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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection Author:Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor) 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 surv... more »ey 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, a new Year's Best section, 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.
Contents:
Summation 1997: Fantasy • essay by Terri Windling
Summation 1997: Horror • essay by Ellen Datlow
Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1997 • essay by Edward Bryant
Comics: 1997 • essay by Seth Johnson
Obituaries: 1997 • essay by James R. Frenkel
The Tale of the Skin (1997) / short story by Emma Donoghue
Beauty and the Beast (1997) • poem by Jaimes Alsop
Gulliver at Home (1997) / novelette by John Kessel
It Had to Be You (1997) / novelette by Nancy Pickard
The Skull of Charlotte Corday (1995) / short story by Leslie Dick
I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes (1997) / short story by Douglas Clegg
Coffee Jerk at the Gates of Hell (1997) • poem by Christopher Jones
Riding the Black (1997) / novelette by Charles L. Grant
In the Fields (1997) / short story by Christopher Harman
Mbo (1997) / short story by Nicholas Royle
Winner Take All (1997) / short story by Jeffrey Shaffer
Safe (1997) / novella by Gary A. Braunbeck
El Castillo de la Perseverancia (1995) / novelette by Howard Waldrop
The Sin-Eater's Tale (1997) / short story by Brennen Wysong
A Visit (1997) / short story by Steven Millhauser
A Globe of Glass (1997) / short story by Sonia Gernes
The Fall of the Kings [The World of Riverside] (1997) / novelette by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
Coyote and the White Folks (1997) • poem by Bill Lewis
Sheela Na Gig (1997) • poem by Bill Lewis
The Flounder's Kiss (1997) / short story by Michael Cadnum
Residuals (1997) / novelette by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman
The Psychomantium (1997) / short story by Molly Brown
In the Black Mill (1997) / short story by Michael Chabon
Dust Motes (1997) / short story by P. D. Cacek
La Muerte (1997) • poem by Pat Mora
Spanky's Back in Town [Spanky] (1997) / novelette by Christopher Fowler
Marriage (1997) • poem by Denise Duhamel
Kingyo No Fun (1997) / novelette by Nicholas Royle
Bucket of Blood (1997) / short story by Norman Partridge
Mermaid (1997) • poem by A. Alvarez
Estate (1997) / short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Sin of Elijah (1997) / short story by Steve Stern
Driving Blind [Green Town] (1997) / novelette by Ray Bradbury
The Sky-Blue Ball (1997) / short story by Joyce Carol Oates
The Black Fairy's Curse (1997) / short story by Karen Joy Fowler
The Last Song of Sirit Byar [World of The Innkeeper's Song] (1996) / novelette by Peter S. Beagle
Marina's Fragrance (1997) / short story by Mayra Santos-Febres
Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings (1996) • poem by Emily Warn
Rabbit Hole (1997) / short story by Jane Yolen
Wild Horses [Newford] (1997) / novelette by Charles de Lint
Princess (1997) • poem by Matthew Sweeney
Audience (1997) / short story by Jack Womack
Merlin (1997) / short story by Robert Clinton
The Crawl (1997) / novelette by Stephen Laws
The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden (1997) / short story by Katherine Vaz