The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Subtitle: Ninth Annual Collection
Contributors: Ellen Datlow (Editor); Terri Windling (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition (1)
Series: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Publisher: St Martins Press
Published: 1996-07
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780312144494
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Horror Fiction; Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction - Fantasy; Fantasy; Fantasy - General; Science Fiction - Anthologies; Fantasy fiction, American; Fantasy fiction, English; Horror tales, American
Description: Continuing the tradition of excellence maintained by previous volumes in this series, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror assembles the finest examples of fantastic literature published in 1995. The forty-six stories and poems range widely from fabulous realms that never were to the magic inherent in everyday life, from ghosts and unnameable terrors to unicorns, talking penguins, and many more wonderful impossibilities. Featuring the editors' comprehensive year-end summations and a long list of honorable mentions, this volume is truly a treasure trove of delightful reading for all. --front flap
Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgement --; title: Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling --; title: Summation 1995: horror / Ellen Datlow --; title: Horror and fantasy in the media: 1995 / Edward Bryant --; title: Obituaries / James Frankel --; title: Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman --; title: Heartfires / Charles de Lint --; title: Screens / Terry Lamsley --; title: King of crows / Midori Snyder --; title: Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle --; title: The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner --; title: More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith --; title: Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield --; title: Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin --; title: Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek --; title: Lunch at the Gotham café / Stephen King --; title: Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman --; title: Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan --; title: Llantos de la Llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora --; title: Too short a death / Peter Crowther --; title: The James Dean garage band / Rick Moody --; title: Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy --; title: Loop / Douglas E. Winter --; title: La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman --; title: Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen --; title: Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen --; title: Switch / Lucy Taylor --; title: Scaring the train / Terry Dowling --; title: Blood knot / Steve Rasnic Tem --; title: The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin --; title: The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley --; title: Resolve and resistance / S.N. Dyer --; title: La dame / Tanith Lee --; title: Circe's power (poem) / Louise Glück --; title: Dragon's fin soup / S.P. Somtow --; title: The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde --; title: Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood --; title: A lamia in the Cévennes / A.S. Byatt --; title: The guilty party / Susan Moody --; title: She's not there / Pat Cadigan --; title: The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman --; title: Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow --; title: After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck --; title: Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge --; title: Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed --; title: ############## / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: The printer's daughter / Delia Sherman --; title: Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard --; title: Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen --; title: The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip --; title: Honorable mentions.