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

19		Acknowledgments: 2005
19	Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant	Summation 2005: Fantasy
19	Ellen Datlow	Summation 2005: Horror
19	Edward Bryant	Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2005
19	Charles Vess	Graphic Novels: 2005
19	Joan D. Vinge	Anime and Manga: 2005
19	Charles de Lint	Music of the Fantastic: 2005
19	James Frenkel	Obituaries: 2005
19	Delia Sherman	Walpurgis Afternoon
19	Deborah Roggie	The Mushroom Duchess
19	Marley Youmans	An Incident at Agate Beach
19	Reggie Oliver	Among the Tombs
19	Jennifer Chang	Obedience, or The Lying Tale (poem)
19	Glen Hirshberg	American Morons
19	Mark Samuels	Shallaballah
19	Sarah Monette	Night Train: Heading West (poem)
19	Bruce Sterling	Denial
19	Barbara Roden	Northwest Passage
19	Laird Barron	Proboscis
19	Elizabeth Hand	Kronia
19	Kelly Everding	Omens (poem)
19	Elizabeth Bear	Follow Me Light
19	Jeffrey Ford	Boatman's Holiday
19	Howard Waldrop	The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On)
19	Adam L. G. Nevill	Where Angels Come In
19	Albert E. Cowdrey	Twilight States
19	Andrew Bonia	Jolly Bonnet
19	Geoff Ryman	The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai
19	Jack Cady	The Souls of Drowning Mountain
19	Robert Coover	The Last One
19	China Miéville, Emma Bircham, and Max Schafer	The Ball Room
19	Theodora Goss	Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus (poem)
19	Daniel Wallace	Vacation
19	Nisi Shawl	Cruel Sistah
19	Jay Russell	Ding-Dong-Bell
19	Stacey Richter	A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility
19	Jeffrey Ford	The Scribble Mind
19	Tom Brennan	Scarecrow
19	Chaz Brenchley	Going the Jerusalem Mile
19	Willa Schneberg	Grief (poem)
19	Pentti Holappa	Boman
19	Ralph Robert Moore	The Machine of a Religious Man
19	Chuck Palahniuk	Hot Potting
19	Joe Hill	My Father's Mask
19	Isabel Allende	The Guggenheim Lovers
19	Theodora Goss	A Statement in the Case
19	Dave Hutchinson	The Pavement Artist
19	Kim Newman	The Gypsies in the Wood
19		Honorable Mentions: 2005
20		Acknowledgments: 2006
20	Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant	Summation 2006: Fantasy
20	Ellen Datlow	Summation 2006: Horror
20	Edward Bryant	The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2006
20	Jeff VanderMeer	Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2006
20	Charles de Lint	Music of the Fantastic: 2006
20	James Frenkel	Obituaries: 2006
20	Geoff Ryman	Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter
20	Nik Houser	First Kisses From Beyond the Grave
20	Christopher Harman	The Last to be Found
20	John Schoffstall	Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery
20	Jeannine Hall Gailey	Becoming The Villainess
20	Jeannine Hall Gailey	Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks
20	Jeffrey Ford	The Night Whiskey
20	Ellen Klages	In the House of the Seven Librarians
20	Sarah Monette	Drowning Palmer
20	Joyce Carol Oates	Landfill
20	Christopher Rowe	Another Word for Map Is Faith
20	Ira Sher	Lionflower Hedge
20	Minsoo Kang	A Fearful Symmetry
20	Brett Alexander Savory	Messages
20	William Hope Hodgson	Ballade
20	William Hope Hodgson	My Babe, My Babe
20	Stephen Gallagher	The Box
20	Frances Hardinge	Halfway House
20	Delia Sherman	La Fée Verte
20	Lee Battersby	Father Muerte and the Flesh
20	Margo Lanagan	Winkie
20	Nathalie Anderson	Tell
20	Scott Nicholson	Dog Person
20	Simon Clark	The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness
20	Tim Pratt	Cup and Table
20	Nicholas Royle	The Churring
20	Kaaron Warren	Dead Sea Fruit
20	Caleb Wilson	Directions
20	Terry Dowling	La Profonde
20	M. Rickert	Journey into the Kingdom
20	Ben Fountain	The Good Ones are Already Taken
20	Margo Lanagan	A Pig's Whisper
20	Stephen Volk	31/10
20	Gene Wolfe	Sob in the Silence
20	Josh Bell	Yep, I Said Camel
20	Paul Di Filippo	Femavillle 29
20	Benjamin Rosenbaum	A Siege of Cranes
20	Jeanne Marie Beaumont	Is Rain My Bearskin?
20	Ysabeau S. Wilce	The Lineaments of Gratified Desire
20	Stephen Graham Jones	Raphael
20	Glen Hirshberg	The Muldoon
20		Honorable Mentions: 2006
21		Acknowledgments: 2007
21	Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant	Summation 2007: Fantasy
21	Ellen Datlow	Summation 2007: Horror
21	Edward Bryant	The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2007
21	Jeff VanderMeer	Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2007
21	Charles de Lint	Music of the Fantastic: 2007
21	James Frenkel	Obituaries: 2007
21	Daniel Abraham	The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics
21	Karen Russell	Vampires in the Lemon Grove
21	M. Rickert	Holiday
21	Gary McMahon	Hum Drum
21	Billy Collins	Scenes of Hell
21	Paul Walther	Splitfoot
21	Chaz Brenchley	The House of Mechanical Pain
21	Karen Joy Fowler	The Last Worders
21	Nathan Ballingrud	The Monsters of Heaven
21	Delia Sherman	The Fiddler of Bayou Teche
21	Eliza Griswold	Monkey
21	Reggie Oliver	Mr. Poo Poo
21	Elizabeth Hand	Winter's Wife
21	Nathalie Anderson	Troll
21	William Browning Spencer	The Tenth Muse
21	Jeffrey Ford	The Drowned Life
21	Don Tumasonis	The Swing
21	Sonya Taaffe	Follow Me Home
21	Laird Barron	The Forest
21	Paul Park	Fragrant Goddess
21	Eileen Gunn	Up the Fire Road
21	M.T. Anderson	The Gray Boy's Work
21	Catherynne M. Valente	The Seven Devils of Central California
21	Ted Chiang	The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
21	Joyce Carol Oates	Valentine, July Heat Wave
21	Donald Mead	A Thing Forbidden
21	Holly Black	Reversal of Fortune
21	Maggie Smith	Village Smart
21	Veronica Schanoes	Rats
21	Jack Haringa	A Perfect and Unmappable Grace
21	Lucy Kemnitzer	The Boulder
21	Tanith Lee	The Hill
21	Khaled Mattawa	Lovers (Jafaar the Winged)
21	Alexander MacBride	The Ape Man
21	Liz Williams	The Hide
21	Tim Nickels	England and Nowhere
21	Garth Nix	Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again
21	Terry Dowling	Toother
21	Lisa Tuttle	Closet Dreams
21	Kij Johnson	The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
21		Honorable Mentions: 2007

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