Anthology series: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
Editors (alphabetically listed): Ellen Datlow | Gavin J. Grant | Kelly Link | Terri Windling
Language: English
Series: 1988 – 2008
Bibliographic comments: Only series anthologies with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.
The 6th Annual Collection (2003) contains Haruki Murakami's non-genre story 'The Second Bakery Attack', and the 16th
Annual Collection (2003) contains Haruki Murakami's non-genre story 'Thailand'.
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, eds.
1990
< August 1990, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Press
ISBN 0-312-04450-X
Trade paperback, liii+563 pages
$14.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 1989: Fantasy' by Terri Windling, 'Summation 1989: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'Horror and
Fantasy on the Screen: 1989' by Edward Bryant, 'Obituaries (1989)' by James Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions: 1989'
is uncredited.
Fiction: Michael Swanwick, The Edge of the World // Fred Chappell, The Adder // Nancy Etchemendy, Cat in
Glass // Rory Harper, Monsters, Tearing Off My Face // Joyce Carol Oates, Family // James Powell, A Dirge for
Clowntown // Delia Sherman, Miss Carstairs and the Merman // Reginald Bretnor, Unknown Things // Tatyana
Tolstaya, Date with a Bird // Joseph A. Citro, Them Bald-Headed Snays // Edward Bryant, A Sad Last Love at the
Diner of the Damned // Michael Moorcock, Hanging the Fool // Leif Enger, Hansel's Finger // Garry Kilworth,
Dogfaerie // Emma Bull, A Bird That Whistles // Lisa Tuttle, The Walled Garden // Scott Baker, Varicose Worms //
Leszek Kolakowski, The War with Things // Jane Yolen, The Faery Flag // Zhaxi Dawa, Souls Tied to the Knots on
a Leather Cord // Steven Millhauser, The Illusionist // Charles de Lint, Timeskip // Robert R. McCammon,
Something Passed By // Dan Daly, Self-Portrait Mixed Media on Pavement, 1988 // Michael de Larrabeiti, The
Plane Tree and the Fountain // Tanith Lee, White As Sin, Now // Pat Cadigan, The Power and the Passion //
Midori Snyder, Jack Straw // J. N. Williamson, The Sudd // Jonathan Carroll, Mr. Fiddlehead // Dan Simmons,
Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites // Andrew Stephenson, Cinema Altéré // Gary A. Braunbeck, Matters of Family //
Joan Aiken, Find Me // James P. Blaylock, Unidentified Objects // Ramsey Campbell, Meeting the Author //
Gwyneth Jones, The Lovers // Chet Williamson, "Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'N Purty..." He Said. (Page 243) // Bruce
Sterling, Dori Bangs // Joe R. Lansdale, The Steel Valentine // John Shirley, Equilibrium // Garry Kilworth, White
Noise // Robley Wilson, Terrible Kisses // Greg Bear, Sleepside Story
Poetry: Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, Return to the Mutant Rain Forest // Jane Yolen, Beauty and the Beast: An
Anniversary // Joe Haldeman, Time Lapse
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, eds.
1991
< July 1991, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Press
ISBN 0-312-06007-6
Trade paperback, liv+552 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 1990: Fantasy' by Terri Windling, 'Summation 1990: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'Horror and
Fantasy in the Media: 1990' by Edward Bryant, 'Obituaries' and 'Honorable Mentions: 1990' are uncredited.
Fiction: Charles de Lint, Freewheeling // Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Coming Home // George Szanto, The Sweeper //
Joyce Carol Oates, Ladies and Gentlemen // Nancy A. Collins, Freaktent // John Crowley, Missolonghi 1824 //
Thomas Ligotti, The Last Feast of Harlequin // Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Harvest // Dyan Sheldon, The Dream //
John Brunner, Moths // Rachel Simon, Little Nightmares, Little Dreams // John Morressy, Timekeeper // Stuart
Dybek, Death of a Right Fielder // David J. Schow, Not from Around Here // Karen Joy Fowler, Lieserl // Sharon
M. Hall, The Last Game // Susan Palwick, Offerings // Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A Touch of the Old Lilith // David B.
Silva, The Calling // Haruki Murakami, TV People // Steve Rasnic Tem, In the Trees // 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 // Éilis Ní 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 // 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 // Michael Bishop, Snapshots from
the Butterfly Plague // Isabel Allende, Two Words // Robert Frazier, Lucius Shepard, The All-Consuming //
Jonathan Carroll, The Sadness of Detail
Poetry: David Memmott, Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light // Susan Prospere, Frozen
Charlottes // Ellen Kushner, Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble // Vern Rutsala, The
Muses of Rooms // Gwen Strauss, The Waiting Wolf // Gwen Strauss, The Beast
Essay: Susan Cooper, Fantasy in the Real World
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, eds.
1992
< August 1992, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Press
ISBN 0-312-07888-9
Trade paperback, lxxx+518 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 1991: Fantasy' by Terry Windling, 'Summation 1991: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'Horror and
Fantasy in the Media: 1991' by Edward Bryant, 'Obituaries' and 'Honorable Mentions: 1991' are uncredited.
Fiction: David Morrell, The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves // Nancy Springer, In Carnation // Fred Chappell, The
Somewhere Doors // Kathe Koja, Angels in Love // Midori Snyder, Vivian // K. W. Jeter, True Love // A. R.
Morlan, The Second Most Beautiful Woman in the World // Ellen Kushner, The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not
Death // Robert Holdstock, Garry Kilworth, The Ragthorn // Patrick McGrath, The Smell // Melanie Tem, Steve
Rasnic Tem, The Tenth Scholar // Norman Partridge, The Cut Man // Karl Edward Wagner, The Kind Men Like //
Terry Bisson, The Coon Suit // Alison Fell, Queen Christina and the Windsurfer // S. P. Somtow, Chui Chai // Jane
Yolen, Mama Gone // Pat Murphy, Peter // Charles de Lint, Our Lady of the Harbour // Stephen Gallagher, The
Visitors' Book // Steve Rasnic Tem, At the End of the Day // Nina Katerli, The Monster // Lisa Mason, Hummers
// James Powell, Santa's Way // Dennis Etchison, Call Home // Grant Morrison, The Braille Encyclopaedia //
Rosario Ferré, The Poisoned Story // Janice Galloway, Blood // Nancy Willard, Dogstar Man // Joanne
Greenberg, Persistence of Memory // Adam Gopnik, You'll Never Eat Lunch on This Continent Again // Thomas
Ligotti, The Glamour // Kara Dalkey, The Peony Lantern // Nancy Springer, To Be a Hero // Ramsey Campbell,
The Same in Any Language // Kathe Koja, Teratisms // Kōbō Abe, The Life of a Poe // Gloria Ericson, The Witch
of Wilton Falls // Pat Cadigan, Home by the Sea // Nancy Willard, Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch // Poppy Z.
Brite, The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire // S. P. Somtow, The Pavilion of Frozen Women // Carol Emshwiller,
Moon Songs // Ian Frazier, The Afternoon of June 8, 1991 // C. J. Cherryh, Gwydion and the Dragon // Pierrette
Fleutiaux, The Ogre's Wife
Poetry: R. H. W. Dillard, Poe at the End // Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Fisher Death // Jessica Amanda
Salmonson, Walk in Sable // Jane Yolen, A Story Must Be Held
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, eds.
1993
< August 1993, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Press
ISBN 0-312-09422-1
Trade paperback, xci+529 pages
$16.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 1992: Fantasy' by Terry Windling, 'Summation 1992: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'Horror and
Fantasy in the Media: 1992' by Edward Bryant, 'Obituaries' and 'Honorable Mentions: 1992' are uncredited.
• 'Calcutta, Lord of Nerves' is set in India.
• 'Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop' is set in Hong Kong.
Fiction: Emma Bull, Silver or Gold // Jack Cady, Tinker // Craig Curtis, Queequeg // M. John Harrison, Anima //
Steve Rasnic Tem, Skin // Reginald McKnight, The Homunculus: A Novel in One Chapter // Cristina Peri Rossi,
The Annunciation // Charles de Lint, The Bone Woman // A. S. Byatt, The Story of the Eldest Princess // Poppy Z.
Brite, Calcutta, Lord of Nerves // Scott Bradfield, The Parakeet and the Cat // Nicholas Royle, Glory // Neil
Gaiman, Murder Mysteries // Steve Rasnic Tem, Hungry // M. R. Scofidio, Playing With // Edward Bryant, Human
Remains // Robert Silverberg, It Comes and Goes // Grozdana Olujic, The Bewitched Burr // Charlotte Watson
Sherman, Swimming Lesson // Garry Kilworth, Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop // Diane de Avalle-Arce,
Bats // Nancy Farmer, Origami Mountain // James Powell, Ruby Laughter, Tears of Pearl // Judith Tarr, I Sing of a
Maiden // Cliff Burns, Also Starring // Christopher Fowler, On Edge // Joyce Carol Oates, Martyrdom // Haruki
Murakami, The Second Bakery Attack // Lucius Shepard, A Little Night Music // Stephen Gallagher, The Sluice //
Brian W. Aldiss, Ratbird // Gene Wolfe, The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun // Rick Bowes, On Death and the
Deuce // Harlan Ellison, The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore // Joe Haldeman, Graves // Ed
Gorman, The Ugly File // Midori Snyder, Elfhouses // Sue Ellen Sloca, Candles on the Pond // Grania Davis, Tree
of Life, Book of Death // D. R. McBride, Puja // Clive Barker, Hermione and the Moon // Graham Masterton,
Absence of Beast // Steve Rasnic Tem, Rat Catcher // John Brunner, In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells
// Sara Gallardo, The Blue Stone Emperor's Thirty-Three Wives // Angela Carter, Alice in Prague, or The Curious
Room // Lisa Tuttle, Replacements // Peter Straub, The Ghost Village
Poetry: Jessica Amanda Salmonson, In the Looking Glass, Life Is Death // Jo Shapcott, Tom and Jerry Visit
England // Jane Yolen, Will // Jane Yolen, The Question of the Grail
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, eds.
1994
< September 1994, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 0-312-11102-9
Trade paperback, xcvi+524 pages
$16.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 1993: Fantasy' by Terry Windling, 'Summation 1993: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'Horror and
Fantasy in the Media: 1993' by Edward Bryant, 'Obituaries' by James Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions: 1993' and 'The
People Behind the Book' are uncredited.
• 'Dying in Bangkok' is set in Thailand.
Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Poacher // Terry Bisson, England Underway // Lisa Goldstein, The Woman in the
Painting // Terry Dowling, The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap // Nancy A. Collins, The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw //
Adam Corbin Fusco, Breath // Carol Emshwiller, Mrs. Jones // John Coyne, Snow Man // Thomas M. Disch,
One Night, or Scheherazade's Bare Minimum // Charles de Lint, Dead Man's Shoes // Fred Chappell, The Lodger
// Elizabeth Hand, The Erl-King // Osamu Dazai, The Chrysanthemum Spirit // Mary Ellis, Angel // Graham
Masterton, The Taking of Mr. Bill // Gabriel García Márquez, The Saint // Bruce McAllister, Cottage // Steve
Rasnic Tem, Doodles // Dan Simmons, Dying in Bangkok // Patricia A. McKillip, The Snow Queen // Neil
Gaiman, Troll-Bridge // Rafik Schami, The Storyteller // Rosario Ferré, Rice and Milk // Robert Devereaux, Ridi
Bobo // Ellen Kushner, Playing with Fire // Michael Marshall Smith, Later // Sherman Alexie, Distances // Nancy
Holder, Crash Cart // Ian McDonald, Some Strange Desire // Dennis Etchison, The Dog Park // E. R. Stewart,
Wooden Druthers // Jane Yolen, Inscription // Robert Westall, In Camera // Daniel Hood, The Wealth of Kingdoms
(An Inflationary Tale) // Nicholas Royle, The Crucian Pit // John Coyne, The Ecology of Reptiles // Thomas
Tessier, The Last Crossing // Caila Rossi, Small Adjustments // Roberta Lannes, Precious // Harlan Ellison,
Susan // Sara Paretsky, Freud at Thirty Paces // John Crowley, Exogamy // Will Shetterly, The Princess Who
Kicked Butt // Miriam Grace Monfredo, The Apprentice // O. V. de L. Milosz, Alvyta (A Lithuanian Fairy Tale) //
Augustine Bruins Funnell, The Pig Man // A. R. Morlan, Tattoo // Patricia A. McKillip, Lady of the Skulls //
Nancy Kress, To Scale // Danith McPherson, Roar at the Heart of the World
Poetry: Daína Chaviano, Memo for Freud // Jane Yolen, Knives // Bruce Boston, Prisoners of the Royal Weather
// Geoffrey A. Landis, If Angels Ate Apples
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, eds.
1996
< July 1996, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 0-312-14449-0
Trade paperback, lxxxviii+536 pages
$17.95 / C$25.99
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 1995: Fantasy' by Terry Windling, 'Summation 1995: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'Horror and
Fantasy in the Media: 1995' by Edward Bryant, 'Obituaries' by James R. Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions: 1995' is
uncredited.
Fiction: Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Home for Christmas // Charles de Lint, Heartfires // Terry Lamsley, Screens //
Midori Snyder, King of Crows // Peter S. Beagle, Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros // Ellen Kushner,
The Hunt of the Unicorn // Michael Marshall Smith, More Tomorrow // Scott Bradfield, Penguins for Lunch //
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ether OR // Stuart Dybek, Paper Lantern // Stephen King, Lunch at the Gotham Café // Neil
Gaiman, Queen of Knives // Eileen Kernaghan, Dragon-Rain // Pat Mora, Llantos de La Llorona: Warnings from the
Wailer // Peter Crowther, Too Short a Death // Rick Moody, The James Dean Garage Band // Christopher
Kenworthy, Because of Dust // Douglas E. Winter, Loop // Sue Kepros Hartman, La Loma, La Luna // Lucy
Taylor, Switch // Terry Dowling, Scaring the Train // Steve Rasnic Tem, Blood Knot // S. N. Dyer, Resolve and
Resistance // Tanith Lee, La Dame // Louise Gluck, Circe's Power // S. P. Somtow, Dragon's Fin Soup // Vivian
Vande Velde, The Granddaughter // A. S. Byatt, A Lamia in the Cévennes // Susan Moody, The Guilty Party // Pat
Cadigan, She's Not There // David J. Schow, Refrigerator Heaven // Gary A. Braunbeck, After the Elephant Ballet
// Marcia Guthridge, Henry V, Part 2 // Robert Reed, Mrs. Greasy // Joyce Carol Oates, [redacted] // Delia
Sherman, The Printer's Daughter // Patricia A. McKillip, The Lion and the Lark
Poetry: Jane Yolen, Women's Stories // Jane Yolen, Swan/Princess // Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin, The Girl Who Married
the Reindeer // Mary O'Malley, The Otter Woman // Margaret Atwood, Daphne and Laura and So Forth // Neil
Gaiman, The White Road // Nancy Willard, Prayer // Jane Yolen, Jacob and the Angel
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, eds.
1998
< July 1998, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 0-312-19034-4
Trade paperback, cxiii+503 pages
$17.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 1997: Fantasy' by Terry Windling, 'Summation 1997: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'Horror and
Fantasy in the Media: 1997' by Edward Bryant, 'Comics': 1997' by Seth Johnson, 'Obituaries: 1997' by James
Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions: 1997' is uncredited.
Fiction: Emma Donoghue, The Tale of the Skin // John Kessel, Gulliver at Home // Nancy Pickard, It Had to Be
You // Leslie Dick, The Skull of Charlotte Corday // Douglas Clegg, I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes // Charles
Grant, Riding the Black // Christopher Harman, In the Fields // Nicholas Royle, Mbo // Jeffrey Shaffer, Winner
Take All // Gary A. Braunbeck, Safe // Howard Waldrop, El Castillo de la Perseverancia // Brennen Wysong, The
Sin-Eater's Tale // Steven Millhauser, A Visit // Sonia Gernes, A Globe of Glass // Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman,
The Fall of the Kings // Michael Cadnum, The Flounder's Kiss // Paul J. McAuley, Kim Newman, Residuals //
Molly Brown, The Psychomantium // Michael Chabon, In the Black Mill // P. D. Cacek, Dust Motes // Pat Mora, La
Muerte // Christopher Fowler, Spanky's Back in Town // Nicholas Royle, Kingyo no fun // Norman Partridge,
Bucket of Blood // Caitlín R. Kiernan, Estate // Steve Stern, The Sin of Elijah // Ray Bradbury, Driving Blind //
Joyce Carol Oates, The Sky-Blue Ball // Karen Joy Fowler, The Black Fairy's Curse // Peter S. Beagle, The Last
Song of Sirit Byar // Mayra Santos-Febres, Marina's Fragrance // Jane Yolen, Rabbit Hole // Charles de Lint, Wild
Horses // Jack Womack, Audience // Robert Clinton, Merlin // Stephen Laws, The Crawl // Katherine Vaz, The
Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden // Vikram Chandra, Dharma
Poetry: Jaimes Alsop, Beauty and the Beast // Christopher Jones, Coffee Jerk at the Gates of Hell // Bill Lewis,
Coyote and the White Folks // Bill Lewis, Sheela Na Gig // Denise Duhamel, Marriage // A. Alvarez, Mermaid //
Emily Warn, Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings // Matthew Sweeney, Princess
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, eds.
1999
< November 1999, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 0-312-20686-0
Trade paperback, cx+497 pages
$17.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 1998: Fantasy' by Terry Windling, 'Summation 1998: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'Horror and
Fantasy in the Media: 1998' by Edward Bryant, 'Comics': 1998' by Seth Johnson, 'Obituaries: 1998' by James
Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions: 1998' and 'The People Behind the Book' are uncredited.
Fiction: Kelly Link, Travels with the Snow Queen // Steve Duffy, Running Dogs // Susanna Clarke, Mrs Mabb //
Rick Kennett, Due West // Bruce Glassco, Taking Loup // Sara Douglass, The Evil Within // Mary Rosenblum,
The Rainmaker // Michael Marshall Smith, A Place to Stay // Lisa Goldstein, The Fantasma of Q____ // Ralph
Salisbury, Hoopa, the White Deer Dance // Stephen King, That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French //
Karen Joy Fowler, The Travails // Terry Lamsley, Suburban Blight // Dennis Etchison, Inside the Cackle Factory
// Kurahashi Yumiko, The House of the Black Cat // John Kessel, Every Angel is Terrifying // Neil Gaiman,
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar // Lawrence Osgood, Great Sedna // Sylvia Brownrigg, The Bird Chick // Mark W.
Tiedemann, Psyché // Jane Yolen, Become a Warrior // Norman Partridge, Blackbirds // Nick DiChario, Carp
Man // Delia Sherman, The Faerie Cony-Catcher // Steven Millhauser, Clair de Lune // Jorge Luis Borges, The
Rose of Paracelsus // Peter Straub, Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff // Michael Blumlein, Revenge // Patricia A. McKillip,
Oak Hill // Christopher Harman, Jackdaw Jack // Ellen Kushner, The Death of the Duke // Judy Budnitz, Hershel
// Ray Vukcevich, By the Time We Get to Uranus // Kelly Link, The Specialist's Hat // Charles de Lint, Twa
Corbies // Terry Dowling, Jenny Come to Play // Ilan Stavans, Blimunda // A. S. Byatt, Cold
Poetry: Marisa de los Santos, Wiglaf // Catharine Savage Brosman, Kokopelli // Larry Fontenot, Wile E. Coyote's
Lament // Carol Ann Duffy, Mrs. Beast // Zan Ross, At the River of Crocodiles // Holly Prado, The Tall, Upheaving
One // Sarah Corbett, Dark Moon // Chana Bloch, Mrs. Dumpty
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, eds.
2002
< August 2002, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 0-312-29069-1
Trade paperback, cxxviii+542 pages
$19.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 2001: Fantasy' by Terry Windling, 'Summation 2001: Horror' by Ellen Datlow, 'The Year in Media
of the Fantastic' by Edward Bryant, 'Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2001' by Charles Vess, 'Manga and Anime in
2001: Through the Looking Glass' by Joan D. Vinge, 'Obituaries: 2001' by James Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions:
2001' and 'The People Behind the Book' are uncredited.
Fiction: Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife // Marin Sorescu, The Cowardly Coffin // Steve Rasnic Tem, In These
Final Days of Sales // June Considine, To Dream of White Horses // Marion Arnott, Prussian Snowdrops // Jeffrey
Ford, The Honeyed Knot // Michael Libling, Timmy Gobel's Bug Jar // Michael Chabon, The God of Dark Laughter
// Kurt Leland, The Adolescence of Orpheus // Charles de Lint, Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café // Kelly Link,
Louise's Ghost // Scott Thomas, The Puppet and the Train // Christopher Fowler, Crocodile Lady // Jane Yolen,
The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Views // Bob Hicok, Becoming Bird // Milbre Burch, Sop Doll //
Christopher Barzak, Plenty // Ursula K. Le Guin, The Bones of the Earth // Caitlín R. Kiernan, Onion // Norman
Partridge, Where the Woodbine Twineth // Glen Hirshberg, Struwwelpeter // Gala Blau, Outfangthief //
Jean-Claude Dunyach, Watch Me When I Sleep // Patrick Roscoe, The Tattoo Artist // Elizabeth Hand, Cleopatra
Brimstone // Lawrence Miles, Grass // S. P. Somtow, The Bird Catcher // Graham Joyce, Black Dust // Tim Pratt,
Annabelle's Alphabet // Susanna Clarke, Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresby // Susan
Palwick, Gestella // Ray Gonzalez, The Legend // Tanya Huff, Oh, Glorious Sight // Daniel Ulanovsky Sack, Home
Cooking // Gene Wolfe, Queen // Carol Emshwiller, The Project // Scott Thomas, Strange Things About Birds //
Kathe Koja, Barry N. Malzberg, What We Did That Summer // Gregory Maguire, Scarecrow // Melissa Hardy, The
Bockles // James P. Blaylock, His Own Back Yard
Poetry: Charlee Jacob, Skin // Ellen Wernecke, Fairy Tale Pantoum // Terry Blackhawk, What the Story Weaves,
the Spinner Tells // Gavin J. Grant, Rites: Cleaning the Last Bones // Sandra J. Lindow, If Death, A Preprimer // Liz
Lochhead, The Man in the Comic Strip // Ryan G. Van Cleave, Aesculapius in the Underworld
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link, eds.
2004
< August 2004, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 0-312-32928-8
Trade paperback, clv+564 pages
$19.95 / C$27.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 2003: Fantasy' by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, 'Summation 2003: Horror' by Ellen Datlow,
'Media of the Fantastic: 2003' by Edward Bryant, 'Comics and Graphic Novels: 2003' by Charles Vess, 'Anime and
Manga: 2003' by Joan D. Vinge, 'Music of the Fantastic: 2003' by Charles de Lint, 'Obituaries: 2003' by James
Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions: 2003' and 'The People Behind the Book' are uncredited.
• 'With Acknowledgements to Sun Tzu' is set in Afghanistan.
• Winner of the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Anthology.
Fiction: Kij Johnson, At the Mouth of the River of Bees // Sara Maitland, Why I Became a Plumber // M. Rickert,
Bread and Bombs // George Saunders, The Red Bow // Vandana Singh, The Wife // Lucius Shepard, Only Partly
Here // Laird Barron, Old Virginia // Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald // Nathan Ballingrud, You Go Where It Takes
You // Dean Francis Alfar, L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) // Stephen King, Harvey's Dream // Ursula K.
Le Guin, Woeful Tales from Mahigul // Karen Joy Fowler, King Rat // Kelly Link, The Hortlak // Brian Hodge, With
Acknowledgements to Sun Tzu // Richard Butner, Ash City Stomp // Michael Swanwick, King Dragon // Peter
Crowther, Bedfordshire // Adam Corbin Fusco, N0072-JK1 // Marc Laidlaw, Cell Call // Philip Raines, Harvey
Welles, The Fishie // Dale Bailey, Hunger: A Confession // Scott Emerson Bull, Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe //
Megan Whalen Turner, The Baby in the Night Deposit Box // Paul LaFarge, Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur
// Mike O'Driscoll, The Silence of the Falling Stars // Paolo Bacigalupi, The Fluted Girl // Kevin Brockmeier, The
Brief History of the Dead // Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Flotsam // Dan Chaon, The Bees // Glen Hirshberg, Dancing
Men // Theodora Goss, Lily, with Clouds // Karen Traviss, The Man Who Did Nothing // Shelley Jackson,
Husband // Michael Marshall Smith, Open Doors // Benjamin Rosenbaum, The Valley of Giants // Thomas
Ligotti, Purity // Maureen F. McHugh, Ancestor Money // Terry Bisson, Almost Home
Poetry: Steve Rasnic Tem, Bone // Patrick O'Leary, Invisible Geese: A Theory // Patrick O'Leary, The Perfect City
// Jon Woodward, At the Mythical Beast // Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl II: The Frame
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link, eds.
2005
< August 2005, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 0-312-34194-6
Trade paperback, cxxviii+480 pages
$19.95 / C$26.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 2004: Fantasy' by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, 'Summation 2004: Horror' by Ellen Datlow,
'Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2004' by Edward Bryant, 'Comics and Graphic Novels: 2004' by Charles Vess,
'Anime and Manga: 2004' by Joan D. Vinge, 'Fantasy and Horror in Music: 2004' by Charles de Lint, 'Obituaries:
2004' by James Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions: 2004' and 'The People Behind the Book' are uncredited.
Fiction: Gregory Maguire, The Oakthing // Margo Lanagan, Rite of Spring // Simon Bestwick, A Hazy Shade of
Winter // Douglas Clegg, The Skin of the World // Andy Duncan, Zora and the Zombie // Stepan Chapman,
Revenge of the Calico Cat // Lucy Sussex, Frozen Charlottes // China Miéville, Reports of Certain Events in
London // Stephen Gallagher, Restraint // John Kessel, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence // Frances
Oliver, Dancing on Air // M. Rickert, Cold Fires // Richard Mueller, And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead // Tina
Rath, A Trick of the Dark // Philip Raines, Harvey Welles, The Bad Magician // Tanith Lee, Speir-Bhan // John
Farris, Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland // Chuck Palahniuk, Guts // Simon Brown, Water
Babies // Peter Straub, Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle // Bentley Little, We Find Things Old // Elizabeth Hand,
Wonderwall // D. Ellis Dickerson, Postcretaceous Era // M. T. Anderson, Watch and Wake // Jeffrey Ford, A Night
in the Tropics // Terry Dowling, Clownette // Joyce Carol Oates, Stripping // Christopher Fowler, Seven Feet //
Margo Lanagan, Singing My Sister Down // Laird Barron, Bulldozer // Mélanie Fazi, The Cajun Knot // Greg van
Eekhout, Tales from the City of Seams // Alison Smith, The Specialist // Shelley Jackson, Here Is the Church //
Alice Hoffman, The Witch of Truro // Peter Straub, Lapland, or Film Noir // Conrad Williams, The Owl // Elizabeth
A. Lynn, The Silver Dragon
Poetry: R. T. Smith, Horton's Store // Theodora Goss, The Changeling // Jean Esteve, House of Ice // Catherynne
M. Valente, The Oracle Alone // Anna Ross, These Various Methods of Brightness // Theodora Goss, What Her
Mother Said
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link, eds.
2006
< August 2006, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 0-312-35614-5
Trade paperback, cxxiii+480 pages
$19.95 / C$26.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 2005: Fantasy' by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, 'Summation 2005: Horror' by Ellen Datlow,
'Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2005' by Edward Bryant, 'Graphic Novels: 2005' by Charles Vess, 'Anime and
Manga: 2005' by Joan D. Vinge, 'Music of the Fantastic: 2005' by Charles de Lint, 'Obituaries: 2005' by James
Frenkel, 'Honorable Mentions: 2005' and 'The People Behind the Book' are uncredited.
• 'The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai' is set in Cambodia.
Fiction: Delia Sherman, Walpurgis Afternoon // Deborah Roggie, The Mushroom Duchess // Marly Youmans, An
Incident at Agate Beach // Reggie Oliver, Among the Tombs // Glen Hirshberg, American Morons // Mark Samuels,
Shallaballah // Bruce Sterling, Denial // Barbara Roden, Northwest Passage // Laird Barron, Proboscis //
Elizabeth Hand, Kronia // Elizabeth Bear, Follow Me Light // Jeffrey Ford, Boatman's Holiday // Howard Waldrop,
The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On) // Adam L. G. Nevill, Where Angels Come In // Albert E.
Cowdrey, Twilight States // Geoff Ryman, The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai // Jack Cady, The Souls of
Drowning Mountain // Robert Coover, The Last One // Emma Bircham, China Miéville, Max Schäfer, The Ball
Room // Daniel Wallace, Vacation // Nisi Shawl, Cruel Sistah // Jay Russell, Ding-Dong-Bell // Stacey Richter, A
Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility //
Jeffrey Ford, The Scribble Mind // Tom Brennan, Scarecrow // Chaz Brenchley, Going the Jerusalem Mile //
Pentti Holappa, Boman // Ralph Robert Moore, The Machine of a Religious Man // Chuck Palahniuk, Hot Potting
// Joe Hill, My Father's Mask // Isabel Allende, The Guggenheim Lovers // Theodora Goss, A Statement in the
Case // Dave Hutchinson, The Pavement Artist // Kim Newman, The Gypsies in the Wood
Poetry: Jennifer Chang, Obedience, or The Lying Tale // Sarah Monette, Night Train: Heading West // Kelly
Everding, Omens // Andrew Bonia, Jolly Bonnet // Theodora Goss, Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus // Willa
Schneberg, Grief
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link, eds.
2007
< October 2007, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 978-0-312-36942-2
Trade paperback, cxxxi+472 pages
$21.95 / C$25.50
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 2006: Fantasy' by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, 'Summation 2006: Horror' by Ellen Datlow,
'The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2006' by Edward Bryant, 'Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2006' by Jeff
VanderMeer, 'Music of the Fantastic: 2006' by Charles de Lint, 'Obituaries: 2006' by James Frenkel, 'Honorable
Mentions: 2006' and 'The People Behind the Book' are uncredited.
• 'Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter' is set in Cambodia.
Fiction: Geoff Ryman, Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter // Nik Houser, First Kisses from Beyond the Grave //
Christopher Harman, The Last to Be Found // John Schoffstall, Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery // Jeffrey
Ford, The Night Whiskey // Ellen Klages, In the House of the Seven Librarians // Sarah Monette, Drowning Palmer
// Joyce Carol Oates, Landfill // Christopher Rowe, Another Word for Map Is Faith // Ira Sher, Lionflower Hedge //
Minsoo Kang, A Fearful Symmetry // Brett Alexander Savory, Messages // Stephen Gallagher, The Box //
Frances Hardinge, Halfway House // Delia Sherman, La Fée Verte // Lee Battersby, Father Muerte & the Flesh //
Margo Lanagan, Winkie // Scott Nicholson, Dog Person // Simon Clark, The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness //
Tim Pratt, Cup and Table // Nicholas Royle, The Churring // Kaaron Warren, Dead Sea Fruit // Caleb Wilson,
Directions // Terry Dowling, La Profonde // M. Rickert, Journey Into the Kingdom // Ben Fountain, The Good Ones
Are Already Taken // Margo Lanagan, A Pig's Whisper // Stephen Volk, 31/10 // Gene Wolfe, Sob in the Silence //
Paul Di Filippo, Femaville 29 // Benjamin Rosenbaum, A Siege of Cranes // Ysabeau S. Wilce, The Lineaments of
Gratified Desire // Stephen Graham Jones, Raphael // Glen Hirshberg, The Muldoon
Poetry: Jeannine Hall Gailey, Becoming the Villainess // Jeannine Hall Gailey, Persephone and the Prince Meet
Over Drinks // William Hope Hodgson, Ballade // William Hope Hodgson, My Babe, My Babe // Nathalie
Anderson, Tell // Josh Bell, Yep, I Said Camel // Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Is Rain My Bearskin?
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual
Collection
Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link, eds.
2008
< October 2008, 1st edition
St. Martin’s Griffin
ISBN 978-0-312-38048-9
Trade paperback, cxiii+458 pages
$21.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Summation 2007: Fantasy' by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, 'Summation 2007: Horror' by Ellen Datlow,
'The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2007' by Edward Bryant, 'Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2007' by Jeff
VanderMeer, 'Music of the Fantastic: 2007' by Charles de Lint, 'Obituaries: 2007' by James Frenkel, 'Honorable
Mentions: 2007' by Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link.
Fiction: Daniel Abraham, The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics // Karen Russell, Vampires in the
Lemon Grove // M. Rickert, Holiday // Gary McMahon, Hum Drum // Paul Walther, Splitfoot // Chaz Brenchley,
The House of Mechanical Pain // Karen Joy Fowler, The Last Worders // Nathan Ballingrud, The Monsters of
Heaven // Delia Sherman, The Fiddler of Bayou Teche // Reggie Oliver, Mr Poo-Poo // Elizabeth Hand, Winter's
Wife // William Browning Spencer, The Tenth Muse // Jeffrey Ford, The Drowned Life // Don Tumasonis, The
Swing // Laird Barron, The Forest // Paul Park, Fragrant Goddess // Eileen Gunn, Up the Fire Road // M. T.
Anderson, The Gray Boy's Work // Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate // Joyce Carol Oates,
Valentine, July Heat Wave // Donald Mead, A Thing Forbidden // Holly Black, A Reversal of Fortune // Veronica
Schanoes, Rats // Jack M. Haringa, A Perfect and Unmappable Grace // Lucy Kemnitzer, The Boulder // Tanith
Lee, The Hill // Alexander MacBride, The Ape Man // Liz Williams, The Hide // Tim Nickels, England and
Nowhere // Garth Nix, Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again // Terry Dowling, Toother // Lisa Tuttle, Closet
Dreams // Kij Johnson, The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
Poetry: Billy Collins, Scenes of Hell // Eliza Griswold, Monkey // Nathalie Anderson, Troll // Sonya Taaffe, Follow
Me Home // Catherynne M. Valente, The Seven Devils of Central California // Maggie Smith, Village Smart //
Khaled Mattawa, Lovers: (Jaafar the Winged)
