In 1988, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling collected together what they thought was the best short fantasy and horror from the previous year. They went through as many of the magazines, collections and anthologies published in 1987 that they could find and chose those stories which they decided best represented the fantasy and horror field. Originally conceived by him, Jim Frenkel arranged for its publication by St. Martins's Press and it has been produced every year since then. In 2003, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant took over from Terri Windling as the fantasy editor. The book is produced in two formats: a hard cover edition and a perfect bound paper cover version. Contents: Sorted by Volume | Sorted by Author | Sorted by Title

6 Nancy Farmer Origami Mountain 18 John Farris Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland 18 Mélanie Fazi The Cajun Knot 8 Gregory Feeley Aweary of the Sun 5 Alison Fell Queen Christina and the Windsurfer 5 Rosario Ferr The Poisoned Story 7   Rice and Milk 13 Gemma Files The Emperor's Old Bones 5 Pierrette Fleutiaux The Ogre's Wife 12 Larry Fontenot Wile E. Coyote's Lament 13 Jeffrey Ford At Reparata 15   The Honeyed Knot 16   Creation 16   The Green Word 18   A Night in the Tropics 19   Boatman's Holiday 19   The Scribble Mind 20   The Night Whiskey 21   The Drowned Life 2 John M. Ford Preflash 2   Winter Solstice, Camelot Station 20 Ben Fountain The Good Ones are Already Taken 6 Christopher Fowler On Edge 11   Spanky's Back in Town 15   Crocodile Lady 16   The Green Man 18   Seven Feet 4 Karen Joy Fowler Lieserl 11   The Black Fairy's Curse 12   The Travails 16   What I Didn't See 17   King Rat 21   The Last Worders 4 Ian Frazier Coyote vs. Acme 5   The Afternoon of June 8, 1991 14 Esther M. Friesner Hallowmass 1 James Frenkel Obituaries: 1987 2   Obituaries: 1988 3   Obituaries: 1989 4   Obituaries: 1990 5   Obituaries: 1991 6   Obituaries: 1992 7   Obituaries: 1993 8   Obituaries: 1994 9   Obituaries: 1995 10   Obituaries: 1996 11   Obituaries: 1997 12   Obituaries: 1998 13   Obituaries: 1999 14   Obituaries: 2000 15   Obituaries: 2001 16   Obituaries: 2002 18   Obituaries: 2004 19   Obituaries: 2005 20   Obituaries: 2006 21   Obituaries: 2007 16 Nan Fry The Wolf's Story 7 Augustine Bruins Funnell The Pig Man 7 Adam Corbin Fusco Breath 17   N007-JK1 20 Jeannine Hall Gailey Becoming The Villainess 20   Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks 6 Neil Gaiman Murder Mysteries 7   Troll Bridge 8   Snow, Glass, Apples. 9   Queen of Knives 9   The White Road 10   Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) 12   Shoggoth's Old Peculiar 13   Harlequin Valentine 13   Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story 14   Instructions 16   Feeders and Eaters 16   Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky 17   A Study in Emerald 6 Stephen Gallagher The Sluice 16   Little Dead Girl Singing 18   Restraint 5   The Visitors' Book 20   The Box 6 Sara Gallardo; trans. by Elizabeth Rhodes The Blue Stone Emperor's Thirty-Three Wives 5 Janice Galloway Blood 1 Craig Shaw Gardner Demon Luck 8 David Garnett A Friend Indeed 2 Anne Gay Roman Games 11 Sonia Gernes A Globe of Glass 2 Sandra M. Gilbert Pinocchio 2   The Last Poem About the Snow Queen 14 Greer Gilman Jack Daw's Pack 13 Robert Girardi The Dinner Party 12 Bruce Glassco Taking Loup 9 Louise Gluck Circe's Power 10 Parke Godwin The Last Rainbow 13 Beckian Fritz Goldberg Washed in the River 14 Laurence Goldstein Meeting the Graiae 2 Lisa Goldstein Death Is Different 7   The Woman in the Painting 12   The Fantasma of Q____ 15 Ray Gonzales The Legend 5 Adam Gopnik You'll Never Eat Lunch on This Continent Again 6 Ed Gorman The Ugly File 16 Theodora Goss The Rose in Twelve Petals 17   Lily, with Clouds 18   The Changeling 18   What Her Mother Said 19   A Statement in the Case 19   Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus (poem) 17 Daphne Gottlieb Final Girl II: The Frame 13 Juan Goytisolo; trans. by Annella McDermott The Stork-men 10 Philip Graham Angel 2 Charles L. Grant Snowman 8   Sometimes, in the Rain 11   Riding the Black 15 Gavin J. Grant Rites: Cleaning the Last Bones 14 Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky 5 Joanne Greenberg Persistence of Memory 21 Eliza Griswold Monkey 21 Eileen Gunn Up the Fire Road 9 Marcia Guthridge Henry V, Part 2 1 Joe Haldeman DX 3   Time Lapse 6   Graves 4 Sharon M. Hall The Last Game 7 Elizabeth Hand The Erl-King 15   Cleopatra Brimstone 16   Inside Out: On Henry Darger 16   The Least Trumps 18   Wonderwall 19   Kronia 21   Winter's Wife 10 Ron Hansen Wilderness 20 Frances Hardinge Halfway House 15 Melissa Hardy The Bockles 16   Aquerò 21 Jack Haringa A Perfect and Unmappable Grace 11 Christopher Harman In the Fields 12   Jackdaw Jack 20   The Last to be Found 3 Rory Harper Monsters, Tearing Off My Face 1 M. John Harrison Small Heirlooms 2   The Great God Pan 6   Anima 8   Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring 9 Sue Kepros Hartman La Loma, La Luna 8 Linda Weasel Head The Stone Woman 1 Elizabeth S. Helfman Voices in the Wind 15 Bob Hicok Becoming Bird 19 Joe Hill My Father's Mask 14 Glen Hirshberg Mr. Dark's Carnival 15   Struwwelpeter 17   Dancing Men 19   American Morons 20   The Muldoon 16 Brian Hodge Nesting Instincts 16   Some Other Me 17   With Acknowledgments to Sun Tzu 13 Jan Hodgman Tanuki 20 William Hope Hodgson Ballade 20   My Babe, My Babe 18 Alice Hoffman The Witch of Truro 4 Nina Kiriki Hoffman A Touch of the Old Lilith 4   Coming Home 9   Home for Christmas 17   Flotsam 19 Pentti Holappa Boman 7 Nancy Holder Crash Cart 5 Robert Holdstock & Garry Kilworth The Ragthorn 8 Noy Holland Winter Bodies 7 Daniel Hood The Wealth of Kingdoms (An Inflationary Tale) 14 Nalo Hopkinson Greedy Choke Puppy 20 Nik Houser First Kisses From Beyond the Grave 14 Elizabeth Howkins Snow Blindness 15 Tanya Huff Oh, Glorious Sight 19 Dave Hutchinson The Pavement Artist 10 Chang Hwang Little Beauty's Wedding

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