IMPORTANT ANTHOLOGIES

JOHN KEIR CROSS COLLECTION

CARTER/SAHA COLLECTION

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories ed. Lin Carter (DAW UY1199, Oct ’75, $1.25, 175pp, pb)

    * 9 · The Year in Fantasy · Lin Carter · in
    * 15 · The Jewel of Arwen · Marion Zimmer Bradley · ss TK Graphics: Baltimore, MD, 1973
    * 27 · The Sword Dyrnwyn [“The Sword”; Chronicles of Prydain] · Lloyd Alexander · ss The Foundling and Other Tales, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973
    * 36 · The Temple of Abomination [Cormac Mac Art] · Robert E. Howard · ss Tigers of the Sea, Donald M. Grant, 1973
    * 49 · The Double Tower · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales Win ’73
    * 56 · Trapped in the Shadowland [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · ss Fantastic Nov ’73
    * 63 · Black Hawk of Valkarth [Thongor] · Lin Carter · ss Fantastic Sep ’74
    * 75 · Jewel Quest · Hannes Bok · ss Kadath #1 ’74
    * 87 · The Emperor’s Fan [Novarian] · L. Sprague de Camp · nv Astounding, ed. Harry Harrison, Random, 1973
    * 105 · Falcon’s Mate · Pat McIntosh · ss Anduril Jul ’74
    * 120 · The City of Madness [“M’ji Ya Wazimu (City of Madness)”; Imaro] · Charles R. Saunders · nv Dark Fantasy Jul ’74 (+1)
    * 145 · The Seventeen Virgins [Cugel; Dying Earth] · Jack Vance · nv F&SF Oct ’74
    * 172 · The Year’s Best Fantasy Books · Lin Carter · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 2 ed. Lin Carter (DAW UY1248, Aug ’76, $1.25, 192pp, pb)

    * 9 · The Year in Fantasy · Lin Carter · in
    * 15 · The Demoness · Tanith Lee · ss *
    * 28 · The Night of the Unicorn · Thomas Burnett Swann · ss Nameless Places, ed. Gerald W. Page, Arkham House, 1975
    * 34 · Cry Wolf · Pat McIntosh · nv Anduril Jul ’75
    * 51 · Under the Thumbs of the Gods [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · ss Fantastic Apr ’75
    * 66 · The Guardian of the Vault · Paul Spencer · ss *
    * 77 · The Lamp from Atlantis [“The Lamp”; Willy Newbury] · L. Sprague de Camp · ss F&SF Mar ’75
    * 95 · Xiurhn · Gary Myers · ss The House of the Worm, 1975
    * 99 · The City in the Jewel [Thongor] · Lin Carter · nv Fantastic Dec ’75
    * 135 · In ’Ygiroth · Walter C. DeBill, Jr. · ss Nameless Places, ed. Gerald W. Page, Arkham House, 1975
    * 143 · The Scroll of Morloc · Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter · ss Fantastic Oct ’75
    * 152 · Payment in Kind · Caradoc A. Cador · ss Gnostica Aug ’75
    * 161 · Milord Sir Smiht, the English Wizard [Dr. Eszterhazy] · Avram Davidson · nv The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy, Warner, 1975
    * 188 · The Year’s Best Fantasy Books · Lin Carter · bi 


The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 3 ed. Lin Carter (DAW 0-87997-338-2, Nov ’77, $1.50, 237pp, pb)

    * 9 · The Year in Fantasy · Lin Carter · in
    * 12 · Eudoric’s Unicorn [Eudoric Dambertson] · L. Sprague de Camp · ss *
    * 31 · Shadow of a Demon [Niall] · Gardner F. Fox · nv The Dragon Aug ’76
    * 59 · Ring of Black Stone · Pat McIntosh · ss Anduril Aug ’76
    * 77 · The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr · George R. R. Martin · ss Fantastic May ’76
    * 99 · Two Suns Setting [Kane] · Karl Edward Wagner · nv Fantastic May ’76
    * 129 · The Stairs in the Crypt · Clark Ashton Smith & Lin Carter · ss Fantastic Aug ’76
    * 141 · The Goblin Blade · Raul Garcia Capella · nv *
    * 164 · The Dark King · C. J. Cherryh · ss *
    * 176 · Black Moonlight [Thongor] · Lin Carter · nv Fantastic Nov ’76
    * 204 · The Snout in the Alcove · Gary Myers · ss *
    * 213 · The Pool of the Moon · Charles R. Saunders · ss Dark Fantasy #8 ’76
    * 233 · The Year’s Best Fantasy Books · Lin Carter · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 4 ed. Lin Carter (DAW 0-87997-425-7, Dec ’78, $1.75, 208pp, pb)

    * 9 · The Year in Fantasy · Lin Carter · in
    * 12 · The Tale of Hauk · Poul Anderson · nv Swords Against Darkness #1, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1977
    * 34 · A Farmer on the Clyde · Grail Undwin · ss *
    * 40 · Prince Alcouz and the Magician [c. 1912] · Clark Ashton Smith · vi Glendale, CA: Roy Squires Press, 1977
    * 43 · Nekht Semerkeht · Robert E. Howard & Andrew J. Offutt · nv Swords Against Darkness #1, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1977
    * 68 · The Pillars of Hell · Lin Carter · ss Fantastic Dec ’77
    * 85 · Lok the Depressor · Philip Coakley · ss *
    * 103 · Hark! Was That the Squeal of an Angry Thoat? · Avram Davidson · ss Fantastic Dec ’77
    * 114 · The Cloak of Dreams · Pat McIntosh · ss *
    * 128 · The Land of Sorrow [Alaric] · Phyllis Eisenstein · nv F&SF Sep ’77
    * 155 · Odds Against the Gods · Tanith Lee · nv Swords Against Darkness #2, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1977
    * 187 · The Changer of Names [Ryre] · Ramsey Campbell · nv Swords Against Darkness #2, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1977
    * 204 · The Year’s Best Fantasy Books · Lin Carter · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 5 ed. Lin Carter (DAW 0-87997-510-5, Jan ’80, $1.95, 204pp, pb)

    * 11 · The Year in Fantasy · Lin Carter · in
    * 15 · The Troll · T. H. White · ss Gone to Ground, 1935
    * 28 · In the Balance · Tanith Lee · ss Swords Against Darkness #3, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1978
    * 34 · The Gem in the Tower [Conan] · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · nv Conan the Swordsman, ed. L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter & Bjorn Nyberg, Bantam, 1978
    * 58 · Above Ker-Is · Evangeline Walton · ss The Fantastic Imagination II, ed. Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski, Avon, 1978
    * 70 · Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin · Marvin Kaye · ss Fantastic Oct ’78
    * 77 · Rhian and Garanhir · Grail Undwin · ss *
    * 83 · Lord of the Dead [Steve Harrison] · Robert E. Howard · nv, 1978
    * 118 · Child of Air · Pat McIntosh · ss *
    * 136 · A Malady of Magicks [Ebenezum] · Craig Shaw Gardner · ss Fantastic Oct ’78
    * 153 · St. George · David Mallory · ss, 1978
    * 158 · Astral Stray [Voidal] · Adrian Cole · nv Heroic Fantasy, ed. Gerald W. Page & Hank Reinhardt, DAW, 1979
    * 180 · Demon and Demoiselle [Arcana] · Janet Fox · nv Fantastic Oct ’78
    * 201 · The Year’s Best Fantasy Books · Lin Carter · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 6 ed. Lin Carter (DAW 0-87997-578-4, Nov ’80, $1.95, 191pp, pb)

    * vii · The Year in Fantasy · Lin Carter · in
    * 9 · Garden of Blood [Dilvish] · Roger Zelazny · ss Sorcerer’s Apprentice #3 ’79
    * 21 · The Character Assassin · Paul H. Cook · ss Other Worlds #1, ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra, 1979
    * 31 · The Things That Are Gods [Traveler in Black] · John Brunner · na Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Fll ’79
    * 68 · Zurvan’s Saint · Grail Undwin · ss *
    * 73 · Perfidious Amber [Cyrion] · Tanith Lee · ss Swords Against Darkness #5, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1979
    * 85 · The Mer She [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · nv Heroes & Horrors, Whispers Press, 1978
    * 114 · Demon of the Snows · Lin Carter · ss *
    * 129 · The Pavilion Where All Times Meet · Jayge Carr · nv Other Worlds #1, ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra, 1979
    * 145 · Cryptically Yours [Teh Atht] · Brian Lumley · ss Escape! Fll ’77
    * 160 · Red as Blood · Tanith Lee · ss F&SF Jul ’79
    * 171 · Sandmagic · Orson Scott Card · nv Swords Against Darkness #4, ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1979
    * 189 · The Year’s Best Fantasy Books · Lin Carter · bi 


The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 7 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-87997-661-6, Oct ’81, $2.25, 191pp, pb)

    * 9 · Introduction · Arthur W. Saha · in
    * 11 · The George Business · Roger Zelazny · ss Dragons of Light, ed. Orson Scott Card, Ace, 1980
    * 19 · The Princess and the Bear · Orson Scott Card · nv The Berkley Showcase Vol. 1, ed. Victoria Schochet & John W. Silbersack, Berkley, 1980
    * 49 · Proteus · Paul H. Cook · ss Chrysalis 8, ed. Roy Torgeson, Doubleday, 1980
    * 59 · Spidersong · Susan C. Petrey · ss F&SF Sep ’80
    * 75 · The Narrow House · Phillip C. Heath · nv Gothic Jun ’80
    * 99 · Wolfland · Tanith Lee · nv F&SF Oct ’80
    * 129 · Melpomene, Calliope... and Fred · Nicholas V. Yermakov · ss F&SF Dec ’80
    * 141 · Kevin Malone · Gene Wolfe · ss New Terrors #1, ed. Ramsey Campbell, London: Pan, 1980
    * 151 · Lan Lung [expanded from “Dragon...Ghost”] · M. Lucie Chin · nv Ares #1 ’80
    * 173 · Keeper of the Wood · Caradoc A. Cador · ss Dragonfields Sum ’80
    * 181 · The Sleep of Trees · Jane Yolen · ss F&SF Sep ’80 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 8 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-87997-770-1, Oct ’82, $2.50, 191pp, pb)

    * 7 · Introduction · Arthur W. Saha · in
    * 9 · When the Clock Strikes · Tanith Lee · ss Weird Tales #1, ed. Lin Carter, DAW, 1981
    * 26 · Midas Night · Sam Wilson · ss Twilight Zone Aug ’81
    * 35 · Unicorn Variation · Roger Zelazny · nv IASFM Apr 13 ’81
    * 60 · The Only Death in the City · C. J. Cherryh · ss Sunfall, 1981
    * 78 · The Quickening · Michael Bishop · nv Universe 11, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1981
    * 107 · The River Maid · Jane Yolen · ss F&SF Jan ’81
    * 113 · Skirmish on Bastable Street · Bob Leman · ss F&SF Jun ’81
    * 129 · A Pattern of Silver Strings [Cerin Songweaver] · Charles de Lint · nv A Pattern of Silver Strings, Triskell Press, 1981
    * 151 · A Friend in Need · Lisa Tuttle · ss Twilight Zone Aug ’81
    * 164 · Pooka’s Bridge · Gillian FitzGerald · ss Elsewhere v1, ed. Terri Winding & Mark Alan Arnold, Ace, 1981
    * 178 · The Belonging Kind · John Shirley & William Gibson · ss Shadows #4, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1981 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 9 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-87997-864-3, Oct ’83, $2.50, 192pp, pb)

    * 7 · Introduction · Arthur W. Saha · in
    * 9 · Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz · Parke Godwin · ss Twilight Zone Jan ’82
    * 28 · Mirage and Magia · Tanith Lee · ss Hecate’s Cauldron, ed. Susan M. Shwartz, DAW, 1982
    * 45 · “Other” · Jor Jennings · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’82
    * 56 · The Horror on the #33 · Michael Shea · ss F&SF Aug ’82
    * 75 · Another Orphan · John Kessel · na F&SF Sep ’82
    * 120 · Lest Levitation Come Upon Us · Suzette Haden Elgin · nv Perpetual Light, ed. Alan Ryan, Warner Books, 1982
    * 142 · Sentences · Richard Christian Matheson · ss Death, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Playboy, 1982
    * 153 · Square and Above Board · R. A. Lafferty · ss F&SF Oct ’82
    * 166 · The Malaysian Mer · Jane Yolen · ss Neptune Rising, Philomel, 1982
    * 174 · Djinn, No Chaser · Harlan Ellison · nv Twilight Zone Apr ’82 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 10 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-87997-963-1, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $2.75, 254pp, pb); Anthology of 11 stories, including Locus Poll winner “Beyond the Dead Reef” by James Tiptree, Jr., and the Hugo/Nebula/World Fantasy nominee “Wong’s Lost & Found Emporium” by William Wu.

    * 9 · Introduction · Arthur W. Saha · in
    * 12 · Blue Vase of Ghosts · Tanith Lee · nv Dragonfields Win ’83
    * 39 · She Sells Sea Shells · Paul Darcy Boles · ss Twilight Zone Nov/Dec ’83
    * 56 · Green Roses · Larry Tritten · ss F&SF Jan ’83
    * 64 · Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium [Wong] · William F. Wu · ss Amazing May ’83
    * 83 · Huggins’ World · Ennis Duling · ss Twilight Zone Jul/Aug ’83
    * 97 · The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · na Heroic Visions, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ace, 1983
    * 157 · The Silent Cradle · Leigh Kennedy · ss Shadows #6, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1983
    * 173 · Into Whose Hands · Karl Edward Wagner · nv Whispers IV, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983
    * 200 · Like a Black Dandelion · John Alfred Taylor · ss Twilight Zone Sep/Oct ’83
    * 205 · The Hills Behind Hollywood High · Avram Davidson & Grania Davis · nv F&SF Apr ’83
    * 232 · Beyond the Dead Reef · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv F&SF Jan ’83 


The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 11 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-88677-097-1, Nov ’85 [Oct ’85], $2.95, 238pp, pb); Anthology of 1984 fantasy stories.

    * 9 · Introduction · Arthur W. Saha · in
    * 11 · Draco, Draco · Tanith Lee · nv Beyond Lands of Never, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allen & Unwin, 1984
    * 38 · Harvest Child · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Elsewhere v3, ed. Terri Winding & Mark Alan Arnold, Ace, 1984
    * 56 · Love Among the Xoids · John Sladek · ss Polk City, IA: Chris Drumm Books #15 ’84
    * 71 · Stoneskin · John Morressy · ss F&SF Jun ’84
    * 94 · Unmistakably the Finest · Scott Bradfield · nv Interzone #8 ’84
    * 119 · The Foxwife · Jane Yolen · ss World Fantasy Convention Program Book, ed. Charles de Lint, 1984
    * 127 · Golden Apples of the Sun [expanded from “Virgin Territory”] · Gardner R. Dozois, Jack M. Dann & Michael Swanwick · nv Penthouse Mar ’84
    * 149 · My Rose and My Glove · Harvey Jacobs · ss Omni May ’84
    * 161 · Strange Shadows · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Crypt of Cthulhu #25 ’84
    * 179 · A Little Two-Chair Barber Shop on Phillips Street · Donald R. Burleson · ss Twilight Zone Mar/Apr ’84
    * 186 · Taking Heart · Stephen L. Burns · ss Sword and Sorceress #1, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW, 1984
    * 204 · The Storm · David Morrell · ss Shadows #7, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1984
    * 224 · A Cabin on the Coast · Gene Wolfe · ss F&SF Feb ’84 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 12 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-88677-163-3, Nov ’86 [Oct ’86], $2.95, 226pp, pb); Anthology of 11 stories from 1985 including the Locus Award winner “Paladin of the Lost Hour” by Harlan Ellison and the excellent “Flight” by Peter Dickinson. There is also a summation of the year in fantasy.

    * ix · Introduction · Arthur W. Saha · in
    * 1 · Unferno · George Alec Effinger · nv IASFM Jul ’85
    * 27 · Dinner in Audoghast · Bruce Sterling · ss IASFM May ’85
    * 43 · Fortunes of a Fool · Nicholas V. Yermakov · ss The Dragon Feb ’85
    * 61 · Preliminary Notes on the Jang · Lisa Goldstein · ss IASFM May ’85
    * 79 · The Red House · Robert R. McCammon · nv Greystone Bay, ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1985
    * 101 · Flight · Peter Dickinson · nv Imaginary Lands, ed. Robin McKinley, Ace, 1985
    * 135 · The Castle at World’s End · Chris Naylor · ss Fantasy Tales #14 ’85
    * 147 · The Persistence of Memory · Gael Baudino · ss F&SF Nov ’85
    * 171 · The Face in the Cloth · Jane Yolen · ss F&SF Feb ’85
    * 185 · The Last Dragon Master · A. A. Attanasio · ss Beastmarks, Ziesing, 1985
    * 199 · Paladin of the Lost Hour · Harlan Ellison · nv Universe 15, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1985 


The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 13 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-88677-233-8, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $2.95, 238pp, pb); Anthology of 11 stories from 1986 plus an introduction/summation of the year in fantasy.

    * 11 · Introduction · Arthur W. Saha · in
    * 15 · Beauty Is the Beast · Tanith Lee · ss American Fantasy Fll ’86
    * 31 · Something in the Blood · Richard L. Purtill · ss F&SF Aug ’86
    * 47 · Pièce de Résistance · Judith Tarr · nv IASFM Apr ’86
    * 70 · Long, Long Ago · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv Tales from the Shadows, Kimber, 1986
    * 96 · The Old Man and the Cherry Tree · Kevin J. Anderson · ss Grue #3 ’86
    * 104 · Phone Repairs · Nancy Kress · ss IASFM Dec ’86
    * 119 · The Tale and Its Master · Michael Rutherford · na Spring Harbor: Delmar, NY, 1986
    * 167 · Sanctuary · Kim Antieau · ss Shadows #9, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1986
    * 180 · The Uncorking of Uncle Finn · Jane Yolen · ss F&SF Nov ’86
    * 188 · A Place to Stay for a Little While · Jim Aikin · nv IASFM Jun ’86
    * 223 · The Boy Who Plaited Manes · Nancy Springer · ss F&SF Oct ’86 

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 14 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-88677-307-5, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $3.50, 239pp, pb); Anthology of 13 stories from 1987 plus an introduction describing the year in fantasy.

    * 9 · Introduction · Arthur W. Saha · in
    * 13 · Night’s Daughter, Day’s Desire [Flat Earth] · Tanith Lee · nv Night’s Sorceries, DAW, 1987
    * 38 · The Little Magic Shop · Bruce Sterling · ss IASFM Oct ’87
    * 54 · Transients · Darrell Schweitzer · ss Amazing Jan ’87
    * 69 · The Snow Apples · Gwyneth Jones · ss Tales from the Forbidden Planet, ed. Roz Kaveney, Titan, 1987
    * 85 · The Glassblower’s Dragon · Lucius Shepard · ss F&SF Apr ’87
    * 93 · The Apotheosis of Isaac Rosen · Jack M. & Jeanne Van Buren Dann · vi Omni Jun ’87
    * 99 · Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences, Capra Press, 1987
    * 134 · Waiting for a Bus [Binscombe] · John Whitbourn · ss The Third Book of After Midnight Stories, ed. Amy Myers, London: Kimber, 1987
    * 152 · Happy Hour · J. N. Williamson · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’87
    * 163 · Ever After · Susan Palwick · nv IASFM Nov ’87
    * 191 · A Little of What You Fancy · Mary Catherine McDaniel · ss L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future v3, ed. Algis Budrys, Bridge, 1987
    * 202 · Inky · Jayge Carr · ss Whispers Oct ’87
    * 226 · Maxie Silas · Augustine Funnell · ss F&SF Jun ’87 


          
ELLEN DATLOW COLLECTION

Demons and Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Legend 0-7126-3420-7, Apr ’89 [Mar ’89], £6.95, 482pp, tp); Reprint (St. Martin’s 1988 as The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection) anthology of 36 fantasy and horror stories plus write-ups on the year etc. This edition omits “The Moon’s Revenge” by Joan Aiken. Recommended. (PSP) Also available in hardcover (-3021-X, £12.95). [First U.K. edition]

    * xiii · Summation 1987: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xx · Summation 1987: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * xxix · Horror and Fantasy on the Screen · Edward Bryant · ar
    * xxxiv · Obituaries · Misc. Material · ob
    * 1 · Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences, Capra Press, 1987
    * 26 · A World Without Toys [“The House Under the Street”] · T. M. Wright · ss Upstate Oct 26 ’86
    * 35 · DX · Joe W. Haldeman · pm In the Field of Fire, ed. Jeanne Van Buren Dann & Jack M. Dann, Tor, 1987
    * 43 · Friend’s Best Man · Jonathan Carroll · ss F&SF Jan ’87
    * 59 · The Snow Apples · Gwyneth Jones · ss Tales from the Forbidden Planet, ed. Roz Kaveney, Titan, 1987
    * 71 · Ever After · Susan Palwick · nv IASFM Nov ’87
    * 91 · My Name Is Dolly · William F. Nolan · ss Whispers VI, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987
    * 95 · Author’s Notes · Edward Bryant · ss Night Visions 4, ed. Anon., Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1987
    * 102 · Lake George in High August · John Robert Bensink · ss Masques #2, ed. J. N. Williamson, 1987
    * 107 · Csucskari [from The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars] · Steven Brust · ex New York: Ace, 1987
    * 125 · The Other Side · Ramsey Campbell · ss World Fantasy Convention Program Book, 1986; story based on a J.K. Potter illustration.
    * 136 · Pamela’s Get · David J. Schow · nv Twilight Zone Aug ’87
    * 158 · Voices in the Wind · Elizabeth S. Helfman · ss Spaceships & Spells, ed. Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Harper & Row, 1987
    * 166 · “Once Upon a Time...” She Said · Jane Yolen · pm National Storyteller Journal Spr ’87
    * 168 · The Circular Library of Stones · Carol Emshwiller · ss Omni Feb ’87
    * 177 · Soft Monkey · Harlan Ellison · ss Mystery Scene Reader #1, ed. Ed Gorman, Fedora, 1987
    * 190 · Fat Face · Michael Shea · nv Axolotl Press: Eugene, OR, 1987
    * 212 · Uncle Dobbin’s Parrot Fair [Newford] · Charles de Lint · nv IASFM Nov ’87
    * 234 · The Pear-Shaped Man · George R. R. Martin · nv Omni Oct ’87
    * 259 · Delta Sly Honey · Lucius Shepard · ss In the Field of Fire, ed. Jeanne Van Buren Dann & Jack M. Dann, Tor, 1987
    * 275 · Small Heirlooms · M. John Harrison · ss Other Edens, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin, 1987
    * 286 · The Improper Princess · Patricia C. Wrede · ss Spaceships & Spells, ed. Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Harper & Row, 1987
    * 297 · The Fable of the Farmer and Fox · John Brunner · vi Omni Jun ’87
    * 300 · Haunted · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Architecture of Fear, ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz, Arbor House, 1987
    * 317 · Dead Possums · Kathryn Ptacek · ss Doom City, ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1987
    * 328 · Pictures Made of Stones · Lucius Shepard · pm Omni Sep ’87
    * 338 · Splatter: A Cautionary Tale · Douglas E. Winter · ss Masques #2, ed. J. N. Williamson, 1987
    * 347 · Gentlemen · John M. Skipp & Craig Spector · nv The Architecture of Fear, ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz, Arbor House, 1987
    * 370 · Demon Luck [Ithkar] · Craig Shaw Gardner · ss Magic in Ithkar #4, ed. Andre Norton & Robert Adams, Tor, 1987
    * 379 · Words of Power · Jane Yolen · ss Visions, Delacorte, 1987
    * 391 · Jamie’s Grave · Lisa Tuttle · ss Shadows #10, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1987
    * 405 · The Maid on the Shore · Delia Sherman · ss F&SF Oct ’87
    * 418 · Halley’s Passing · Michael McDowell · ss Twilight Zone Jun ’87
    * 433 · White Trains · Lucius Shepard · pm Night Cry Spr ’87
    * 439 · Simple Sentences · Natalie Babbitt · ss The Devil’s Other Scrapbook, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987
    * 443 · A Hypothetical Lizard [Liavek] · Alan Moore · nv Liavek: Wizard’s Row, ed. Will Shetterly & Emma Bull, Ace, 1987
    * 478 · Honorable Mentions: 1987 · Misc. Material · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-03007-X, Jun ’89, $12.95, 579pp, tp); Anthology of 46 horror and fantasy stories, with summaries of the past year in horror by Datlow, fantasy by Windling, and film by Edward Bryant. Also available in hardcover (-03006-1 $24.95).

    * xiii · Summation 1988: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxvi · Summation 1988: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * xlvii · 1988: Horror and Fantasy on the Screen · Edward Bryant · ar
    * liv · Obituaries · Jim Frenkel · ob
    * 2 · Death Is Different · Lisa Goldstein · ss IASFM Sep ’88
    * 17 · The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) · Gene Wolfe · nv Arabesques, ed. Susan Shwartz, Avon, 1988
    * 39 · It Was the Heat · Pat Cadigan · ss Tropical Chills, ed. Tim Sullivan, Avon, 1988
    * 54 · The Cutter · Edward Bryant · ss Silver Scream, ed. David J. Schow, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988
    * 67 · The Freezer Jesus · John DuFresne · vi The Quarterly Fll ’88
    * 71 · Voices of the Kill · Thomas M. Disch · ss Full Spectrum, ed. Lou Aronica & Shawna McCarthy, Bantam, 1988
    * 87 · Secretly · Ruth Roston · pm Pandora #19 ’88
    * 90 · The Devil’s Rose · Tanith Lee · nv Women of Darkness, ed. Kathryn Ptacek, Tor, 1988
    * 111 · Wempires · Daniel M. Pinkwater · vi Omni Oct ’88
    * 115 · Scatter My Ashes · Greg Egan · ss Interzone #23 ’88
    * 126 · Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh · Ian McDonald · nv Empire Dreams, Bantam Spectra, 1988
    * 150 · Shoo Fly · Richard Matheson · ss Omni Nov ’88
    * 165 · The Thing Itself · Michael Blumlein · ss Full Spectrum, ed. Lou Aronica & Shawna McCarthy, Bantam, 1988
    * 179 · The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow · Charles de Lint · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 193 · Roman Games · Anne Gay · ss Other Edens II, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin, 1988
    * 201 · The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn · Patricia C. Wrede · ss The Unicorn Treasury, ed. Bruce Coville, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1988
    * 212 · The Book and Its Contents · Robert Kelly · ss Doctor of Silence, McPherson, 1988
    * 225 · The Great God Pan · M. John Harrison · nv Prime Evil, ed. Douglas E. Winter, NAL, 1988
    * 246 · Lost Bodies · Ian Watson · ss Interzone #25 ’88
    * 256 · Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds · Dan Simmons · ss Omni Apr ’88
    * 265 · Preflash · John M. Ford · ss Silver Scream, ed. David J. Schow, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988
    * 284 · Life of Buddha · Lucius Shepard · ss Omni May ’88
    * 302 · Appointment with Eddie · Charles Beaumont · ss Selected Stories, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988
    * 316 · Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods · William Kotzwinkle · ss Omni Apr ’88
    * 324 · Spillage · Nancy Kress · ss F&SF Apr ’88
    * 335 · Snowman · Charles L. Grant · ss Gaslight & Ghosts, ed. Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher, 1988 World Fantasy Con/Robinson Pub., 1988
    * 344 · The Scar · Dennis Etchison · ss The Horror Show Win ’87
    * 352 · Laiken Langstrand · Gwyneth Jones · ss Other Edens II, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin, 1988
    * 365 · The Last Poem About the Snow Queen · Sandra M. Gilbert · pm Blood Pressure, W.W. Norton, 1988
    * 367 · Pinocchio · Sandra M. Gilbert · pm Blood Pressure, W.W. Norton, 1988
    * 370 · Game in the Pope’s Head · Gene Wolfe · ss Ripper!, ed. Gardner Dozois & Susan Casper, Tor, 1988
    * 377 · Playing the Game · Ramsey Campbell · ss Lord John Ten, ed. Dennis Etchison, Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988
    * 389 · Faces · F. Paul Wilson · nv Night Visions 6, ed. Anon., Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988
    * 413 · Snowfall · Jessie Thompson · ss F&SF Sep ’88
    * 418 · Seal-Self · Sara Maitland · ss The Book of Spells, Michael Joseph, 1987
    * 428 · No Hearts, No Flowers · Barry N. Malzberg · ss 14 Vicious Valentines, ed. Rosalind M. Greenberg, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Avon, 1988
    * 438 · The Boy Who Drew Unicorns · Jane Yolen · ss The Unicorn Treasury, ed. Bruce Coville, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1988
    * 446 · The Darling · Scott Bradfield · nv The Secret Life of Houses, Unwin Hyman, 1988
    * 463 · Night They Missed the Horror Show · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Silver Scream, ed. David J. Schow, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988
    * 478 · Your Story · Rick DeMarinis · ss The Coming Triumph of the Free World, Viking, 1988
    * 489 · Winter Solstice, Camelot Station · John M. Ford · pm Invitation to Camelot, ed. Parke Godwin, Ace, 1988
    * 495 · The Boy Who Hooked the Sun · Gene Wolfe · vi Cheap Street; New Castle, VA Dec ’85
    * 499 · Clem’s Dream · Joan Aiken · ss The Last Slice of Rainbow, London: Cape, 1985
    * 506 · Love in Vain · Lewis Shiner · nv Ripper!, ed. Gardner Dozois & Susan Casper, Tor, 1988
    * 525 · In the Darkened Hours · Bruce Boston · pm The Nightmare Collector, 2AM, 1988
    * 529 · A Golden Net for Silver Fishes · Ru Emerson · ss Argos Win ’88
    * 538 · Dancing Among Ghosts · Jim Aikin · nv F&SF Feb ’88
    * 575 · Honorable Mentions: 1988 · Misc. Material · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-04447-X, Aug ’90, $24.95, 563pp, hc, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 47 stories and poems, with year-end summaries on fantasy by Windling and horror by Datlow, plus a cinema summary by Edward Bryant and a necrology. Also available in tp. Recommended (SW).

    * x · Summation 1989: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxii · Summation 1989: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * xlii · Horror and Fantasy on the Screen · Edward Bryant · ar
    * li · Obituaries · Misc. Material · ob
    * 1 · The Edge of the World · Michael Swanwick · ss Full Spectrum 2, ed. Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout & Patrick LoBrutto, Doubleday Foundation, 1989
    * 14 · The Adder · Fred Chappell · ss Deathrealm Sum ’89
    * 30 · Cat in Glass · Nancy Etchemendy · ss F&SF Jul ’89
    * 43 · Monsters, Tearing Off My Face · Rory Harper · vi IASFM May ’89
    * 47 · Family · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Omni Dec ’89
    * 60 · A Dirge for Clowntown · James Powell · ss EQMM Nov ’89
    * 74 · Miss Carstairs and the Merman · Delia Sherman · nv F&SF Jan ’89
    * 93 · Unknown Things · Reginald Bretnor · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’89
    * 101 · Return to the Mutant Rain Forest · Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier · pm Masques #3, ed. J. N. Williamson, 1989
    * 105 · Date with a Bird [“Rendezvous with a Bird”] · Tatyana Tolstaya · ss On the Golden Porch, London: Virago Press, 1989
    * 115 · Them Bald-Headed Snays · Joseph A. Citro · ss Masques #3, ed. J. N. Williamson, 1989
    * 123 · A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned · Edward Bryant · nv Book of the Dead, ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1989
    * 146 · Hanging the Fool · Michael Moorcock · nv Tarot Tales, ed. Rachel Pollack & Caitlin Matthews, Legend, 1989
    * 161 · Hansel’s Finger · Leif Enger · ss The New Frontier, ed. Joe R. Lansdale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1989
    * 168 · Dogfaerie · Garry Kilworth · ss Hidden Turnings, ed. Diana Wynne Jones, London: Methuen, 1989
    * 175 · A Bird That Whistles · Emma Bull · ss Hidden Turnings, ed. Diana Wynne Jones, London: Methuen, 1989
    * 187 · The Walled Garden · Lisa Tuttle · ss Hidden Turnings, ed. Diana Wynne Jones, London: Methuen, 1989
    * 199 · Varicose Worms · Scott Baker · nv Blood Is Not Enough, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1989
    * 223 · The War with Things · Leszek Kolakowski · ss Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia, University of Chicago Press, 1989
    * 228 · The Faery Flag · Jane Yolen · ss The Faery Flag, Orchard, 1989
    * 234 · Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord · Zhaxi Dawa · ss Spring Bamboo, ed. Jeanne Tai, Random House, 1989
    * 254 · The Illusionist · Steven Millhauser · ss Esquire Dec ’89
    * 269 · Timeskip [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghastly Horror, ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva, St. Martin’s, 1989
    * 281 · Something Passed By · Robert R. McCammon · ss Blue World and Other Stories, Grafton, 1989
    * 293 · Self-portrait Mixed Media on Pavement, 1988 · Dan Daly · ss Pulpsmith v8 ’89
    * 302 · The Plane Tree and the Fountain · Michael de Larrabeiti · ss Provençal Tales, St. Martin’s, 1989
    * 316 · White as Sin, Now · Tanith Lee · nv Forests of the Night, Unwin Hyman, 1989
    * 340 · The Power and the Passion · Pat Cadigan · ss Patterns, Ursus, 1989
    * 351 · Jack Straw · Midori Snyder · ss Things That Go Bump in the Night, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Harper & Row, 1989
    * 358 · The Sudd · J. N. Williamson · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 5, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1989
    * 369 · Mr. Fiddlehead · Jonathan Carroll · ss Omni Feb ’89
    * 379 · Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites · Dan Simmons · ss Masques #3, ed. J. N. Williamson, 1989
    * 392 · Cinema Altéré · Andrew Stephenson · ss Zenith, ed. David S. Garnett, London: Sphere, 1989
    * 402 · Matters of Family · Gary A. Braunbeck · ss Not One of Us Aug ’89
    * 412 · Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary · Jane Yolen · pm The Faery Flag, Orchard, 1989
    * 414 · Find Me · Joan Aiken · ss Give Yourself a Fright, Delacorte, 1989
    * 417 · Unidentified Objects · James P. Blaylock · ss Omni Jul ’89
    * 431 · Meeting the Author · Ramsey Campbell · ss Interzone #28 ’89
    * 441 · The Lovers · Gwyneth Jones · ss Tarot Tales, ed. Rachel Pollack & Caitlin Matthews, Legend, 1989
    * 452 · Yore Skin’s Jes’s Soft ’n Purty...He Said. (Page 243) · Chet Williamson · ss Razored Saddles, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Pat LoBrutto, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
    * 468 · Dori Bangs · Bruce Sterling · ss IASFM Sep ’89
    * 480 · The Steel Valentine · Joe R. Lansdale · ss By Bizarre Hands, Ziesing, 1989
    * 494 · Equilibrium · John Shirley · ss Heatseeker, Scream/Press, 1989
    * 503 · Time Lapse · Joe W. Haldeman · pm Blood Is Not Enough, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1989
    * 507 · White Noise · Garry Kilworth · ss Zenith, ed. David S. Garnett, London: Sphere, 1989
    * 517 · Terrible Kisses · Robley Wilson · ss Terrible Kisses, Simon & Schuster, 1989
    * 524 · Sleepside Story · Greg Bear · na Cheap Street; New Castle, VA, 1988
    * 557 · Honorable Mentions: 1989 · Misc. Material · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-06007-6, Jul ’91 [Jun ’91], $15.95, 552pp, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 51 horror and fantasy stories and poems from 1990, plus summations of the year in fantasy by Windling, the year in horror by Datlow, and the year in films by Edward Bryant. The best of the bests. Highly recommended (SW). A hardcover edition (-06005-X, $27.95) is also available.

    * xii · Summation 1990: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxiii · Summation 1990: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * xlv · Horror and Fantasy in the Media · Edward Bryant · ar
    * lii · Obituaries · Misc. Material · ob
    * 1 · Freewheeling [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 6, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1990
    * 16 · Coming Home · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Author’s Choice Monthly #14 ’90
    * 24 · The Sweeper · George Szanto · ss The Underside of Stones, HarperCollins, 1990
    * 38 · Ladies and Gentlemen · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Harper’s Dec ’90
    * 45 · Freaktent · Nancy A. Collins · ss The Horror Show Spr ’90
    * 55 · Missolonghi 1824 · John Crowley · ss IASFM Mar ’90
    * 64 · The Last Feast of Harlequin · Thomas Ligotti · nv F&SF Apr ’90
    * 92 · Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light · David Memmott · pm House On Fire, Hypatia Press, 1991
    * 95 · Harvest · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Amazing Jul ’90
    * 105 · Fantasy in the Real World [adapted from the Anne Carroll Moore Lecture, delivered at the New York Public Library on December 29, 1988] · Susan Cooper · ar The Hornbook Magazine May ’90
    * 116 · The Dream · Dyan Sheldon · ss Skin of the Soul, ed. Lisa Tuttle, The Women’s Press, 1990
    * 123 · Moths · John Brunner · ss Dark Voices 2, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1990
    * 136 · Frozen Charlottes · Susan Prospere · pm New Yorker Sep 17 ’90
    * 139 · Little Nightmares, Little Dreams · Rachel Simon · ss Little Nightmares, Little Dreams, Seymour Lawrence Books/Houghton Mifflin, 1990
    * 148 · Timekeeper · John Morressy · nv F&SF Jan ’90
    * 165 · Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble · Ellen Kushner · pm Monochrome: The Readercon Anthology, ed. Bryan Cholfin, Broken Mirrors Press, 1990
    * 168 · Death of a Right Fielder · Stuart Dybek · ss Harper’s May ’90
    * 172 · Not from Around Here · David J. Schow · nv Seeing Red, Tor, 1990
    * 198 · Lieserl · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Author’s Choice Monthly #6 ’90
    * 205 · The Last Game · Sharon M. Hall · ss Interzone #33 ’90
    * 220 · Offerings · Susan Palwick · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 6, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1990
    * 233 · The Muses of Rooms · Vern Rutsala · pm Poetry Jan ’90
    * 236 · A Touch of the Old Lilith · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · nv Women of Darkness II, ed. Kathryn Ptacek, Tor, 1990
    * 250 · The Calling · David B. Silva · ss Borderlands, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon, 1990
    * 261 · TV People [1989] · Haruki Murakami; trans. by Alfred Birnbaum · ss New Yorker Sep 10 ’90
    * 276 · In the Trees · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Fantasy Tales, v.11 #4, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1990
    * 282 · Truman Capote’s Trilby: The Facts · Garry Kilworth · ss Back Brain Recluse #15 ’90
    * 290 · Green · Ian R. MacLeod · nv IASFM mid-Dec ’90
    * 310 · Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks · Garry Kilworth · ss Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks: Stories from the Otherworld, London: Methuen, 1990
    * 318 · The Panic Hand · Jonathan Carroll · ss Interzone #33 ’90
    * 326 · Bestseller · Michael Blumlein · nv The Brains of Rats, Scream/Press, 1989
    * 351 · Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride · Delia Sherman · ss F&SF Feb ’90
    * 357 · Out of Sight, Out of Mind · Jack Womack · ss Walls of Fear, ed. Kathryn Cramer, Morrow, 1990
    * 368 · Midwife to the Fairies · Éilis Ní Dhuibhne · ss Blood and Water, Dublin: Attic Press, 1990
    * 376 · The Phone Woman · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Night Visions 8, ed. Anon., Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1991
    * 387 · Ladder · T. E. D. Klein · ss Borderlands, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon, 1990
    * 397 · Alice, Falling · Steven Millhauser · ss Antæus, 1990
    * 409 · Ashputtle: or, The Mother’s Ghost · Angela Carter · ss The Virago Book of Ghost Stories, ed. Richard Dalby, Virago, 1987
    * 416 · Face to Face · Adrian Cole · ss Dark Voices 2, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1990
    * 428 · The Dog’s Tale · Karel Capek · ss Nine Fairytales by Karel Capek and One More Thrown In For Good Measure, Northwestern University Press, 1990
    * 435 · Stephen · Elizabeth Massie · nv Borderlands, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon, 1990
    * 454 · A Short Guide to the City · Peter Straub · ss Houses without Doors, Grafton, 1990
    * 463 · The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study · R. A. Lafferty · ss East of Laughter (Limited Edition), R. A. Lafferty, Morrigan, 1988
    * 469 · The First Time · K. W. Jeter · ss Alien Sex, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dutton, 1990
    * 481 · Coyote vs. Acme · Ian Frazier · ss New Yorker Feb 26 ’90
    * 486 · Arousal · Richard Christian Matheson · ss Alien Sex, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dutton, 1990
    * 491 · The Waiting Wolf · Gwen Strauss · pm Trail of Stones, Knopf, 1990
    * 494 · The Beast · Gwen Strauss · pm Trail of Stones, Knopf, 1990
    * 496 · Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague · Michael Bishop · ss Omni Dec ’90
    * 510 · Two Words [1989] · Isabel Allende; trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss The Stories of Eva Luna, Antheneum, 1991
    * 517 · The All-Consuming · Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier · nv Playboy Jul ’90
    * 536 · The Sadness of Detail · Jonathan Carroll · ss Omni Feb ’90
    * 545 · Honorable Mentions · Misc. Material · bi      


The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-07888-9, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $15.95, 518pp, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 44 stories and six poems, plus a summation of the year in horror and fantasy by the editors, a survey of fantasy and sf in the media, and a necrology. This is the best of the horror/fantasy “bests” Highly recommended (SW). A hardcover edition (-07887-0, $27.95) was announced but not seen.

    * xiii · Summation 1991: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxix · Summation 1991: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxviii · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1991 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * lxxvi · Obituaries · Misc. Material · ob
    * 1 · The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves · David Morrell · nv Final Shadows, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday Foundation, 1991
    * 27 · In Carnation · Nancy Springer · ss Catfantastic II, ed. Andre Norton & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1991
    * 38 · The Somewhere Doors · Fred Chappell · nv More Shapes Than One, St. Martin’s, 1991
    * 55 · Poe at the End · R. H. W. Dillard · pm Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture Mar ’91
    * 58 · Angels in Love · Kathe Koja · ss F&SF Jul ’91
    * 64 · Vivian · Midori Snyder · nv The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet, 1991
    * 81 · True Love · K. W. Jeter · ss A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1991
    * 92 · The Second Most Beautiful Woman in the World · A. R. Morlan · ss Obsessions, ed. Gary Raisor, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1991
    * 103 · The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death [Swordspoint] · Ellen Kushner · ss F&SF Sep ’91
    * 113 · The Ragthorn · Robert Holdstock & Garry Kilworth · nv A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1991
    * 139 · The Smell · Patrick McGrath · ss The New Gothic, ed. Bradford Morrow & Patrick McGrath, Random House, 1991
    * 144 · The Tenth Scholar · Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem · ss The Ultimate Dracula, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor & Megan Miller, Dell, 1991
    * 154 · Fisher Death · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · pm Weird Tales Spr ’91
    * 155 · Walk in Sable · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · pm Haunts #22 ’91
    * 156 · The Cut Man · Norman Partridge · ss Copper Star, ed. Bruce D. Arthurs, 1991 World Fantasy Convention, 1991
    * 168 · The Kind Men Like · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Hotter Blood, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1991
    * 178 · The Coon Suit · Terry Bisson · ss F&SF May ’91
    * 181 · Queen Christina and the Windsurfer · Alison Fell · ss Winter’s Tales, New Series: 7, ed. Robin Baird-Smith, Constable, 1991
    * 190 · Chui Chai · S. P. Somtow · ss The Ultimate Frankenstein, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt, Dell, 1991
    * 201 · Mama Gone · Jane Yolen · ss Vampires, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperCollins, 1991
    * 206 · Peter · Pat Murphy · ss Omni Feb ’91
    * 210 · Our Lady of the Harbour [Newford] · Charles de Lint · na Axolotl Press: Eugene, OR, 1991
    * 239 · The Visitors’ Book · Stephen Gallagher · ss Darklands, ed. Nicholas Royle, Edgerton Press, 1991
    * 249 · At the End of the Day · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Dead End: City Limits, ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva, St. Martin’s, 1991
    * 255 · The Monster · Nina Katerli; trans. by Bernard Meares · ss Soviet Women Writing, ed. Elena J. Kalina, Abbeville Press, 1990
    * 261 · Hummers · Lisa Mason · nv IASFM Feb ’91
    * 276 · Santa’s Way · James Powell · ss EQMM mid-Dec ’91
    * 283 · Call Home · Dennis Etchison · ss Psycho-Paths, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor, 1991
    * 290 · The Braille Encyclopaedia · Grant Morrison · ss Hotter Blood, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1991
    * 300 · The Poisoned Story · Rosario Ferré · ss The Youngest Doll, University of Nebraska Press, 1991
    * 308 · Blood · Janice Galloway · ex Blood, Secker & Warburg, 1991
    * 313 · Dogstar Man · Nancy Willard · ss Full Spectrum 3, ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Doubleday Foundation, 1991
    * 323 · Persistence of Memory · Joanne Greenberg · ss With the Snow Queen, Little, Brown, 1991
    * 336 · You’ll Never Eat Lunch on This Continent Again · Adam Gopnik · ss New Yorker May 27 ’91
    * 341 · The Glamour · Thomas Ligotti · ss Grimscribe, Carroll & Graf, 1991
    * 348 · The Peony Lantern · Kara Dalkey · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 10, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1991
    * 358 · To Be a Hero · Nancy Springer · pm Weird Tales Fll ’91
    * 360 · The Same in Any Language · Ramsey Campbell · ss Weird Tales Sum ’91
    * 370 · Teratisms · Kathe Koja · ss A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1991
    * 377 · The Life of a Poet [1951] · Kobo Abe · ss Beyond the Curve, Kodansha, 1991
    * 385 · The Witch of Wilton Falls · Gloria Ericson · ss AHMM May ’67
    * 398 · Home by the Sea · Pat Cadigan · nv A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1991
    * 414 · Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymous Bosch · Nancy Willard · pm New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991
    * 417 · The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire · Poppy Z. Brite · nv Dead End: City Limits, ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva, St. Martin’s, 1991
    * 430 · The Pavilion of Frozen Women · S. P. Somtow · nv Cold Shocks, ed. Tim Sullivan, Avon, 1991
    * 457 · Moon Songs · Carol Emshwiller · ss The Start of the End of it All and Other Stories, The Women’s Press, 1990
    * 465 · The Afternoon of June 8, 1991 · Ian Frazier · vi New Yorker Aug 19 ’91
    * 468 · Gwydion and the Dragon · C. J. Cherryh · nv Once Upon a Time, ed. Lester del Rey & Risa Kessler, Legend, 1991
    * 486 · A Story Must Be Held · Jane Yolen · pm Colors of a New Day: Writing for South Africa, ed. Sarah LeFanu & Stephen Hayward, Pantheon, 1991
    * 488 · The Ogre’s Wife · Pierrette Fleutiaux · ss Grand Street #37 ’91
    * 507 · Honorable Mentions: 1991 · Misc. Material · bi 


The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-09422-1, Aug ’93 [Jul ’93], $16.95, 529pp, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 49 stories and three poems, plus a summation of the year in horror and fantasy by the editors, a survey of fantasy and sf in the media, and a necrology. This is the best of the horror/fantasy “bests.” Highly recommended (SW). This edition has several errors in the front matter, including the second page of the table of contents being without page numbers. A hardcover edition (-09421-1, $27.95) was announced but not seen.

    * xiii · Summation 1992: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxxi · Summation 1992: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxii · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1992 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * lxxxvii · Obituaries · Misc. Material · ob
    * 1 · Silver or Gold · Emma Bull · nv After the King, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1992
    * 28 · Tinker · Jack Cady · ss Glimmer Train Spr ’92
    * 35 · Queequeg · Craig Curtis · ss Chicago Review v37 #4 ’92
    * 42 · Anima · M. John Harrison · ss Interzone Apr ’92
    * 57 · Skin · Steve Rasnic Tem · pm Psychos: An Anthology of Psychological Horror in Verse, ed. Michael A. Arnzen, Mastication Publications, 1992
    * 58 · The Homunculus: A Novel in One Chapter · Reginald McKnight · ss The Colorado College Magazine, 1992; taken from the collection The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas (Little, Brown, 1992).
    * 66 · The Annunciation · Cristina Peri Rossi; trans. by Mary Jane Tracy · ss The Secret Weavers, ed. Marjorie Agosin, White Pine Press, 1991
    * 76 · The Bone Woman [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Triskell Press, 1992; F&SF Aug ’93
    * 84 · The Story of the Eldest Princess · A. S. Byatt · nv Caught in a Story, ed. Christine Park & Caroline Heaton, London: Vintage, 1991
    * 95 · Calcutta, Lord of Nerves · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Still Dead, ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1992
    * 104 · In the Looking Glass, Life Is Death · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · pm Deathrealm Fll/Win ’92
    * 106 · The Parakeet and the Cat · Scott Bradfield · ss Conjunctions #18 ’92
    * 116 · Glory · Nicholas Royle · ss Narrow Houses, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK, 1992
    * 124 · Murder Mysteries · Neil Gaiman · nv Midnight Graffiti, ed. Jessica Horsting & James Van Hise, Warner, 1992
    * 144 · Hungry · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Borderlands 3, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993
    * 151 · Playing With · M. R. Scofidio · ss The Urbanite #2 ’92
    * 156 · Human Remains · Edward Bryant · ss Darker Passions, Arvada, CO: Roadkill Press, 1992
    * 168 · It Comes and Goes · Robert Silverberg · ss Playboy Jan ’92
    * 181 · The Bewitched Burr · Grozdana Olujic; trans. by Jascha Kessler · vi Conjunctions #18 ’92
    * 184 · Swimming Lesson · Charlotte Watson Sherman · ss Killing Color, Oregon: Calyx Books, 1992
    * 188 · Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop · Garry Kilworth · ss IASFM Jun ’92
    * 202 · Bats · Diane de Avalle-Arce · ss IASFM Aug ’92
    * 208 · Origami Mountain · Nancy Farmer · ss F&SF Mar ’92
    * 217 · Ruby Laughter, Tears of Pearl · James Powell · ss EQMM mid-Dec ’92
    * 225 · I Sing of a Maiden · Judith Tarr · nv The Magic of Christmas, ed. John Silbersack & Christopher Schelling, Penguin/Roc, 1992
    * 237 · Also Starring · Cliff Burns · vi Tesseracts 4, ed. Lorna Toolis & Michael Skeet, Victoria: Beach Holme Books, 1992
    * 239 · On Edge · Christopher Fowler · ss Dark Voices 4, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1992
    * 247 · Martyrdom · Joyce Carol Oates · nv MetaHorror, ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992
    * 259 · The Second Bakery Attack · Haruki Murakami; trans. by Jay Rubin · ss Playboy Jan ’92
    * 268 · A Little Night Music · Lucius Shepard · ss Omni Mar ’92
    * 280 · Tom and Jerry visit England · Jo Shapcott · pm The Southern Review Spr ’92; taken from Phrase Book, Oxford University Press, 1992.
    * 282 · The Sluice · Stephen Gallagher · ss Narrow Houses, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK, 1992
    * 294 · Ratbird · Brian W. Aldiss · ss New Worlds 2, ed. David S. Garnett, London: Gollancz, 1992
    * 308 · The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun · Gene Wolfe · ss Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurences, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Atlanta, GA: Unnameable Press, 1992
    * 319 · On Death and the Deuce [Kevin Grierson] · Rick Bowes · ss F&SF May ’92
    * 328 · The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore · Harlan Ellison · ss World Fantasy Convention Program Book, 1991; Omni Jul ’92
    * 340 · Graves · Joe Haldeman · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’92
    * 346 · The Ugly File · Ed Gorman · ss The Prisoners and Other Stories, CD Publications, 1992
    * 353 · Elfhouses · Midori Snyder · ss Mothering Sum ’92
    * 360 · Candles on the Pond · Sue Ellen Sloca · ss Pulphouse: Eugene, OR, 1992
    * 375 · Tree of Life, Book of Death · Grania Davis · nv F&SF Mar ’92
    * 391 · Puja · D. R. McBride · ss Grue #14 ’92
    * 401 · Hermione and the Moon · Clive Barker · ss The New York Times Oct 30 ’92
    * 407 · Absence of Beast · Graham Masterton · ss Dark Voices 4, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1992
    * 418 · Rat Catcher · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Dark at Heart, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Karen Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1992
    * 432 · Will · Jane Yolen · pm The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Spr ’92
    * 433 · The Question of the Grail · Jane Yolen · pm Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurences, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Atlanta, GA: Unnameable Press, 1992
    * 434 · In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells · John Brunner · na After the King, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1992
    * 468 · The Blue Stone Emperor’s Thirty-Three Wives · Sara Gallardo; trans. by Elizabeth Rhodes · ss The Secret Weavers, ed. Marjorie Agosin, White Pine Press, 1991
    * 476 · Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room · Angela Carter · ss SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature) Volume 5, 1990
    * 486 · Replacements · Lisa Tuttle · nv MetaHorror, ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992
    * 497 · The Ghost Village · Peter Straub · nv MetaHorror, ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992
    * 520 · Honorable Mentions: 1992 · Misc. Material · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-11102-9, Oct ’94 [Sep ’94], $16.95, 523pp, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 50 stories and four poems, plus a summation of the year in horror and fantasy by the editors, a survey of fantasy and sf in the media, and a necrology. A hardcover edition (-11103-7, $26.95) is also available.

    * xiii · Summation 1993: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxxvi · Comics 1993 · Will Shetterly & Emma Bull · ar
    * xxxviii · Summation 1993: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxxi · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1993 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * xciii · Obituaries · Misc. Material · ob
    * 1 · The Poacher · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Xanadu, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1993
    * 12 · England Underway · Terry Bisson · nv Omni Jul ’93
    * 27 · The Woman in the Painting · Lisa Goldstein · ss F&SF Jul ’93
    * 38 · The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap · Terry Dowling · ss Terror Australis, ed. Leigh Blackmore, Coronet Australia, 1993
    * 49 · Memo for Freud · Daína Chaviano; trans. by Heather Rosario-Sievert · pm Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writing by Latin American Women, ed. Margarite Fernández Olmos & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, White Pine Press, 1993
    * 50 · The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw · Nancy A. Collins · ss Confederacy of the Dead, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Roc, 1993
    * 63 · Breath · Adam Corbin Fusco · ss Touch Wood, ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1993
    * 73 · Knives · Jane Yolen · pm Snow White, Blood Red, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, AvoNova, 1993
    * 75 · Mrs. Jones · Carol Emshwiller · ss Omni Aug ’93
    * 85 · Snow Man · John Coyne · nv Monsters in Our Midst, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor, 1993
    * 99 · One Night, or Scheherazade’s Bare Minimum · Thomas M. Disch · ss OMNI Best Science Fiction Three, ed. Ellen Datlow, OMNI Books, 1993
    * 103 · Dead Man’s Shoes [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Touch Wood, ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1993
    * 116 · The Lodger · Fred Chappell · ss West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1993
    * 131 · The Erl-King · Elizabeth Hand · nv Full Spectrum 4, ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Bantam Spectra, 1993
    * 158 · The Chrysanthemum Spirit · Osamu Dazai; trans. by Ralph F. McCarthy · ss Blue Bamboo, Kodansha International, 1993
    * 166 · Angel · Mary Ellis · ss Glimmer Train Win ’93
    * 176 · The Taking of Mr. Bill · Graham Masterton · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993
    * 185 · The Saint [1992] · Gabriel García Márquez; trans. by Edith Grossman · ss Strange Pilgrims, Knopf, 1993
    * 194 · Cottage · Bruce McAllister · ss Christmas Forever, ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor, 1993
    * 204 · Doodles · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Sinistre, ed. George Hatch, Horror’s Head Press, 1993
    * 211 · Dying in Bangkok [“Death in Bangkok”] · Dan Simmons · nv Playboy Jun ’93; slightly revised
    * 237 · Prisoners of the Royal Weather · Bruce Boston · pm Weird Tales Spr ’93
    * 239 · The Snow Queen · Patricia A. McKillip · nv Snow White, Blood Red, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, AvoNova, 1993
    * 254 · Troll Bridge · Neil Gaiman · ss Snow White, Blood Red, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, AvoNova, 1993
    * 261 · The Storyteller · Rafik Schami · ss Damascus Nights, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993
    * 267 · Rice and Milk · Rosario Ferré · vi Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writing by Latin American Women, ed. Margarite Fernández Olmos & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, White Pine Press, 1993
    * 270 · Ridi Bobo · Robert Devereaux · ss Weird Tales Spr ’93
    * 277 · Playing with Fire · Ellen Kushner · nv The Women’s Press Book of New Myth and Magic, ed. Helen Windrath, London: The Women’s Press, 1993
    * 293 · Later · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993
    * 298 · Distances · Sherman Alexie · vi The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993
    * 302 · Crash Cart · Nancy Holder · ss Cemetery Dance Fll ’93
    * 310 · Some Strange Desire · Ian McDonald · nv OMNI Best Science Fiction Three, ed. Ellen Datlow, OMNI Books, 1993
    * 325 · The Dog Park · Dennis Etchison · ss Dark Voices 5, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1993
    * 334 · Wooden Druthers · E. R. Stewart · ss The Ultimate Witch, ed. Byron Preiss & John Betancourt, Dell, 1993
    * 340 · Inscription · Jane Yolen · ss The Ultimate Witch, ed. Byron Preiss & John Betancourt, Dell, 1993
    * 350 · In Camera · Robert Westall · nv Fearful Lovers, Macmillan UK, 1992
    * 365 · The Wealth of Kingdoms (An Inflationary Tale) · Daniel Hood · ss Science Fiction Age Nov ’93
    * 369 · The Crucian Pit · Nicholas Royle · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993
    * 381 · The Ecology of Reptiles · John Coyne · ss Predators, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1993
    * 395 · The Last Crossing · Thomas Tessier · ss Hottest Blood, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1993
    * 403 · Small Adjustments · Caila Rossi · ss TriQuarterly #87 ’93
    * 411 · Precious · Roberta Lannes · ss Dark Voices 5, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1993
    * 422 · Susan · Harlan Ellison · vi F&SF Dec ’93
    * 425 · Freud at Thirty Paces · Sara Paretsky · ss 1st Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus, 1992
    * 436 · If Angels Ate Apples · Geoffrey A. Landis · pm Asimov’s Jun ’93
    * 437 · Exogamy · John Crowley · ss OMNI Best Science Fiction Three, ed. Ellen Datlow, OMNI Books, 1993
    * 440 · The Princess Who Kicked Butt · Will Shetterly · ss A Wizard’s Dozen, ed. Michael Stearns, Harcourt Brace, 1993
    * 446 · The Apprentice · Miriam Grace Monfredo · ss EQMM Nov ’93
    * 455 · Alvyta (A Lithuanian Fairy Tale) · O. V. de L. Milosz; trans. by Edouard Roditi · ss Conjunctions #18 ’93
    * 460 · The Pig Man · Augustine Bruins Funnell · ss Cemetery Dance Spr ’93
    * 471 · Tattoo · A. R. Morlan · ss Sinistre, ed. George Hatch, Horror’s Head Press, 1993
    * 476 · Lady of the Skulls · Patricia A. McKillip · ss Strange Dreams, ed. Stephen R. Donaldson, Bantam Spectra, 1993
    * 484 · To Scale · Nancy Kress · ss Xanadu, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1993
    * 495 · Roar at the Heart of the World · Danith McPherson · ss Full Spectrum 4, ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Bantam Spectra, 1993
    * 511 · Honorable Mentions: 1993 · Misc. Material · bi 


The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-13220-4, Sep ’95 [Aug ’95], $27.95, 542pp, hc, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 48 stories, four poems, and one essay. There are also a necrology and summations of 1994 fantasy and horror by the editors; Ed Bryant discusses “Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994”, and Will Shetterly and Emma Bull cover “Comics 1994”. Also available in trade paperback (-13219-0, $16.95).

    * xiii · Summation 1994: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxxiv · Summation 1994: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxvi · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * xc · Comics 1994 · Will Shetterly & Emma Bull · ar
    * xciv · Obituaries · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · Transmutations · Patricia A. McKillip · ss Xanadu 2, ed. Jane Yolen, Tor, 1994
    * 8 · Bottom’s Dream · Rachel Wetzsteon · pm Other Stars, Penguin, 1994
    * 10 · La Promesa · Leroy Quintana · ss Pleiades Fll ’94
    * 15 · Aweary of the Sun · Gregory Feeley · nv Weird Tales from Shakespeare, ed. Katharine Kerr & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1994
    * 45 · A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings · Jonathan Carroll · ss Omni Mar ’94
    * 53 · Who Will Love the River God? · Emily Newland · ss Grue #16 ’94
    * 57 · Brothers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss EQMM Nov ’94
    * 71 · Subsoil · Nicholson Baker · ss New Yorker Jun 27/Jul 4 ’94
    * 80 · Elvis’s Bathroom · Pagan Kennedy · ss The Village Voice, 1989
    * 91 · Yet Another Poisoned Apple for the Fairy Princess · A. R. Morlan · ss Deadly After Dark, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1994
    * 99 · The Big Game · Nicholas Royle · ss The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Tiger, 1994
    * 109 · Buenaventura and the Fifteen Sisters · Margarita Engle · ss In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, ed. Roberta Fernández, Houston, TX: Arte Público Press-University of Houston, 1994
    * 115 · De Natura Unicorni · Jane Yolen · ss Here There Be Unicorns, Harcourt Brace, 1994
    * 124 · Blue Motel · Ian McDonald · nv Blue Motel, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK, 1994
    * 145 · A Friend Indeed · David Garnett · ss Interzone Nov ’94
    * 151 · Sometimes, in the Rain · Charles Grant · ss Northern Frights 2, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1994
    * 160 · Rain Falls · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, ed. Stephen Jones, London: Robinson, 1994
    * 168 · That Old School Tie · Jack Womack · nv Little Deaths, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994
    * 190 · Animals Behind Bars! · Scott Bradfield · ss Conjunctions #21 ’94
    * 207 · Monuments to the Dead · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Tales from the Great Turtle, ed. Piers Anthony & Richard Gilliam, Tor, 1994
    * 219 · Unterseeboot Doktor · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy Jan ’94
    * 227 · Young Woman in a Garden · Delia Sherman · nv Xanadu 2, ed. Jane Yolen, Tor, 1994
    * 246 · The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · ss New Yorker Oct 31 ’94
    * 262 · “In the Tradition...” · Michael Swanwick · ar Asimov’s Nov ’94
    * 284 · Words Like Pale Stones · Nancy Kress · nv Black Thorn, White Rose, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1994
    * 295 · Märchen · Jane Yolen · pm Merveilles May ’94
    * 296 · Giants in the Earth · Dale Bailey · ss F&SF Aug ’94
    * 305 · A Conflagration Artist · Bradley Denton · ss A Conflagration Artist, Wildside Press, 1994
    * 310 · Report · Carme Riera · ss The Origins of Desire: Modern Spanish Stories, ed. Juan Antonio Masoliver, London: Serpent’s Tail, 1993
    * 316 · The Village of the Mermaids · John Bradley · pm Asylum Annual, 1994, ed. Greg Boyd, Asylum Arts, 1994
    * 320 · —And the Horses Hiss at Midnight · A. R. Morlan · ss Love in Vein, ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1994
    * 325 · The Entreaty of the Wiideema · Barry Lopez · ss Field Notes, Knopf, 1994
    * 331 · White Chapel · Douglas Clegg · nv Love in Vein, ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1994
    * 350 · The Stone Woman · Linda Weasel Head · pm Cutbank #25 ’89
    * 351 · Coyote Stories [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Triskell Press, 1993
    * 356 · The Box · Jack Ketchum · ss Cemetery Dance Spr ’94
    * 364 · A Fear of Dead Things · Andrew Klavan · ss Phobias, ed. Wendy Webb, Richard Gilliam, Edward E. Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg, Pocket Books, 1994
    * 374 · He Unwraps Himself · Darrell Schweitzer · pm Weird Tales Spr ’94
    * 376 · Chandira · Brian Mooney · ss The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1994
    * 390 · Fever · Harlan Ellison · vi Mind Fields, Morpheus International, 1994
    * 392 · The Best Things in Life · Lenora Champagne · ss The Iowa Review Spr/Sum ’94
    * 399 · Mending Souls · Judith Tarr · ss Deals with the Devil, ed. Mike Resnick, Martin H. Greenberg & Loren Estelman, DAW, 1994
    * 408 · The Ocean and All Its Devices · William Browning Spencer · nv Borderlands 4, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1994
    * 423 · Strings · Kelley Eskridge · ss F&SF Feb ’94
    * 436 · Superman’s Diary · B. Brandon Barker · ss Global City Review Spr ’94
    * 444 · Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring · M. John Harrison · nv Little Deaths, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994
    * 463 · The Sisterhood of Night · Steven Millhauser · ss Harper’s Jul ’94
    * 471 · Winter Bodies · Noy Holland · vi The Spectacle of the Body, Knopf, 1994
    * 473 · The Sloan Men · David Nickle · ss Northern Frights 2, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1994
    * 486 · Is That Them? · Kevin Roice · ss Grue #16 ’94
    * 498 · The Kingdom of Cats and Birds · Geoffrey A. Landis · ss Science Fiction Age Sep ’94
    * 509 · Angel Combs · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Tiger, 1994
    * 517 · Snow, Glass, Apples. · Neil Gaiman · ss DreamHaven Books, 1995
    * 526 · Honorable Mentions: 1994 · Misc. Material · bi           

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-14450-4, Jul ’96 [Jun ’96], $17.95, 534pp, hc, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 34 stories and 11 poems. There are also 87 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 1995 fantasy and horror by the editors, and a media summary by Edward Bryant. Also available in hardcover (-14449-0, $27.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xiii · Summation 1995: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxix · Summation 1995: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxi · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1995 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * lxxxiii · Obituaries · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · Home for Christmas [Matt Black] · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · nv F&SF Jan ’95
    * 21 · Heartfires [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Triskell Press, 1994
    * 31 · Screens · Terry Lamsley · nv Dark Terrors, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1995
    * 49 · King of Crows · Midori Snyder · ss Xanadu 3, ed. Jane Yolen, Tor, 1995
    * 59 · Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros · Peter S. Beagle · nv Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, ed. Peter S. Beagle, Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1995
    * 74 · The Hunt of the Unicorn · Ellen Kushner · ss Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, ed. Peter S. Beagle, Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1995
    * 86 · More Tomorrow · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1995
    * 108 · Penguins for Lunch · Scott Bradfield · ss TriQuarterly #93 ’95
    * 125 · Ether OR · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Asimov’s Nov ’95
    * 142 · Paper Lantern · Stuart Dybek · ss New Yorker Nov 27 ’95
    * 151 · Lunch at the Gotham Café · Stephen King · nv Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc, 1995
    * 175 · Queen of Knives · Neil Gaiman · pm Tombs, Edward E. Kramer & Peter Crowther, White Wolf, 1995
    * 183 · Dragon-Rain · Eileen Kernaghan · ss Magic, ed. David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Morgan L. Kopaska-Merkel, Stone Lightning Press, 1995
    * 198 · Llantos de La Llorona: Warnings from the Wailer · Pat Mora · pm Agua Santa/Holy Water, Beacon Press, 1995
    * 201 · Too Short a Death · Peter Crowther · nv Celebrity Vampires, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1995
    * 218 · The James Dean Garage Band · Rick Moody · ss Esquire Jul ’95
    * 233 · Because of Dust · Chris Kenworthy · ss The Third Alternative #7 ’95
    * 243 · Loop · Douglas E. Winter · nv Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc, 1995
    * 256 · La Loma, La Luna · Sue Kepros Hartman · ss High Fantastic, ed. Steve Rasnic Tem, Ocean View Books, 1995
    * 270 · Women’s Stories · Jane Yolen · pm Sisters in Fantasy, ed. Susan Shwartz & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1995
    * 272 · Swan/Princess · Jane Yolen · pm Xanadu 3, ed. Jane Yolen, Tor, 1995
    * 273 · Switch · Lucy Taylor · ss David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible, ed. David Copperfield, Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1995
    * 285 · Scaring the Train · Terry Dowling · nv The Man Who Lost Red, MirrorDanse Books, 1994
    * 308 · Blood Knot · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Forbidden Acts, ed. Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg, Avon, 1995
    * 313 · The Girl Who Married the Reindeer · Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin · pm The Southern Review Fll ’95
    * 315 · The Otter Woman · Mary O’Malley · pm The Southern Review Fll ’95
    * 317 · Resolve and Resistance · S. N. Dyer · ss Omni Apr ’95
    * 332 · La Dame · Tanith Lee · ss Sisters of the Night, ed. Barbara Hambly & Martin H. Greenberg, Warner Aspect, 1995
    * 341 · Circe’s Power · Louise Gluck · pm New Yorker
    * 343 · Dragon’s Fin Soup · S. P. Somtow · nv The Ultimate Dragon, ed. Byron Preiss & John Betancourt & Keith R. A. DeCandido, Dell/DTP, 1995
    * 362 · The Granddaughter · Vivian Vande Velde · ss Tales From the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, Harcourt Brace, 1995
    * 367 · Daphne and Laura and So Forth · Margaret Atwood · pm Morning in the Burned House, Houghton Mifflin, 1995
    * 369 · A Lamia in the Cévennes · A. S. Byatt · ss Atlantic Monthly Jul ’95
    * 380 · The Guilty Party · Susan Moody · ss No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press, 1995
    * 387 · She’s Not There · Pat Cadigan · nv Killing Me Softly, ed. Gardner Dozois, HarperPrism, 1995
    * 404 · The White Road · Neil Gaiman · pm Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1995
    * 413 · Refrigerator Heaven · David J. Schow · ss Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc, 1995
    * 422 · After the Elephant Ballet [Cedar Hill] · Gary A. Braunbeck · nv Heaven Sent, ed. Peter Crowther & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1995
    * 440 · Henry V, Part 2 · Marcia Guthridge · ss The Paris Review Fll ’95
    * 455 · Mrs. Greasy · Robert Reed · nv Tomorrow Dec ’95
    * 473 · ############## · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Fear Itself, ed. Jeff Gelb, Warner, 1995
    * 485 · The Printer’s Daughter · Delia Sherman · nv Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1995
    * 500 · Prayer · Nancy Willard · pm Among Angels, Harcourt Brace, 1995
    * 501 · Jacob and the Angel · Jane Yolen · pm Among Angels, Harcourt Brace, 1995
    * 502 · The Lion and the Lark · Patricia A. McKillip · ss The Armless Maiden, ed. Terri Windling, Tor, 1995
    * 517 · Honorable Mentions: 1995 · Misc. Material · bi 


The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s/Griffin 0-312-15701-0, Jul ’97, $17.95, 538pp, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 39 stories and four poems. There are also 100 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 1996 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, and a comics summary by Seth Johnson. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-15700-2, $29.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xi · Summation 1996: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xxxviii · Summation 1996: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxv · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1996 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * xciii · Comics 1996 · Seth Johnson · ar
    * xcvii · Obituaries · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · The Last Rainbow · Parke Godwin · nv Fantastic Jul ’78
    * 27 · Lily’s Whisper · Jay Russell · nv Dark Terrors 2, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1996
    * 45 · The Reason for Not Going to the Ball · Tanith Lee · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’96
    * 50 · Among the Handlers [“The Mark 16 Hands on Assembly of Jesus Risen, Formerly Snake-o-rama”] · Michael Bishop · nv Dante’s Disciples, ed. Peter Crowther & Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf, 1996
    * 81 · The Phantom Church · Ana Blandiana · ss The Phantom Church and Other Stories from Romania, ed. Georgiana Farnoaga & Sharon King, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996
    * 97 · The Snow Pavilion · Angela Carter · ss Burning Your Boats, Chatto & Windus, 1995
    * 110 · Birthdream · Laurie Kutchins · pm New Yorker Jun 3 ’96
    * 112 · Disillusion · Edward Bryant · ss David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination, ed. David Copperfield, Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1996
    * 125 · Diana of the Hundred Breasts · Robert Silverberg · ss Realms of Fantasy Feb ’96
    * 144 · La Llorona · Yxta Maya Murray · ss North American Review Nov/Dec ’96
    * 150 · Teatro Grottesco · Thomas Ligotti · ss The Nightmare Factory, Raven, 1996
    * 164 · The Secret Shih Tan · Graham Masterton · nv Faces of Fear, Severn House, 1996
    * 182 · In the Matter of the Ukdena · Bruce Holland Rogers · ss Monster Brigade 3000, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Ace, 1996
    * 196 · O, Rare and Most Exquisite · Douglas Clegg · ss Lethal Kisses, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1996
    * 206 · Never Seen by Waking Eyes · Stephen Dedman · nv F&SF Aug ’96
    * 226 · Walking the Dog · Terry Lamsley · nv Conference with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press, 1996
    * 253 · The Goatboy and the Giant · Garry Kilworth · ss Fantasy Stories, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson Children’s Books, 1996
    * 259 · Gourd · Olive Senior · pm Conjunctions #27 ’96
    * 261 · The Phoenix · Isobelle Carmody · ss Green Monkey Dreams, 1996
    * 276 · Caribe Mágico · Gabriel García Márquez · vi Conjunctions #27 ’96
    * 279 · The Witch’s Heart · Delia Sherman · nv The Sandman: Book of Dreams, ed. Neil Gaiman & Ed Kramer, HarperPrism, 1996
    * 296 · Plumas · Patricia Preciado Martin · ss El Milagro and Other Stories, University of Arizona Press, 1996
    * 301 · Crow Girls [Newford] · Charles de Lint · nv Triskell Press, 1995
    * 315 · Rapunzel’s Exile · Lisa Russ Spaar · vi Ploughshares v22 #4 ’96
    * 317 · The Witches of Junket · Patricia McKillip · nv Sisters in Fantasy 2, ed. Susan Shwartz & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1996
    * 333 · The Cruel Countess · Chris Bell · ss The Third Alternative #10 ’96
    * 344 · Little Beauty’s Wedding · Chang Hwang · ss Story Win ’96
    * 354 · Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) · Neil Gaiman · pm Off-Limits, ed. Ellen Datlow, St. Martin’s, 1996
    * 360 · Angel · Philip Graham · ss Interior Design, Scribner, 1996
    * 372 · Elk Man · Amy Breau · pm Prairie Schooner v70 #4 ’96
    * 374 · Beckoning Nightframe · Terry Dowling · ss Eidolon Spr ’96
    * 390 · The Dead Cop · Dennis Etchison · nv Dark Terrors 2, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1996
    * 406 · Ursus Triad, Later · Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg · ss Off-Limits, ed. Ellen Datlow, St. Martin’s, 1996
    * 412 · JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction · Robert Olen Butler · ss Tabloid Dreams, Holt, 1996
    * 420 · ...Warmer · A. R. Morlan · nv Lethal Kisses, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1996
    * 437 · Not Waving · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Twists of the Tale, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dell, 1996
    * 457 · The Ladies of Grace Adieu · Susanna Clarke · nv Starlight 1, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 1996
    * 474 · Wilderness · Ron Hansen · ss Epoch v45 #3 ’96
    * 480 · Oshkiwiinag: Heartlines on the Trickster Express · Gerald Vizenor · ss Blue Dawn, Red Earth, ed. Clifford E. Trafzer, Anchor Books, 1996
    * 495 · Persephone Sets the Record Straight · Shara McCallum · vi The Iowa Review v26 #3 ’96
    * 497 · Cruel Sisters · Patricia C. Wrede · ss Book of Enchantments, Harcourt Brace, 1996
    * 506 · The House of Seven Angels · Jane Yolen · ss Here There Be Angels, Harcourt Brace, 1996
    * 509 · Radio Waves · Michael Swanwick · ss Omni Win ’95
    * 525 · Honorable Mentions: 1996 · Misc. Material · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-19034-4, Jul ’98 [Jun ’98], $17.95, 503+cxiii, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 37 stories and nine poems, and 113 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 1997 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, and a comics summary by Seth Johnson. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-18778-5, $29.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xi · Summation 1997: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xlvi · Summation 1997: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxxvii · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1997 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * civ · Comics: 1997 · Seth Johnson · ar
    * cviii · Obituaries: 1997 · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · The Tale of the Skin · Emma Donoghue · ss Kissing the Witch, Hamish Hamilton, 1997
    * 8 · Beauty and the Beast · Jaimes Alsop · pm Alsop Review, 1997
    * 10 · Gulliver at Home · John Kessel · ss The Pure Product, Tor, 1997
    * 20 · It Had to Be You · Nancy Pickard · nv Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge, 1997
    * 39 · The Skull of Charlotte Corday · Leslie Dick · ss The Skull of Charlotte Corday and Other Stories, Scribner, 1995
    * 58 · I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes · Douglas Clegg · ss Palace Corbie #7 ’97
    * 72 · Coffee Jerk at the Gates of Hell · Christopher Jones · pm Southerly Review Sum ’97-98
    * 74 · Riding the Black · Charles Grant · nv Revelations, ed. Douglas E. Winter, C.D. Publications, 1997
    * 94 · In the Fields · Christopher Harman · ss All Hallows #14 ’97
    * 101 · Mbo · Nicholas Royle · ss The Mammoth Book of Dracula, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997
    * 117 · Winner Take All · Jeffrey Shaffer · vi It Came with the House, Catbird Press, 1997
    * 120 · Safe [“Searching for Survivors”; Cedar Hill] · Gary A. Braunbeck · na Things Left Behind, CD Publications, 1997
    * 149 · El Castillo de la Perseverancia · Howard Waldrop · nv 21st Annual World Fantasy Convention Program Book, Baltimore, 1995
    * 169 · The Sin-Eater’s Tale · Brennen Wysong · ss Black Warrior Review Spr/Sum ’97
    * 179 · A Visit · Steven Millhauser · ss New Yorker Aug 25-Sep 1 ’97
    * 188 · A Globe of Glass · Sonia Gernes · ss Georgia Review Fll ’97
    * 193 · The Fall of the Kings · Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman · nv Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, ed. Nicola Griffith & Steve Pagel, White Wolf, 1997
    * 215 · Coyote and the White Folks · Bill Lewis · pm An Intellect of the Heart, Lazerwolf Books, 1997
    * 216 · Sheela Na Gig · Bill Lewis · pm An Intellect of the Heart, Lazerwolf Books, 1997
    * 218 · The Flounder’s Kiss · Michael Cadnum · ss Black Swan, White Raven, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 1997
    * 222 · Residuals [USSA] · Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman · nv Asimov’s Jun ’97
    * 239 · The Psychomantium · Molly Brown · ss Interzone Feb ’97
    * 251 · In the Black Mill · Michael Chabon · ss Playboy Jun ’97
    * 267 · Dust Motes · P. D. Cacek · ss Gothic Ghosts, ed. Wendy Webb & Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1997
    * 278 · La Muerte · Pat Mora · pm Aunt Carmen’s Book of Practical Saints, Boston: Beacon Press, 1997
    * 281 · Spanky’s Back in Town [Spanky] · Christopher Fowler · nv Dark Terrors 3, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1997
    * 295 · Marriage · Denise Duhamel · pm Kinky, Orchises Press, 1997
    * 297 · Kingyo no fun · Nicholas Royle · nv Love in Vein II, ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1997
    * 311 · Bucket of Blood · Norman Partridge · ss Cemetery Dance Fll ’97
    * 323 · Mermaid · A. Alvarez · pm New Yorker Jul 28 ’97
    * 325 · Estate · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Dark Terrors 3, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1997
    * 335 · The Sin of Elijah · Steve Stern · ss Prairie Schooner Spr ’97
    * 352 · Driving Blind · Ray Bradbury · nv Driving Blind, Avon, 1997
    * 363 · The Sky-Blue Ball · Joyce Carol Oates · ss EQMM Jan ’97
    * 367 · The Black Fairy’s Curse · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Black Swan, White Raven, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 1997
    * 371 · The Last Song of Sirit Byar · Peter S. Beagle · nv Space Opera, ed. Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, DAW, 1996
    * 397 · Marina’s Fragrance · Mayra Santos-Febres · ss Urban Oracles, Lumen Editions/Brookline Books, 1997
    * 402 · Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings · Emily Warn · pm Bridges Sum ’96
    * 404 · Rabbit Hole · Jane Yolen · ss Wild Women, ed. Melissa Mia Hall, Carroll & Graf, 1997
    * 408 · Wild Horses [Newford] · Charles de Lint · nv Tarot Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Lawrence Schimel, DAW, 1997
    * 425 · Princess · Matthew Sweeney · pm The Bridal Suite, Cape, 1997
    * 427 · Audience · Jack Womack · ss The Horns of Elfland, ed. Ellen Kushner, Donald G. Keller & Delia Sherman, Roc, 1997
    * 436 · Merlin · Robert Clinton · vi New England Review Spr ’97
    * 438 · The Crawl · Stephen Laws · nv Dark of the Night, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1997
    * 459 · The Remains of Princess Kaiulani’s Garden · Katherine Vaz · ss Fado and Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997
    * 474 · Dharma · Vikram Chandra · ss The Paris Review Spr ’94
    * 491 · Honorable Mentions: 1997 · Misc. Material · bi      

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s Griffin 0-312-20686-0, Jul ’99, $17.95, cx + 496pp, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 38 stories and eight poems, and 110 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 1998 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, and a comics summary by Seth Johnson. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-20962-2, $29.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xiii · Summation 1998: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * lii · Summation 1998: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxxviii · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1998 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * ciii · Comics: 1998 · Seth Johnson · ar
    * cvii · Obituaries: 1998 · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · Travels with the Snow Queen · Kelly Link · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet Win ’96
    * 14 · Running Dogs · Steve Duffy · ss The Night Comes On, Ash-Tree Press, 1998
    * 25 · Wiglaf · Marisa de los Santos · pm The Antioch Review Win ’98
    * 27 · Mrs Mabb · Susanna Clarke · nv Starlight 2, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 1998
    * 47 · Due West · Rick Kennett · nv Eidolon Spr ’97
    * 66 · Kokopelli · Catharine Savage Brosman · pm The Sewanee Review Win ’98
    * 68 · Taking Loup · Bruce Glassco · ss Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, HarperPrism, 1998
    * 72 · The Evil Within · Sara Douglass · nv Dreaming Down-Under, ed. Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, HarperCollins/Voyager Australis, 1998
    * 92 · Wile E. Coyote’s Lament · Larry Fontenot · pm Conspire (online) Nov ’98
    * 94 · The Rainmaker · Mary Rosenblum · nv F&SF Oct/Nov ’98
    * 108 · A Place to Stay · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1998
    * 124 · The Fantasma of Q____ · Lisa Goldstein · ss Ms. Mar/Apr ’98
    * 133 · Hoopa, the White Deer Dance · Ralph Salisbury · ss Carolina Quarterly Fll ’98
    * 142 · That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French · Stephen King · ss New Yorker Jun 22/29 ’98
    * 154 · The Travails · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Black Glass, Holt, 1998
    * 162 · Suburban Blight · Terry Lamsley · nv Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1998
    * 188 · Inside the Cackle Factory · Dennis Etchison · nv Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1998
    * 203 · The House of the Black Cat · Yumiko Kurahashi; trans. by Atsuko Sakaki · ss The Woman with the Flying Head, East Gate, 1998
    * 207 · Every Angel Is Terrifying · John Kessel · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’98
    * 220 · Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar · Neil Gaiman · ss The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson, 1998
    * 228 · Great Sedna · Lawrence Osgood · ss Pleiades v18 #1 ’98
    * 234 · The Bird Chick · Sylvia Brownrigg · ss Ten Women Who Shook the World, Gollancz, 1998
    * 241 · Psyché · Mark W. Tiedemann · ss F&SF Dec ’98
    * 252 · Mrs. Beast · Carol Ann Duffy · pm The Poetry Review v87 #4 ’98
    * 255 · Become a Warrior · Jane Yolen · ss Warrior Princesses, ed. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1998
    * 262 · Blackbirds · Norman Partridge · ss Imagination Fully Dilated, ed. Alan M. Clark & Elizabeth Engstrom, CD Publications, 1998
    * 271 · Carp Man [“She Might Have Been Yesterday”] · Nick DiChario · ss Tampa Tribune Fiction Quarterly, 1998
    * 275 · The Faerie Cony-catcher · Delia Sherman · ss Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, HarperPrism, 1998
    * 284 · At The River of Crocodiles · Zan Ross · pm Southerly Win ’98
    * 287 · Clair de Lune · Steven Millhauser · ss The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, Crown, 1998
    * 293 · The Rose of Paracelsus · Jorge Luis Borges; trans. by Andrew Hurley · ss The New York Review of Books Aug 13 ’98
    * 297 · Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff · Peter Straub · na Murder for Revenge, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1998
    * 356 · Revenge · Michael Blumlein · ss F&SF Apr ’98
    * 370 · The Tall, Upheaving One · Holly Prado · pm Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus, Cahuenga Press, 1998
    * 372 · Oak Hill [Borderland] · Patricia A. McKillip · ss The Essential Bordertown, ed. Terri Windling & Delia Sherman, Tor, 1998
    * 381 · Jackdaw Jack · Christopher Harman · ss Ghosts & Scholars #26 ’98
    * 391 · Dark Moon · Sarah Corbett · pm The Red Wardrobe, Seren Books, 1998
    * 392 · The Death of the Duke [Swordspoint] · Ellen Kushner · ss Starlight 2, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 1998
    * 401 · Hershel · Judy Budnitz · ss Flying Leap, Picador USA, 1998
    * 406 · By the Time We Get to Uranus · Ray Vukcevich · ss Imagination Fully Dilated, ed. Alan M. Clark & Elizabeth Engstrom, CD Publications, 1998
    * 414 · The Specialist’s Hat · Kelly Link · ss Event Horizon Online Nov 15 ’98
    * 424 · Twa Corbies [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Twenty 3: A Miscellany, ed. Anna Hepworth, Simon Oxwell & Grant Watson, Infinite Monkeys/Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation, 1998
    * 432 · Jenny Come to Play · Terry Dowling · nv Eidolon Spr ’97
    * 456 · Blimunda · Ilan Stavans · ss AGNI Review #48 ’98
    * 460 · Mrs. Dumpty · Chana Bloch · pm New Yorker Aug 24 ’98
    * 462 · Cold · A. S. Byatt · na Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice, Chatto & Windus, 1998
    * 485 · Honorable Mentions · Misc. Material · bi 


The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s Griffin 0-312-26416-X, Aug 2000, $17.95, 511 + cxxvi, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 38 stories, one essay, and 10 poems, and 126 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 1999 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, and a comics summary by Seth Johnson. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-26274-4, $29.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xiii · Summation 1999: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * l · Summation 1999: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxxvii · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1999 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * cxii · Comics: 1999 · Seth Johnson · ar
    * cxix · Obituaries: 1999 · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · Darkrose and Diamond [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv F&SF Oct/Nov ’99
    * 22 · The Chop Girl · Ian R. MacLeod · nv Asimov’s Dec ’99
    * 39 · The Girl Detective · Kelly Link · nv Event Horizon Online Mar 16 ’99
    * 55 · The Transformation · N. Scott Momaday · ss In the Bear’s House, St. Martin’s Press, 1999
    * 58 · Carabosse · Delia Sherman · pm Silver Birch, Blood Moon, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 1999
    * 60 · Harlequin Valentine · Neil Gaiman · ss World Horror Convention 1999 Program Book, 1999
    * 67 · Toad · Patricia A. McKillip · ss Silver Birch, Blood Moon, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 1999
    * 72 · Washed in the River · Beckian Fritz Goldberg · pm The Iowa Review v29 #3 ’99
    * 74 · The Dinner Party · Robert Girardi · ss A Vaudeville of Devils, Sceptre, 1999
    * 86 · Heat [Four Elements] · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss White of the Moon, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1999
    * 93 · The Wedding at Esperanza · Linnet Taylor · ss Pleiades v19 #1 ’99
    * 99 · Redescending · Ursula K. Le Guin · pm Sixty Odd: New Poems, Shambhala, 1999
    * 101 · You Don’t Have To Be Mad... [Richard Jeperson] · Kim Newman · nv White of the Moon, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1999
    * 122 · The Paper-Thin Garden · Thomas Wharton · vi Descant #105 ’99
    * 125 · The Anatomy of a Mermaid · Mary Sharratt · ss Lynx Eye Win ’99
    * 134 · The Grammarian’s Five Daughters · Eleanor Arnason · ss Realms of Fantasy Jun ’99
    * 142 · The Tree Is My Hat · Gene Wolfe · nv 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Avon, 1999
    * 161 · Welcome · Michael Marshall Smith · nv White of the Moon, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1999
    * 176 · The Pathos of Genre · Douglas E. Winter · ss Event Horizon Online Jun ’99
    * 184 · Shatsi · Peter Crowther · ss The Longest Single Note and Other Strange Compositions, CD Publications, 1999
    * 193 · Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story · Neil Gaiman · ss 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Avon, 1999
    * 205 · What You Make It · Michael Marshall Smith · nv What You Make It, HarperCollins UK, 1999
    * 221 · The Parwat Ruby · Delia Sherman · ss F&SF Jun ’99
    * 234 · Odysseus Old · Geoffrey Brock · pm The Hudson Review v52 #3 ’99
    * 236 · The Smell of the Deer · Kent Meyers · ss Light in the Crossing, St. Martin’s Press, 1999
    * 253 · Chorion and the Pleiades · Sarah Van Arsdale · pm Columbia v3 #31 ’99
    * 256 · Crosley · Elizabeth Engstrom · ss The Alchemy of Love, Tripletree Publishing, 1998
    * 271 · Naming the Dead [Mr. Carlyle] · Paul J. McAuley · nv Interzone Nov ’99
    * 286 · The Stork-men · Juan Goytisolo; trans. by Annella McDermott · ss The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy, ed. Margaret Jull Costa & Annella McDermott, Dedalus, 1999
    * 291 · The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman · Steven Millhauser · ss New Yorker Nov 22 ’99
    * 301 · White · Tim Lebbon · na MOT Press, 1999
    * 345 · Dear Floods of Her Hair · James Sallis · ss F&SF May ’99
    * 349 · Mrs. Santa Decides to Move to Florida · April Selley · ss Calyx Sum ’99
    * 351 · Tanuki · Jan Hodgman · ss Calyx Sum ’99
    * 358 · At Reparata · Jeffrey Ford · ss Event Horizon Online Feb 15 ’99
    * 377 · Skin So Green and Fine · Wendy Wheeler · nv Silver Birch, Blood Moon, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 1999
    * 396 · Old Merlin Dancing on the Sands of Time · Jane Yolen · pm Merlin, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1999
    * 398 · Sailing the Painted Ocean · Denise Lee · ss Realms of Fantasy Jun ’99
    * 405 · Grandmother · Laurence Snydal · pm Columbia v3 #31 ’99
    * 406 · Small Song · Gary A. Braunbeck · nv Things Left Behind, CD Publications, 1997
    * 422 · The Emperor’s Old Bones · Gemma Files · ss Northern Frights 5, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1999
    * 437 · The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse · Susanna Clarke · ss A Fall of Stardust, ed. Charles Vess, Green Man Press, 1999
    * 442 · Halloween Street [Halloween Street] · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss F&SF Jul ’99
    * 447 · The Kiss · Tia V. Travis · nv Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press, 1999
    * 465 · The Beast · Bill Lewis · pm Beauty is the Beast, Lazerwolf Press, 1999
    * 467 · The Hedge · Bill Lewis · pm Beauty is the Beast, Lazerwolf Press, 1999
    * 468 · Pixel Pixies · Charles de Lint · nv Triskell Press, 1999
    * 486 · Falling Away · Elizabeth Birmingham · ss Prairie Schooner Sum ’99
    * 499 · Honorable Mentions: 1999 · Misc. Material · bi 

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s Griffin 0-312-27544-7, Aug 2001, $18.95, cxi + 554pp, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 44 stories and eight poems, and 111 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2000 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, and a comics summary by Seth Johnson. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-27541-2, $29.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xv · Summation 2000: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xlvi · Summation 2000: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxxiii · Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2000 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * ciii · Comics: 2000 · Seth Johnson · ar
    * cvi · Obituaries: 2000 · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · Incognita, Inc. · Harlan Ellison · ss Hemispheres Jan, 2001
    * 9 · Maria de Jesus · Claudia Barbosa Nogueira · ss Colorado Review v27 #2, 2000
    * 13 · Le Mooz · Louise Erdrich · ss New Yorker Jan 24, 2000
    * 22 · Gretel in Berkley · Eve Sweetser · pm The Thinker: The Journal of Cognitive Science at UC-Berkley Spr, 2000
    * 24 · Granny Weather · Charles de Lint · nv Imagination Fully Dilated 2, ed. Elizabeth Engstrom, IFD Publishing, 2000
    * 42 · The Shape of Things · Ellen Steiber · ss F&SF Apr, 2000
    * 51 · No Strings · Ramsey Campbell · ss Shadows and Silence, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2000
    * 57 · Marilyn · Jack Dann · ss Eidolon #29/30, 2000
    * 66 · Greedy Choke Puppy · Nalo Hopkinson · ss Dark Matter, ed. Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Aspect, 2000
    * 74 · The Crone · Delia Sherman · pm Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 2000
    * 76 · Achilles’ Grave · Ben Pastor · nv Ghost Writing, ed. Roger Weingarten, Invisible Cities Press, 2000
    * 91 · Down Here in the Garden · Tia V. Travis · ss Horror Garage #1, 2000
    * 113 · Meeting the Graiae · Laurence Goldstein · pm The Iowa Review Spr/Sum, 2000
    * 115 · Riding the Black Horse · Elizabeth Engstrom · ss Horror Garage #2, 2000
    * 120 · At Eventide · Kathe Koja · ss Graven Images, ed. Nancy Kilpatrick & Thomas S. Roche, Ace, 2000
    * 127 · The Saltimbanques · Terry Dowling · nv Eidolon #29/30, 2000
    * 147 · The Monster of Childhood · Janet McAdams · pm The Island of Lost Luggage, University of Arizona Press, 2000
    * 149 · Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky · Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link · ss Altair #6&7, 2000
    * 156 · Mr. Dark’s Carnival · Glen Hirshberg · nv Shadows and Silence, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2000
    * 183 · The Cavemen in the Hedges · Stacey Richter · ss Zoetrope All-Story Fll, 2000
    * 195 · Circe and Little Red-Cap · Carol Ann Duffy · pm Harper’s Mar, 2000
    * 198 · Basic Black · Terry Dowling · nv Blackwater Days, Eidolon, 2000
    * 216 · The Man on the Ceiling · Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem · ss American Fantasy Press, 2000
    * 232 · Climbing Down from Heaven · Terry Lamsley · nv Dark Matters, Ash-Tree Press, 2000
    * 255 · Jeremiah · Jack Cady · nv F&SF Sep, 2000
    * 269 · Three Questions · Jane Yolen · pm The New Advocate, 2000
    * 271 · The Penny Drops [Five Quarters] · Ian Rodwell & Steve Duffy · ss Ghosts & Scholars #30, 2000
    * 295 · The Train, the Lake, the Bridge · Bret Lott · ss Ghost Writing, ed. Roger Weingarten, Invisible Cities Press, 2000
    * 300 · Buttons · Claudia Adriázola · ss The Fat Man From La Paz: Contemporary Fiction from Bolivia, ed. Rosario Santos, Seven Stories Press, 2000
    * 304 · Snow Blindness · Elizabeth Howkins · pm Penny Dreadful #12, 2000
    * 306 · Jack Daw’s Pack · Greer Gilman · ss Century #5, 2000
    * 324 · The Artificial Cloud · Justin Tussing · ss TriQuarterly #107/108, 2000
    * 335 · No Story in It · Ramsey Campbell · ss Imagination Fully Dilated 2, ed. Elizabeth Engstrom, IFD Publishing, 2000
    * 348 · A Migrant Bird · John F. Deane · ss The Coffin Master and Other Stories, The Blackstaff Press, 2000
    * 353 · The Thousandth Night · Donelle R. Ruwe · vi New England Review v21 #2, 2000
    * 355 · The Pottawatomie Giant · Andy Duncan · ss Sci Fiction website Nov 1, 2000
    * 370 · George Is All Right · Howard Wandrei · ss New Mystery v5 #2 ’97
    * 378 · Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower · Susanna Clarke · na Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 2000
    * 405 · Bones · Francesca Lia Block · vi The Rose and the Beast, Joanna Cotler Books, 2000
    * 408 · The Abortionist’s Horse (A Nightmare) · Tanith Lee · ss Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2000
    * 419 · Endless Summer · Stewart O’Nan · ss Century #6, 2000
    * 423 · The Heidelberg Cylinder · Jonathan Carroll · na Mobius New Media, 2000
    * 455 · Gone · Jack Ketchum · ss October Dreams, ed. Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, CD Publications, 2000
    * 460 · An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings · John Crowley · ss DreamHaven Books, 2000
    * 468 · Atasdi: Fish Story · Dawn Karima Pettigrew · vi Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers, ed. Carolyn Dunn & Carol Comfort, Aunt Lute Books, 2000
    * 471 · Tooth Fairy · Amy Wack · pm Agenda v37 #4, 2000
    * 472 · The Sandman · Amy Wack · pm Agenda v37 #4, 2000
    * 473 · Tasting Songs · Leone Ross · ss Dark Matter, ed. Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Aspect, 2000
    * 486 · My Present Wife · Dennis Etchison · ss Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2000
    * 498 · The Flaying Season [Punktown] · Jeffrey Thomas · ss Punktown, The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2000
    * 507 · Bone Orchards [Mr. Carlyle] · Paul J. McAuley · ss The Time Out Book of London Short Stories: Volume 2, ed. Nicholas Royle, Penguin, 2000
    * 516 · Instructions · Neil Gaiman · pm A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster, 2000
    * 519 · Hallowmass · Esther M. Friesner · nv F&SF Jan, 2000
    * 541 · Honorable Mentions: 2000 · Misc. Material · ms
    * 555 · The People Behind the Book · Misc. Material · ms      


The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-29067-5, Aug 2002, $29.95, 540 + cxxviii, hc, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 38 stories, 10 poems, and 128 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2001 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, a comics summary by Charles Vess, and a manga/anime summary by Joan D. Vinge. Also available as a St. Martin’s Griffin trade paperback (-29069-1, $19.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xv · Summation 2001: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xlvi · Summation 2001: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxxvi · The Year in Media of the Fantastic · Edward Bryant · ar
    * ci · Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2001 · Charles Vess · ar
    * cxi · Manga and Anime in 2001: Through the Looking Glass · Joan D. Vinge · ar
    * cxxii · Obituaries: 2001 · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · The Hunter’s Wife · Anthony Doerr · ss TheShell Collector, Scribner, 2001
    * 20 · The Cowardly Coffin · Marin Sorescu · pm The American Poetry Review, 2001
    * 22 · In These Final Days of Sales · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Wormhole Books, 2001
    * 38 · To Dream of White Horses · June Considine · ss Thicker Than Water: Coming of Age Stories by Irish and Irish American Writers, ed. Gordon Snell, Delacorte, 2001
    * 50 · Skin · Charlee Jacob · pm Perihelion Broadside Series #3, 2000
    * 54 · Prussian Snowdrops · Marion Arnott · nv Crimewave #4, 2000; illus. Roddy Williams
    * 78 · The Honeyed Knot · Jeffrey Ford · ss F&SF May, 2001
    * 89 · Timmy Gobel’s Bug Jar · Michael Libling · ss F&SF Dec, 2001
    * 102 · The God of Dark Laughter · Michael Chabon · ss New Yorker Apr 9, 2001
    * 116 · The Adolescence of Orpheus · Kurt Leland · pm The Beloit Poetry Journal Spr, 2001
    * 121 · Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café · Charles de Lint · nv Single White Vampire Seeks Same, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren, DAW, 2001
    * 138 · Louise’s Ghost · Kelly Link · nv Stranger Things Happen, Small Beer Press, 2001
    * 159 · Fairy Tale Pantoum · Ellen Wernecke · pm The Louisville Review v49/50, 2001
    * 160 · Puppet and the Train · Scott Thomas · ss Cobwebs and Whispers, Delirium Books, 2001
    * 173 · Crocodile Lady · Christopher Fowler · nv Crimewave #5, 2001
    * 187 · The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Views · Jane Yolen · ss Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001
    * 198 · Becoming Bird · Bob Hicok · pm Quarterly West #51, 2000
    * 200 · Sop Doll · Milbre Burch · ss Realms of Fantasy Apr, 2001
    * 206 · Plenty · Christopher Barzak · ss Strange Horizons (online) May 28, 2001
    * 216 · The Bones of the Earth [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Tales from Earthsea, Harcourt, 2001
    * 228 · What the Story Weaves, the Spinner Tells · Terry Blackhawk · pm Calyx v20 #2, 2001
    * 230 · Onion · Caitlín R. Kiernan · nv Wrong Things, Subterranean Press, 2001
    * 251 · Where the Woodbine Twineth · Norman Partridge · ss The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists, Night Shade Books, 2001
    * 256 · Struwwelpeter · Glen Hirshberg · nv Sci Fiction website Nov 28, 2001
    * 280 · Outfangthief · Gala Blau · ss The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2001
    * 293 · Rites: Cleaning the Last Bones · Gavin J. Grant · pm Dark Planet (webzine), 2001
    * 295 · Watch Me When I Sleep · Jean-Claude Dunyach · ss Interzone Dec, 2001; first published in French in 2000.
    * 303 · The Tattoo Artist · Patrick Roscoe · ss Descant Fll, 2001
    * 308 · Cleopatra Brimstone · Elizabeth Hand · na Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2001
    * 345 · Grass · Lawrence Miles · ss F&SF Sep, 2001
    * 356 · If Death, A Preprimer · Sandra J. Lindow · pm The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Spr, 2001
    * 358 · The Bird Catcher · S. P. Somtow · na The Museum of Horrors, ed. Dennis Etchison, Leisure, 2001
    * 379 · Black Dust · Graham Joyce · ss Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001
    * 389 · Annabelle’s Alphabet · Tim Pratt · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #9, 2001
    * 395 · Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresby · Susanna Clarke · nv Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001
    * 420 · Gestella · Susan Palwick · nv Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001
    * 436 · The Legend · Ray Gonzales · pm The Ghost of John Wayne and Other Stories, University of Arizona Press, 2001
    * 438 · Oh, Glorious Sight · Tanya Huff · nv Oceans of Magic, ed. Brian M. Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 2001
    * 451 · Home Cooking · Daniel Ulanovsky Sack; trans. by Louise Popkin · ss With Signs & Wonders, ed. Daniel M. Jaffe, Invisible Cities Press, 2001; “El recetario,” 2001.
    * 455 · Queen · Gene Wolfe · ss Realms of Fantasy Dec, 2001
    * 460 · The Project · Carol Emshwiller · ss F&SF Aug, 2001
    * 472 · The Man in the Comic Strip · Liz Lochhead · pm The Poetry Review Win, 2001
    * 474 · Strange Things About Birds · Scott Thomas · ss Cobwebs and Whispers, Delirium Books, 2001
    * 477 · What We Did That Summer · Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg · ss Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2001
    * 486 · Aesculapius in the Underworld · Ryan G. Van Cleave · pm Poem May, 2001
    * 488 · Scarecrow · Gregory Maguire · ss Half-Human, ed. Bruce Coville, Scholastic, 2001
    * 496 · The Bockles · Melissa Hardy · ss The Uncharted Heart, Knopf Canada, 2001
    * 510 · His Own Back Yard · James P. Blaylock · nv Sci Fiction website Jul 11, 2001
    * 527 · Honorable Mentions: 2001 · Misc. Material · bi 


The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s 0-312-31424-8, Aug 2003, $35.00, 564 + cxxxiv, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 40 stories, eight poems, one essay, and 134 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2002 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, a comics summary by Charles Vess, and a manga/anime summary by Joan D. Vinge. Also available as a St. Martin’s Griffin trade paperback (-31425-6, $19.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xv · Summation 2002: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
    * xlvii · Summation 2002: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
    * lxxxvi · The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2002 · Edward Bryant · ar
    * ci · Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2002 · Charles Vess · ar
    * cx · Manga and Anime 2002: The Light and Dark Fantastic · Joan D. Vinge · ar
    * cxxix · Obituaries 2002 · James Frenkel · ob
    * 1 · Lull · Kelly Link · ss Conjunctions #39, 2002
    * 25 · Egyptian Avenue [Richard Jeperson] · Kim Newman · ss J.K. Potter’s Embrace the Mutation, ed. William Schafer & Bill Sheehan, Subterranean Press, 2002
    * 36 · A Letter of Explanation · Corey Marks · pm Renunciation, University of Illinois Press, 2002
    * 38 · Details · China Miéville · ss The Children of Cthulhu, ed. John Pelan & Benjamin Adams, Ballantine Del Rey, 2002
    * 49 · The Assistant to Dr. Jacob [as by Anon.] · Eric Schaller · ss Nemonymous May, 2002
    * 56 · The Pagodas of Ciboure · M. Shayne Bell · nv The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2002
    * 70 · The Coventry Boy · Graham Joyce · nv The Third Alternative #32, 2002
    * 89 · The Wild Hunt · Helga M. Novak · pm Chicago Review Sum, 2002; originally published by Schöffling & Co. Verlag.
    * 90 · The Green Word · Jeffrey Ford · nv The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2002
    * 106 · Stitch · Terry Dowling · ss Eidolon: SF Online Dec, 2002
    * 117 · Puce Boy · Michael Libling · nv On Spec Win, 2001
    * 135 · The Violin-Maker · Zoran Zivkovic; trans. by Alice Copple-Tosic & Chris Gilmore · ss Interzone Feb, 2002
    * 145 · Maya’s Mother · Bentley Little · nv The Collection, Signet, 2002
    * 157 · Porno in August · Carlton Mellick, III · ss Random Acts of Weirdness, ed. Brian Knight, Catalyst Press, 2002
    * 170 · Nesting Instincts · Brian Hodge · nv Lies & Ugliness, Night Shade Books, 2002
    * 188 · The Machine · Conrad Williams · ss The Third Alternative #31, 2002
    * 197 · Hansel, A Retrospective, or, The Danger of Childhood Obesity · Tom Disch · pm The Antioch Review Fll, 2002
    * 199 · Aquerò · Melissa Hardy · ss Atlantic Monthly Dec, 2002
    * 211 · The Receivers · Joel Lane · ss Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002
    * 216 · Standard Gauge · Nicholas Royle · ss Thirteen, ed. Marc Atkins, The Do-Not Press, 2002
    * 226 · Creation · Jeffrey Ford · ss F&SF May, 2002
    * 235 · Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes · Tracina Jackson-Adams · pm Star*Line v25 #2, 2002
    * 237 · What I Didn’t See · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Sci Fiction website Jul 10, 2002
    * 250 · Reading Myth to Kindergartners · Jackie Bartley · pm The Louisville Review Spr, 2002
    * 251 · Mermaid Song · Peter Dickinson · nv Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, ed. Peter Dickinson & Robin McKinley, Putnam, 2002
    * 266 · Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky · Neil Gaiman · ss Tori Amos 2002 Tour Book, 2002
    * 270 · No End of Fun · Ramsey Campbell · ss J.K. Potter’s Embrace the Mutation, ed. William Schafer & Bill Sheehan, Subterranean Press, 2002
    * 283 · Swiftly · Adam Roberts · nv Sci Fiction website Apr 3, 2002
    * 310 · The Green Man · Christopher Fowler · ss The Third Alternative #31, 2002
    * 324 · Some Other Me · Brian Hodge · ss Lies & Ugliness, Night Shade Books, 2002
    * 336 · The Snow Queen · Robert Phillips · pm The Hudson Review Sum, 2002
    * 338 · Hides · Jay Russell · nv Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters, ed. Michele Slung, HarperPerennial, 2002
    * 356 · Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush · Luis Alberto Urrea · ss Six Kinds of Sky, Cinco Puntos Press, 2002
    * 364 · First Night with Lancelot · Margaret Lloyd · pm Poem May, 2002
    * 364 · Second Night · Margaret Lloyd · pm Poem May, 2002
    * 364 · From the Walls · Margaret Lloyd · pm Poem May, 2002
    * 364 · Guinevere: On Hearing of Galahad’s Birth · Margaret Lloyd · pm Poem May, 2002
    * 364 · Elaine Watches Galahad · Margaret Lloyd · pm Poem May, 2002
    * 367 · Little Dead Girl Singing · Stephen Gallagher · ss Weird Tales Spr, 2002
    * 376 · A Pool in the Desert · Robin McKinley · na Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, ed. Peter Dickinson & Robin McKinley, Putnam, 2002
    * 406 · Thailand · Haruki Murakami · ss After the Quake, Knopf, 2002
    * 418 · The Rose in Twelve Petals · Theodora Goss · ss Realms of Fantasy Apr, 2002
    * 431 · Road Trip · Kathe Koja · ss World Fantasy Convention Program Book, 2002
    * 437 · Unspeakable · Lucy Taylor · ss The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, ed. John Pelan, Roc, 2002
    * 447 · Inside Out: On Henry Darger · Elizabeth Hand · ar F&SF Oct/Nov, 2002
    * 454 · The Green Children · Kevin Brockmeier · ss The Truth About Celia, Pantheon Books, 2002
    * 465 · After the Chuck Jones Tribute on Teletoon · Sharon McCartney · pm Malahat Review Fll, 2002
    * 466 · Feeders and Eaters · Neil Gaiman · ss Keep Out the Night, ed. Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2002
    * 473 · Roofwalker · Susan Power · ss Roofwalker, Susan Power, Milkweed Editions, 2002
    * 483 · The Prospect Cards · Don Tumasonis · nv Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002
    * 497 · Hide and Seek · Nicholas Royle · ss Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002
    * 503 · The Wolf’s Story · Nan Fry · pm Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #11, 2002
    * 505 · The Least Trumps · Elizabeth Hand · na Conjunctions #39, 2002
    * 545 · Honorable Mentions: 2002 · Misc. Material · bi
    * 563 · The People Behind the Book · Misc. Material · bg 


The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant & Kelly Link (St. Martin’s Griffin 0-312-32928-8, Aug 2004, $19.95, 562 + clv, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 39 stories, five poems, and 155 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2003 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, a comics summary by Charles Vess, a music summary by Charles de Lint, and a manga/anime summary by Joan D. Vinge. Gavin Grant & Kelly Link replace Terri Windling as fantasy editor for the first time. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-32927-X, $35.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xv · Summation 2003: Fantasy · Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant · ar (*), 2004
    * xlix · Summation 2003: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar (*), 2004
    * xciii · Media of the Fantastic: 2003 · Edward Bryant · ar (*), 2004
    * cvii · Comics and Graphic Novels: 2003 · Charles Vess · ar (*), 2004
    * cxvii · Anime and Manga: 2003 · Joan D. Vinge · ar (*), 2004
    * cxlv · Music of the Fantastic: 2003 · Charles de Lint · ar (*), 2004
    * cli · Obituaries: 2003 · James Frenkel · bi (*), 2004
    * 1 · At the Mouth of the River of Bees · Kij Johnson · ss Sci Fiction website Oct 7, 2003
    * 16 · Why I Became a Plumber · Sara Maitland · ss On Becoming a Fairy Godmother, The Maia Press, 2003
    * 24 · Bread and Bombs · M. Rickert · ss F&SF Apr, 2003
    * 35 · The Red Bow · George Saunders · ss Esquire Sep, 2003
    * 44 · The Wife · Vandana Singh · ss Polyphony, Volume 3, ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2003
    * 52 · Only Partly Here · Lucius Shepard · nv Asimov’s Mar, 2003
    * 73 · Bone · Steve Rasnic Tem · pm The Hydrocephalic Ward, Dark Regions Press, 2003
    * 75 · Old Virginia · Laird Barron · nv F&SF Feb, 2003
    * 92 · A Study in Emerald [Sherlock Holmes] · Neil Gaiman · nv Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey, 2003
    * 108 · You Go Where It Takes You · Nathan Ballingrud · ss Sci Fiction website Jul 16, 2003
    * 119 · L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) · Dean Francis Alfar · ss Strange Horizons (online) Jan 6, 2003
    * 127 · Harvey’s Dream · Stephen King · ss New Yorker Jun 30, 2003
    * 135 · Woeful Tales from Mahigul · Ursula Le Guin · nv Changing Planes, Harcourt, 2003
    * 150 · King Rat · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Trampoline, ed. Kelly Link, Small Beer Press, 2003
    * 155 · The Hortlak · Kelly Link · nv The Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2003
    * 176 · With Acknowledgements to Sun Tzu · Brian Hodge · nv The Third Alternative #33, 2003
    * 191 · Ash City Stomp · Richard Butner · ss Trampoline, ed. Kelly Link, Small Beer Press, 2003
    * 201 · King Dragon · Michael Swanwick · na The Dragon Quintet, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC, 2003
    * 231 · Invisible Geese: A Theory · Patrick O’Leary · pm The Stars As Seen from This Particular Angle of Night, ed. Sandra Kasturi, Calgary: Red Deer Press/The Bakka Collection, 2003
    * 232 · The Perfect City · Patrick O’Leary · pm The Stars As Seen from This Particular Angle of Night, ed. Sandra Kasturi, Calgary: Red Deer Press/The Bakka Collection, 2003
    * 235 · Bedfordshire · Peter Crowther · nv Gathering the Bones, ed. Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell & Jack Dann, Tor, 2003
    * 255 · N002-JK1 · Adam Corbin Fusco · ss Borderlands 5, ed. Elizabeth E. Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 2003
    * 260 · Cell Call · Marc Laidlaw · ss By Moonlight Only, ed. Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2003
    * 268 · The Fishie · Philip Raines & Harvey Welles · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #12, 2003
    * 286 · Hunger: A Confession · Dale Bailey · ss F&SF Mar, 2003
    * 297 · Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe · Scott Emerson Bull · ss Gathering the Bones, ed. Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell & Jack Dann, Tor, 2003
    * 304 · The Baby in the Night Deposit Box · Megan Whalen Turner · nv Firebirds, ed. Sharyn November, Penguin/Firebird, 2003
    * 318 · Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur · Paul LaFarge · ss Politically Inspired, ed. Stephen Elliott, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2003
    * 332 · The Silence of the Falling Stars · Mike O’Driscoll · nv The Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2003
    * 349 · At the Mythical Beast · Jon Woodward · pm Mister Goodbye Easter Island, Jon Woodward, Alice James Books, 2003
    * 352 · The Fluted Girl · Paolo Bacigalupi · nv F&SF Jun, 2003
    * 372 · The Brief History of the Dead · Kevin Brockmeier · ss New Yorker Sep 8, 2003
    * 383 · Flotsam · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · nv Firebirds, ed. Sharyn November, Penguin/Firebird, 2003
    * 407 · The Bees · Dan Chaon · ss McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2003
    * 421 · Dancing Men · Glen Hirshberg · nv The Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2003
    * 447 · Lily, with Clouds · Theodora Goss · ss Alchemy Win, 2003
    * 453 · The Man Who Did Nothing · Karen Traviss · ss Realms of Fantasy Jun, 2003
    * 468 · Husband · Shelley Jackson · ss The Paris Review #164, 2003
    * 475 · Open Doors · Michael Marshall Smith · ss More Tomorrow & Other Stories, Earthling Publications, 2003
    * 482 · The Valley of Giants · Benjamin Rosenbaum · ss Argosy Magazine Jan/Feb, 2004
    * 486 · Purity · Thomas Ligotti · ss Weird Tales Spr, 2003
    * 499 · Ancestor Money · Maureen F. McHugh · ss Sci Fiction website Oct 1, 2003
    * 511 · Final Girl II: The Frame · Daphne Gottlieb · pm Final Girl, Soft Skull Press, 2003
    * 513 · Almost Home · Terry Bisson · nv F&SF Oct/Nov, 2003 

The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (St. Martin’s Griffin 0-312-34194-6, Aug 2005, $19.95, 480 + cxxviii, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 39 stories, five poems, and 128 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2004 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, a comics summary by Charles Vess, a music summary by Charles de Lint, and a manga/anime summary by Joan D. Vinge. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-34193-8, $35.00). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * xiii · Summation 2004: Fantasy · Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant · ar (*), 2005
    * xxxvii · Summation 2004: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar (*), 2005
    * lxxiii · Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2004 · Edward Bryant · ar (*), 2005
    * xciii · Comics and Graphic Novels: 2004 · Charles Vess · ar (*), 2005
    * ci · Anime and Manga: 2004 · Joan D. Vinge · ar (*), 2005
    * cxvii · Fantasy and Horror in Music: 2004 · Charles de Lint · ar (*), 2005
    * cxxv · Obituaries: 2004 · James Frenkel · bi (*), 2005
    * 1 · The Oakthing · Gregory Maguire · nv The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2004
    * 13 · Horton’s Store · R. T. Smith · pm Georgia Review v58 #1, 2004
    * 15 · Rite of Spring · Margo Lanagan · ss Black Juice, Allen & Unwin Australia, 2004
    * 21 · A Hazy Shade of Winter · Simon Bestwick · ss A Hazy Shade of Winter, Ash-Tree Press, 2004
    * 31 · The Skin of the World · Douglas Clegg · ss The Machinery of Night, CD Publications, 2004
    * 38 · Zora and the Zombie · Andy Duncan · ss Sci Fiction website Feb 4, 2004
    * 53 · The Changeling · Theodora Goss · pm Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #8, 2001
    * 54 · Revenge of the Calico Cat · Stepan Chapman · nv Leviathan 4, ed. Forrest Aguirre, Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2004
    * 80 · Frozen Charlottes · Lucy Sussex · ss Forever Shores, ed. Peter McNamara & Margaret Winch, Aphelion Publications, 2003
    * 89 · Reports of Certain Events in London · China Miéville · nv McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2004
    * 103 · House of Ice · Jean Esteve · pm Harvard Review #26, 2004
    * 104 · Restraint · Stephen Gallagher · ss Postscripts Spr, 2004
    * 119 · The Baum Plan for Financial Independence · John Kessel · ss Sci Fiction website Mar 24, 2004
    * 129 · Dancing on Air · Frances Oliver · ss Dancing on Air, Ash-Tree Press, 2004
    * 141 · Cold Fires · M. Rickert · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2004
    * 152 · And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead [“Jew if by Sea”] · Richard Mueller · ss F&SF May, 2004
    * 164 · A Trick of the Dark · Tina Rath · ss The Mammoth Book of Vampires, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2004
    * 171 · The Bad Magician · Philip Raines & Harvey Welles · ss Albedo One #28, 2004
    * 185 · Speir-Bhan · Tanith Lee · ss Emerald Magic, ed. Andrew Greeley, Tor, 2004
    * 203 · Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland · John Farris · ss Elvisland, Babbage Press, 2002
    * 215 · Guts · Chuck Palahniuk · ss Playboy Mar, 2004
    * 221 · Water Babies · Simon Brown · nv Agog! Smashing Stories, ed. Cat Sparks, Agog! Press, 2004
    * 243 · Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle · Peter Straub · ss McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2004
    * 263 · We Find Things Old · Bentley Little · ss The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, ed. M. W. Anderson & Brett Alexander Savory, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004
    * 272 · Wonderwall · Elizabeth Hand · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * 284 · Postcretaceous Era · D. Ellis Dickerson · ss Story Quarterly #40, 2004
    * 290 · Watch and Wake · M. T. Anderson · ss Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales, ed. Deborah Noyes, Candlewick Press, 2004
    * 299 · The Oracle Alone · Catherynne M. Valente · pp Music of a Proto-Suicide, J*A*M Pie Press, 2004
    * 301 · A Night in the Tropics · Jeffrey Ford · ss Argosy Magazine Jan/Feb, 2004
    * 313 · Clownette · Terry Dowling · ss Sci Fiction website Dec 15, 2004
    * 324 · Stripping · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Postscripts Spr, 2004
    * 326 · Seven Feet · Christopher Fowler · ss Demonized, Serpent’s Tail, 2004
    * 337 · Singing My Sister Down · Margo Lanagan · ss Black Juice, Allen & Unwin Australia, 2004
    * 344 · Bulldozer · Laird Barron · ss Sci Fiction website Aug 25, 2004
    * 366 · These Various Methods of Brightness · Anna Ross · pm The Southwest Review #89, 2004
    * 368 · The Cajun Knot · Mélanie Fazi; trans. by Brian Stableford · ss The Third Alternative #40, 2004
    * 379 · Tales from the City of Seams · Greg van Eekhout · ss Polyphony, Volume 4, ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2004
    * 390 · The Specialist · Alison Smith · ss McSweeney’s #11, 2004
    * 402 · Here Is the Church · Shelley Jackson · ss Black Clock #2, 2004
    * 409 · The Witch of Truro · Alice Hoffman · ss The Kenyon Review Spr, 2004
    * 416 · Lapland, or Film Noir · Peter Straub · ss Conjunctions #42, 2004
    * 422 · What Her Mother Said · Theodora Goss · pm Journal of Mythic Arts Aut, 2004
    * 424 · The Owl · Conrad Williams · ss Use Once, Then Destroy, Night Shade Books, 2004
    * 435 · The Silver Dragon · Elizabeth A. Lynn · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * 461 · Honorable Mentions · Misc. Material · ms 

The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (St. Martin’s Griffin 0-312-35614-5, Aug 2006, $19.95, 480 + cxxiii, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology with 35 stories, five poems, and 123 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2005 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, a comics summary by Charles Vess, a music summary by Charles de Lint, and a manga/anime summary by Joan D. Vinge. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-34193-8, $35.00). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

    * · Summation 2005: Fantasy · Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant · ar (*), 2006
    * · Summation 2005: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar (*), 2006
    * · Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2005 · Edward Bryant · ar (*), 2006
    * · Comics and Graphic Novels: 2005 · Charles Vess · ar (*), 2006
    * · Anime and Manga: 2005 · Joan D. Vinge · ar (*), 2006
    * · Fantasy and Horror in Music: 2005 · Charles de Lint · ar (*), 2006
    * · Obituaries: 2005 · James Frenkel · bi (*), 2006
    * · Walpurgis Afternoon · Delia Sherman · nv F&SF Dec, 2005
    * · The Mushroom Duchess · Deborah Roggie · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #17, 2005
    * · An Incident at Agate Beach · Marly Youmans · nv Argosy Quarterly Spr, 2005
    * · Among the Tombs · Reggie Oliver · ss
    * · Obedience, or The Lying Tale · Jennifer Chang · ss
    * · American Morons · Glen Hirshberg · ss Darkness Rising: The Rolling Darkness Revue Chapbook 2005, Earthling Publications, 2005
    * · Shallaballah · Mark Samuels · ss
    * · Night Train— Heading West · Sarah Monette · ss
    * · The Denial · Bruce Sterling · ss F&SF Sep, 2005
    * · Northwest Passage · Barbara Roden · nv Acquainted with the Night, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2004
    * · Proboscis · Laird Barron · nv F&SF Feb, 2005
    * · Kronia · Elizabeth Hand · ss
    * · Omens · Kelly Everding · ss
    * · Follow Me Light · Elizabeth Bear · ss Sci Fiction website Jan 12, 2005
    * · Boatman’s Holiday · Jeffrey Ford · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2005
    * · The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode in On) · Howard Waldrop · ss Sci Fiction website Nov 2, 2005
    * · Where Angels Come In (M.R. James) · Adam L. G. Nevill · ss Poe’s Progeny, ed. Gary Fry, Gray Friar Press, 2005
    * · Twilight States · Albert E. Cowdrey · ss F&SF Jul, 2005
    * · Jolly Bonnet · Andrew Bonia · pm Jabberwocky, ed. Sean Wallace, Prime Books, 2005
    * · The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai · Geoff Ryman · nv F&SF Dec, 2005
    * · The Souls of Drowning Mountain · Jack Cady · ss Taverns of the Dead, ed. Burke, Kealan Patrick, CD Publications, 2005
    * · Last One · Robert Coover · ss
    * · The Ball Room · China Miéville, Emma Bircham & Max Schaefer · ss Looking for Jake and other stories, Macmillan UK, 2005
    * · Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus · Theodora Goss · pm Jabberwocky, ed. Sean Wallace, Prime Books, 2005
    * · Vacation · Daniel Wallace · ss
    * · Cruel Sistah · Nisi Shawl · ss Asimov’s Oct/Nov, 2005
    * · Ding-Dong Bell · Jay Russell · ss
    * · Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility · Stacey Richter · ss
    * · The Scribble Mind · Jeffrey Ford · ss Sci Fiction website May 25, 2005
    * · Scarecrow · Tom Brennan · ss Crimewave #8, 2005
    * · Going the Jerusalem Mile · Chaz Brenchley · ss The Third Alternative #41, 2005
    * · Grief · Willa Schneberg · ss
    * · Boman · Pentti Holappa; trans. by David Hackston · nv The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy, ed. Johanna Sinisalo, Dedalus, 2006; originally published in Finnish in Muodonmuutoksia (1959).
    * · The Machine of a Religious Man · Ralph Robert Moore · ss Midnight Street Spr, 2005
    * · Hot Potting · Chuck Palahniuk · ss
    * · My Father’s Mask · Joe Hill · ss
    * · Guggenheim Lovers · Isabel Allende · ss
    * · A Statement in the Case · Theodora Goss · ss Realms of Fantasy Aug, 2005
    * · Pavement Artist · Dave Hutchinson · ss
    * · The Gypsies in the Wood · Kim Newman · na Fair Folk, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC, 2005 

La Profonde - Terry Dowling
Sob in the Silence - Gene Wolfe
A Pig’s Whisper - Margo Lanagan
Winkie - Margo Lanagan 
Journey into the Kingdom - M. Rickert
Father Muerte and the Flesh - Lee Battersby 
The Muldoon - Glen Hirshberg 
Ballade (poem) - William Hope Hodgson 
My Babe, My Babe (poem) - William Hope Hodgson 
31/10 - Stephen Volk 
Messages - Brett Alexander Savory 
Raphael - Stephen Graham Jones
The Last to be Found - Christopher Harman 
The Box - Stephen Gallagher 
Landfill - Joyce Carol Oates 
The Churring - Nicholas Royle 
First Kisses From Beyond the Grave - Nik Houser 
The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness - Simon Clark
Drowning Palmer - Sarah Monette 
Dead Sea Fruit - Kaaron Warren 
Dog Person - Scott Nicholson
Tell (poem) - Nathalie Anderson
Is Rain My Bearskin? (poem) - Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Yep, I Said Camel (poem) - Josh Bell
Femaville - Paul Di Filippo
The Night Whiskey - Jeffrey Ford
The Good Ones Are Already Taken - Ben Fountain
Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks (poem) - Jeannine Hall Gailey
Becoming the Villainess (poem) - Jeannine Hall Gailey
Halfway House - Frances Hardinge
A Fearful Symmetry - Minsoo Kang
In the House of the Seven Librarians - Ellen Klages
Cup and Table - Tim Pratt
Journey into the Kingdom - M. Rickert
A Siege of Cranes - Benjamin Rosenbaum
Another Word for Map is Faith - Christopher Rowe
Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter - Geoff Ryman
Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery - John Schoffstall
Lionflower Hedge - Ira Sher
La Fee Verte - Delia Sherman
The Lineaments of Gratified Desire - Ysabeau S. Wilce
Directions - Caleb Wilson

END DATLOW COLLECTION


HARTWELL COLLECTION

Year’s Best Fantasy ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (HarperCollins/Eos 0-380-81840-X, Jul 2001, $7.50, 492pp, pb); “Year’s Best” anthology of 23 stories from 2000, the all-fantasy counterpart to Hartwell’s ’Year’s Best SF’ series. The editors discuss the year in their introduction. Only Hartwell is credited on the cover. The editors discuss the year in their introduction.

    * xiii · Introduction · David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer · in
    * 1 · Everything Changes · John Sullivan · ss Adventures of Sword & Sorcery #7, 2000
    * 12 · A Troll Story: Lessons in What Matters, No. 1 · Nicola Griffith · ss Realms of Fantasy Jun, 2000
    * 30 · The Face of Sekt [Magravandias Chronicles] · Storm Constantine · nv Graven Images, ed. Nancy Kilpatrick & Thomas S. Roche, Ace, 2000
    * 54 · Chanterelle · Brian Stableford · nv Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 2000
    * 89 · Path of the Dragon [Song of Fire and Ice] · George R. R. Martin · na Asimov’s Dec, 2000
    * 143 · The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O · Michael Swanwick · ss Tales of Old Earth, Frog, Ltd., 2000
    * 162 · Ebb Tide · Sarah Singleton · ss Interzone Nov, 2000
    * 179 · The Hunger of the Leaves · Joel Lane · ss Swords Against the Millennium, ed. Mike Chinn, Alchemy Press/Saladoth Productions, 2000
    * 189 · Greedy Choke Puppy · Nalo Hopkinson · ss Dark Matter, ed. Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Aspect, 2000
    * 202 · The Golem · Naomi Kritzer · ss Realms of Fantasy Dec, 2000
    * 223 · The Devil Disinvests · Scott Bradfield · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2000
    * 230 · A Serpent in Eden · Simon Brown & Alison Tokley · ss Eidolon #29/30, 2000
    * 240 · Wrong Dreaming · Kain Massin · ss On Spec Fll, 2000
    * 257 · Mom and Dad at the Home Front · Sherwood Smith · ss Realms of Fantasy Aug, 2000
    * 270 · The Fey · Renee Bennett · ss MZBFM Sum, 2000
    * 278 · Golden Bell, Seven, and the Marquis of Zeng · Richard Parks · nv Black Gate Spr, 2001
    * 304 · Making a Noise in This World · Charles de Lint · nv Warrior Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW, 2000
    * 327 · Magic, Maples, and Maryanne · Robert Sheckley · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2000
    * 342 · The Prophecies at Newfane Asylum · Don Webb · ss Interzone Mar, 2000
    * 354 · The Window · Zoran Zivkovic · ss Interzone Feb, 2000
    * 369 · And Still She Sleeps · Greg Costikyan · nv Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon, 2000
    * 397 · The Walking Sticks · Gene Wolfe · ss Taps and Sighs, ed. Peter Crowther, Subterranean Press, 2000
    * 410 · Debt of Bones [Sword of Truth] · Terry Goodkind · na Legends, ed. Robert Silverberg, Tor, 1998 

Year’s Best Fantasy 2 ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (HarperCollins/Eos 0-380-81841-8, Jul 2002, $7.50, 492pp, pb); “Year’s Best” anthology of 22 stories from 2001, the all-fantasy counterpart to Hartwell’s “Year’s Best SF” series. The editors discuss the year in their introduction. Only Hartwell is credited on the cover.

    * · Introduction · David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer · in
    * · The Finder [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · na Tales from Earthsea, Harcourt, 2001
    * · Senator Bilbo · Andy Duncan · ss Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001
    * · Big City Littles · Charles de Lint · ss Triskell Press, 2000
    * · What the Tyger Told Her · Kage Baker · ss Realms of Fantasy Jun, 2001
    * · In the Shadow of Her Wings · Ashok Banker · ss Interzone Apr, 2001
    * · The Heart of the Hill · Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson · ss Out of Avalon, ed. Jennifer Roberson & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 2001
    * · Queen · Gene Wolfe · ss Realms of Fantasy Dec, 2001
    * · The Black Heart · Patrick O’Leary · ss Sci Fiction website Aug 8, 2001
    * · On the Wall · Jo Walton · ss Strange Horizons (online) Sep 3, 2001
    * · Hell Is the Absence of God · Ted Chiang · nv Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001
    * · The Man Who Stole the Moon · Tanith Lee · ss Realms of Fantasy Feb, 2001
    * · Firebird [Markovy] · R. Garcia y Robertson · nv F&SF May, 2001
    * · My Case for Retributive Action · Thomas Ligotti · ss Weird Tales Sum, 2001
    * · The Shadow · Thomas M. Disch · ss F&SF Dec, 2001
    * · Stitchery · Devon Monk · ss Black Gate Sum, 2001
    * · To Others We Know Not Of · Kate Riedel · ss Weird Tales Spr, 2001
    * · The Lady of the Winds [Cappen Varra] · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Oct/Nov, 2001
    * · His Own Back Yard · James P. Blaylock · nv Sci Fiction website Jul 11, 2001
    * · A Place to Begin · Richard Parks · ss Weird Tales Spr, 2001
    * · Nucleon · David D. Levine · ss Interzone Dec, 2001
    * · My Stolen Sabre · Uncle River · ss Asimov’s Dec, 2001
    * · Apologue · James Morrow · ss Sci Fiction website, 2001 


Year’s Best Fantasy 3 ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-052180-5, Jul 2003, $7.99, 495pp, pb); “Year’s Best” anthology of 29 stories from 2002, the all-fantasy counterpart to Hartwell’s “Year’s Best SF” series. Authors include Nalo Hopkinson, China Miéville, and Michael Swanwick. The editors discuss the year in their introduction. Only Hartwell is credited on the cover.

    * xi · Acknowledgments · Misc. Material · ms
    * xiii · Introduction · David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer · in
    * 1 · Her Father’s Eyes · Kage Baker · ss Asimov’s Dec, 2002
    * 13 · Want’s Master [as by A. B. Ming] · Patricia Bowne · nv Tales of the Unanticipated #23, 2002
    * 36 · October in the Chair · Neil Gaiman · ss Conjunctions #39, 2002
    * 51 · Greaves, This Is Serious · William Mingin · ss Tales of the Unanticipated #23, 2002
    * 58 · Shift · Nalo Hopkinson · ss Conjunctions #39, 2002
    * 75 · A Book, By Its Cover · P. D. Cacek · ss Shelf Life, ed. Greg Ketter, DreamHaven Books, 2002
    * 94 · Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box · Charles de Lint · nv The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2002
    * 121 · The Pyramid of Amirah · James Patrick Kelly · ss F&SF Mar, 2002
    * 129 · Our Friend Electricity · Ron Wolfe · nv F&SF Jun, 2002
    * 165 · Social Dreaming of the Frin · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2002
    * 175 · Five British Dinosaurs · Michael Swanwick · ss Interzone Mar, 2002
    * 183 · The Green Word · Jeffrey Ford · nv The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2002
    * 208 · The Comedian · Stepan Chapman · vi The Ultimate Unknown Win ’97
    * 217 · The Pagodas of Ciboure · M. Shayne Bell · nv The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2002
    * 239 · From the Cradle · Gene Wolfe · nv Shelf Life, ed. Greg Ketter, DreamHaven Books, 2002
    * 263 · Sam · Donald Barr · ss F&SF Jun, 2002
    * 276 · Persian Eyes · Tanith Lee · nv 30th Anniversary DAW: Fantasy, ed. Elizabeth R. Wollheim & Sheila E. Gilbert, DAW, 2002
    * 302 · Travel Agency · Ellen Klages · ss Strange Horizons (online) Feb 11, 2002
    * 306 · Fable for Savior and Reptile · Steven Popkes · ss Realms of Fantasy Feb, 2002
    * 327 · Comrade Grandmother · Naomi Kritzer · ss Strange Horizons (online) Sep 2, 2002
    * 339 · Familiar · China Miéville · ss Conjunctions #39, 2002
    * 355 · Honeydark · Liz Williams · ss Realms of Fantasy Oct, 2002
    * 367 · A Prayer for Captain La Hire · Patrice E. Sarath · ss Black Gate Sum, 2002
    * 387 · Origin of the Species · James Van Pelt · ss Weird Tales Fll, 2002
    * 403 · Tread Softly · Brian Stableford · ss Interzone Mar, 2002
    * 423 · How It Ended · Darrell Schweitzer · ss Realms of Fantasy Aug, 2002
    * 434 · Cecil Rhodes in Hell · Michael Swanwick · vi
    * 436 · Hide and Seek · Nicholas Royle · ss Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002
    * 445 · Death in Love [Markovy] · R. Garcia y Robertson · nv F&SF Jan, 2002
    * 493 · Story Copyrights · Misc. Material · ms 

Year’s Best Fantasy 4 ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-052182-1, Jul 2004, $7.99, 484 +xi, pb); “Year’s Best” anthology of 21 stories from 2003, the all-fantasy counterpart to Hartwell & Cramer’s ’Year’s Best SF’ series. The editors discuss the year in their introduction.

    * · King Dragon · Michael Swanwick · na The Dragon Quintet, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC, 2003
    * · The Big Green Grin · Gahan Wilson · ss Gathering the Bones, ed. Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell & Jack Dann, Tor, 2003
    * · The Book of Martha · Octavia E. Butler · ss Sci Fiction website May 21, 2003
    * · Wild Thing · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss F&SF Jul, 2003
    * · Closing Time · Neil Gaiman · ss McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2003
    * · Catskin · Kelly Link · ss McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2003
    * · Dragon’s Gate · Pat Murphy · nv F&SF Aug, 2003
    * · One Thing About the Night · Terry Dowling · nv The Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2003
    * · Peace on Suburbia · M. Rickert · ss F&SF Dec, 2003
    * · Moonblind · Tanith Lee · ss Realms of Fantasy Apr, 2003
    * · Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold · Theodora Goss · ss Polyphony, Volume 2, ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2003
    * · Louder Echo · Brendan Duffy · nv Agog! Terrific Tales, ed. Cat Sparks, Agog! Press, 2003
    * · The Raptures of the Deep · Rosaleen Love · ss Gathering the Bones, ed. Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell & Jack Dann, Tor, 2003
    * · Fable from a Cage · Tim Pratt · ss Realms of Fantasy Feb, 2003
    * · A Quartet of Mini-Fantasies · Arthur Porges · vi F&SF Feb, 2003
    * · Señor Volto · Lucius Shepard · ss Sci Fiction website Feb 12, 2003
    * · Shen’s Daughter · Mary Soon Lee · ss Sword and Sorceress XX, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW, 2003
    * · Basement Magic · Ellen Klages · nv F&SF May, 2003
    * · The Tales of Zanthias · Robert Sheckley · ss Weird Tales Jul-Aug, 2003
    * · Of Soil & Climate · Gene Wolfe · ss Realms of Fantasy Dec, 2003
    * · Almost Home · Terry Bisson · nv F&SF Oct/Nov, 2003 

Year’s Best Fantasy 5 ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (HarperCollins/Eos 0-06-077605-6, Jul 2005, $7.99, 502 + x, pb); “Year’s Best” anthology of 24 stories from 2004, the all-fantasy counterpart to the editors’ ’Year’s Best SF’ series. The editors discuss the year in their introduction.

    * · The Dragons of Summer Gulch · Robert Reed · nv Sci Fiction website Dec 1, 2004
    * · Miss Emily Gray · Theodora Goss · ss Alchemy #2, 2004
    * · The Baum Plan for Financial Independence · John Kessel · ss Sci Fiction website Mar 24, 2004
    * · Lizzy Lou · Barbara Robson · ss Borderlands #3, 2004
    * · The End of the World As We Know It · Dale Bailey · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2004
    * · Leaving His Cares Behind Him [Lord Ermenwyr] · Kage Baker · nv Asimov’s Apr/May, 2004
    * · The Problem of Susan · Neil Gaiman · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * · Stella’s Transformation · Kim Westwood · ss Encounters: An Anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction, ed. Maxine McArthur & Donna Maree Hanson, CSFG Publishing, 2004
    * · Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely · David D. Levine · ss Realms of Fantasy Jun, 2004
    * · Pat Moore · Tim Powers · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * · Perpetua · Kit Reed · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * · Quarry [world of The Inkeeper’s Song] · Peter S. Beagle · nv F&SF May, 2004
    * · Diva’s Bones · John Meaney · ss Interzone Spr, 2004
    * · The Seventh Daughter · Bruce McAllister · vi F&SF Apr, 2004
    * · Life in Stone · Tim Pratt · ss Lenox Avenue #3, 2004
    * · Many Voices · M. Rickert · ss F&SF Mar, 2004
    * · A Hint of Jasmine · Richard Parks · nv Asimov’s Aug, 2004
    * · Elvenbrood · Tanith Lee · nv The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2004
    * · Beyond the River · Joel Lane · ss Acquainted with the Night, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2004
    * · Out of the Woods · Patricia A. McKillip · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * · The Man from Shemhaza [“The Ballad of Shemhaza”] · Steven Brust · nv Thieves’ World: Enemies of Fortune, ed. Lynn Abbey, Tor, 2004
    * · Death’s Door · Terry Bisson · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * · The Smile on the Face · Nalo Hopkinson · ss Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers And Freaks, ed. Emily Pohl-Weary, Sumach Press, 2004
    * · Golden City Far · Gene Wolfe · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004 


Year’s Best Fantasy 6 ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Tachyon Publications 1-892391-37-6, Sep 2006, $14.95, 355 + x, tp, cover by David M. Bowers); Best-of-the-year anthology with 23 stories of genre fantasy, with a summation of the year by the editors. This is the sixth volume in the series previously published by Eos. Authors include Bruce Sterling, Neil Gaiman, Jeff VanderMeer, and Connie Willis. Tachyon Publications, 1459 18th St. #139, San Francisco CA 94107; [www.tachyonpublications.com].

    * · Eating Hearts · Yoon Ha Lee · ss F&SF Jun, 2005
    * · The Denial · Bruce Sterling · ss F&SF Sep, 2005
    * · The Fraud · Esther M. Friesner · nv Asimov’s Mar, 2005
    * · Sunbird · Neil Gaiman · nv Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things, ed. Ted Thompson & Eli Horowitz, McSweeney’s Books, 2005
    * · Shard of Glass · Alaya Dawn Johnson · na Strange Horizons (online) Feb 14, 2005 (+1)
    * · The Farmer’s Cat · Jeff VanderMeer · ss Polyphony, Volume 5, ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005
    * · Crab Apple · Patrick Samphire · ss Realms of Fantasy Feb, 2005
    * · Comber · Gene Wolfe · ss Postscripts Spr, 2005
    * · Walpurgis Afternoon · Delia Sherman · nv F&SF Dec, 2005
    * · Monster · Kelly Link · nv Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things, ed. Ted Thompson & Eli Horowitz, McSweeney’s Books, 2005
    * · Robots and Falling Hearts · Tim Pratt & Greg van Eekhout · ss Realms of Fantasy Oct, 2005
    * · Still Life with Boobs · Anne Harris · ss Talebones Sum, 2005
    * · Heads Down, Thumbs Up · Gavin J. Grant · ss Sci Fiction website Apr 27, 2005
    * · Mom and Mother Theresa · Candas Jane Dorsey · ss Tesseracts 8, ed. Nalo Hopkinson & Geoff Ryman, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2005
    * · Newbie Wrangler · Timothy J. Anderson · ss Tesseracts 8, ed. Nalo Hopkinson & Geoff Ryman, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2005
    * · Being Here · Claude Lalumière · ss Tesseracts 8, ed. Nalo Hopkinson & Geoff Ryman, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2005
    * · The Imago Sequence · Laird Barron · na F&SF May, 2005
    * · Magic in a Certain Slant of Light · Deborah Coates · ss Strange Horizons (online) Mar 21, 2005
    * · Single White Farmhouse · Heather Shaw · ss Polyphony, Volume 5, ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005
    * · Read It in the Headlines! · Garth Nix · ss
    * · Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane · Jonathon Sullivan · na Strange Horizons (online) Jul 18, 2005 (+1)
    * · Mortegarde · Liz Williams · ss Realms of Fantasy Dec, 2005
    * · Inside Job · Connie Willis · na Asimov’s Jan, 2005 

"Hallucigenia" by Laird  Barron 
"Four Fables" by Peter S. Beagle
"Yours, Etc." by Gavin Grant
"Sea Air" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"I'll Give You My Word" by Diana Wynne Jones
"The Bonny Boy" by Ian R. Macleod
"Ghost Mission" by L. E.  Modesitt, Jr.
"The Roaming Forest" by Michael Moorcock
"Show Me Yours" by Robert Reed
"Christmas Witch" by M. Rickert
"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter" by Geoff Ryman
"The Lepidopterist" by Lucius Shepard
"The Double-Edged Sword" by Sharon Shinn
"Pimpf" by Charles Stross
"An Episode of Stardust" by Michael Swanwick
"The Osteomancer's Son" by Greg van Eekhout
"Thin, On the Ground" by Howard Waldrop
"The Potter's Daughter" by Martha Wells
"Build-a-Bear" by Gene Wolfe
"Bea and her Bird Brother" by Gene Wolfe

END HARTWELL COLLECTION

SILVERBERG/HABER/STRAHAN COLLECTION

Fantasy: The Best of 2001 ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber (Pocket/ibooks 0-7434-5247-X, Jun 2002, $7.99, 419pp, pb, cover by Scott Grimando); Best-of-the-year anthology of 11 stories. Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, and Ted Chiang. Copyrighted by ibooks.

    * vi · Introduction · Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber · in
    * 1 · The Bones of the Earth [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Tales from Earthsea, Harcourt, 2001
    * 27 · Legerdemain · Jack O’Connell · nv F&SF Oct/Nov, 2001
    * 64 · Diving the Coolidge · Brian A. Hopkins · nv Historical Hauntings, ed. Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 2001
    * 95 · The Mould of Form · Rosemary Edghill · ss Villains Victorious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW, 2001
    * 117 · Eternity and Afterward · Lucius Shepard · na F&SF Mar, 2001
    * 239 · Wolves Till the World Goes Down · Greg van Eekhout · ss Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001
    * 257 · The Lady of the Winds [Cappen Varra] · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Oct/Nov, 2001
    * 314 · Ave de Paso · Catherine Asaro · ss Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2001
    * 335 · Grass · Lawrence Miles · ss F&SF Sep, 2001
    * 361 · Slipshod, at the Edge of the Universe · Robert Thurston · ss F&SF Mar, 2001
    * 375 · Hell Is the Absence of God · Ted Chiang · nv Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001
    * 421 · About the Authors · Misc. Material · bg 

Fantasy: The Best of 2002 ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber (ibooks 0-7434-5867-2, May 2003, $7.99, 358pp, pb, cover by Ciruelo); Best-of-the-year anthology of 11 stories. Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Sheckley, and James Patrick Kelly. Copyrighted by ibooks.

    * vii · Introduction · Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber · in
    * 1 · Our Friend Electricity · Ron Wolfe · nv F&SF Jun, 2002
    * 43 · King Rainjoy’s Tears [Persimmon Gaunt; Imago Bone] · Chris Willrich · nv F&SF Jul, 2002
    * 75 · Social Dreaming of the Frin · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2002
    * 87 · Agamemnon’s Run · Robert Sheckley · nv 30th Anniversary DAW: Science Fiction, ed. Elizabeth R. Wollheim & Sheila E. Gilbert, DAW, 2002
    * 119 · Creation · Jeffrey Ford · ss F&SF May, 2002
    * 135 · The Face of an Angel · Brian Stableford · nv Leviathan 3, ed. Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2002
    * 171 · Dating Secrets of the Dead · David Prill · ss F&SF Jun, 2002
    * 194 · Luck · James Patrick Kelly · nv Asimov’s Jun, 2002
    * 231 · The Majesty of Angels · Robert Reed · nv F&SF Sep, 2002
    * 257 · Ailoura · Paul Di Filippo · nv Once Upon a Galaxy, ed. Wil McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW, 2002
    * 299 · Mr. Gaunt · John Langan · na F&SF Sep, 2002
    * 354 · About the Authors · Misc. Material · bg 

Fantasy: The Best of 2004 ed. Karen Haber & Jonathan Strahan (ibooks 1-4165-0400-1, Feb 2005, $7.99, 355 + xii, pb, cover by Ryan Durney); Best-of-the-year anthology of 11 stories, with an introduction on the year in SF by the editors. Authors include Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, and Peter S. Beagle.

    * · Introduction · Karen Haber & Jonathan Strahan · in
    * · Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire · Neil Gaiman · nv Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales, ed. Deborah Noyes, Candlewick Press, 2004
    * · The Word That Sings the Scythe · Michael Swanwick · nv Asimov’s Oct/Nov, 2004
    * · The Little Stranger · Gene Wolfe · nv F&SF Oct/Nov, 2004
    * · The Faery Handbag · Kelly Link · nv The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2004
    * · Quarry [world of The Inkeeper’s Song] · Peter S. Beagle · nv F&SF May, 2004
    * · The Enchanted Trousseau · Deborah Roggie · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #14, 2004
    * · The Sorcerer’s Apprentice · Robert Silverberg · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * · The Annals of Eelin-Ok · Jeffrey Ford · nv The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2004
    * · Pat Moore · Tim Powers · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * · The Angel’s Daughter · Jay Lake · ss Realms of Fantasy Aug, 2004
    * · The Silver Dragon · Elizabeth A. Lynn · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004 

Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005 ed. Jonathan Strahan (Locus Press 0-9786210-1-8, Aug 2006, $16.95, 243pp, tp, cover by John Picacio); Year’s best anthology of 16 stories, with an introduction by the editor discussing the year in fantasy. Authors include Peter S. Beagle, Charles Stross, Neil Gaiman, and Paul Di Filippo. This is a print-on-demand edition, available online at [www.locusmag.com] or from Locus Press, PO Box 13305, Oakland CA 94608.

    * 1 · Introduction · Jonathan Strahan · in
    * 5 · Two Hearts [Last Unicorn] · Peter S. Beagle · nv F&SF Oct/Nov, 2005
    * 37 · Snowball’s Chance · Charles Stross · ss Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, ed. Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, Crescent Books, 2005
    * 47 · Sunbird · Neil Gaiman · nv Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things, ed. Ted Thompson & Eli Horowitz, McSweeney’s Books, 2005
    * 65 · A Knot of Toads · Jane Yolen · nv Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, ed. Neil Williamson & Andrew J. Wilson, Crescent Books, 2005
    * 87 · Boatman’s Holiday · Jeffrey Ford · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2005
    * 101 · The Language of Moths · Christopher Barzak · ss Realms of Fantasy Apr, 2005
    * 125 · Anyway · M. Rickert · ss Sci Fiction website Aug 24, 2005
    * 141 · The Emperor of Gondwanaland · Paul Di Filippo · ss Interzone Jan/Feb, 2005
    * 157 · The Pirate’s True Love · Seana Graham · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #17, 2005
    * 163 · Intelligent Design · Ellen Klages · ss Strange Horizons (online) Dec 5, 2005
    * 167 · Pip and the Fairies · Theodora Goss · ss Strange Horizons (online) Oct 3, 2005
    * 175 · Leviathan · Simon Brown · ss Eidolon: SF Online Dec, 2005
    * 191 · The Denial · Bruce Sterling · ss F&SF Sep, 2005
    * 207 · The Farmer’s Cat · Jeff VanderMeer · ss Polyphony, Volume 5, ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005
    * 213 · There’s a Hole in the City · Richard Bowes · ss Sci Fiction website Jun 15, 2005
    * 229 · Monster · Kelly Link · nv Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things, ed. Ted Thompson & Eli Horowitz, McSweeney’s Books, 2005 

END SILVERBERG COLLECTION

HORTON COLLECTION

Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition ed. Rich Horton (Wildside Press/Prime Books 0-8095-5650-2, Jun 2006, $13.95, 336pp, tp, cover by John William Waterhouse); Best-of-the-year anthology of 19 stories, with an introduction on the year in fantasy by the editor. Authors include Gene Wolfe, Neil Giaman, and Peter S. Beagle. Prime Books, 9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234, Rockville MD 20850; [www.prime-books.com].

    * · Pip and the Fairies · Theodora Goss · ss Strange Horizons (online) Oct 3, 2005; illus. Susan Moore
    * · Comber · Gene Wolfe · ss Postscripts Spr, 2005
    * · Three Urban Folk Tales · Eric Schaller · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #16, 2005
    * · Wax · Elizabeth Bear · ss Interzone Dec, 2005; illus. Ian Simmons
    * · The Emperor of Gondwanaland · Paul Di Filippo · ss Interzone Jan/Feb, 2005; illus. Edward Noon
    * · CommComm · George Saunders · ss
    * · Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died · Samantha Henderson · ss
    * · Fancy Bread · Gregory Feeley · ss TEL: Stories, ed. Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005
    * · Sunbird · Neil Gaiman · nv Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things, ed. Ted Thompson & Eli Horowitz, McSweeney’s Books, 2005
    * · The Secret of Broken Tickers · Joe Murphy · ss Realms of Fantasy Aug, 2005
    * · On the Blindside · Sonya Taaffe · ss Flytrap May, 2005
    * · Jane · Marc Laidlaw · ss Sci Fiction website Feb 16, 2005
    * · Is There Life After Rehab? · Pat Cadigan · ss Sci Fiction website Aug 17, 2005
    * · Two Hearts [Last Unicorn] · Peter S. Beagle · nv F&SF Oct/Nov, 2005
    * · Super-Villains · Michael Canfield · ss
    * · Empty Places · Richard Parks · ss Realms of Fantasy Dec, 2005
    * · Invisible · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Sci Fiction website Mar 2, 2005
    * · By the Light of Tomorrow’s Sun · Holly Phillips · ss In the Palace of Repose, Prime Books, 2005
    * · The Gist Hunter [Old Earth] · Matthew Hughes · nv F&SF Jun, 2005 


Contents

    * Journey into the Kingdom • (2006) • novelette by M. Rickert
    * The Water Poet and the Four Seasons • (2006) • shortfiction by David J. Schwartz
    * Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter • (2006) • novelette by Geoff Ryman
    * The Osteomancer's Son • (2006) • shortstory by Greg van Eekhout
    * Salt Wine • (2006) • shortfiction by Peter Beagle
    * The Original Word for Rain • (2006) • shortfiction by Peter Higgins
    * The Lineaments of Gratified Desire • (2006) • shortfiction by Ysabeau Wilce
    * Journey to Gantica • (2006) • shortstory by Matthew Corradi
    * Irregular Verbs • (2006) • shortfiction by Matthew Johnson
    * A Fish Story • (2006) • shortfiction by Sarah Totton
    * The Night Whiskey • (2006) • shortfiction by Jeffrey Ford
    * A Fine Magic • (2006) • shortfiction by Margo Lanagan
    * Naturally • (2006) • shortfiction by Daniel Handler
    * Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge • (2006) • shortfiction by Richard Parks
    * Citrine: A Fable • (2006) • shortfiction by Elise Moser
    * A Siege of Cranes • (2006) • shortfiction by Benjamin Rosenbaum 




END HORTON

BETANCOURT/WALLACE COLLECTION

Horror : Best of 2005

Horror: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition ed. John Gregory Betancourt & Sean Wallace (Wildside Press/Prime Books 0-8095-5648-0, May 2006, $13.95, 319pp, tp, cover by Pieter Claesz); Best-of-the-year anthology of 17 stories, with an introduction on the year in fantasy by the editors. (Betancourt is listed without “Gregory” on the cover, but it is included inside.) Authors include Joe R. Lansdale, Clive Barker, and Jeff Vandermeer. Prime Books, 9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234, Rockville MD 20850; [www.prime-books.com].

    * · Introduction · John Gregory Betancourt & Sean Wallace · in
    * · The Shadows, Kith and Kin · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Outsiders, ed. Nancy Holder & Nancy Kilpatrick, Roc, 2005
    * · The Souls of Drowning Mountain · Jack Cady · ss Taverns of the Dead, ed. Burke, Kealan Patrick, CD Publications, 2005
    * · The Other Grace · Holly Phillips · ss In the Palace of Repose, Prime Books, 2005
    * · Sitting Tenant · Nicholas Royle · ss Poe’s Progeny, ed. Gary Fry, Gray Friar Press, 2005
    * · The Cape · Joe Hill · ss
    * · La Peau Verte (Green Skin) · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss
    * · A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way · M. Rickert · ss F&SF Aug, 2005
    * · There’s a Hole in the City · Richard Bowes · ss Sci Fiction website Jun 15, 2005
    * · Northwest Passage · Barbara Roden · nv Acquainted with the Night, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2004
    * · Proboscis · Laird Barron · nv F&SF Feb, 2005
    * · Haeckel’s Tale · Clive Barker · ss Dark Delicacies, ed. Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, Carroll & Graf, 2005
    * · Lost · Jeff VanderMeer · ss TEL: Stories, ed. Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005
    * · Unblinking · Ramsey Campbell · na Lost on the Darkside, ed. John Pelan, Roc, 2005
    * · Real People Slash · Nick Mamatas · ss
    * · Fair Exchange · Michael Marshall Smith · ss
    * · This Hand, Waving · Simon Owens · ss
    * · The Call of Farther Shores · David Niall Wilson · nv Lost on the Darkside, ed. John Pelan, Roc, 2005 


"Hallucigenia," Laird Barron, F&SF. 25,000 words.
"Everything is Better with Zombies," Hannah Wolf Bowen, Phantom. 3200 words.
"Immortal Forms," Albert Cowdrey, F&SF. 7400 words.
"La Profounde," Terry Dowling, Basic Black. 3300 words.
"The Virgin Butcher," Brenna Yovanoff Graham, Chizine. 3400 words.
"The Saffron Hunters," Elizabeth Hand, Saffron & Brimstone. 6300 words.
"Girl with the Lute," Samantha Henderson, Chizine. 3000 words.
"The Muldoon," Glen Hirshberg, American Morons. 10150 words.
"Raphael," Stephen Graham Jones, Cemetery Dance. 9100 words.
"Lydia's Body," Vylar Kaftan, Clarkesworld. 3000 words.
"Pony," Caitlin Kiernan, Sirenia Digest. 3850 words.
"A Pig's Whisper," Margo Lanagan, Agog! Ripping Reads, ed. Cat Sparks. 2800 words.
"The Changeling," Sarah Langan, Phantom. 2400 words..
"The Moment of Joy Before," Claudia O'Keefe, F&SF. 13400 words.
"The Novel of the Holocaust," Stewart O'Nan, Fantasy. 3400 words.
"Babysitter," Joyce Carol Oates, Ellery Queen's. 3500 words.
"Journey into the Kingdom," M. Rickert, F&SF. 11500 words.
"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter," Geoff Ryman, F&SF, 12700 words.
"My Travels with Al-Qaeda," Lavie Tidhar, Salon Fantastique, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. 2800 words.
"It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks," Paul Tremblay, Fantasy Magazine. 5150 words.
"Sob in the Silence," Gene Wolfe, Strange Birds. 6000 words.


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DAVIS/PAGE/WAGNER COLLECTION

The Year’s Best Horror Stories ed. Richard Davis (Sphere, 1971, pb); Also available in the U.S. (DAW 1971).

    * 7 · Double Whammy · Robert Bloch · ss Fantastic Feb ’70
    * 19 · The Sister City · Brian Lumley · ss Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, ed. August Derleth, Arkham, 1969
    * 33 · When Morning Comes · Elizabeth Fancett · ss The Fifth Ghost Book, ed. Rosemary Timperley, Barrie & Rockliff, 1969
    * 51 · Prey · Richard Matheson · ss Playboy Apr ’69
    * 63 · Winter · Kit Reed · ss Winter’s Tales 15, ed. A. D. Maclean, Macmillan UK, 1969
    * 71 · Lucifer! · E. C. Tubb · ss Vision of Tomorrow Nov ’69
    * 83 · I Wonder What He Wanted · Eddy C. Bertin · ss Las Mejores Historias de Fantasmas, 1970
    * 93 · Problem Child · Peter Oldale · ss Vision of Tomorrow Jun ’70
    * 101 · The Scar · Ramsey Campbell · ss Startling Mystery Stories Sum ’69
    * 117 · Warp · Ralph Norton · ss Mayfair, 1968
    * 131 · The Hate · Terri E. Pinckard · ss Witchcraft & Sorcery Jan/Feb ’71
    * 137 · A Quiet Game · Celia Fremlin · ss Argosy (UK) Sep ’70
    * 145 · After Nightfall [revised from Weird Window #1 ’70] · David A. Riley · ss *
    * 155 · Death’s Door · Robert McNear · nv Playboy Mar ’69 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories No.2 ed. Richard Davis (London: Sphere Books 28-606, 1972, 30p, 160pp, pb)

    * 9 · Preface · Richard Davis · pr
    * 11 · Foreword · Christopher Lee · fw
    * 13 · Thirst · Gerald W. Page · nv Witchcraft & Sorcery #7 ’72
    * 52 · David’s Worm · Brian Lumley · ss Pulp, 1971
    * 60 · The Price of a Demon · Gary Brandner · ss Witchcraft & Sorcery #7 ’72
    * 72 · The Knocker at the Portico · Basil Copper · ss Dark Things, ed. August Derleth, Arkham, 1971
    * 84 · The Throwaway Man · Steve Chapman · vi Weirdbook #3 ’70
    * 87 · The Woman with the Mauve Face · Rosemary Timperley · ss
    * 91 · Shadows of the Living · Ronald Blythe · ss The Sixth Ghost Book, ed. Rosemary Timperley, Barrie & Rockliff, 1970
    * 111 · The Animal Fair · Robert Bloch · ss Playboy May ’71
    * 124 · Napier Court · Ramsey Campbell · ss Dark Things, ed. August Derleth, Arkham, 1971
    * 139 · Haunts of the Very Rich · T. K. Brown, III · nv Playboy May ’71 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories, No.3 ed. Richard Davis (London: Sphere Books 0-7221-2861-4, 1973, 30p, 173pp, pb)

    * 7 · Introduction · Richard Davis · in
    * 9 · Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal · Robert Aickman · nv F&SF Feb ’73
    * 46 · The Long-Term Residents · Kit Pedler · ss The Seventh Ghost Book, ed. Rosemary Timperley, Barrie & Rockliff, 1971
    * 60 · Mirror from Antiquity · Susanna Bates · vi Weirdbook #5 ’72
    * 62 · Like Two White Spiders · Eddy C. Bertin · ss De Achtjaarlijkse God, 1972
    * 73 · The Old Horns · Ramsey Campbell · ss Demons By Daylight, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1973
    * 82 · Haggopian · Brian Lumley · nv F&SF Jun ’73
    * 107 · The Recompensing of Albano Pizar · Basil Copper · ss *
    * 124 · The Were-Creature · Kenneth Pembrooke · ss Witchcraft & Sorcery Jan ’71
    * 129 · The Events at Poroth Farm · T. E. D. Klein · na From Beyond the Dark Gateway #2 ’72 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series II ed. Richard Davis (DAW UY1119, Jul ’74, $1.25, 207pp, pb); Stories from the Sphere U.K. volumes 2 and 3.

    * 7 · Foreword · Christopher Lee · fw
    * 11 · David’s Worm · Brian Lumley · ss Pulp, 1971
    * 21 · The Price of a Demon · Gary Brandner · ss Witchcraft & Sorcery #7 ’72
    * 33 · The Knocker at the Portico · Basil Copper · ss Dark Things, ed. August Derleth, Arkham, 1971
    * 47 · The Animal Fair · Robert Bloch · ss Playboy May ’71
    * 61 · Napier Court · Ramsey Campbell · ss Dark Things, ed. August Derleth, Arkham, 1971
    * 77 · Haunts of the Very Rich · T. K. Brown, III · nv Playboy May ’71
    * 99 · The Long-Term Residents · Kit Pedler · ss The Seventh Ghost Book, ed. Rosemary Timperley, Barrie & Rockliff, 1971
    * 113 · Like Two White Spiders · Eddy C. Bertin · ss De Achtjaarlijkse God, 1972
    * 125 · The Old Horns · Ramsey Campbell · ss Demons By Daylight, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1973
    * 135 · Haggopian · Brian Lumley · nv F&SF Jun ’73
    * 161 · The Events at Poroth Farm · T. E. D. Klein · na From Beyond the Dark Gateway #2 ’72 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series III ed. Richard Davis (DAW UY1180, Jun ’75, $1.25, 173pp, pb); Published in the U.K. as The First Orbit Book of Horror (Orbit 1976).

    * 9 · Introduction · Richard Davis · in
    * 11 · The Whimper of Whipped Dogs · Harlan Ellison · ss Bad Moon Rising, ed. Thomas M. Disch, Harper & Row, 1973
    * 28 · The Man in the Underpass · Ramsey Campbell · ss *
    * 39 · S.F. · T. E. D. Klein · ss *
    * 56 · Uncle Vlad · Clive Sinclair · ss Transatlantic Review, 1973
    * 68 · Judas Story · Brian M. Stableford · ss *
    * 86 · The House of Cthulhu · Brian Lumley · ss Whispers Jul ’73
    * 98 · Satanesque · Allan Weiss · ss Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror #6 ’74
    * 109 · Burger Creature · Steve Chapman · ss Orbit 12, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1973
    * 117 · Wake Up Dead · Tim Stout · ss *
    * 134 · Forget-Me-Not · Bernard Taylor · nv *
    * 152 · Halloween Story · Gregory Fitz Gerald · ss *; this is given as from Balthus, 1973, but the last issue of Balthus was #4 in 1972.
    * 164 · Big, Wide, Wonderful World · Charles E. Fritch · vi F&SF Mar ’58
    * 168 · The Taste of Your Love · Eddy C. Bertin · ss, 1971 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series IV ed. Gerald W. Page (DAW 0-87997-263-7, Nov ’76, $1.25, 208pp, pb)

    * 7 · Introduction · Gerald W. Page · in
    * 10 · Forever Stand the Stones · Joseph F. Pumilia · ss Jack the Knife, ed. Michel Parry, Mayflower, 1975
    * 29 · And Don’t Forget the One Red Rose · Avram Davidson · ss Playboy Sep ’75
    * 35 · The Christmas Present · Ramsey Campbell · ss Nameless Places, ed. Gerald W. Page, Arkham House, 1975; broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside on December 24th, 1969.
    * 42 · A Question of Guilt · Hal Clement · nv *
    * 79 · The House on Stillcroft Street · Joseph Payne Brennan · ss AHMM Jun ’75
    * 87 · The Recrudescence of Geoffrey Marvell [E. Strickland] · G. N. Gabbard · ss *
    * 99 · Something Had to Be Done · David Drake · ss F&SF Feb ’75
    * 105 · Cottage Tenant · Frank Belknap Long · nv Fantastic Apr ’75
    * 130 · The Man with the Aura · R. A. Lafferty · ss Witchcraft & Sorcery #10 ’74
    * 141 · White Wolf Calling · Charles L. Grant · ss F&SF Apr ’75
    * 154 · Lifeguard · Arthur Byron Cover · ss Nameless Places, ed. Gerald W. Page, Arkham House, 1975
    * 166 · The Black Captain · H. Warner Munn · ss Moonbroth #21 ’75
    * 172 · The Glove · Fritz Leiber · ss Whispers Jun ’75
    * 185 · No Way Home · Brian Lumley · ss F&SF Sep ’75
    * 202 · The Lovecraft Controversy— Why? · E. Hoffmann Price · ar * 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series V ed. Gerald W. Page (DAW 0-87997-311-0, Jul ’77, $1.50, 237pp, pb)

    * 7 · Introduction · Gerald W. Page · in
    * 9 · The Service · Jerry Sohl · ss F&SF Feb ’76
    * 17 · Long Hollow Swamp · Joseph Payne Brennan · ss AHMM Jan ’76
    * 27 · Sing a Last Song of Valdese [Kane] · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Chacal Win ’76
    * 44 · Harold’s Blues · Glen Singer · ss Cthulhu: Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos #1 ’76
    * 56 · The Well · H. Warner Munn · nv *
    * 94 · A Most Unusual Murder · Robert Bloch · ss EQMM Mar ’76
    * 107 · Huzdra · Tanith Lee · ss *
    * 126 · Shatterday · Harlan Ellison · ss Gallery Sep ’75; Science Fiction Monthly v2 #8 ’75
    * 140 · Children of the Forest · David Drake · ss F&SF Nov ’76
    * 159 · The Day It Rained Lizards · Arthur Byron Cover · ss *
    * 179 · Followers of the Dark Star · Robert Edmond Alter · ss Mystery Monthly Aug ’76
    * 194 · When All the Children Call My Name · Charles L. Grant · ss *
    * 214 · Belsen Express · Fritz Leiber · ss The Second Book of Fritz Leiber, DAW, 1975
    * 227 · Where the Woodbine Twineth · Manly Wade Wellman · ss F&SF Oct ’76 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VI ed. Gerald W. Page (DAW 0-87997-387-0, Jul ’78, $1.75, 239pp, pb)

    * 7 · Introduction · Gerald W. Page · in
    * 11 · At the Bottom of the Garden · David Campton · ss Armada Sci-Fi 1, ed. Richard Davis, London: Armada, 1975; Whispers Dec ’76
    * 22 · Screaming to Get Out · Janet Fox · ss Weirdbook #12 ’77
    * 29 · Undertow [Kane] · Karl Edward Wagner · nv Whispers Aug ’77
    * 60 · I Can Hear the Dark · Dennis Etchison · ss *
    * 68 · Ever the Faith Endures · Manly Wade Wellman · ss *
    * 79 · The Horse Lord · Lisa Tuttle · ss F&SF Jun ’77
    * 94 · Winter White · Tanith Lee · ss *
    * 113 · A Cobweb of Pulsing Veins · William Scott Home · ss Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons, ed. W. Paul Ganley, 1977
    * 125 · Best of Luck · David Drake · ss *
    * 131 · Children of the Corn · Stephen King · nv Penthouse Mar ’77
    * 160 · If Damon Comes · Charles L. Grant · ss *
    * 172 · Drawing In · Ramsey Campbell · ss *
    * 180 · Within the Walls of Tyre · Michael Bishop · nv Weirdbook #13 ’78
    * 207 · There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding · Russell Kirk · nv Frights, ed. Kirby McCauley, St. Martins, 1976 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VII ed. Gerald W. Page (DAW 0-87997-476-1, Jul ’79, $1.95, 221pp, pb)

    * 7 · Introduction · Gerald W. Page · in
    * 11 · The Pitch · Dennis Etchison · ss Whispers Oct ’78
    * 20 · The Night of the Tiger · Stephen King · ss F&SF Feb ’78
    * 34 · Amma · Charles R. Saunders · ss Beyond the Fields We Know Fll ’78
    * 54 · Chastel [Lee Cobbett; Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] · Manly Wade Wellman · nv *
    * 78 · Sleeping Tiger · Tanith Lee · ss Dragonbane Spr ’78
    * 87 · Intimately, with Rain · Janet Fox · ss Collage Nov ’78
    * 94 · The Secret · Jack Vance · ss Impulse Mar ’66
    * 103 · Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose · Charles L. Grant · ss F&SF Mar ’78
    * 118 · Divers Hands [Julian] · Darrell Schweitzer · nv *
    * 144 · Heading Home · Ramsey Campbell · ss Whispers Oct ’78
    * 149 · In the Arcade · Lisa Tuttle · ss Amazing May ’78
    * 159 · Nemesis Place [Dama (& Vettius)] · David Drake · ss Fantastic Apr ’78
    * 173 · Collaborating · Michael Bishop · ss Rooms of Paradise, ed. Lee Harding, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia: Quartet Books, 1978
    * 192 · Marriage · Robert Aickman · nv Tales of Love and Death, Gollancz, 1977; F&SF Apr ’78 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories Series VIII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-87997-549-0, Jul ’80, $1.95, 221pp, pb)

    * 9 · Introduction: Access to Horror · Karl Edward Wagner · in *
    * 13 · The Dead Line · Dennis Etchison · ss Whispers Oct ’79
    * 26 · To Wake the Dead · Ramsey Campbell · ss Dark Horizons #20 ’79
    * 38 · In the Fourth Year of the War · Harlan Ellison · ss Midnight Sun #5 ’79
    * 49 · From the Lower Deep · Hugh B. Cave · ss Whispers II, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979
    * 62 · The Baby-Sitter · Davis Grubb · ss The Siege of 318, Back Fork Books, 1978
    * 79 · The Well at the Half-Cat · John Tibbetts · ss Eldritch Tales #5 ’79
    * 102 · My Beautiful Darkling · Eddy C. Bertin · ss Mijn Mooie Duisterlinge, 1979
    * 120 · A Serious Call · George Hay · ss Ghosts & Scholars #1 ’79
    * 128 · Sheets · Alan Ryan · ss Chrysalis 5, ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra, 1979
    * 139 · Billy Wolfe’s Riding Spirit · Kevin A. Lyons · ss Easyriders Sep ’79
    * 145 · Lex Talionis · Russell Kirk · nv Whispers II, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979
    * 168 · Entombed · Robert Keefe · ss Gothic Jun ’79
    * 181 · A Fly One · Steve Sneyd · ss Whispers Oct ’79
    * 189 · Needle Song · Charles L. Grant · ss Midnight Sun #5 ’79
    * 201 · All the Birds Come Home to Roost · Harlan Ellison · ss Playboy Mar ’79
    * 214 · The Devil Behind You · Richard A. Moore · ss EQMM May ’79 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series X ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-87997-757-4, Aug ’82, $2.50, 240pp, pb)

    * 9 · Introduction: A Decade of Fear · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 15 · Through the Walls · Ramsey Campbell · nv British Fantasy Society Booklet #5 ’81
    * 40 · Touring · Gardner R. Dozois, Jack M. Dann & Michael Swanwick · nv Penthouse Apr ’81
    * 59 · Every Time You Say I Love You · Charles L. Grant · ss F&SF May ’81
    * 68 · Wyntours [Father O’Connor] · David G. Rowlands · ss Eye Hath Not Seen, Pardoe, 1980
    * 80 · The Dark Country [Jack Martin] · Dennis Etchison · ss Fantasy Tales #8 ’81
    * 102 · Homecoming · Howard Goldsmith · ss Chillers Jul ’81
    * 115 · Old Hobby Horse · A. F. Kidd · ss Ghosts & Scholars #3 ’81
    * 124 · Firstborn · David Campton · ss Whispers III, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981
    * 139 · Luna · G. W. Perriwils · ss Twilight Zone Jul ’81
    * 147 · Mind · Les Freeman · ss New Tales of Terror, ed. Hugh Lamb, Magnum, 1980
    * 160 · Competition · David Clayton Carrad · ss Running Times Jun ’81
    * 179 · Egnaro · M. John Harrison · nv Winter’s Tales #27 ’81
    * 203 · On 202 · Jeff Hecht · ss Twilight Zone Dec ’81
    * 213 · The Trick [“Trick or Treat”] · Ramsey Campbell · nv Weird Tales #2, ed. Lin Carter, DAW, 1981
    * 230 · Broken Glass · Harlan Ellison · ss Broken Glass, Harlan Ellison, Avenue Victor Hugo Bookstore: Boston, 1981; Gallery Jun ’81 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XI ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-87997-878-3, Nov ’83, $2.95, 237pp, pb)

    * 11 · Introduction: One from the Vault · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 17 · The Grab · Richard Laymon · ss Gallery Jan ’82
    * 24 · The Show Goes On · Ramsey Campbell · ss Dark Companions, Macmillan, 1982
    * 37 · The House at Evening · Frances Garfield · ss Whispers Mar ’82
    * 45 · I Hae Dream’d a Dreary Dream · John Alfred Taylor · ss The Argonaut #8 ’81
    * 57 · Deathtracks · Dennis Etchison · ss Death, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Playboy, 1982
    * 68 · ‘Come, Follow!’ · Sheila Hodgson · ss Ghosts & Scholars #4 ’82
    * 87 · The Smell of Cherries · Jeffrey Goddin · ss Twilight Zone Nov ’82
    * 101 · A Posthumous Bequest · David Campton · ss Whispers Aug ’82
    * 115 · Slippage · Michael P. Kube-McDowell · nv Twilight Zone Aug ’82
    * 133 · The Executor [Father O’Connor] · David G. Rowlands · ss Ghosts & Scholars #4 ’82
    * 150 · Mrs. Halfbooger’s Basement · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss Twilight Zone Jun ’82
    * 163 · Rouse Him Not [John Thunstone] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Kadath Jul ’82
    * 174 · Spare the Child · Thomas F. Monteleone · ss F&SF Jan ’82
    * 188 · The New Rays · M. John Harrison · ss Interzone #1 ’82
    * 202 · Cruising · Donald Tyson · ss Twilight Zone Sep ’82
    * 206 · The Depths · Ramsey Campbell · nv Dark Companions, Macmillan, 1982
    * 227 · Pumpkin Head · Al Sarrantonio · ss Terrors, ed. Charles L. Grant, Playboy, 1982 


The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-87997-973-9, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $2.95, 239pp, pb); Anthology of 19 horror stories from 1983 including the World Fantasy Award winner “Elle Est Trois (La Mort)” by Tanith Lee.

    * 11 · Introduction: Of Fads and Frights · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 17 · Uncle Otto’s Truck · Stephen King · ss Yankee Oct ’83
    * 36 · 3.47 AM · David Langford · ss The Gruesome Book, ed. Ramsey Campbell, Piccolo, 1983
    * 46 · Mistral · Jon Wynne-Tyson · ss Twilight Zone Jul/Aug ’83
    * 60 · Out of Africa · David Drake · ss From the Heart of Darkness, Tor, 1983
    * 68 · The Wall-Painting · Roger Johnson · ss Saints and Relics, ed. Rosemary Pardoe, Runcorn, Cheshire: Haunted Library, 1983
    * 84 · Keepsake · Vincent McHardy · ss Quarry Spr ’83
    * 93 · Echoes · Lawrence C. Connolly · vi Twilight Zone Jan/Feb ’83
    * 97 · After-Images · Malcolm Edwards · ss Interzone #4 ’83
    * 111 · The Ventriloquist’s Daughter · Juleen Brantingham · ss Whispers Oct ’83
    * 119 · Come to the Party · Frances Garfield · ss Whispers IV, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983
    * 128 · The Chair · Dennis Etchison · nv The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd Mead, 1983
    * 149 · Names · Jane Yolen · ss Tales of Wonder, Schocken, 1983
    * 155 · The Attic · Billy Wolfenbarger · ss Dark Horizons #26 ’83
    * 163 · Just Waiting · Ramsey Campbell · ss Twilight Zone Nov/Dec ’83
    * 175 · One for the Horrors · David J. Schow · ss Whispers Oct ’83
    * 187 · Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) · Tanith Lee · nv Whispers IV, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983
    * 210 · Spring-Fingered Jack · Susan Casper · ss Fears, ed. Charles L. Grant, Berkley, 1983
    * 214 · The Flash! Kid · Scott Bradfield · ss Interzone #5 ’83
    * 227 · The Man with Legs · Al Sarrantonio · ss Shadows #6, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1983 


The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XIII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-086-6, Oct ’85 [Sep ’85], $2.95, 251pp, pb); Anthology of 18 horror and fantasy stories from 1984. Wagner searches out some totally obscure sources.

    * 11 · Introduction: 13 Is a Lucky Number · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 13 · Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut · Stephen King · nv Redbook May ’84
    * 41 · Are You Afraid of the Dark? · Charles L. Grant · ss Fantasycon IX Programme Booklet, Fantasycon IX, 1984
    * 59 · Catch Your Death · John Gordon · ss Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories, Patrick Hardy Books, 1984
    * 72 · Dinner Party · Gardner R. Dozois · ss Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley, 1984
    * 88 · Tiger in the Snow · Daniel Wynn Barber · ss The Horror Show Fll ’84
    * 94 · Watch the Birdie · Ramsey Campbell · ss Watch the Birdie, Ramsey Campbell, Haunted Library, 1984
    * 101 · Coming Soon to a Theater Near You [as by Oliver Lowenbruck] · David J. Schow · ss Twilight Zone Mar/Apr ’84
    * 121 · Hands with Long Fingers · Leslie Halliwell · ss The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes, Granada, 1984
    * 133 · Weird Tales · Fred Chappell · ss The Texas Review Spr ’84
    * 145 · The Wardrobe · Jovan Panich · ss Potboiler Win ’83
    * 161 · Angst for the Memories · Vincent McHardy · ss Moonscape Spr ’84
    * 170 · The Thing in the Bedroom · David Langford · ss Knave (UK) Nov ’84
    * 181 · Borderland · John Brizzolara · ss Twilight Zone Nov/Dec ’84
    * 191 · The Scarecrow · Roger Johnson · ss Ghosts & Scholars #6 ’84
    * 204 · The End of the World · James B. Hemesath · ss WIND/Literary Journal v14 #51 ’84
    * 217 · Never Grow Up · John Gordon · ss Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories, Patrick Hardy Books, 1984
    * 224 · Deadlights · Charles Wagner · ss Twisted Tales #9 ’84
    * 233 · Talking in the Dark · Dennis Etchison · ss Shadows #7, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1984 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories XIV ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-156-0, Oct ’86 [Sep ’86], $3.50, 291pp, pb); Anthology of 19 stories from 1985.

    * 1 · Introduction: Nurturing Nightmares · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 3 · Penny Daye · Charles L. Grant · ss Fantasycon X Programme Booklet, ed. Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher, Fantasycon X, 1985
    * 13 · Dwindling · David B. Silva · ss Spectrum Stories #1, Wonder Press ’85
    * 23 · Dead Men’s Fingers · Phillip C. Heath · nv Borderland #2 ’85
    * 48 · Dead Week · Leonard P. Carpenter · ss Dark Lessons, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Macmillan, 1985
    * 61 · The Sneering · Ramsey Campbell · ss Fantasy Tales #14 ’85
    * 78 · Bunny Didn’t Tell Us · David J. Schow · ss Night Cry Win ’85
    * 90 · Pinewood · Tanith Lee · ss Whispers Dec ’84
    * 97 · The Night People · J. Michael Reaves · ss Twilight Zone Oct ’85
    * 111 · Ceremony · William F. Nolan · nv Midnight, ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1985
    * 131 · The Woman in Black · Dennis Etchison · ss Whispers Dec ’84
    * 147 · ...Beside the Seaside, Beside the Sea... · Simon Clark · ss Back Brain Recluse #4 ’85
    * 155 · Mother’s Day · Stephen F. Wilcox · ss Twilight Zone Jul/Aug ’85
    * 164 · Lava Tears · Vincent McHardy · ss Darkness on the Edge of Town, 1985
    * 176 · Rapid Transit [Dennis Cassady] · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss Grue #1 ’85
    * 191 · The Weight of Zero · John Alfred Taylor · ss Twilight Zone Jan/Feb ’85
    * 205 · John’s Return to Liverpool · Christopher Burns · ss Interzone #10 ’84
    * 216 · In Late December, Before the Storm · Paul M. Sammon · ss Twilight Zone Jan/Feb ’85
    * 229 · Red Christmas [“Red Xmas”, as by David Almandine] · David S. Garnett · ss Mayfair Dec ’85
    * 238 · Too Far Behind Gradina · Steve Sneyd · na SF Spectrum, 1985 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XV ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-226-5, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $3.50, 300pp, pb); Anthology of 18 horror stories from 1986.

    * 11 · Introduction: What’s in a Name? · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 14 · The Yougoslaves · Robert Bloch · nv Night Cry Spr ’86
    * 39 · Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back · Joe R. Lansdale · nv Nukes, ed. John Maclay, Maclay, 1986
    * 60 · Apples · Ramsey Campbell · ss Halloween Horrors, ed. Alan Ryan, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986
    * 71 · Dead White Women · William F. Wu · ss Eldritch Tales #12 ’86
    * 91 · Crystal · Charles L. Grant · ss F&SF Aug ’86
    * 110 · Retirement [“Even Death Gets Tired”] · Ron Leming · ss Outlaw Biker Mar ’86
    * 120 · The Man Who Did Tricks with Glass · Ron Wolfe · ss Stardate Mar/Apr ’86
    * 129 · Bird in a Wrought Iron Cage · John Alfred Taylor · ss The Chill Winds of October, Laurel Arts Foundation, 1986
    * 133 · The Olympic Runner · Dennis Etchison · nv Fantasy Tales #16 ’86
    * 156 · Take the “A” Train [Dennis Cassady] · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss Not One of Us Oct ’86
    * 169 · The Foggy, Foggy Dew · Joel Lane · ss Foggy, Foggy Dew, Joel Lane, 1986
    * 183 · The Godmother · Tina Rath · ss Ghosts & Scholars #8 ’86
    * 196 · “Pale, Trembling Youth” · W. H. Pugmire & Jessica Amanda Salmonson · ss Cutting Edge, ed. Dennis Etchison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986
    * 203 · Red Light · David J. Schow · nv Twilight Zone Dec ’86
    * 225 · In the Hour Before Dawn · Brad Strickland · ss F&SF Aug ’86
    * 231 · Necros · Brian Lumley · ss The Second Book of After Midnight Stories, ed. Amy Myers, London: Kimber, 1986
    * 251 · Tattoos · Jack M. Dann · nv Omni Nov ’86
    * 278 · Acquiring a Family · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv Tales from the Shadows, Kimber, 1986      

The Year’s Best Horror XVI ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-300-8, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $3.95, 303pp, pb); Anthology of 16 horror stories from 1987 plus an introduction.

    * 11 · Introduction: They’re Here—And They Won’t Go Away · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 15 · Popsy · Stephen King · ss Masques #2, ed. J. N. Williamson, 1987
    * 31 · Neighbourhood Watch · Greg Egan · ss Aphelion Sum ’86
    * 51 · Wolf/Child · Jane Yolen · ss Twilight Zone Jun ’87
    * 69 · Everything to Live For · Charles L. Grant · ss Whispers VI, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987
    * 89 · Repossession · David Campton · ss Whispers VI, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987
    * 107 · Merry May · Ramsey Campbell · nv Scared Stiff, Los Angeles: Scream/Press, 1987
    * 139 · The Touch · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss Grue #4 ’87
    * 151 · Moving Day · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss The Third Book of After Midnight Stories, ed. Amy Myers, London: Kimber, 1987
    * 171 · La Nuit des Chiens · Leslie Halliwell · ss A Demon Close Behind, Robert Hale, 1987
    * 183 · Echoes from the Abbey · Sheila Hodgson · nv Ghosts & Scholars #9 ’87
    * 205 · Visitors · Jack M. Dann · ss IASFM Oct ’87
    * 221 · The Bellfounder’s Wife · A. F. Kidd · ss In and Out of the Belfry, A.F. Kidd, 1987
    * 241 · The Scar · Dennis Etchison · ss The Horror Show Win ’87
    * 251 · Martyr Without Canon · t. Winter-Damon · pm Grue #4 ’87
    * 257 · The Thin People · Brian Lumley · ss Whispers Oct ’87
    * 273 · Fat Face · Michael Shea · nv Axolotl Press: Eugene, OR, 1987 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XVII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-381-4, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.95, 351pp, pb); Anthology of 20 horror stories from 1988, with an introduction by the editor.

    * 11 · Introduction: Ten Years After · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 15 · Fruiting Bodies · Brian Lumley · nv Weird Tales Sum ’88
    * 44 · Works of Art · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 53 · She’s a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother · Harlan Ellison · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 71 · The Resurrection Man · Ian Watson · ss Other Edens II, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin, 1988
    * 88 · Now and Again in Summer · Charles L. Grant · ss Fantasy Tales, v.10 #1, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1988
    * 100 · Call 666 · Dennis Etchison · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’88
    * 113 · The Great God Pan · M. John Harrison · nv Prime Evil, ed. Douglas E. Winter, NAL, 1988
    * 140 · What Dreams May Come · Brad Strickland · ss F&SF Dec ’88
    * 151 · Regression · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv The Fourth Book of After Midnight Stories, ed. Amy Myers, London: Kimber, 1988
    * 168 · Souvenirs from a Damnation · Don Webb · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 176 · Bleeding Between the Lines [Dennis Cassady] · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss 2AM Win ’88
    * 186 · Playing the Game · Ramsey Campbell · ss Lord John Ten, ed. Dennis Etchison, Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988
    * 201 · Lost Bodies · Ian Watson · ss Interzone #25 ’88
    * 216 · Ours Now · Nicholas Royle · ss Dig Magazine #6 ’88
    * 224 · Prince of Flowers · Elizabeth Hand · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’88
    * 242 · The Daily Chernobyl · Robert Frazier · pm Synergy #2, ed. George Zebrowski, HBJ Harvest, 1988
    * 247 · Snowman · Charles L. Grant · ss Gaslight & Ghosts, ed. Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher, 1988 World Fantasy Con/Robinson Pub., 1988
    * 258 · Nobody’s Perfect · Thomas F. Monteleone · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 276 · Dead Air · Gregory Nicoll · nv Ripper!, ed. Gardner Dozois & Susan Casper, Tor, 1988
    * 301 · Recrudescence · Leonard P. Carpenter · nv Amazing Jan ’88 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XVII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-381-4, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.95, 351pp, pb); Anthology of 20 horror stories from 1988, with an introduction by the editor.

    * 11 · Introduction: Ten Years After · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 15 · Fruiting Bodies · Brian Lumley · nv Weird Tales Sum ’88
    * 44 · Works of Art · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 53 · She’s a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother · Harlan Ellison · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 71 · The Resurrection Man · Ian Watson · ss Other Edens II, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin, 1988
    * 88 · Now and Again in Summer · Charles L. Grant · ss Fantasy Tales, v.10 #1, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1988
    * 100 · Call 666 · Dennis Etchison · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’88
    * 113 · The Great God Pan · M. John Harrison · nv Prime Evil, ed. Douglas E. Winter, NAL, 1988
    * 140 · What Dreams May Come · Brad Strickland · ss F&SF Dec ’88
    * 151 · Regression · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv The Fourth Book of After Midnight Stories, ed. Amy Myers, London: Kimber, 1988
    * 168 · Souvenirs from a Damnation · Don Webb · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 176 · Bleeding Between the Lines [Dennis Cassady] · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss 2AM Win ’88
    * 186 · Playing the Game · Ramsey Campbell · ss Lord John Ten, ed. Dennis Etchison, Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988
    * 201 · Lost Bodies · Ian Watson · ss Interzone #25 ’88
    * 216 · Ours Now · Nicholas Royle · ss Dig Magazine #6 ’88
    * 224 · Prince of Flowers · Elizabeth Hand · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’88
    * 242 · The Daily Chernobyl · Robert Frazier · pm Synergy #2, ed. George Zebrowski, HBJ Harvest, 1988
    * 247 · Snowman · Charles L. Grant · ss Gaslight & Ghosts, ed. Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher, 1988 World Fantasy Con/Robinson Pub., 1988
    * 258 · Nobody’s Perfect · Thomas F. Monteleone · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 276 · Dead Air · Gregory Nicoll · nv Ripper!, ed. Gardner Dozois & Susan Casper, Tor, 1988
    * 301 · Recrudescence · Leonard P. Carpenter · nv Amazing Jan ’88      


The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XVII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-381-4, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.95, 351pp, pb); Anthology of 20 horror stories from 1988, with an introduction by the editor.

    * 11 · Introduction: Ten Years After · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 15 · Fruiting Bodies · Brian Lumley · nv Weird Tales Sum ’88
    * 44 · Works of Art · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 53 · She’s a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother · Harlan Ellison · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 71 · The Resurrection Man · Ian Watson · ss Other Edens II, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin, 1988
    * 88 · Now and Again in Summer · Charles L. Grant · ss Fantasy Tales, v.10 #1, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1988
    * 100 · Call 666 · Dennis Etchison · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’88
    * 113 · The Great God Pan · M. John Harrison · nv Prime Evil, ed. Douglas E. Winter, NAL, 1988
    * 140 · What Dreams May Come · Brad Strickland · ss F&SF Dec ’88
    * 151 · Regression · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv The Fourth Book of After Midnight Stories, ed. Amy Myers, London: Kimber, 1988
    * 168 · Souvenirs from a Damnation · Don Webb · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 176 · Bleeding Between the Lines [Dennis Cassady] · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss 2AM Win ’88
    * 186 · Playing the Game · Ramsey Campbell · ss Lord John Ten, ed. Dennis Etchison, Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988
    * 201 · Lost Bodies · Ian Watson · ss Interzone #25 ’88
    * 216 · Ours Now · Nicholas Royle · ss Dig Magazine #6 ’88
    * 224 · Prince of Flowers · Elizabeth Hand · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’88
    * 242 · The Daily Chernobyl · Robert Frazier · pm Synergy #2, ed. George Zebrowski, HBJ Harvest, 1988
    * 247 · Snowman · Charles L. Grant · ss Gaslight & Ghosts, ed. Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher, 1988 World Fantasy Con/Robinson Pub., 1988
    * 258 · Nobody’s Perfect · Thomas F. Monteleone · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 276 · Dead Air · Gregory Nicoll · nv Ripper!, ed. Gardner Dozois & Susan Casper, Tor, 1988
    * 301 · Recrudescence · Leonard P. Carpenter · nv Amazing Jan ’88      


The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XVII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-381-4, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $3.95, 351pp, pb); Anthology of 20 horror stories from 1988, with an introduction by the editor.

    * 11 · Introduction: Ten Years After · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 15 · Fruiting Bodies · Brian Lumley · nv Weird Tales Sum ’88
    * 44 · Works of Art · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 53 · She’s a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother · Harlan Ellison · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 71 · The Resurrection Man · Ian Watson · ss Other Edens II, ed. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, London: Unwin, 1988
    * 88 · Now and Again in Summer · Charles L. Grant · ss Fantasy Tales, v.10 #1, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1988
    * 100 · Call 666 · Dennis Etchison · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’88
    * 113 · The Great God Pan · M. John Harrison · nv Prime Evil, ed. Douglas E. Winter, NAL, 1988
    * 140 · What Dreams May Come · Brad Strickland · ss F&SF Dec ’88
    * 151 · Regression · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv The Fourth Book of After Midnight Stories, ed. Amy Myers, London: Kimber, 1988
    * 168 · Souvenirs from a Damnation · Don Webb · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 176 · Bleeding Between the Lines [Dennis Cassady] · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss 2AM Win ’88
    * 186 · Playing the Game · Ramsey Campbell · ss Lord John Ten, ed. Dennis Etchison, Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988
    * 201 · Lost Bodies · Ian Watson · ss Interzone #25 ’88
    * 216 · Ours Now · Nicholas Royle · ss Dig Magazine #6 ’88
    * 224 · Prince of Flowers · Elizabeth Hand · ss Twilight Zone Feb ’88
    * 242 · The Daily Chernobyl · Robert Frazier · pm Synergy #2, ed. George Zebrowski, HBJ Harvest, 1988
    * 247 · Snowman · Charles L. Grant · ss Gaslight & Ghosts, ed. Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher, 1988 World Fantasy Con/Robinson Pub., 1988
    * 258 · Nobody’s Perfect · Thomas F. Monteleone · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue One, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1988
    * 276 · Dead Air · Gregory Nicoll · nv Ripper!, ed. Gardner Dozois & Susan Casper, Tor, 1988
    * 301 · Recrudescence · Leonard P. Carpenter · nv Amazing Jan ’88 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XXI ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-572-8, Oct ’93 [Sep ’93], $5.50, 352pp, pb, cover by Les Edwards); Best-of-the-year anthology of 26 horror stories, with an introduction by the editor on the state of the horror field.

    * 15 · Coming of Age · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 18 · The Limits of Fantasy · Ramsey Campbell · ss Gauntlet #3 ’92
    * 36 · China Rose · Ron Weighell · ss Vampire Stories, ed. Richard Dalby, Michael O’Mara, 1992
    * 58 · The Outsider · Rick Kennett · ss Ghosts & Scholars #14 ’92
    * 86 · Briar Rose · Kim Antieau · ss MetaHorror, ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992
    * 99 · Mom School · Rand Soellner · ss Gathering Darkness Nov ’92
    * 106 · The Hyacinth Girl · Mary Ann Mitchell · ss Just a Moment Sum ’92
    * 115 · Mind Games · Adam Meyer · ss Doppelgänger Feb ’92
    * 121 · Mama’s Boy · C. S. Fuqua · ss Cemetery Dance Spr ’92
    * 127 · The Shabbie People · Jeffrey Osier · ss Souls in Pawn, ed. George Hatch, Horror’s Head Press, 1992
    * 149 · The Ugly File · Ed Gorman · ss The Prisoners and Other Stories, CD Publications, 1992
    * 158 · Eyes Like a Ghost’s · Simon Clark · ss Darklands 2, ed. Nicholas Royle, Edgerton Press, 1992
    * 172 · Fallen Idol · Lillian Csernica · ss After Hours Win ’92
    * 187 · And Some Are Missing · Joel Lane · ss The Sun Rises Red, ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1992
    * 196 · Welsh Pepper · D. F. Lewis · ss Vandeloecht’s Fiction Magazine Spr ’92
    * 202 · Tracks · Nicholas Royle · ss Interzone Jan ’92
    * 214 · Largesse · Mark McLaughlin · ss The Bone Marrow Review #3 ’92
    * 225 · City in the Torrid Waste · t. Winter-Damon · ss Bizarre Sex & Other Crimes of Passion #1, ed. Stan Tal, Tal Publications ’92
    * 235 · Haunting Me Softly · H. Andrew Lynch · ss Grue #14 ’92
    * 241 · Spring Ahead, Fall Back · Michael A. Arnzen · ss Palace Corbie v1 #2 ’92
    * 254 · Apotheosis · Carrie Richerson · ss Souls in Pawn, ed. George Hatch, Horror’s Head Press, 1992
    * 262 · Defining the Commonplace Sliver · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss Expressions of Dread #2 ’92
    * 267 · Feeding the Masses · Yvonne Navarro · ss Eldritch Tales #27 ’92
    * 274 · Sanctuary · Jeffrey Osier · ss The Silver Web Spr/Sum ’92
    * 295 · The Devil’s Advocate · Andrew C. Ferguson · ss Dementia 13 #7 ’92
    * 309 · Week Woman · Kim Newman · ss Dark Voices 4, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1992
    * 323 · A Father’s Gift · W. M. Shockley · nv IASFM Apr ’92 

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XXII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-645-7, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], $5.99, 351pp, pb, cover by Les Edwards); Best-of-the-year anthology of 31 horror stories, with an introducton by the editor.

    * 15 · But Is It Horrific? · Karl Edward Wagner · in
    * 18 · The Ripper’s Tune · Gregory Nicoll · ss Kinesis Mar ’93
    * 34 · One Size Eats All · T. E. D. Klein · ss Outside Kids Sum ’93
    * 40 · Resurrection · Adam Meyer · ss Visions Fll ’91
    * 47 · I Live to Wash Her · Joey Froehlich · vi Space & Time #81 ’93
    * 51 · A Little-Known Side of Elvis [“The Dog Park”] · Dennis Etchison · ss Dark Voices 5, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1993
    * 64 · Perfect Days · Chet Williamson · ss After the Darkness, ed. Stanley Wiater, Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1993
    * 78 · See How They Run [“For You to Judge”] · Ramsey Campbell · nv Monsters in Our Midst, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor, 1993
    * 97 · Shots Downed, Officer Fired · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss Vicious Circle Fll ’93
    * 106 · David · Sean Doolittle · ss Deathrealm Fll ’93
    * 116 · Portrait of a Pulp Writer · F. A. McMahan · ss ComputorEdge Apr 16 ’93
    * 121 · Fish Harbor · Paul Pinn · ss Xenos Feb ’93
    * 136 · Ridi Bobo · Robert Devereaux · ss Weird Tales Spr ’93
    * 146 · Adroitly Wrapped · Mark McLaughlin · ss Gaslight Aug ’93
    * 153 · Thicker Than Water · Joel Lane · ss Panurge #18 ’93
    * 167 · Memento Mori · Scott Thomas · ss Haunts #25 ’93
    * 176 · The Blitz Spirit · Kim Newman · ss The Time Out Book of London Short Stories, ed. Maria Lexton, Penguin, 1993
    * 188 · Companions · Del Stone, Jr. · ss Crossroads Apr ’93
    * 194 · Masquerade · Lillian Csernica · ss Midnight Zoo v3 #6 ’93
    * 200 · The Price of the Flames · Deidra Cox · ss Deathrealm Win ’93
    * 206 · The Bone Garden · Conrad Williams · ss Northern Stories 4, 1993
    * 213 · Ice Cream and Tombstones · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Figment #14 ’93
    * 217 · Salt Snake · Simon Clark · ss Peeping Tom #12 ’93
    * 227 · Lady’s Portrait, Executed in Archaic Colors · Charles M. Saplak · nv L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume IX, ed. Dave Wolverton, Bridge, 1993
    * 250 · Lost Alleys · Jeffrey Thomas · ss The End #1 ’93
    * 254 · Salustrade · D. F. Lewis · ss Alternaties #13 ’93
    * 270 · The Power of One · Nancy Kilpatrick · ss Sinistre, ed. George Hatch, Horror’s Head Press, 1993
    * 278 · The Lions in the Desert · David Langford · ss Weerde: Book 2, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK, 1993
    * 288 · Turning Thirty · Lisa Tuttle · ss The Time Out Book of London Short Stories, ed. Maria Lexton, Penguin, 1993
    * 297 · Bloodletting · Kim Antieau · ss Carnage Hall #4 ’93
    * 302 · Flying into Naples · Nicholas Royle · ss Interzone Nov ’93
    * 318 · Under the Crust · Terry Lamsley · nv Under the Crust, Wendigo, 1993      


          
JONES COLLECTION

Best New Horror ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell (Robinson 1-85487-058-0, Nov ’90 [Sep ’90], £6.99, 390pp, tp, cover by Les Edwards); Anthology of the best horror stories of 1989. Simultaneous with US (Carroll & Graf) edition.

    * xiii · Horror in 1989 · Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell · in
    * 1 · Pin · Robert R. McCammon · ss Blue World and Other Stories, Grafton, 1989
    * 8 · The House on Cemetery Street · Cherry Wilder · nv IASFM Dec ’88
    * 33 · The Horn · Stephen Gallagher · nv Arrows of Eros, ed. Alex Stewart, NEL, 1989
    * 57 · Breaking Up · Alex Quiroba · ss West/Word #1 ’89
    * 66 · It Helps If You Sing · Ramsey Campbell · ss Book of the Dead, ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1989
    * 75 · Closed Circuit · Laurence Staig · nv Dark Toys and Consumer Goods, Macmillan, 1989
    * 93 · Carnal House · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Hot Blood, ed. Jeff Gelb & Lonn Friend, Pocket, 1989
    * 104 · Twitch Technicolor · Kim Newman · ss Interzone #28 ’89
    * 115 · Lizaveta · Gregory Frost · nv IASFM mid-Dec ’88
    * 144 · Snow Cancellations · Donald R. Burleson · ss 2AM Fll ’89
    * 154 · Archway · Nicholas Royle · nv Dark Fantasies, ed. Chris Morgan, Legend, 1989
    * 176 · The Strange Design of Master Rignolo · Thomas Ligotti · ss Grue #10 ’89
    * 189 · ...To Feel Another’s Woe · Chet Williamson · ss Blood Is Not Enough, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1989
    * 205 · The Last Day of Miss Dorinda Molyneaux [Geoff Ashden] · Robert Westall · nv Antique Dust, Viking UK, 1989
    * 236 · No Sharks in the Med · Brian Lumley · nv Weird Tales Win ’89/90
    * 275 · Mort au Monde · D. F. Lewis · vi Dagon #26 ’89
    * 279 · Blanca · Thomas Tessier · nv Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghastly Horror, ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva, St. Martin’s, 1989
    * 303 · The Eye of the Ayatollah · Ian Watson · ss Interzone #33 ’90
    * 312 · At First Just Ghostly [Kane] · Karl Edward Wagner · na Weird Tales Fll ’89
    * 370 · Bad News · Richard Laymon · ss Night Visions 7, ed. Stanley J. Wiater, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
    * 383 · Necrology: 1989 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg 


Best New Horror 2 ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell (Robinson 1-85487-094-7, Aug ’91, £7.99, 433pp, tp, cover by Luis Rey); Anthology of the 28 best horror stories of 1990.

    * xvii · Introduction: Horror in 1990 · Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell · in
    * 1 · The First Time · K. W. Jeter · ss Alien Sex, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dutton, 1990
    * 14 · A Short Guide to the City · Peter Straub · ss Houses without Doors, Grafton, 1990
    * 25 · Stephen · Elizabeth Massie · nv Borderlands, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon, 1990
    * 47 · The Dead Love You · Jonathan Carroll · ss Omni Dec ’90
    * 60 · Jane Doe #112 · Harlan Ellison · ss EQMM Dec ’90
    * 70 · Shock Radio · Ray Garton · ss Methods of Madness, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1990
    * 89 · The Man Who Drew Cats · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Dark Voices 2, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1990
    * 105 · The Co-op · Melanie Tem · ss Women of Darkness II, ed. Kathryn Ptacek, Tor, 1990
    * 115 · Negatives · Nicholas Royle · ss Interzone #35 ’90
    * 126 · The Last Feast of Harlequin · Thomas Ligotti · nv F&SF Apr ’90
    * 159 · 1/72nd Scale · Ian R. MacLeod · nv Weird Tales Fll ’90
    * 185 · Cedar Lane · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Walls of Fear, ed. Kathryn Cramer, Morrow, 1990
    * 194 · At a Window Facing West · Kim Antieau · ss AHMM mid-Dec ’90
    * 205 · Inside the Walled City · Garry Kilworth · nv Walls of Fear, ed. Kathryn Cramer, Morrow, 1990
    * 222 · On the Wing · Jean-Daniel Brèque; trans. by Nicholas Royle · ss Fantasy Tales, #5, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1990; “A La Voletta”, Breves #33/34
    * 229 · Firebird · J. L. Comeau · nv The Women Who Walk Through Fire, ed. Susanna J. Sturgis, The Crossing Press: Freedom, CA, 1990
    * 252 · Incident on a Rainy Night in Beverly Hills · David J. Schow · nv Seeing Red, Tor, 1990
    * 272 · His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Borderlands, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon, 1990
    * 282 · The Original Dr. Shade · Kim Newman · nv Interzone #36 ’90
    * 309 · Madge · D. F. Lewis · vi Back Brain Recluse #15 ’90
    * 312 · Alive in Venice · Cherry Wilder · ss Dark Voices 2, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1990
    * 326 · Divertimento · Gregory Frost · ss IASFM Dec ’89
    * 335 · Pelts · F. Paul Wilson · ss Round Top, NY: Footsteps Press, 1990
    * 354 · Those of Rhenea · David Sutton · ss Skeleton Crew Nov ’90
    * 367 · Lord of the Land · Gene Wolfe · nv Lovecraft’s Legacy, ed. Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1990
    * 383 · Aquarium · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss The SeaHarp Hotel, ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1990
    * 397 · Mister Ice Cold · Gahan Wilson · ss Omni Apr ’90
    * 402 · On the Town Route · Elizabeth Hand · nv Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 5, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1989
    * 421 · Necrology: 1990 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg 

Best New Horror 3 ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-858-1, Sep ’92 [Aug ’92], $21.00, 417pp, hc); Best-of-the-year anthology of 29 horror stories from 1991, with an introduction and a necrology by the editors. Recommended (SW).

    * xvii · Introduction: Horror in 1991 · Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell · in
    * 1 · True Love · K. W. Jeter · ss A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1991
    * 15 · The Same in Any Language · Ramsey Campbell · ss Weird Tales Sum ’91
    * 27 · Impermanent Mercies · Kathe Koja · ss Dark Voices 3, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1991
    * 35 · Ma Qui · Alan Brennert · ss F&SF Feb ’91
    * 53 · The Miracle Mile · Robert R. McCammon · nv Under the Fang, ed. Robert R. McCammon, Pocket, 1991
    * 71 · Taking Down the Tree · Steve Rasnic Tem · vi Pulphouse Dec 31 ’91
    * 75 · Where Flies Are Born · Douglas Clegg · ss Tekeli-li! #2 ’91
    * 85 · Love, Death and the Maiden [“Mädelein”] · Roger Johnson · ss The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2, ed. Richard Dalby, Carroll & Graf, 1991
    * 97 · Chui Chai · S. P. Somtow · ss The Ultimate Frankenstein, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt, Dell, 1991
    * 111 · The Snow Sculptures of Xanadu · Kim Newman · ss Million #5 ’91
    * 117 · Colder Than Hell · Edward Bryant · ss Cold Shocks, ed. Tim Sullivan, Avon, 1991
    * 129 · Raymond · Nancy A. Collins · ss The Ultimate Werewolf, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt, Dell, 1991
    * 143 · One Life, in an Hourglass · Charles L. Grant · ss The Bradbury Chronicles, ed. William F. Nolan & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1991
    * 155 · The Braille Encyclopedia · Grant Morrison · ss Hotter Blood, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1991
    * 167 · The Bacchae · Elizabeth Hand · ss Interzone Jul ’91
    * 183 · Busted in Buttown · David J. Schow · ss Reflex Dec ’91
    * 189 · Subway Story · Russell Flinn · ss Stirring Within, British Fantasy Society, 1990
    * 201 · The Medusa · Thomas Ligotti · nv Fantasy Tales, #7, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1991
    * 221 · Power Cut · Joel Lane · ss Skeleton Crew Apr ’91
    * 229 · Moving Out · Nicholas Royle · ss Skeleton Crew Jan ’91
    * 235 · Guignoir · Norman Partridge · ss Guignoir and Other Furies, ed. George Hatch, Horror’s Head Press, 1991
    * 259 · Blood Sky · William F. Nolan · ss The Blood Sky, Deadline Press, 1991
    * 279 · Ready · David Starkey · ss Grue #12 ’91
    * 289 · The Slug · Karl Edward Wagner · nv A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow, 1991
    * 301 · The Dark Land · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Darklands, ed. Nicholas Royle, Edgerton Press, 1991
    * 321 · When They Gave Us Memory · Dennis Etchison · ss Final Shadows, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday Foundation, 1991
    * 337 · Taking Care of Michael · J. L. Comeau · vi Borderlands 2, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1991
    * 341 · The Dreams of Dr. Ladybank · Thomas Tessier · na Night Visions 9, ed. Anon., Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1991
    * 399 · Zits · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · vi Iniquities Fll ’91
    * 403 · Necrology: 1991 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg 

Best New Horror 4 ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell (Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0004-1, Nov ’93 [Oct ’93], $21.95, 413pp, hc); Best-of-the-year anthology of 24 horror stories from 1992, with an introduction on the state of the horror field in 1992 and a necrology by the editors. Simultaneous with the UK (Robinson) edition.

    * xvii · Introduction: Horror in 1992 · Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell · in
    * 1 · The Suicide Artist · Scott Edelman · ss Suicide Art, Necronomicon Press, 1992
    * 13 · Dancing on a Blade of Dreams · Roberta Lannes · nv Pulphouse Nov ’92
    * 35 · The Departed [“Hermione and the Moon”] · Clive Barker · ss The New York Times Oct 30 ’92
    * 43 · How to Get Ahead in New York · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Gauntlet #4 ’92
    * 58 · They Take · John Brunner · nv Dark Voices 4, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1992
    * 80 · Replacements · Lisa Tuttle · nv MetaHorror, ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992
    * 95 · Under the Pylon · Graham Joyce · ss Darklands 2, ed. Nicholas Royle, Edgerton Press, 1992
    * 106 · The Glamour · Thomas Ligotti · ss Grimscribe, Carroll & Graf, 1991
    * 115 · Under the Ice · John Gordon · ss The Burning Baby and Other Stories, London: Walker Books, 1992
    * 128 · And Some Are Missing · Joel Lane · ss The Sun Rises Red, ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1992
    * 136 · The Little Green Ones · Les Daniels · ss Dark Voices 4, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1992
    * 142 · Mirror Man · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Decoded Mirrors, Necronomicon Press, 1992
    * 155 · Mothmusic · Sarah Ash · ss Interzone Aug ’92
    * 168 · Did They Get You to Trade? · Karl Edward Wagner · nv MetaHorror, ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992
    * 186 · Night Shift Sister · Nicholas Royle · ss In Dreams, ed. Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman, London: Gollancz, 1992
    * 200 · The Dead · Simon Ings & M. John Harrison · ss The Sun Rises Red, ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1992
    * 210 · Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death · Christopher Fowler · nv Sharper Knives, Warner UK, 1992
    * 229 · Red Reign · Kim Newman · na The Mammoth Book of Vampires, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1992; revised
    * 285 · Aviatrix · Peter Atkins · ss Demons and Deviants, ed. Michael Brown, Phantom Press/Fantaco, 1992
    * 297 · Snodgrass · Ian R. MacLeod · nv In Dreams, ed. Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman, London: Gollancz, 1992
    * 322 · The Day of the Sharks · Kate Wilhelm · ss And the Angels Sing, St. Martin’s, 1992
    * 336 · Anima · M. John Harrison · ss Interzone Apr ’92
    * 355 · Bright Lights, Big Zombie · Douglas E. Winter · nv Still Dead, ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1992
    * 375 · The Ghost Village · Peter Straub · nv MetaHorror, ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992
    * 404 · Necrology · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg 

The Best New Horror: Volume Five ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell (Raven 1-85487-299-0, Nov ’94 [Oct ’94], £6.99, 514pp, tp, cover by Luis Rey); Anthology of more than two dozen stories from 1993, a round-up of the year’s books, films and graphic work, and a Necrology.

    * 1 · Introduction · Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell · in
    * 26 · Later · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993
    * 34 · When the Red Storm Comes · Sarah Smith · ss Shudder Again, ed. Michele Slung, Roc, 1993
    * 47 · The Exhibit · Martin Plumbridge · ss Chills #7 ’93
    * 62 · Leavings · Kathe Koja · ss Borderlands 3, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993
    * 69 · Human Remains · Edward Bryant · ss Darker Passions, Arvada, CO: Roadkill Press, 1992
    * 85 · Flying into Naples · Nicholas Royle · ss Interzone Nov ’93
    * 100 · The Sixth Sentinel · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Borderlands 3, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993
    * 116 · The Brothers · Rick Cadger · ss Sugar Sleep, ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1993
    * 129 · The Owen Street Monster · J. L. Comeau · ss Borderlands 3, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993
    * 136 · One Size Eats All · T. E. D. Klein · ss Outside Kids Sum ’93
    * 142 · Mulligan’s Fence · Donald R. Burleson · ss Lemon Drops and Other Horrors, 1993
    * 151 · How She Dances · Daniel Fox · ss Dark Voices 5, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1993
    * 162 · Passages · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Phobias, ed. Wendy Webb, Richard Gilliam, Edward E. Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg, Pocket Books, 1994
    * 172 · Easing the Spring · Sally Roberts Jones · ss Cold Cuts, ed. Paul Lewis & Steve Lockley, Wales: Alun Books, 1993
    * 183 · Safe at Home · Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem · ss Hottest Blood, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1993
    * 191 · Mother of the City · Christopher Fowler · ss The Time Out Book of London Short Stories, ed. Maria Lexton, Penguin, 1993
    * 204 · Justice · Elizabeth Hand · nv F&SF Jul ’93
    * 232 · The Big Fish · Kim Newman · nv Interzone Oct ’93
    * 264 · In the Desert of Deserts · Thomas Tessier · ss After the Darkness, ed. Stanley Wiater, Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1993
    * 275 · Two Returns · Terry Lamsley · ss Under the Crust, Wendigo, 1993
    * 293 · The Moment the Face Falls · Chet Williamson · ss Monsters in Our Midst, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor, 1993
    * 302 · Darker Angels · S. P. Somtow · nv Confederacy of the Dead, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Roc, 1993
    * 326 · The Timbrel Sound of Darkness · Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg · ss Christmas Ghosts, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1993
    * 335 · The Tsalal · Thomas Ligotti · nv Noctuary, Robinson, 1994
    * 364 · In the Still, Small Hours · Charles Grant · ss Deathport, ed. Ramsey Campbell, Pocket, 1993
    * 379 · Ice House Pond · Steve Rasnic Tem · na In the Fog, ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1993
    * 427 · The Dog Park · Dennis Etchison · ss Dark Voices 5, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1993
    * 440 · The Marble Boy · Gahan Wilson · ss After the Darkness, ed. Stanley Wiater, Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1993
    * 453 · Mefisto in Onyx [expanded from Omni Oct ’93] · Harlan Ellison · na Mark V. Ziesing, 1993
    * 501 · Necrology: 1993 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg 

The Best New Horror: Volume Six ed. Stephen Jones (Raven 1-85487-421-7, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], £6.99, 448pp, tp, cover by Luis Rey); Anthology of the best dark fantasy stories of 1994, plus an informative and lengthy Introduction, and a Necrology of authors and artists who died in the year.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 1994 · Stephen Jones · in
    * 33 · Dead Babies · Lawrence Watt-Evans · ss South From Midnight, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Thomas R. Hanlon, Southern Fried Press, 1994
    * 45 · Sensible City · Harlan Ellison · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’94
    * 55 · Blade and Bone · Terry Lamsley · ss Ghosts & Scholars #17 ’94
    * 73 · Harvest · Norman Partridge · ss Earth Strikes Back, ed. Richard Chizmar, Ziesing, 1994
    * 81 · Sometimes, in the Rain · Charles Grant · ss Northern Frights 2, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1994
    * 95 · Ménage à Trois · Richard Christian Matheson · ss Little Deaths, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994
    * 99 · Like Shattered Stone · Joel Lane · ss The Science of Sadness, ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1994
    * 113 · Black Sun · Douglas E. Winter · ss Iniquities Fll ’91
    * 123 · Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring · M. John Harrison · nv Little Deaths, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994
    * 149 · The Dead Orchards · Ian MacLeod · ss Weird Tales Spr ’94
    * 161 · What Happened When Mosby Paulson Had Her Painting Reproduced on the Cover of the Phone Book · Elizabeth Massie · ss Voices from the Night, ed. John Maclay, Maclay & Associates, 1994
    * 175 · The Alternative · Ramsey Campbell · nv Darklands 2, ed. Nicholas Royle, NEL, 1994
    * 197 · In the Middle of a Snow Dream · Karl Edward Wagner · ss South From Midnight, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Thomas R. Hanlon, Southern Fried Press, 1994
    * 215 · The Temptation of Dr Stein · Paul J. McAuley · ss The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1994
    * 235 · Wayang Kulit · Garry Kilworth · ss Interzone Dec ’94
    * 253 · The Scent of Vinegar · Robert Bloch · nv Dark Destiny, ed. Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf, 1994
    * 283 · The Homecoming · Nicholas Royle · ss Shadows Over Innsmouth, ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer, 1994
    * 305 · The Singular Habits of Wasps · Geoffrey A. Landis · nv Analog Apr ’94
    * 331 · To Receive Is Better · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1994
    * 339 · The Alchemy of the Throat · Brian Hodge · nv Love in Vein, ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1994
    * 365 · Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright... · Kim Newman · na The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, ed. Stephen Jones, London: Robinson, 1994
    * 425 · Lovers · Esther M. Friesner · pm South From Midnight, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Thomas R. Hanlon, Southern Fried Press, 1994
    * 431 · Necrology: 1994 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg 

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Seven ed. Stephen Jones (Raven 1-85487-464-0, Sep ’96, £6.99, 592pp, tp, cover by Luis Rey); Dark fantasy anthology of 25 stories and 1 poem.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 1995 · Stephen Jones · in
    * 44 · Tirkiluk · Ian R. MacLeod · nv F&SF Feb ’95
    * 69 · The Most Boring Woman in the World · Christopher Fowler · ss Flesh Wounds, Warner UK, 1995
    * 79 · Extinctions in Paradise · Brian Hodge · ss Werewolves, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1995
    * 98 · Food Man · Lisa Tuttle · ss Crank! #4 ’94
    * 109 · More Tomorrow · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1995
    * 141 · Going Under · Ramsey Campbell · ss Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc, 1995
    * 157 · Survivor · Dave Smeds · nv Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, ed. Peter S. Beagle, Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1995
    * 185 · The Stones · Patrick Thompson · ss Time Out Net Books #2 ’95
    * 194 · Back of Beyond · Cherry Wilder · ss Strange Fruit, ed. Paul Collins, Penguin Australia, 1995; revised (1975).
    * 209 · A Hundred Wicked Little Witches · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1995
    * 215 · The Finger of Halugra · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Deathrealm Spr ’95
    * 229 · The Toddler · Terry Lamsley · ss Ghosts & Scholars #20 ’95
    * 251 · Not Here, Not Now · Stephen Gallagher · ss Cold Cuts III, ed. Paul Lewis & Steve Lockley, Wales: Alun Books, 1995
    * 259 · The Bungalow House · Thomas Ligotti · nv The Urbanite #5 ’95
    * 281 · Cradle · Alan Brennert · ss F&SF Jan ’95
    * 292 · The Sixth Dog · Jane Rice · nv West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1995
    * 314 · Scaring the Train · Terry Dowling · nv The Man Who Lost Red, MirrorDanse Books, 1994
    * 347 · La Serenissima · David Sutton · nv Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction #3 ’95
    * 368 · The Bars on Satan’s Jailhouse · Norman Partridge · nv Arvada, CO: Roadkill Press, 1995
    * 400 · The Bone-Carver’s Tale · Jeff VanderMeer · ss Asimov’s Apr ’95
    * 416 · Queen of Knives · Neil Gaiman · pm Tombs, Edward E. Kramer & Peter Crowther, White Wolf, 1995
    * 425 · The True History of Doctor Pretorius · Paul J. McAuley · nv Interzone Aug ’95
    * 450 · The Grey Madonna · Graham Masterton · ss Fear Itself, ed. Jeff Gelb, Warner, 1995
    * 465 · Loop · Douglas E. Winter · nv Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc, 1995
    * 484 · The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires [Edward Copplestone] · Brian Stableford · na Interzone Jan ’95 (+1)
    * 569 · Lacuna · Nicholas Royle · vi Violent Spectres #3 ’95
    * 571 · Necrology: 1995 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg
    * 590 · Useful Addresses · Stephen Jones · ms 


The Best New Horror: Volume Eight ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-85487-901-4, Oct ’97, £6.99, 513pp, tp); Dark fantasy reprint anthology of 23 stories and a playscript.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 1996 · Stephen Jones · in
    * 49 · Walking the Dog · Terry Lamsley · nv Conference with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press, 1996
    * 86 · Mussolini and the Axeman’s Jazz · Poppy Z. Brite · nv Dark Destiny: Proprietors of Fate, ed. Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf, 1995
    * 109 · An Eye for an Eye · Norman Partridge · ss Gahan Wilson’s The Ultimate Haunted House, ed. Gahan Wilson, HarperPrism, 1996
    * 124 · Underworld [“Underground”] · Douglas Clegg · ss Phantasm #3 ’96
    * 138 · The Curse of Kali · Cherry Wilder · ss Interzone Jan ’96
    * 154 · The Film · Richard Christian Matheson · ss Rage Jan ’97; revised
    * 161 · Of a Cat, But Her Skin · Storm Constantine · ss Twists of the Tale, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dell, 1996
    * 176 · Hopscotch · Donald R. Burleson · ss Terminal Fright Spr ’96
    * 188 · Ghost in the Machine · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Bloodsongs #7 ’96
    * 194 · The Moon Never Changes · Joel Lane · ss Peeping Tom #24 ’96
    * 205 · Butcher’s Logic · Roberta Lannes · ss Lethal Kisses, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1996
    * 217 · Kites and Kisses · D. F. Lewis · ss Peeping Tom #22 ’96
    * 224 · Last Train to Arnos Grove · Marni Griffin · ss The Urbanite #7 ’96
    * 233 · The King of Rain · Mark Chadbourn · nv Squane’s Journal #3 ’96
    * 258 · Hardball · Iain Sinclair · ss A Book of Two Halves, ed. Nicholas Royle, Gollancz, 1996
    * 269 · Gas Station Carnivals · Thomas Ligotti · ss The Nightmare Factory, Raven, 1996
    * 286 · Ghost Music: A Memoir by George Beaune · Thomas Tessier · nv Dark Terrors 2, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1996
    * 305 · That Blissful Height · Gregory Frost · nv Intersections, ed. John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name & Richard Butner, Tor, 1996
    * 340 · Skin Deep · Nicholas Royle · ss Twists of the Tale, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dell, 1996
    * 357 · Hell Hath Enlarged Herself · Michael Marshall Smith · nv Dark Terrors 2, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1996
    * 382 · Unforgotten · Christopher Fowler · nv Lethal Kisses, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1996
    * 401 · A Plague on Both Your Houses · Scott Edelman · pl A Plague on Both Your Houses, Halloween, 1996
    * 435 · Final Cut · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Diagnosis: Terminal, ed. F. Paul Wilson, Tor/Forge, 1996
    * 443 · The Break · Terry Lamsley · nv Conference with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press, 1996
    * 489 · Necrology: 1996 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg
    * 510 · Useful Addresses · Misc. Material · ms 

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Nine ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-85487-554-X, Nov ’98, £6.99, 494pp, tp); Anthology of 19 stories, with a detailed examination of the horror genre in 1997, and a necrology.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 1997 · The Editor · in
    * 63 · Dying Words · David J. Schow · nv Midnight Graffiti Win ’97
    * 85 · The Windmill · Conrad Williams · ss Dark Terrors 3, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1997
    * 100 · The Right Ending · John Burke · ss Time Out Net Books, 1997
    * 108 · Swallowing a Dirty Seed [Stephen Carter] · Simon Clark · ss Midnight Never Comes, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 1997
    * 126 · This Is Your Life (Repressed Memory Remix) · Pat Cadigan · ss Dark Terrors 3, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1997
    * 141 · Christmas Forever · Christopher Fowler · ss Independent on Sunday Dec 21 ’97
    * 156 · Four Famines Ago · Yvonne Navarro · ss Terminal Frights Volume One, ed. Ken Abner, Black River, NY: Terminal Fright Press, 1997
    * 165 · The Crawl · Stephen Laws · nv Dark of the Night, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1997
    * 196 · Serpent Eggs · David Langford · ss The Third Alternative #14 ’97; an earlier version appeared in Irrational Numbers, Necronomicon Press, 1994.
    * 210 · No One You Know · Dennis Etchison · ss Brutarian #23 ’97
    * 219 · The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins [Alchemy] · Brian Hodge · na Love in Vein II, ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1997
    * 263 · The Bells Will Sound Forever · Thomas Ligotti · ss In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land, 1997
    * 273 · The Word · Ramsey Campbell · nv Revelations, ed. Douglas E. Winter, C.D. Publications, 1997
    * 308 · The Map to the Homes of the Stars · Andy Duncan · ss Dying for It, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, HarperPrism, 1997
    * 326 · Emptiness Spoke Eloquent · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Secret City: Strange Tales of London, 1997
    * 346 · Save As... · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Interzone Jan ’97
    * 360 · Coppola’s Dracula [Dracula] · Kim Newman · na The Mammoth Book of Dracula, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997
    * 412 · Grazing the Long Acre · Gwyneth Jones · ss Interzone Jan ’98
    * 426 · The Zombies of Madison County · Douglas E. Winter · nv Dark of the Night, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1997
    * 462 · Necrology: 1997 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg
    * 490 · Useful Addresses · Stephen Jones · ms 

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Ten ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-84119-064-0, Oct ’99 [Nov ’99], £6.99, 489pp, tp, cover by Joe Roberts); Annual dark fantasy anthology of 19 stories. Authors include Avram Davidson & Grania David, Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, and Harlan Ellison. There is a long introduction on the year in horror, and a necrology by Jones and Kim Newman.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 1998 · Stephen Jones · in
    * 64 · Learning to Let Go · Christopher Fowler · ss Personal Demons, Serpent’s Tail, 1998
    * 86 · The Wedding Present · Neil Gaiman · ss Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1998
    * 98 · Adventures in Further Education · Peter Atkins · vi Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998
    * 101 · Bondage · Kathe Koja · ss Extremities, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998
    * 108 · The Keys to D’Espérance · Chaz Brenchley · nv Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1998; Originally as a chapbook from Subterranean Press.
    * 130 · The Song My Sister Sang · Stephen Laws · ss Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden, ed. Steve Savile, Tanjen, 1998
    * 149 · A Victorian Ghost Story · Kim Newman · ss Interzone Jan ’99
    * 159 · The Dead Boy at Your Window · Bruce Holland Rogers · ss North American Review Nov/Dec ’98
    * 164 · Ra*e · Ramsey Campbell · nv Ghosts and Grisly Things, Pumpkin Books, 1998
    * 193 · Upstairs · Lawrence Watt-Evans · vi Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998
    * 195 · Postcards from the King of Tides · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Candles for Elizabeth, Meisha Merlin, 1998
    * 214 · Everybody Goes · Michael Marshall Smith · ss, 1992
    * 220 · Yellow and Red · Tanith Lee · ss Interzone Jun ’98
    * 238 · What Slips Away · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss More Monsters from Memphis, ed. Beecher Smith, Zapizdat Publications, 1998
    * 246 · Inside the Cackle Factory · Dennis Etchison · nv Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1998
    * 267 · The Specialist’s Hat · Kelly Link · ss Event Horizon Online Nov 15 ’98
    * 281 · The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil · Avram Davidson & Grania Davis · na Tachyon Publications, 1998; originally published as a booklet, with introductions by Beagle and Swanwick.
    * 357 · Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear · Harlan Ellison · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’99
    * 369 · Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff · Peter Straub · na Murder for Revenge, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte, 1998
    * 455 · Necrology: 1998 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg
    * 483 · Useful Addresses · Misc. Material · ms 

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eleven ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-84119-167-1, Oct 2000, £6.99, 572pp, tp, cover by Julek Heller); Annual dark fantasy anthology of 21 stories, including Straub’s novella “Pork Pie Hat”, stories by Wolfe, Newman, Gaiman, Klein, and others. There is a long introduction on the year in horror, and a Necrology by Jones and Kim Newman.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 1999 · The Editor · in
    * 68 · Halloween Street [Halloween Street] · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss F&SF Jul ’99
    * 75 · Others · James Herbert · ex Macmillan UK, 1999
    * 85 · Growing Things · T. E. D. Klein · ss 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Avon, 1999
    * 92 · Unhasped · David J. Schow · ss White of the Moon, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1999
    * 106 · The Emperor’s Old Bones · Gemma Files · ss Northern Frights 5, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1999
    * 126 · The Entertainment · Ramsey Campbell · nv 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Avon, 1999
    * 149 · Harlequin Valentine · Neil Gaiman · ss World Horror Convention 1999 Program Book, 1999
    * 159 · The Stunted House · Terry Lamsley · ss Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press, 1999
    * 173 · Just Like Eddy · Kim Newman · ss Interzone Oct ’99
    * 187 · The Long Hall on the Top Floor · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Carpe Noctem #16 ’99
    * 199 · Lulu · Thomas Tessier · nv Lulu and One Other, Subterranean Press, 1999
    * 221 · The Ballyhooly Boy · Graham Masterton · nv Encre Noir Dec ’99
    * 243 · Welcome · Michael Marshall Smith · nv White of the Moon, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1999
    * 265 · Burden · Michael Marano · ss Gothic.Net website Mar ’99
    * 280 · Naming the Dead [Mr. Carlyle] · Paul McAuley · nv Interzone Nov ’99
    * 302 · Aftershock · F. Paul Wilson · nv Realms of Fantasy Dec ’99
    * 338 · A Fish Story · Gene Wolfe · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’99
    * 343 · Jimmy · David Case · na Brotherly Love, Pumpkin Books, 1999
    * 390 · White · Tim Lebbon · na MOT Press, 1999
    * 451 · Pork Pie Hat · Peter Straub · na Orion, 1999; An earlier version was published in Murder for Halloween (Slung & Hartman, 1994).
    * 513 · Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street [Halloween Street] · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss F&SF Dec ’99
    * 528 · Necrology: 1999 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg
    * 566 · Useful Addresses · Stephen Jones · ms 

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume Twelve ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-84119-292-9, Oct 2001, £6.99, 494pp, tp, cover by Les Edwards); Annual dark fantasy anthology of 22 stories, including works by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Kathryn Ptacek, Ramsey Campbell, and Kim Newman. There is a long introduction on the year in horror, and a necrology by Jones and Kim Newman.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 2000 · The Editor · in
    * 73 · Castle in the Desert [Dracula; Johnny Alucard] · Kim Newman · ss Sci Fiction website Jun 14, 2000
    * 92 · The Keeper of the Rothenstein Tomb · Iain Sinclair · ss The Time Out Book of London Short Stories: Volume 2, ed. Nicholas Royle, Penguin, 2000
    * 106 · Forever Gramma · Mick Garris · ss Life in the Cinema, 2000
    * 122 · At Home in the Pubs of Old London · Christopher Fowler · ss Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2000
    * 135 · In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1988) · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Tales of Pain and Wonder, Gauntlet Press, 2000
    * 149 · Bone Orchards [Mr. Carlyle] · Paul J. McAuley · ss The Time Out Book of London Short Stories: Volume 2, ed. Nicholas Royle, Penguin, 2000
    * 161 · No Strings · Ramsey Campbell · ss Shadows and Silence, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2000
    * 170 · The Grotto · Kathryn Ptacek · ss Graven Images, ed. Nancy Kilpatrick & Thomas S. Roche, Ace, 2000
    * 188 · Merry Roderick · Geoffrey Warburton · ss All Hallows #23, 2000
    * 199 · Climbing Down from Heaven · Terry Lamsley · nv Dark Matters, Ash-Tree Press, 2000
    * 232 · Empty Stations · Nicholas Royle · ss Ambit #161, 2000
    * 241 · Flesh of Leaves, Bones of Desire · Charlee Jacob · ss Brainbox: The Real Horror, ed. Steve Eller, Irrational Press, 2000
    * 248 · The Repulsion · Tim Lebbon · ss Extremes, 2000
    * 261 · The Detailer · Dennis Etchison · ss Horror Garage #1, 2000
    * 274 · Coming Home · Mark Morris · ss Taps and Sighs, ed. Peter Crowther, Subterranean Press, 2000
    * 282 · The Hunger of the Leaves · Joel Lane · ss Swords Against the Millennium, ed. Mike Chinn, Alchemy Press/Saladoth Productions, 2000
    * 291 · Xenos Beach · Graham Joyce · ss The Third Alternative #23, 2000
    * 307 · At Eventide · Kathe Koja · ss Graven Images, ed. Nancy Kilpatrick & Thomas S. Roche, Ace, 2000
    * 317 · Pareidolia · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss City Fishing, Silver Salamander Press, 2000
    * 326 · I Have a Special Plan for This World · Thomas Ligotti · nv Horror Garage #2, 2000
    * 350 · The Handover · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2000
    * 360 · The Other Side of Midnight [Dracula; Johnny Alucard] · Kim Newman · na Vampire Sextette, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC, 2000
    * 447 · Necrology: 2000 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg
    * 488 · Useful Addresses · Stephen Jones · ms           

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 13 ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-84119-540-5, Oct 2002, £6.99, 590pp, tp, cover by Pete Rozycki); Annual dark fantasy anthology of 23 stories. This includes works by Elizabeth Hand, Richard A. Lupoff, and Ramsey Campbell. There is a long introduction on the year in horror, and a necrology by Jones and Kim Newman.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 2001 · Stephen Jones · ar
    * 82 · Mark of the Beast [Captain Luis da Silva] · Chico Kidd · nv Second Sight and Other Stories, Chico Kidd, 2001
    * 110 · Crocodile Lady · Christopher Fowler · nv Crimewave #5, 2001
    * 131 · All for Sale · Ramsey Campbell · ss Gothic.Net website Nov, 2001
    * 145 · The Two Dicks · Paul McAuley · nv F&SF Aug, 2001
    * 164 · By Her Hand, She Draws You Down · Douglas Smith · ss The Third Alternative #28, 2001
    * 174 · O’ Death, Where Is Thy Spatula? [Dr. Brite] · Poppy Z. Brite · ss The Spook (online) Jul, 2001
    * 188 · Got to Kill Them All · Dennis Etchison · ss Cemetery Dance #34, 2001
    * 200 · No More A-Roving · Lynda E. Rucker · ss Darkness Rising I: Night’s Soft Pains, ed. L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims, Cosmos Books, 2001
    * 215 · First, Catch Your Demon · Graham Joyce · ss Brutarian Fll, 2001
    * 229 · Pump Jack · Donald Burleson · ss Bare Bone #1, 2001
    * 239 · Outfangthief · Gala Blau · ss The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2001
    * 258 · The Lost District · Joel Lane · ss The Third Alternative #27, 2001
    * 273 · Simeon Dimsby’s Workshop · Richard A. Lupoff · ss Necronomicon Programme Book 2001, 2001
    * 288 · Our Temporary Supervisor · Thomas Ligotti · ss Weird Tales Fll, 2001
    * 306 · Whose Ghosts These Are · Charles L. Grant · ss The Museum of Horrors, ed. Dennis Etchison, Leisure, 2001
    * 321 · Shite-Hawks · Muriel Gray · ss The Third Alternative #27, 2001
    * 334 · Off the Map · Michael Chislett · ss Supernatural Tales #2, 2001
    * 352 · Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water · Kelly Link · ss Stranger Things Happen, Small Beer Press, 2001
    * 365 · City in Aspic · Conrad Williams · nv Phantoms of Venice, ed. David Sutton, Shadow Publishing, 2001
    * 387 · Where All Things Perish · Tanith Lee · nv Weird Tales Fll, 2001
    * 425 · Struwwelpeter · Glen Hirshberg · nv Sci Fiction website Nov 28, 2001
    * 459 · Cleopatra Brimstone · Elizabeth Hand · na Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2001
    * 512 · Cats and Architecture [Captain Luis da Silva] · Chico Kidd · ss Supernatural Tales #2, 2001
    * 543 · Necrology: 2001 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bg
    * 583 · Useful Addresses · Misc. Material · ms 


The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 14 ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-84119-794-7, Oct 2003, £7.99, 590pp, tp, cover by Les Edwards); Annual dark fantasy anthology of 20 stories, including works by Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Paul McAuley, and Ramsey Campbell. There is a long introduction on the year in horror by Jones, and a necrology by Jones and Kim Newman.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 2002 · Stephen Jones · in
    * 85 · October in the Chair · Neil Gaiman · ss Conjunctions #39, 2002
    * 99 · Details · China Mi
    * e’ville · ss The Children of Cthulhu, ed. John Pelan & Benjamin Adams, Ballantine Del Rey, 2002 115 · The Wretched Thicket of Thorn · Don Tumasonis · nv All Hallows #29, 2002
    * 139 · The Absolute Last of the Ultra-Spooky, Super-Scary Hallowe’en Horror Nights · David J. Schow · ss The Spook (online) Jan, 2002
    * 156 · Standard Gauge · Nicholas Royle · ss Thirteen, ed. Marc Atkins, The Do-Not Press, 2002
    * 169 · Little Dead Girl Singing · Stephen Gallagher · ss Weird Tales Spr, 2002
    * 182 · Nesting Instincts · Brian Hodge · nv Lies & Ugliness, Night Shade Books, 2002
    * 208 · The Two Sams · Glen Hirshberg · ss Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002
    * 226 · Hides · Jay Russell · nv Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters, ed. Michele Slung, HarperPerennial, 2002
    * 251 · The Unbeheld · Ramsey Campbell · ss The Spook (online) Jul, 2002
    * 267 · Ill Met By Daylight · Basil Copper · ss Cold Hand On My Shoulder: Tales of Terror & Suspense, Sarob Press, 2002
    * 284 · Catskin · Kelly Link · ss McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2003
    * 310 · 20th Century Ghost · Joe Hill · ss High Plains Literary Review v17 #1, 2002 (+2)
    * 330 · Egyptian Avenue [Richard Jeperson] · Kim Newman · ss J.K. Potter’s Embrace the Mutation, ed. William Schafer & Bill Sheehan, Subterranean Press, 2002
    * 345 · The Boy behind the Gate · James Van Pelt · ss Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002
    * 364 · Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea · Caitl
    * i’n R. Kiernan · ss The Children of Cthulhu, ed. John Pelan & Benjamin Adams, Ballantine Del Rey, 2002 378 · The Coventry Boy · Graham Joyce · nv The Third Alternative #32, 2002; This is also ‘an extract from The Facts of Life’ (Gollancz, Dec 2002).
    * 405 · The Prospect Cards · Don Tumasonis · nv Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 2002
    * 427 · The Cage [Ambergris] · Jeff VanderMeer · nv City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris, Prime Books, 2002
    * 467 · Dr. Pretorius and the Lost Temple [Pretorius] · Paul McAuley · na Sci Fiction website Sep 11, 2002 (+2)
    * 525 · Necrology: 2002 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · bi
    * 581 · Useful Addresses · Stephen Jones · ms      

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Fifteen ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-84119-923-0, Oct 2004, £7.99, 624pp, tp, cover by Les Edwards); Annual dark fantasy anthology of 25 stories, including works by Gaiman, Fowler, Wolfe, Farris, Tem, Kiernan, and Exorcizing Angels by Simon Clark and Tim Lebbon. There is a long introduction on the year in horror, and a long Necrology by Jones and Kim Newman.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 2003 · Stephen Jones · in
    * 93 · Fear the Dead · Ramsey Campbell · nv Fear Within, ed. Nicole Thomas, 3F Publications, 2003
    * 114 · The Hanged Man of Oz · Steve Nagy · ss Gathering the Bones, ed. Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell & Jack Dann, Tor, 2003
    * 129 · Mara · Michael Chislett · ss Conventional Vampires, ed. Tina Rath, The Dracula Society, 2003
    * 143 · Cell Call · Marc Laidlaw · ss By Moonlight Only, ed. Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2003
    * 153 · In the Tunnels · Pauline E. Dungate · ss Beneath the Ground, ed. Joel Lane, The Alchemy Press, 2003
    * 164 · Hunger: A Confession · Dale Bailey · ss F&SF Mar, 2003
    * 178 · Seven Feet · Christopher Fowler · ss Demonized, Serpent’s Tail, 2004
    * 195 · The Centipede · Susan Davis · ss All Hallows #33, 2003
    * 205 · The Goat Cutter · Jay Lake · ss Greetings from Lake Wu, Wheatland Press, 2003
    * 218 · Maybe Next Time · Michael Marshall Smith · ss More Tomorrow & Other Stories, Earthling Publications, 2003
    * 232 · Story Time with the Bluefield Strangler · John Farris · ss Elvisland, Babbage Press, 2002
    * 245 · Hunter Lake · Gene Wolfe · ss F&SF Oct/Nov, 2003
    * 257 · Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe · Scott Emerson Bull · ss Gathering the Bones, ed. Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell & Jack Dann, Tor, 2003
    * 265 · The Bereavement Photographer · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 13 Horrors, ed. Brian A. Hodge, KaCSFFS Press, 2003
    * 279 · Kissing Carrion · Gemma Files · ss Kissing Carrion, Prime Books, 2003
    * 299 · The White Hands · Mark Samuels · ss; Originally in substantially different form as ‘Amelia’ in Black Tears No. 1, 1993;; then in The White Hands and Other Weird Tales (Tartarus Press); restored for this book.
    * 316 · Waycross [Dancy Flammarion] · Caitlín R. Kiernan · nv Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2003
    * 340 · Lucy, In Her Splendor · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss www.marsdust.com, 2003
    * 354 · Dead Boy Found · Christopher Barzak · ss Trampoline, ed. Kelly Link, Small Beer Press, 2003
    * 372 · The Haunting · Joyce Carol Oates · ss F&SF Apr, 2003
    * 383 · Dancing Men · Glen Hirshberg · nv The Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2003
    * 417 · Bitter Grounds · Neil Gaiman · ss Mojo: Conjure Stories, ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Warner Aspect, 2003
    * 436 · Child of the Stones · Paul McAuley · nv Sci Fiction website Nov 12, 2003
    * 477 · The Silence of the Falling Stars · Mike O’Driscoll · nv The Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2003
    * 501 · Exorcizing Angels [“Exorcising Angels”] · Simon Clark & Tim Lebbon · na Exorcising Angels, Earthling Publications, 2003
    * 553 · Necrology: 2003 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · ar
    * 615 · Useful Addresses · Stephen Jones · ms 

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Sixteen ed. Stephen Jones (Robinson 1-84529-117-4, Nov 2005, £7.99, 610pp, tp, cover by Les Edwards); Annual dark fantasy anthology of 21 stories, including works by Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, and Poppy Z. Brite. Jones provides a long introduction on horror in 2004, and a necrology in collaboration with Kim Newman. Simultaneous with the Carroll & Graf US edition.

    * 1 · Introduction: Horror in 2004 · Stephen Jones · in (*), 2005
    * 81 · Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire · Neil Gaiman · nv Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales, ed. Deborah Noyes, Candlewick Press, 2004
    * 94 · Lilies · Iain Rowan · ss Postscripts Sum, 2004
    * 105 · Breaking Up · Ramsey Campbell · ss Acquainted with the Night, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2004
    * 116 · “The King”, in: Yellow · Brian Keene · ss Fear of Gravity, Delirium Books, 2004
    * 131 · A Trick of the Dark · Tina Rath · ss The Mammoth Book of Vampires, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2004
    * 140 · The Mutable Borders of Love · Leslie What · ss Amazing Nov, 2004
    * 151 · Flour White and Spindle Thin · L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims · ss Falling Into Heaven, Sarob Press, 2004
    * 170 · Tighter · Christa Faust · ss Strange Bedfellows, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael, Garrett, Kensington, 2004
    * 181 · Restraint · Stephen Gallagher · ss Postscripts Spr, 2004
    * 201 · Israbel · Tanith Lee · ss Realms of Fantasy Apr, 2004
    * 217 · The Growlimb · Michael Shea · nv F&SF Jan, 2004
    * 248 · This is Now · Michael Marshall Smith · ss, 2004; Originally published on www.bbc.co.uk/cult/vampires .
    * 261 · Remnants · Tim Lebbon · nv Fears Unnamed, Leisure, 2004
    * 301 · Safety Clowns · Glen Hirshberg · nv Acquainted with the Night, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2004
    * 326 · The Devil of Delery Street · Poppy Z. Brite · ss McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2004
    * 340 · Apocalypse Now, Voyager [Marty Burns] · Jay Russell · na Earthling Publications, 2004
    * 387 · Stone Animals · Kelly Link · nv Conjunctions #43, 2004
    * 426 · Soho Golem [Richard Jeperson] · Kim Newman · na Sci Fiction website Oct 13, 2004
    * 472 · Spells for Halloween: An Acrostic · Dale Bailey · ss Charlotte Observer Oct 13, 2004 (+8); 9-part serial ending on 31 October; in “Catawba Valley Neighbors” section.
    * 476 · My Death · Lisa Tuttle · na PS Publishing, 2004
    * 543 · The Problem of Susan · Neil Gaiman · ss Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Penguin/Roc, 2004
    * 551 · Necrology · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · ar (*), 2005
    * 602 · Useful Addresses · Stephen Jones · ms 

NEED 17 stiLL
Best New Horror 17 : The Decorations - Ramsey Campbell
Best New Horror 17 : Black and Green and Gold - David Herter
Best New Horror 17 : I Live With You and You Don't Know It - Carol Emshwiller
Best New Horror 17 : The Cubist's Attorney - Peter Atkins
Best New Horror 17 : All Fish and Dracula - Liz Williams
Best New Horror 17 : The Ball Room - China Mieville and Emma Bircham and Max Schaefer
Best New Horror 17 : Gulls - Tim Pratt
Best New Horror 17 : Pinkie - Elizabeth Massie
Best New Horror 17 : Glyphotech - Mark Samuels
Best New Horror 17 : One of the Hungry Ones - Mark Phillips
Best New Horror 17 : If I Should Wake Before I Die - Brian Hodge
Best New Horror 17 : The Other Family - Roberta Lannes
Best New Horror 17 : The Outermost Borough - Gahan Wilson
Best New Horror 17 : American Morons - Glen Hirshberg
Best New Horror 17 : Where Angels Come In - Adam L. G. Nevill
Best New Horror 17 : Sickhouse Hospitality - Terry Lamsley
Best New Horror 17 : Best New Horror - Joe Hill
Best New Horror 17 : La Peau Verte - Caitlin R. Kiernan
Best New Horror 17 : Time Was - David Morrell
Best New Horror 17 : Haeckel's Tale - Clive Barker
Best New Horror 17 : The Taint - Brian Lumley
Best New Horror 17 : The Winner Ramsey Campbell

Best New Horror 18 : SUMMER - Al Sarrantonio
Best New Horror 18 : DIGGING DEEP - Ramsey Campbell 
Best New Horror 18 : THE NIGHT WATCH - John Gordon
Best New Horror 18 : THE LUXURY OF HARM - Christopher Fowler
Best New Horror 18 : SENTINELS - Mark Samuels
Best New Horror 18 : THE SAFFRON GATHERERS - Elizabeth Hand 
Best New Horror 18 : WHAT NATURE ABHORS - Mark Morris
Best New Horror 18 : THE LAST REEL - Lynda E. Rucker
Best New Horror 18 : THE AMERICAN DEAD” Jay Lake
Best New Horror 18 : BETWEEN THE COLD MOON AND THE EARTH - Peter Atkins 
Best New Horror 18 : SOB IN THE SILENCE - Gene Wolfe
Best New Horror 18 : CONTINUITY ERROR - Nicholas Royle 
Best New Horror 18 : DR. PRIDA’S DREAM-PLAGUED PATIENT - Michael Bishop
Best New Horror 18 : THE ONES WE LEAVE BEHIND - Mark Chadbourn 
Best New Horror 18 : MINE - Joel Lane
Best New Horror 18 : OBSEQUY - David J. Schow
Best New Horror 18 : THROWN - Don Tumasonis
Best New Horror 18 : HOUSES UNDER THE SEA - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Best New Horror 18 : THEY - David Morrell 
Best New Horror 18 : THE CLOCKWORK HORROR - F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
Best New Horror 18 : MAKING CABINETS - Richard Christian Matheson
Best New Horror 18 : POL POT’S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER
Best New Horror 18 : DEVIL'S SMILE - Glen Hirshberg
Best New Horror 18 : THE MAN WHO GOT OFF THE GHOST TRAIN - Kim Newman     

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