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

1	Terri Windling	Summation 1987: Fantasy
1	Ellen Datlow	Summation 1987: Horror
1	Edward Bryant	Horror and Fantasy on the Screen: 1987
1	James Frenkel	Obituaries: 1987
1	Ursula K. Le Guin	Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
1	T. M. Wright	A World Without Toys
1	Joe Haldeman	DX
1	Jonathan Carroll	Friend's Best Man
1	Gwyneth Jones	The Snow Apples
1	Susan Palwick	Ever After
1	William F. Nolan	My Name Is Dolly
1	Joan Aiken	The Moon's Revenge
1	Edward Bryant	Author's Notes
1	John Robert Bensink	Lake George in High August
1	Steven Brust	Csucskari
1	Ramsey Campbell	The Other Side
1	David J. Schow	Pamela's Get
1	Elizabeth S. Helfman	Voices in the Wind
1	Jane Yolen	Once Upon a Time, She Said
1	Carol Emshwiller	The Circular Library of Stones
1	Harlan Ellison	Soft Monkey
1	Michael Shea	Fat Face
1	Charles de Lint	Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair
1	George R. R. Martin	The Pear-Shaped Man
1	Lucius Shepard	Delta Sly Honey
1	M. John Harrison	Small Heirlooms
1	Patricia C. Wrede	The Improper Princess
1	John Brunner	The Fable of the Farmer and Fox
1	Joyce Carol Oates	Haunted
1	Kathryn Ptacek	Dead Possums
1	Lucius Shepard	Pictures Made of Stones
1	Douglas E. Winter	Splatter: A Cautionary Tale
1	John M. Skipp & Craig Spector	Gentlemen
1	Craig Shaw Gardner	Demon Luck
1	Jane Yolen	Words of Power
1	Lisa Tuttle	Jamie's Grave
1	Delia Sherman	The Maid on the Shore
1	Michael McDowell	Halley's Passing
1	Lucius Shepard	White Trains
1	Natalie Babbitt	Simple Sentences
1	Alan Moore	A Hypothetical Lizard
1		Honorable Mentions: 1987
2	Terri Windling	Summation 1988: Fantasy
2	Ellen Datlow	Summation 1988: Horror
2	Edward Bryant	Horror and Fantasy on the Screen: 1988
2	James Frenkel	Obituaries: 1988
2	Lisa Goldstein	Death Is Different
2	Gene Wolfe	The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It)
2	Pat Cadigan	It Was the Heat
2	Edward Bryant	The Cutter
2	John DuFresne	The Freezer Jesus
2	Thomas M. Disch	Voices of the Kill
2	Ruth Roston	Secretly
2	Tanith Lee	The Devil's Rose
2	Daniel M. Pinkwater	Wempires
2	Greg Egan	Scatter My Ashes
2	Ian McDonald	Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh
2	Richard Matheson	Shoo Fly
2	Michael Blumlein	The Thing Itself
2	Charles de Lint	The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow
2	Anne Gay	Roman Games
2	Patricia C. Wrede	The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn
2	Robert Kelly	The Book and Its Contents
2	M. John Harrison	The Great God Pan
2	Ian Watson	Lost Bodies
2	Dan Simmons	Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds
2	John M. Ford	Preflash
2	Lucius Shepard	Life of Buddha
2	Charles Beaumont	Appointment with Eddie
2	William Kotzwinkle	Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods
2	Nancy Kress	Spillage
2	Charles L. Grant	Snowman
2	Dennis Etchison	The Scar
2	Gwyneth Jones	Laiken Langstrand
2	Sandra M. Gilbert	The Last Poem About the Snow Queen
2	Sandra M. Gilbert	Pinocchio
2	Gene Wolfe	Game in the Pope's Head
2	Ramsey Campbell	Playing the Game
2	F. Paul Wilson	Faces
2	Jessie Thompson	Snowfall
2	Sara Maitland	Seal-Self
2	Barry N. Malzberg	No Hearts, No Flowers
2	Jane Yolen	The Boy Who Drew Unicorns
2	Scott Bradfield	The Darling
2	Joe R. Lansdale	Night They Missed the Horror Show
2	Rick DeMarinis	Your Story
2	John M. Ford	Winter Solstice, Camelot Station
2	Gene Wolfe	The Boy Who Hooked the Sun
2	Joan Aiken	Clem's Dream
2	Lewis Shiner	Love in Vain
2	Bruce Boston	In the Darkened Hours
2	Ru Emerson	A Golden Net for Silver Fishes
2	Jim Aikin	Dancing Among Ghosts
2		Honorable Mentions: 1988
3	Terri Windling	Summation 1989: Fantasy
3	Ellen Datlow	Summation 1989: Horror
3	Edward Bryant	Horror and Fantasy on the Screen: 1989
3	James Frenkel	Obituaries
3	Michael Swanwick	The Edge of the World
3	Fred Chappell	The Adder
3	Nancy Etchemendy	Cat in Glass
3	Rory Harper	Monsters, Tearing Off My Face
3	Joyce Carol Oates	Family
3	James Powell	A Dirge for Clowntown
3	Delia Sherman	Miss Carstairs and the Merman
3	Reginald Bretnor	Unknown Things
3	Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier	Return to the Mutant Rain Forest
3	Tatyana Tolstaya	Date with a Bird
3	Joseph A. Citro	Them Bald-Headed Snays
3	Edward Bryant	A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned
3	Michael Moorcock	Hanging the Fool
3	Leif Enger	Hansel's Finger
3	Garry Kilworth	Dogfaerie
3	Emma Bull	A Bird That Whistles
3	Lisa Tuttle	The Walled Garden
3	Scott Baker	Varicose Worms
3	Leszek Kolakowski	The War with Things
3	Jane Yolen	The Faery Flag
3	Zhaxi Dawa	Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord
3	Steven Millhauser	The Illusionist
3	Charles de Lint	Timeskip
3	Robert R. McCammon	Something Passed By
3	Dan Daly	Self-portrait Mixed Media on Pavement, 1988
3	Michael de Larrabeiti	The Plane Tree and the Fountain
3	Tanith Lee	White as Sin, Now
3	Pat Cadigan	The Power and the Passion
3	Midori Snyder	Jack Straw
3	J. N. Williamson	The Sudd
3	Jonathan Carroll	Mr. Fiddlehead
3	Dan Simmons	Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites
3	Andrew Stephenson	Cinema Altéré
3	Gary A. Braunbeck	Matters of Family
3	Jane Yolen	Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary
3	Joan Aiken	Find Me
3	James P. Blaylock	Unidentified Objects
3	Ramsey Campbell	Meeting the Author
3	Gwyneth Jones	The Lovers
3	Chet Williamson	Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purty...He Said. (Page 243)
3	Bruce Sterling	Dori Bangs
3	Joe R. Lansdale	The Steel Valentine
3	John Shirley	Equilibrium
3	Joe Haldeman	Time Lapse
3	Garry Kilworth	White Noise
3	Robley Wilson	Terrible Kisses
3	Greg Bear	Sleepside Story
3		Honorable Mentions: 1989

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