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	Terri Windling	Summation 2002: Fantasy
16	Ellen Datlow	Summation 2002: Horror
16	Edward Bryant	The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2002
16	Charles Vess	Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2002
16	Joan D. Vinge	Manga and Anime 2002: The Light Dark Fantastic
16	James Frenkel	Obituaries
16	Kelly Link	Lull
16	Kim Newman	Egyptian Avenue
16	Corey Marks	A Letter of Explanation
16	China Miéville	Details
16	Eric Schaller	The Assistant to Dr. Jacob
16	M. Shayne Bell	The Pagodas of Ciboure
16	Graham Joyce	The Coventry Boy
16	Helga M. Novak	The Wild Hunt
16	Jeffrey Ford	The Green Word
16	Terry Dowling	Stitch
16	Michael Libling	Puce Boy
16	Zoran Zivkovic	The Violin-Maker
16	Bentley Little	Maya's Mother
16	Carlton Mellick, III	Porno in August
16	Brian Hodge	Nesting Instincts
16	Conrad Williams	The Machine
16	Thomas M. Disch	Hansel, A Retrospective, or, The Danger of Childhood Obesity
16	Melissa Hardy	Aquerò
16	Joel Lane	The Receivers
16	Nicholas Royle	Standard Gauge
16	Jeffrey Ford	Creation
16	Tracina Jackson-Adams	Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes
16	Karen Joy Fowler	What I Didn't See
16	Jackie Bartley	Reading Myth to Kindergartners
16	Peter Dickinson	Mermaid Song
16	Neil Gaiman	Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky
16	Ramsey Campbell	No End of Fun
16	Adam Roberts	Swiftly
16	Christopher Fowler	The Green Man
16	Brian Hodge	Some Other Me
16	Robert Phillips	The Snow Queen
16	Jay Russell	Hides
16	Luis Alberto Urrea	Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush
16	Margaret Lloyd	Five Poems
16	Stephen Gallagher	Little Dead Girl Singing
16	Robin McKinley	The Pool in the Desert
16	Haruki Murakami	Thailand
16	Theodora Goss	The Rose in Twelve Petals
16	Kathe Koja	Road Trip
16	Lucy Taylor	Unspeakable
16	Elizabeth Hand	Inside Out: On Henry Darger
16	Kevin Brockmeier	The Green Children
16	Sharon McCartney	After the Chuck Jones Tribute on Teletoon
16	Neil Gaiman	Feeders and Eaters
16	Susan Power	Roofwalker
16	Don Tumasonis	The Prospect Cards
16	Nicholas Royle	Hide and Seek
16	Nan Fry	The Wolf's Story
16	Elizabeth Hand	The Least Trumps
16		Honorable Mentions: 2002
17		Acknowledgments: 2003
17	Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant	Summation 2003: Fantasy
17	Ellen Datlow	Summation 2003: Horror
17	Edward Bryant	Media of the Fantastic: 2003
17	Charles Vess	Comics and Graphic Novels: 2003
17	Joan D. Vinge	Anime and Manga: 2003
17	Charles de Lint	Music of the Fantastic: 2003
17	James Frenkel	Obituaries: 2003
17	Kij Johnson	At the Mouth of the River of Bees
17	Sara Maitland	Why I Became a Plumber
17	M. Rickert	Bread and Bombs
17	George Saunders	The Red Bow
17	Vandana Singh	The Wife
17	Lucius Shepard	Only Partly Here
17	Steve Rasnic Tem	Bone
17	Laird Barron	Old Virginia
17	Neil Gaiman	A Study in Emerald
17	Nathan Ballingrud	You Go Where It Takes You
17	Dean Francis Alfar	L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)
17	Stephen King	Harvey's Dream
17	Ursula K. Le Guin	Woeful Tales from Mahigul
17	Karen Joy Fowler	King Rat
17	Kelly Link	The Hortlak
17	Brian Hodge	With Acknowledgments to Sun Tzu
17	Richard Butner	Ash City Stomp
17	Michael Swanwick	King Dragon
17	Patrick O'Leary	Invisible Geese: A Theory
17	Patrick O'Leary	The Perfect City
17	Peter Crowther	Bedfordshire
17	Adam Corbin Fusco	N007-JK1
17	Marc Laidlaw	Cell Call
17	Philip Raines and Harvey Wells	The Fishie
17	Dale Bailey	Hunger: A Confession
17	Scott Emerson Bull	Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe
17	Megan Whalen Turner	The Baby in the Night Deposit Box
17	Paul LaFarge	Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur
17	Mike O'Driscoll	The Silence of the Falling Stars
17	Jon Woodward	At the Mythical Beast
17	Paolo Bacigalupi	The Fluted Girl
17	Kevin Brockmeier	The Brief History of the Dead
17	Nina Kiriki Hoffman	Flotsam
17	Dan Chaon	The Bees
17	Glen Hirshberg	Dancing Men
17	Theodora Goss	Lily, with Clouds
17	Karen Traviss	The Man Who Did Nothing
17	Shelley Jackson	Husband
17	Michael Marshall Smith	Open Doors
17	Benjamin Rosenbaum	The Valley of the Giants
17	Thomas Ligotti	Purity
17	Maureen F. McHugh	Ancestor Money
17	Terry Bisson	Almost Home
17	Daphne Gottlieb	Final Girl II: The Frame
17		Honorable Mentions: 2002
17		The People Behind the Book
18		Acknowledgments: 2004
18	Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant	Summation 2004: Fantasy
18	Ellen Datlow	Summation 2004: Horror
18	Edward Bryant	Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2004
18	Charles Vess	Comics and Graphic Novels: 2004
18	Joan D. Vinge	Anime and Manga: 2004
18	Charles de Lint	Fantasy and Horror in Music: 2004
18	James Frenkel	Obituaries: 2004
18	Gregory Maguire	The Oakthing
18	R.T. Smith	Horton's Store
18	Margo Lanagan	Rite of Spring
18	Andy Duncan	Zora and the Zombie
18	Theodora Goss	The Changeling
18	Stepan Chapman	Revenge of the Calico Cat
18	Lucy Sussex	Frozen Charlottes
18	China Miéville	Reports of Certain Events in London
18	Jean Esteve	House of Ice
18	Stephen Gallagher	Restraint
18	John Kessel	The Baum Plan for Financial Independence
18	Frances Oliver	Dancing on Air
18	M. Rickert	Cold Fires
18	Richard Mueller	And the Sear Shall Give Up Its Dead
18	Tina Rath	A Trick of the Dark
18	Philip Raines and Harvey Wells	The Bad Magician
18	Tanith Lee	Speir-Bhan
18	John Farris	Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland
18	Chuck Palahniuk	Guts
18	Simon Brown	Water Babies
18	Peter Straub	Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle
18	Bentley Little	We Find Things Old
18	Elizabeth Hand	Wonderwall
18	D. Ellis Dickerson	Postcretaceous Era
18	M.T. Anderson	Watch and Wake
18	Catherynne M. Valente	The Oracle Alone
18	Jeffrey Ford	A Night in the Tropics
18	Terry Dowling	Clownette
18	Joyce Carol Oates	Stripping
18	Christopher Fowler	Seven Feet
18	Margo Lanagan	Singing My Sister Down
18	Laird Barron	Bulldozer
18	Anna Ross	These Various Methods of Brightness
18	M‚lanie Fazi	The Cajun Knot
18	Greg van Eekhout	Tales from the City of Seams
18	Alison Smith	The Specialist
18	Shelley Jackson	Here is the Church
18	Alice Hoffman	The Witch of Truro
18	Peter Straub	Lapland, or Film Noir
18	Theodora Goss	What Her Mother Said
18	Conrad Williams	The Owl
18	Elizabeth A. Lynn	The Silver Dragon
18		Honorable Mentions: 2004
18		The People Behind the Book

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