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

Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Lucy Sussex, Jean Esteve, Stephen Gallagher, John Kessel, Frances Oliver, R.T. Smith, Margo Lanagan, Simon Bestwick, Douglas Clegg, Andy Duncan, Theodora Goss, Stepan Chapman, M. Rickert, Richard Mueller, Tina Rath, Philip Raines, Harvey Welles, Tanith Lee, John Farris, Thomas Canty, Chuck Palahniuk, Simon Brown, Peter Straub, Bentley Little, Elizabeth Hand, D. Ellis Dickerson, M.T. Anderson, Catherynne M. Valente, Jeffrey Ford, Terry Dowling, Edward Bryant, Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher Fowler, Laird Barron, Anna Ross, Mélanie Fazi, Greg Van Eekhout, Alison Smith, Shelley Jackson, Conrad Williams, Charles Vess, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Joan D. Vinge, Charles de Lint, James R. Frenkel, Gregory Maguire, China Miéville, Alice Hoffman


3.83 · 6 ratings · Published: 01 Aug 2005

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, Lucy Sussex, Jean Esteve, Stephen Gallagher, John Kessel, Frances Oliver, R.T. Smith, Margo Lanagan, Simon Bestwick, Douglas Clegg, Andy Duncan, Theodora Goss, Stepan Chapman, M. Rickert, Richard Mueller, Tina Rath, Philip Raines, Harvey Welles, Tanith Lee, John Farris, Thomas Canty, Chuck Palahniuk, Simon Brown, Peter Straub, Bentley Little, Elizabeth Hand, D. Ellis Dickerson, M.T. Anderson, Catherynne M. Valente, Jeffrey Ford, Terry Dowling, Edward Bryant, Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher Fowler, Laird Barron, Anna Ross, Mélanie Fazi, Greg Van Eekhout, Alison Smith, Shelley Jackson, Conrad Williams, Charles Vess, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Joan D. Vinge, Charles de Lint, James R. Frenkel, Gregory Maguire, China Miéville, Alice Hoffman
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, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this 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 magic realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors’ invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and sections on comics, by Charles Vess; on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge; on media, by Ed Bryant; and on music, by Charles de Lint. With a long list of Honorable Mentions, this is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

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