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

4 Haruki Murakami TV People 7 Graham Masterton The Taking of Mr. Bill 12 Bruce Glassco Taking Loup 2 Gene Wolfe The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) 11 Emma Donoghue The Tale of the Skin 18 Greg van Eekhout Tales from the City of Seams 12 Holly Prado The Tall, Upheaving One 13 Jan Hodgman Tanuki 14 Leone Ross Tasting Songs 7 A. R. Morlan Tattoo 15 Patrick Roscoe The Tattoo Artist 10 Thomas Ligotti Teatro Grottesco 20 Nathalie Anderson Tell 5 Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem The Tenth Scholar 5 Kathe Koja Teratisms 3 Robley Wilson Terrible Kisses 16 Haruki Murakami Thailand 12 Stephen King That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French 8 Jack Womack That Old School Tie 3 Joseph A. Citro Them Bald-Headed Snays 21 William Browning Spencer The Tenth Muse 18 Anna Ross These Various Methods of Brightness 21 Donald Mead A Thing Forbidden 2 Michael Blumlein The Thing Itself 14 Donelle R. Ruwe The Thousandth Night 14 Jane Yolen Three Questions 3 Joe Haldeman Time Lapse 4 John Morressy Timekeeper 3 Charles de Lint Timeskip 15 Michael Libling Timmy Gobel's Bug Jar 6 Jack Cady Tinker 5 Nancy Springer To Be a Hero 15 June Considine To Dream of White Horses 7 Nancy Kress To Scale 13 Patricia A. McKillip Toad 15 Susanna Clarke Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresby 6 Jo Shapcott Tom and Jerry visit England 9 Peter Crowther Too Short a Death 14 Amy Wack Tooth Fairy 21 Terry Dowling Toother 4 Nina Kiriki Hoffman A Touch of the Old Lilith 15 Charles de Lint Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café 14 Bret Lott The Train, the Lake, the Bridge 13 N. Scott Momaday The Transformation 8 Patricia A. McKillip Transmutations 12 Karen Joy Fowler The Travails 12 Kelly Link Travels with the Snow Queen 6 Grania Davis Tree of Life, Book of Death 13 Gene Wolfe The Tree Is My Hat 18 Tina Rath A Trick of the Dark 21 Nathalie Anderson Troll 7 Neil Gaiman Troll Bridge 5 K. W. Jeter True Love 4 Garry Kilworth Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts 12 Charles de Lint Twa Corbies 19 Albert E. Cowdrey Twilight States 2 Dan Simmons Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds 4 Isabel Allende; trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden Two Words 6 Ed Gorman The Ugly File 1 Charles de Lint Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair 2 Ian McDonald Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh 3 James P. Blaylock Unidentified Objects 3 Reginald Bretnor Unknown Things 16 Lucy Taylor Unspeakable 8 Ray Bradbury Unterseeboot Doktor 21 Eileen Gunn Up the Fire Road 10 Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg Ursus Triad, Later 19 Daniel Wallace Vacation 21 Joyce Carol Oates Valentine, July Heat Wave 17 Benjamin Rosenbaum The Valley of the Giants 21 Karen Russell Vampires in the Lemon Grove 3 Scott Baker Varicose Worms 8 John Bradley The Village of the Mermaids 21 Maggie Smith Village Smart 16 Zoran Zivkovic The Violin-Maker 11 Steven Millhauser A Visit 5 Stephen Gallagher The Visitors' Book 5 Midori Snyder Vivian 1 Elizabeth S. Helfman Voices in the Wind 2 Thomas M. Disch Voices of the Kill 4 Gwen Strauss The Waiting Wolf 5 Jessica Amanda Salmonson Walk in Sable 10 Terry Lamsley Walking the Dog 3 Lisa Tuttle The Walled Garden 19 Delia Sherman Walpurgis Afternoon 3 Leszek Kolakowski The War with Things 13 Beckian Fritz Goldberg Washed in the River 15 Jean-Claude Dunyach Watch Me When I Sleep 18 M.T. Anderson Watch and Wake 18 Simon Brown Water Babies 18 Bentley Little We Find Things Old 7 Daniel Hood The Wealth of Kingdoms (An Inflationary Tale) 13 Linnet Taylor The Wedding at Esperanza 13 Michael Marshall Smith Welcome 2 Daniel M. Pinkwater Wempires 18 Theodora Goss What Her Mother Said 16 Karen Joy Fowler What I Didn't See 15 Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg What We Did That Summer 13 Michael Marshall Smith What You Make It 15 Terry Blackhawk What the Story Weaves, the Spinner Tells 8 Jonathan Carroll A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings 19 Adam L. G. Nevill Where Angels Come In 15 Norman Partridge Where the Woodbine Twineth 13 Tim Lebbon White 8 Douglas Clegg White Chapel 3 Garry Kilworth White Noise 9 Neil Gaiman The White Road 1 Lucius Shepard White Trains 3 Tanith Lee White as Sin, Now 17 Vandana Singh The Wife 8 Emily Newland Who Will Love the River God? 17 Sara Maitland Why I Became a Plumber 12 Marisa de los Santos Wiglaf 11 Charles de Lint Wild Horses 16 Helga M. Novak The Wild Hunt 10 Ron Hansen Wilderness 12 Larry Fontenot Wile E. Coyote's Lament 6 Jane Yolen Will 20 Margo Lanagan Winkie 11 Jeffrey Shaffer Winner Take All 8 Noy Holland Winter Bodies 2 John M. Ford Winter Solstice, Camelot Station 21 Elizabeth Hand Winter's Wife 18 Alice Hoffman The Witch of Truro 5 Gloria Ericson The Witch of Wilton Falls 10 Delia Sherman The Witch's Heart 10 Patricia A. McKillip The Witches of Junket 17 Brian Hodge With Acknowledgments to Sun Tzu 17 Ursula K. Le Guin Woeful Tales from Mahigul 16 Nan Fry The Wolf's Story 7 Lisa Goldstein The Woman in the Painting 9 Jane Yolen Women's Stories 18 Elizabeth Hand Wonderwall 7 E. R. Stewart Wooden Druthers 8 Nancy Kress Words Like Pale Stones 1 Jane Yolen Words of Power 1 T. M. Wright A World Without Toys   15 Edward Bryant The Year in Media of the Fantastic 16   The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2002 20   The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2006 21   The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2007 20 Josh Bell Yep, I Said Camel 8 A. R. Morlan Yet Another Poisoned Apple for the Fairy Princess 3 Chet Williamson Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purty...He Said. (Page 243) 13 Kim Newman You Don't Have To Be Mad... 17 Nathan Ballingrud You Go Where It Takes You 5 Adam Gopnik You'll Never Eat Lunch on This Continent Again 8 Delia Sherman Young Woman in a Garden 2 Rick DeMarinis Your Story 18 Andy Duncan Zora and the Zombie

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