic and always interesting tradition with this 16th volume.
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 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. Visit her Web site at http://www.datlow.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 at http://www.endicott-studio.com. She divides her time between homes in Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.
Table of Contents
Lull /Kelly Link --Egyptian Avenue /Kim Newman --A letter of explanation /Corey Marks --Details /China Miâeville --The assistant to Dr. Jacob /Eric Schaller --The pagodas of Ciboure /M. Shayne Bell --The Coventry boy /Graham Joyce --The wild hunt /Helga M. Novak --The green word /Jeffrey Ford --Stitch /Terry Dowling --Puce boy /Michael Libling --The violin-maker /Zoran éZivkoviâc --Maya's mother /Bentley Little --Porno in August /Carlton Mellick III --Nesting instincts /Brian Hodge --The machine /Conrad Williams --Hansel, a retrospective, or, The danger of childhood obesity /Tom Disch --Aqueráo /Melissa Hardy --The receivers /Joel Lane --Standard gauge /Nicholas Royle --Creation /Jeffrey Ford --Seven pairs of iron shoes /Tracina Jackson-Adams --What I didn't see /Karen Joy Fowler --Reading myth to kindergartenders /Jackie Bartley --Mermaid song /Peter Dickinson --Pages from a journal found in a shoebox left in a Greyound bus somewhere between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky /Neil Gaiman --No end of fun /Ramsey Campbell --Swiftly /Adam Roberts --The green man /Christopher Fowler --Some other me /Brian Hodge --The snow queen /Robert Phillips --Hides /Jay russell --Mr. Mendoza's paintbrush /Luis Alberto urrea --Five poems /Margaret Lloyd --Little dead girl singing /Stephen Gallagher --A pool in the desert /Robin McKinley --Thailand /Haruki Murakami --The rose in twelve petals /Theodora Goss --Roada trip /Kathe Koja --Unspeakable /Lucy Taylor --Inside out : on Henry Darger /Elizabeth Hand --The green children /Kevin Brockmeier --After the Chuck Jones tribute on Teletoon /Sharon McCartney --Feeders and eaters /Neil Gaiman --Roofwalker /Susan Power --The prospect cards /Don Tumasonis --Hide and seek /nicholas Royle --The wolf's story /Nan Fry --The least trumps /Elizabeth Hand.