The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Overview: This fourth collection of fantastic fiction maintains the excellent standards that have earned this critically acclaimed series two World Fantasy Awards for Best Anthology. All the facets of fantasy and horror are illuminated here, with brilliant poems and stories of high fantasy, atmospheric horror, splatter-punk, magic realism, and sparkling examples of the unclassifiable. Mixing the experimental with the traditional, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror highlights works by new talents and award-winning veterans.
Additionally, the editors’ comprehensive essays covering the year in horror and in fantasy, along with Edward Bryant’s summary of the year’s movies, make this collection the single best compilation of fantastic literature.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Charles de Lint / FREEWHEELING
Nina Kiriki Hoffman / COMING HOME
George Szanto / THE SWEEPER
Joyce Carol Oates / LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Nancv A. Collins / FREAKTENT
John Crowlev / MISSOLONGHI 1824
Thomas Ligotti / THE LAST FEAST OF HARLEQUIN
David Memmott / SOUNDING THE PRAISES OF SHADOW TO THE MERCHANTS OF LIGHT (poem)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch / HARVEST
Susan Cooper / FANTASY IN THE REAL WORLD (essay)
Dyan Sheldon / THE DREAM
John Brunner MOTHS
Susan Prospere / FROZEN CHARLOTTES (poem)
Rachel Simon / LITTLE NIGHTMARES. LITTLE DREAMS
John Morressv / TIMEKEEPER
Ellen Kushner / SONATA: FOR TWO FRIENDS IN DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE SAME TROUBLE (poem)
Stuart Dvbek / DEATH OF A RIGHT FIELDER
David J. Schow / NOT FROM AROUND HERE
Karen Jov Fowler / LIESERL
Sharon M. Hall / THE LAST GAME
Susan Palwick / OFFERINGS
Vern Rutsala / THE MUSES OF ROOMS (poem)
Nina Kiriki Hoffman / A TOUCH OF THE OLD LILITH
David B. Silva / THE CALLING
Haruki Murakami TV PEOPLE (translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaumi)
Steve Rasnic Tem / IN THE TREiES
Garry Kilworth / TRUMAN CAPOTE’S TRILBY: THE FACTS
Ian R. MacLeod / GREEN
Garry Kilworth / DARK HILLS. HOLLOW CLOCKS
Jonathan Carroll / THE PANIC HAND
Michael Blumlein / BESTSELLER
Delia Sherman / NANNY PETERS AND THE FEATHERY BRIDE
Jack Womack / OUT OF SIGHT. OUT OF MIND
Éilís Ni Dhuibhne / MIDWIFE TO THE FAIRIES
Joe R. Lansdale / THE PHONE WOMAN
T. E. D. Klein / LADDER
Steven Millhauser ALICE, FALLING
Angela Carter / ASHPUTTLE: or, THE MOTHER’S GHOST
Adrian Cole / FACE TO FACE
Karel Čapek / THE DOG’S TALE (translated from the Czechoslovakian by Dagmar Herrmann)
Elizabeth Massie / STEPHEN
Peter Straub / A SHORT GUIDE TO THE CITY
R. A. Lafferty / THE STORY OF LITTLE BRIAR-ROSE, A SCHOLARLY STUDY
K. W. Jeter / THE FIRST TIME
Ian Frazier / COYOTE v. ACME
Richard Christian Matheson / AROUSAL
Gwen Strauss / THE WAITING WOLF (poem); / THE BEAST (poem)
Michael Bishop / SNAPSHOTS FROM THE BUTTERFLY PLAGUE
Isabel Allende / TWO WORDS (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier / THE ALL-CONSUMING
Jonathan Carroll / THE SADNESS OF DETAIL
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