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

16 Neil Gaiman Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky 16 M. Shayne Bell The Pagodas of Ciboure 1 David J. Schow Pamela's Get 4 Jonathan Carroll The Panic Hand 9 Stuart Dybek Paper Lantern 13 Thomas Wharton The Paper-Thin Garden 6 Scott Bradfield The Parakeet and the Cat 13 Delia Sherman The Parwat Ruby 13 Douglas E. Winter The Pathos of Genre 19 Dave Hutchinson The Pavement Artist 5 S. P. Somtow The Pavilion of Frozen Women 1 George R. R. Martin The Pear-Shaped Man 9 Scott Bradfield Penguins for Lunch 14 Ian Rodwell & Steve Duffy The Penny Drops 5 Kara Dalkey The Peony Lantern 16   The People Behind the Book 14   The People Behind the Book 21 Jack Haringa A Perfect and Unmappable Grace 17 Patrick O'Leary The Perfect City 20 Jeannine Hall Gailey Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks 10 Shara McCallum Persephone Sets the Record Straight 5 Joanne Greenberg Persistence of Memory 5 Pat Murphy Peter 10 Ana Blandiana The Phantom Church 10 Isobelle Carmody The Phoenix 4 Joe R. Lansdale The Phone Woman 1 Lucius Shepard Pictures Made of Stones 7 Augustine Bruins Funnell The Pig Man 20 Margo Lanagan A Pig's Whisper 2 Sandra M. Gilbert Pinocchio 5 Nancy Willard Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymous Bosch 13 Charles de Lint Pixel Pixies 12 Michael Marshall Smith A Place to Stay 3 Michael de Larrabeiti The Plane Tree and the Fountain 6 M. R. Scofidio Playing With 2 Ramsey Campbell Playing the Game 7 Ellen Kushner Playing with Fire 15 Christopher Barzak Plenty 10 Patricia Preciado Martin Plumas 7 Ursula K. Le Guin The Poacher 5 R. H. W. Dillard Poe at the End 5 Rosario Ferr‚ The Poisoned Story 20 Geoff Ryman Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter 16 Robin McKinley The Pool in the Desert 16 Carlton Mellick, III Porno in August 18 D. Ellis Dickerson Postcretaceous Era 14 Andy Duncan The Pottawatomie Giant 3 Pat Cadigan The Power and the Passion 9 Nancy Willard Prayer 7 Roberta Lannes Precious 2 John M. Ford Preflash 11 Matthew Sweeney Princess 7 Will Shetterly The Princess Who Kicked Butt 2 Patricia C. Wrede The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn 9 Delia Sherman The Printer's Daughter 7 Bruce Boston Prisoners of the Royal Weather 19 Laird Barron Proboscis 9 Peter S. Beagle Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros 15 Carol Emshwiller The Project 16 Don Tumasonis The Prospect Cards 15 Marion Arnott Prussian Snowdrops 12 Mark W. Tiedemann Psyché 11 Molly Brown The Psychomantium 16 Michael Libling Puce Boy 6 D. R. McBride Puja 15 Scott Thomas Puppet and the Train 17 Thomas Ligotti Purity 15 Gene Wolfe Queen 5 Alison Fell Queen Christina and the Windsurfer 9 Neil Gaiman Queen of Knives 6 Craig Curtis Queequeg 6 Jane Yolen The Question of the Grail 11 Jane Yolen Rabbit Hole 10 Michael Swanwick Radio Waves 5 Robert Holdstock & Garry Kilworth The Ragthorn 8 Michael Marshall Smith Rain Falls 12 Mary Rosenblum The Rainmaker 20 Stephen Graham Jones Raphael 10 Lisa Russ Spaar Rapunzel's Exile 6 Steve Rasnic Tem Rat Catcher 6 Brian W. Aldiss Ratbird 21 Veronica Schanoes Rats 16 Jackie Bartley Reading Myth to Kindergartners 10 Tanith Lee The Reason for Not Going to the Ball 16 Joel Lane The Receivers 17 George Saunders The Red Bow 13 Ursula K. Le Guin Redescending 9 David J. Schow Refrigerator Heaven 11 Katherine Vaz The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden 6 Lisa Tuttle Replacements 8 Carme Riera Report 18 China Miéville Reports of Certain Events in London 11 Paul McAuley & Kim Newman Residuals 9 S. N. Dyer Resolve and Resistance 18 Stephen Gallagher Restraint 3 Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier Return to the Mutant Rain Forest 12 Michael Blumlein Revenge 18 Stepan Chapman Revenge of the Calico Cat 21 Holly Black Reversal of Fortune 7 Rosario Ferr‚ Rice and Milk 7 Robert Devereaux Ridi Bobo 11 Charles L. Grant Riding the Black 14 Elizabeth Engstrom Riding the Black Horse 18 Margo Lanagan Rite of Spring 15 Gavin J. Grant Rites: Cleaning the Last Bones 16 Kathe Koja Road Trip 7 Danith McPherson Roar at the Heart of the World 2 Anne Gay Roman Games 16 Susan Power Roofwalker 16 Theodora Goss The Rose in Twelve Petals 12 Jorge Luis Borges; trans. by Andrew Hurley The Rose of Paracelsus 6 James Powell Ruby Laughter, Tears of Pearl 12 Steve Duffy Running Dogs 3 Edward Bryant A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned 4 Jonathan Carroll The Sadness of Detail 11 Gary A. Braunbeck Safe 13 Denise Lee Sailing the Painted Ocean 6 Gene Wolfe The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun 7 Gabriel García Márquez; trans. by Edith Grossman The Saint 14 Terry Dowling The Saltimbanques 5 Ramsey Campbell The Same in Any Language 14 Amy Wack The Sandman 5 James Powell Santa's Way 2 Dennis Etchison The Scar 15 Gregory Maguire Scarecrow 19 Tom Brennan Scarecrow 9 Terry Dowling Scaring the Train 2 Greg Egan Scatter My Ashes 21 Billy Collins Scenes of Hell 9 Terry Lamsley Screens 19 Jeffrey Ford The Scribble Mind 2 Sara Maitland Seal-Self 6 Haruki Murakami; trans. by Jay Rubin The Second Bakery Attack 5 A. R. Morlan The Second Most Beautiful Woman in the World 10 Graham Masterton The Secret Shih Tan 2 Ruth Roston Secretly 3 Dan Daly Self-portrait Mixed Media on Pavement, 1988 11 Emily Warn Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings 21 Catherynne M. Valente The Seven Devils of Central California 18 Christopher Fowler Seven Feet 16 Tracina Jackson-Adams Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes 19 Mark Samuels Shallaballah 14 Ellen Steiber The Shape of Things 13 Peter Crowther Shatsi 3 Dan Simmons Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites 9 Pat Cadigan She's Not There 11 Bill Lewis Sheela Na Gig 14 Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky 12 Neil Gaiman Shoggoth's Old Peculiar 2 Richard Matheson Shoo Fly 4 Peter Straub A Short Guide to the City 20 Benjamin Rosenbaum A Siege of Cranes 17 Mike O'Driscoll The Silence of the Falling Stars 18 Elizabeth A. Lynn The Silver Dragon 6 Emma Bull Silver or Gold 1 Natalie Babbitt Simple Sentences 11 Steve Stern The Sin of Elijah 18 Margo Lanagan Singing My Sister Down 11 Brennen Wysong The Sin-Eater's Tale 21 Garth Nix Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again 8 Steven Millhauser The Sisterhood of Night 6 Steve Rasnic Tem Skin 15 Charlee Jacob Skin 13 Wendy Wheeler Skin So Green and Fine 11 Leslie Dick The Skull of Charlotte Corday 11 Joyce Carol Oates The Sky-Blue Ball 3 Greg Bear Sleepside Story 8 David Nickle The Sloan Men 6 Stephen Gallagher The Sluice 7 Caila Rossi Small Adjustments 1 M. John Harrison Small Heirlooms 13 Gary A. Braunbeck Small Song 5 Patrick McGrath The Smell 13 Kent Meyers The Smell of the Deer 4 Michael Bishop Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague 1 Gwyneth Jones The Snow Apples 14 Elizabeth Howkins Snow Blindness 7 John Coyne Snow Man 10 Angela Carter The Snow Pavilion 7 Patricia A. McKillip The Snow Queen 16 Robert Phillips The Snow Queen 8 Neil Gaiman Snow, Glass, Apples. 2 Jessie Thompson Snowfall 2 Charles L. Grant Snowman 20 Gene Wolfe Sob in the Silence 1 Harlan Ellison Soft Monkey 2 Charles de Lint The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow 16 Brian Hodge Some Other Me 7 Ian McDonald Some Strange Desire 3 Robert R. McCammon Something Passed By 8 Charles L. Grant Sometimes, in the Rain 5 Fred Chappell The Somewhere Doors 4 Ellen Kushner Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble 15 Milbre Burch Sop Doll 19 Jack Cady The Souls of Drowning Mountain 3 Zhaxi Dawa Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord 4 David Memmott Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light 11 Christopher Fowler Spanky's Back in Town 18 Alison Smith The Specialist 12 Kelly Link The Specialist's Hat 18 Tanith Lee Speir-Bhan 2 Nancy Kress Spillage 1 Douglas E. Winter Splatter: A Cautionary Tale 21 Paul Walther Splitfoot 16 Nicholas Royle Standard Gauge 19 Theodora Goss A Statement in the Case 4 Elizabeth Massie Stephen 3 Joe R. Lansdale The Steel Valentine 16 Terry Dowling Stitch 8 Linda Weasel Head The Stone Woman 13 Juan Goytisolo; trans. by Annella McDermott The Stork-men 4 R. A. Lafferty The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study 6 A. S. Byatt The Story of the Eldest Princess 5 Jane Yolen A Story Must Be Held 7 Rafik Schami The Storyteller 15 Scott Thomas Strange Things About Birds 8 Kelley Eskridge Strings 18 Joyce Carol Oates Stripping 15 Glen Hirshberg Struwwelpeter 17 Neil Gaiman A Study in Emerald 8 Nicholson Baker Subsoil 12 Terry Lamsley Suburban Blight 3 J. N. Williamson The Sudd 1 Terri Windling Summation 1987: Fantasy 2   Summation 1988: Fantasy 3   Summation 1989: Fantasy 4   Summation 1990: Fantasy 5   Summation 1991: Fantasy 6   Summation 1992: Fantasy 7   Summation 1993: Fantasy 8   Summation 1994: Fantasy 9   Summation 1995: Fantasy 10   Summation 1996: Fantasy 11   Summation 1997: Fantasy 12   Summation 1998: Fantasy 13   Summation 1999: Fantasy 14   Summation 2000: Fantasy 15   Summation 2001: Fantasy 16   Summation 2002: Fantasy 17 Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant Summation 2003: Fantasy 18   Summation 2004: Fantasy 19   Summation 2005: Fantasy 20   Summation 2006: Fantasy 21   Summation 2007: Fantasy 1 Ellen Datlow Summation 1987: Horror 2   Summation 1988: Horror 3   Summation 1989: Horror 4   Summation 1990: Horror 5   Summation 1991: Horror 6   Summation 1992: Horror 7   Summation 1993: Horror 8   Summation 1994: Horror 9   Summation 1995: Horror 10   Summation 1996: Horror 11   Summation 1997: Horror 12   Summation 1998: Horror 13   Summation 1999: Horror 14   Summation 2000: Horror 15   Summation 2001: Horror 16   Summation 2002: Horror 17   Summation 2003: Horror 18   Summation 2004: Horror 19   Summation 2005: Horror 20   Summation 2006: Horror 21   Summation 2007: Horror 7 Nancy A. Collins The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw 8 B. Brandon Barker Superman's Diary 7 Harlan Ellison Susan 9 Jane Yolen Swan/Princess 4 George Szanto The Sweeper 16 Adam Roberts Swiftly 6 Charlotte Watson Sherman Swimming Lesson 21 Don Tumasonis The Swing 9 Lucy Taylor Switch 5 Ellen Kushner The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death

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