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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection Author:Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor) This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are th... more »e editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions -- all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.
The beautiful uncut hair of graves / David Morrell --
In carnation / Nancy Springer --
The somewhere doors / Fred Chappell --
Poe at the end (poem) / R.H.W. Dillard --
Angels in love / Kathe Koja --
Vivian / Midori Snyder --
True love / K.W. Jeter --
The second most beautiful woman in the world / A.R. Morlan --
The swordsman whose name was not death / Ellen Kushner --
The ragthorn / Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth --
The smell / Patrick McGrath --
The tenth scholar / Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem --
Fisher death (poem) / Jessica Amanda Salmonson --
Walk in sable (poem) / Jessica Amanda Salmonson --
The cut man / Norman Partridge --
The kind men like / Karl Edward Wagner --
The coon suit / Terry Bisson --
Queen Christina and the windsurfer / Alison Fell --
Chui Chai / S.P. Somtow --
Mama gone / Jane Yolen --
Peter / Pat Murphy --
Our lady of the harbour / Charles de Lint --
The visitor's book / Stephen Gallagher --
At the end of the day / Steve Rasnic Tem --
The monster / Nina Katerli. Hummers / Lisa Mason --
Santa's way / James Powell --
Call home / Dennis Etchison --
The Braille Encyclopedia / Grant Morrison --
The poisoned story / Rosario Ferre --
Blood / Janice Galloway --
Dogstar man / Nancy Willard --
Persistence of memory / Joanne Greenberg --
You'll never eat lunch on this continent again / Adam Gopnik --
The glamour / Thomas Ligotti --
The peony lantern / Kara Dalkey --
To be a hero (poem) / Nancy Springer --
The same in any language / Ramsey Campbell --
Teratisms / Kathe Koja --
The life of a poet / Kobo Abe --
The witch of Wilton Falls / Gloria Ericson --
Home by the sea / Pat Cadigan --
Pish, posh, said hieronymus bosch (poem) / Nancy Willard --
The ash of memory, the dust of desire / Poppy Z. Brite --