num_pages: 624
description: Required reading for anyone with a love of the unknown and fantastic. An indispensable concoction of the delicious and the terrifying. Works by old masters and youngsters make up a banquet of stories and poems.Stories by:Ray Bradbury, Bradley Denton, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Patricia A. McKillip, Joyce Carol Oates, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, William Browning Spencer, and Jack Womack.Add to this heady stew the editors' incisive and renowned reviews of the year in horror and fantasy literature, film, comics, and television, and you have a magnificent volume of magical reading for every acolyte and adept of the weird.Summation 1994: fantasy / Terri Windling --Summation 1994: horror / Ellen Datlow --Horror and fantasy in the media: 1994 / Edward Bryant --Comics 1994 / Will Shetterly and Emma Bull --Obituaries --Transmutations / Patricia A. McKillip --Bottom's dream (poem) / Rachel Wetzsteon --La Promesa / Leroy Quintana --Aweary of the sun / Gregory Feeley --A Wheel in the desert, the moon on some swings / Jonathan Carroll --Who will love the river god? / Emily Newland --Brothers / Joyce Carol Oates --Subsoil / Nicholson Baker --Elvis's bathroom / Pagan Kennedy --Yet another poisoned apple for the fairy princess / A.R. Morlan --The Big game / Nicholas Royle --Buenaventura and the fifteen sisters / Margarita Engle --De Natura unicorni / Jane Yolen --Blue motel / Ian McDonald --A Friend indeed / David Garnett --Sometimes, in the rain / Charles Grant --Rain falls / Michael Marshall Smith --That old school tie / Jack Womack --Animals behind bars! / Scott Bradfield --Monuments to the dead / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --Unterseeboot doktor / Ray Bradbury --Young woman in a garden / Delia Sherman --The Man in the black suit / Stephen King --"In the tradition ..." (essay) / Michael Swanwick --Words like pale stones / Nancy Kress --Märchen (poem) / Jane Yolen --Giants in the earth / Dale Bailey --A Conflagration artist / Bradley Denton --Report / Carme Riera --The Village of the mermaids (poem) / John Bradley ---And the horses hiss at midnight / A.R. Morlan --The Entreaty of the Wiideema / Barry Lopez --White Chapel / Douglas Clegg --The Stone woman (poem) / Linda Weasel Head --Coyote stories / Charles de Lint --The Box / Jack Ketchum. A Fear of dead things / Andrew Klavan --He unwraps himself (poem) / Darrell Schweitzer --Chandira / Brian Mooney --Fever / Harlan Ellison --The Best things in life / Lenora Champagne --Mending souls / Judith Tarr --The Ocean and all its devices / William Browning Spencer --Strings / Kelley Eskridge --Superman's diary / B. Brandon Barker --Isobel Avens returns to Stepney in the spring / M. John Harrison --The Sisterhood of night / Steven Millhauser --Winter bodies / Noy Holland --The Sloan men / David Nickle --Is that them? / Kevin Roice --The Kingdom of cats and birds / Geoffrey A. Landis --Angel combs / Steve Rasnic Tem --Snow, glass, apples. / Neil Gaiman --Honorable Mentions: 1994
language: English
title: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection
titlecomplete: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection
genres: Science Fiction Fantasy, Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories, Horror, Fantasy
ratings_count: 208
publisher: St Martins Pr