Synopses & Reviews
Over 250,000 words of the finest fantasy and horrorA. S. Byatt
Charles de Lint
Karen Joy Fowler
Neil Gaiman
Lisa Goldstein
Stephen King
Ellen Kushner
Patricia A. McKillip
Steven Millhauser
Michael Marshall Smith
Peter Straub
Jane Yolen
For more than a decade, readers have looked to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to showcase the highest achievements of fantastic fiction. 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 fantastic fiction, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this volume a valubale reference source as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror
Review
"As always,
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror is the most broadly literate . . . and the most varied of all the genre annuals."-
Locus"The most extensive and reliable guide to the field available."-Realms of Fantasy
"The quality and the variety of the work in these annuals are guaranteed by the astonishing assiduousness of the editors."-Necrofile
"A collection not to be missed by anyone seriously interested in fantasy or horror."-Kirkus Reviews
"The two editors cast their nets as widely as humanly possible, and a set of these books on the shelf constitutes a uniquely authoritative guide to the progress of fantasy and horror fiction during the last decade and a bit."-The New York Review of Science Fiction
Synopsis
The annual series continues its tradition of excellence with another delicious selection of the finest fantasy and horror stories of the field's leading writers, including tales by Jorge Luis Borges, Charles de Lint, Terry Dowling, Dennis Etchison, John Kessel, Delia Sherman, Michael Marshall Smith, Peter Straub, and a multitude of others. Add to this a thorough wrap-up of the year, Edward Bryant's insightful survey of the year in fantasy films, and an exhaustive list of honorable mentions, and you have a must-read for any fan of the weird and wonderful. This is a collection you cannot do without.
About the Author
Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as
Sirens and other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling),
Blood Is Not Enough, Lethal Kisses, and
Off Limits, and has won the World Fantasy Award five times. She lives in New York City and currently edits the on-line magazine Event Horizon.
Terri Windling won the Mythopoeic Award for her first adult novel, The Wood Wife. She has edited numerous books and anthologies, including The Essential Bordertown and Silver Birch, Blood Moon, the most recent in a series of contemporary fairy tale anthologies, edited with Ellen Datlow. Honored five times with the World Fantasy Award, she divides her time between Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.
Table of Contents
Summation 1998: fantasy /Terri Windling --Summation 1998: horror /Ellen Datlow --Horror and fantasy in the media: 1998 /Edward Bryant --Comics: 1998 /Seth Johnson --Obituaries: 1998 /James Frenkel --Travels with the Snow Queen /Kelly Link --Running dogs /Steve Duffy --Wiglaf(poem) /Marisa de los Santos --Mrs. Mabb /Susanna Clarke --Due West /Rick Kennett --Kokopelli(poem) /Catharine Savage Brosman --Taking loup /Bruce Glassco --Theevil within /Sara Douglass --Wile E. Coyote's lament(poem) /Larry Fontenot --Therainmaker /Mary Rosenblum --Aplace to stay /Michael Marshall Smith --TheFantasma of Q... /Lisa Goldstein --Hoopa, the White Deer dance /Ralph Salisbury --That feeling, you can only say what it is in French /Stephen King --Thetravails /Karen Joy Fowler --Suburban blight /Terry Lamsley --Inside the cackle factory /Dennis Etchison --Thehouse of the Black Cat /Kurahashi Yumiko --Every angel is terrifying /John Kessel --Shoggoth's Old Peculiar / Neil Gaiman --Great Sedna /Lawrence Osgood --Thebird chick /Sylvia Browning --Psych /Mark W. Tiedemann --Mrs. Beast(poem) /Carol Ann Duffy --Become a warrior /Jane Yolen --Blackbirds /Norman Partridge --Carp man /Nicholas DiChario --TheFaerie Cony-catcher /Delia Sherman --At the River of Crocodiles(poem) /Zan Ross --Clair de lune /Steven Millhauser --Therose of Paracelsus /Jorge Luis Borges --Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff /Peter Straub --Revenge /Michael Blumlein --Thetall, upheaving one(poem) /Holly Prado --Oak Hill /Patricia A. McKillip --Jackdaw Jack /Christopher Harman --Dark moon(poem) /Sarah Corbett --Thedeath of the Duke /Ellen Kushner --Hershel /Judy Budnitz --By the time we get to Uranus /Ray Vukcevich --Thespecialist's hat /Kelly Link --Two corbies /Charles de Lint --Jenny come to play /Terry Dowling --Blimunda /Ilan Stavans --Mrs. Dumpty(poem) /Chana Bloch --Cold /A.S. Byatt.