The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection

by Ellen Datlow (Editor & Introduction), Terri Windling (Editor & Introduction)

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror {ed. Datlow/ Windling} (13)

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For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding show more out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.ContentsSummation 1999: FantasyTerri WindlingSummation 1999: HorrorEllen DatlowHorror and Fantasy in the Media: 1999Edward BryantComics: 1999, Seth JohnsonObituaries: 1999, James FrenkelDarkrose and Diamond, Ursula K. Le GuinThe Chop Girl, Ian R. MacLeodThe Girl Detective, Kelly LinkThe Transformation, N. Scott MomadayCarabosse, Delia ShermanHarlequin Valentine, Neil GaimanToad, Patricia A. McKillipThe Dinner Party, Robert GirardiHeat, Steve Rasnic TemThe Wedding at EsperanzaLinnet TaylorRedescending, Ursula K. Le GuinYou Don't Have to be Mad . . .Kim NewmanThe Paper-Thin Garden, Thomas WhartonThe Anatomy of a MermaidMary SharrattThe Grammarian's Five DaughtersEleanor ArnasonThe Tree Is My Hat, Gene WolfeWelcome, Michael Marshall SmithThe Pathos of Genre, Douglas E. WinterShatsi , Peter CrowtherKeepsakes and Treasures: A Love StoryNeil GaimanWhat You Make It, Michael Marshall SmithThe Parwat Ruby, Delia ShermanOdysseus Old, Geoffrey BrockThe Smell of the Deer, Kent MeyersChorion and the PleiadesSarah Van ArsdaleCrosley, Elizabeth Engstromn0 Naming the Dead, Paul J. McAuleyThe Stork-Men, Juan GoytisoloThe Disappearance of Elaine ColemanSteven MillhauserWhite, Tim LebbonDear Floods of Her Hair, James SallisMrs. Santa Decides to Move to FloridaApril SelleyTanuki, Jan HodgmanAt Reparata, Jeffrey FordSkin So Green and Fine, Wendy WheelerOld Merlin Dancing on the Sands of TimeJane YolenSailing the Painted OceanDenise LeeGrandmother, Laurence SnydalSmall Song, Gary A. BraunbeckThe Emperor's Old BonesGemma FilesThe Duke of Wellington Misplaces His HorseSusanna ClarkeHalloween Street, Steve Rasnic TemThe Kiss, Tia V. TravisThe Beast/The Hedge, Bill LewisPixel Pixies, Charles de LintFalling Away, Elizabeth BirminghamHonorable Mentions: 1999 show less

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Ellen Datlow is the editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies. She was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981-1998. Then she was the editor of the webzine Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror from September 1998-December 1999. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, the Bram Stoker show more Award twice with her co-editors and the Hugo Award for Best Editor in 2002 and 2005. She currently lives in New York City and edits fiction for Scifi.com. In 2011 she was given the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.She is a long time trustee of the Horror Writers Association. She has been the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar since 2000, a series which features luminaries and up-and-comers in speculative fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Fairy and folklore scholar Terri Windling, five-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, has edited and written numerous fantasy works for both adults and children. She divides her time between Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Arnason, Eleanor (Contributor)
Birmingham, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Braunbeck, Gary A. (Contributor)
Brock, Geoffrey (Contributor)
Bryant, Edward (Introduction)
Clarke, Susanna (Contributor)
Crowther, Peter (Contributor)
de Lint, Charles (Contributor)
Engstrom, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Files, Gemma (Contributor)
Ford, Jeffrey (Contributor)
Frenkel, James (Introduction)
Gaiman, Neil (Contributor)
Girardi, Robert (Contributor)
Goytisolo, Juan (Contributor)
Hodgman, Jan (Contributor)
Johnson, Seth (Introduction)
Le Guin, Ursula K. (Contributor)
Lebbon, Tim (Contributor)
Lee, Denise (Contributor)
Link, Kelly (Contributor)
MacLeod, Ian R. (Contributor)
McAuley, Paul J. (Contributor)
McKillip, Patricia A. (Contributor)
Meyers, Kent (Contributor)
Millhauser, Steven (Contributor)
Momaday, N.Scott (Contributor)
Newman, Kim (Contributor)
Sallis, James (Contributor)
Selley, April (Contributor)
Sharratt, Mary (Contributor)
Sherman, Delia (Contributor)
Snydal, Laurence (Contributor)
Taylor, Linnet (Contributor)
Tem, Steve Rasnic (Contributor)
Travis, Tia V. (Contributor)
Van Arsdale, Sarah (Contributor)
Wharton, Thomas (Contributor)
Wheeler, Wendy (Contributor)
Winter, Douglas E. (Contributor)
Wolfe, Gene (Contributor)
Yolen, Jane (Contributor)

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Canty, Thomas (Cover artist)

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Canonical title
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection
Original publication date
2000-08-19

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Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
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823.0876608Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fictionBy typeGenre fictionAdventure fictionSpeculative fictionFantasy fictionCollections
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PN6120.95 .F25 .Y4Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureFiction
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