For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, it consistently presents the strangest, the funniest, the darkest, the sharpest, the most original--in short, the "best" fantasy and horror. The current collection, marking a score of years, offers more than forty stories and poems from almost as many sources. Summations of the field by the editors are complemented by articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint, and Jeff VanderMeer, highlighting the best of the fantastic in, respectively, media, music, and comics, as well as honorable mentions--notable works that didn't quite make the cut, but are nonetheless worthy of attention. "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection" is a cornucopia of fantastic delights, an unparalleled resource and indispensable reference that captures the unique excitement and beauty of the fantastic in all its gloriously diverse forms, from the lightest fantasy to the darkest horror. Ellen Datlow was editor of "Sci Fiction," the multi award-winning fiction venue of SciFi.com for six years, and before that fiction editor of "Omni" and Omni.com for many years. She continues to edit anthologies for adults, young adults, and children.
Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine "Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet" for ten years.
Kelly Link is the author of two collections, "Stranger Things Happen," and "Magic For Beginners." Stories from her collections have won the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Tiptree, and Locus awards, and her work has appeared in "A Public Space, Firebirds Rising," and "Best American"" Short Stories 2005."
Originally from Scotland, Gavin J. Grant regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include "Los Angeles Times, BookPage, " SCI FICTION, "Strange Horizons," and "Salon Fantastique." For twenty years, this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, it consistently presents the strangest, the funniest, the darkest, the sharpest, the most original--in short, the "best" fantasy and horror.
The current collection, marking a score of years, offers more than forty stories and poems from almost as many sources. Summations of the field by the editors are complemented by articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint, and Jeff VanderMeer, highlighting the best of the fantastic in, respectively, media, music, and comics, as well as honorable mentions--notable works that didn't quite make the cut, but are nonetheless worthy of attention. "
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection" is an unparalleled resource and indispensable reference that captures the unique excitement and beauty of the fantastic in all its diverse forms, from the lightest fantasy to the darkest horror.
Table of Contents
"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter" -- Geoff Flyman
"First Kisses from Beyond the Grave" -- Nik Houser
"The Last to Be Found" -- Christopher Harman
"Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery" -- John Schoffstall
"Becoming the Villainess" and "Persephone and the Prince Meet over Drinks" -- Jeannine Hall Gailey
"The Night Whiskey" -- Jeffrey Ford
"In the House of the Seven Librarians" -- Ellen Klages
"Drowning Palmer" -- Sarah Monette
"Landfill" -- Joyce Carol Oates
"Another Word for Map Is Faith" -- Christopher Rowe
"Lionflower Lledge" -- Ira Sher
"A Fearful Symmetry" -- Minsoo Kang
"Messages" -- Brett Alexander Savory
"Ballade" and "My Babe, My Babe" -- William Hope Hodgson
"The Box" -- Stephen Gallagher
"Halfway House" -- Frances Hardinge
"La Fee Verte" -- Delia Sherman
"Father Muerte & the Flesh" -- Lee Battersby
"Winkie" -- Margo Lanagan
"Tell" -- Nathalie Anderson
"Dog Person" -- Scott Nicholson
"The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness" -- Simon Clark
"Cup and Table" -- Tim Pratt
"The Churring" -- Nicholas Royle
"Dead Sea Fruit" -- Kaaron Warren
"Directions" -- Caleb Wilson
"La Profonde" -- Terry Dowling
"Journey into the Kingdom" -- M. Rickert
"The Good Ones Are Already Taken" -- Ben Fountain
"A Pig's Whisper" -- Margo Lanagan
"31/10" -- Stephen Volk
"Sob in the Silence" -- Gene Wolfe
"Yep, I Said Camel" -- Josh Bell
"Femaville 29" -- Paul Di Filippo
"A Siege of Cranes" -- Benjamin Rosenbaum
"Is Rain My Bearskin?" -- Jeanne Marie Beaumont
"The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" -- Ysabeau S. Wilce
"Raphael" -- Stephen Graham Jones
"The Muldoon" -- Glen Hirshberg "This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music."--"Green Man Review" "The best anthology I have read in a while, this is great for keeping up with what is going on in the worlds of fantasy and horror, or simply as a collection of fine stories."--"The Zone
""This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music that was released in that year."--"Green Man Review"
"Long lived and always outstanding."--"Science Fiction Chronicle
""A standard that... will be the one to beat in the future."--"Locus"
"Treasures abound here."--"Minneapolis Star Tribune
""You can't improve on the 'best, ' but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to prese
