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, 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, and Nan Fry.
Review
"The variety of this top-flight annual never fails to appeal, in part because it covers so much material....There are over 40 entries here, in a collection not to be missed by anyone seriously interested in fantasy or horror." Kirkus Reviews
Review
"Link and Grant's good taste in outre setups, stylistic and formal adventurousness, and ambiguity shows in such challenging selections as Adam Corbin Fusco's 'N0072-JK1,' Philip Raines and Harvey Welles' 'The Fishie,' and John Woodward's poem 'At the Mythical Beast.'" Booklist
Review
"The most extensive and reliable guide to the field available." Realms of Fantasy
Synopsis
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 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 and Year's Best sections--on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge and on film and television by Edward Bryant. This is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.
*Terry Bisson *Kevin Brockmeier *Dan Chaon *Peter Crowther *Theodora Goss *Daphne Gottlieb *Glen Hirshberg *Brian Hodge *Nina Kiriki Hoffman *Kij Johnson *Paul LaFarge *Thomas Ligotti *Sara Maitland *Maureen F. McHugh *Steve Rasnic Tem *Benjamin Rosenbaum *Michael Marshall Smith *Michael Swanwick *Karen Traviss *Megan Whalen Turner
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.
Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet ("tiny, but celebrated" Washington Post) for seven years. They live in an old farmhouse in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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 Conjunctions and McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. She is the editor of the anthology Trampoline and is currently working on more short stories.
Originally from Scotland, Gavin J. Grant worked in bookshops in Los Angeles and Boston and BookSense.com, a website for independent bookshops. He regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include Scifiction, Strange Horizons, The Third Alternative, Singularity, and The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.
Table of Contents
Contributors include:
Terry Bisson
Kevin Brockmeier
Dan Chaon
Peter Crowther
Theodora Goss
Daphne Gottlieb
Glen Hirshberg
Brian Hodge
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Kij Johnson
Stephen King
Ursula K. Le Guin
Paul LaFarge
Thomas Ligotti
Sara Maitland
Maureen F. McHugh
Steve Rasnic Tem
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Swanwick
Karen Traviss
Megan Whalen Turner