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The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (St. Martin’s Griffin, August 2006, 0-312-35614-5, $19.95, 480 + cxxiiipp, tp, an, cover by Thomas Canty)     Best-of-the-year anthology with 35 stories, five poems, and 123 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2005 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, a comics summary by Charles Vess, a music summary by Charles de Lint, and a manga/anime summary by Joan D. Vinge. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-34193-8, $35.00). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates. xv · Summation 2005: Fantasy · Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant · ar xli · Summation 2005: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar lxxxi · Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2005 · Edward Bryant · ar xcvii · Comics and Graphic Novels: 2005 · Charles Vess · ar cv · Anime and Manga: 2005 · Joan D. Vinge · ar cix · Fantasy and Horror in Music: 2005 · Charles de Lint · ar cxv · Obituaries: 2005 · James Frenkel · bi 1 · Walpurgis Afternoon · Delia Sherman · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2005 17 · The Mushroom Duchess · Deborah Roggie · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #17, November 2005 25 · An Incident at Agate Beach · Marly Youmans · nv Argosy Quarterly #3, Spring 2005 47 · Among the Tombs · Reggie Oliver · ss The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler & Other Strange Stories by Reggie Oliver, The Haunted River, 2005 60 · Obedience, or The Lying Tale · Jennifer Chang · pm The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2005 62 · American Morons · Glen Hirshberg · ss Darkness Rising: The Rolling Darkness Revue Chapbook 2005, Earthling Publications, 2005 72 · Shallaballah · Mark Samuels · ss Don’t Turn Out the Light ed. Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2005 78 · Night Train: Heading West · Sarah Monette · pm The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Spring 2005 80 · Denial · Bruce Sterling · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September 2005 92 · Northwest Passage · Barbara Roden · nv Acquainted with the Night ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2004 113 · Proboscis · Laird Barron · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2005 129 · Kronia · Elizabeth Hand · ss Conjunctions #44, Spring 2005 132 · Omens · Kelly Everding · pm Strappado for the Devil by Kelly Everding, EtherDome Press, 2005 133 · Follow Me Light · Elizabeth Bear · ss Sci Fiction January 12 2005 143 · Boatman’s Holiday · Jeffrey Ford · ss Book of Voices ed. Michael Butscher, Flame Books, 2005 153 · The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode in On) · Howard Waldrop · ss Sci Fiction November 2 2005 166 · Where Angels Come In · Adam L. G. Nevill · ss Poe’s Progeny ed. Gary Fry, Gray Friar Press, 2005 [Ref. M. R. James] 177 · Twilight States · Albert E. Cowdrey · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 2005 190 · Jolly Bonnet · Andrew Bonia · pm Jabberwocky ed. Sean Wallace, Prime Books, 2005 192 · The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai · Geoff Ryman · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2005 214 · The Souls of Drowning Mountain · Jack Cady · ss Taverns of the Dead ed. Kealan Patrick Burke, Cemetery Dance, 2005 223 · The Last One · Robert Coover · ss A Child Again by Robert Coover, McSweeney's Books, 2005 231 · The Ball Room · China Miéville, Emma Bircham & Max Schäfer · ss Looking for Jake and Other Stories by China Miéville, Macmillan, 2005 240 · Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus · Theodora Goss · pm Jabberwocky ed. Sean Wallace, Prime Books, 2005 241 · Vacation · Daniel Wallace · ss Off the Map by Daniel Wallace, Two Cranes Press, 2005 251 · Cruel Sistah · Nisi Shawl · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 2005 258 · Ding-Dong-Bell · Jay Russell · ss Don’t Turn Out the Light ed. Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2005 271 · A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility · Stacey Richter · ss Fairy Tale Review #1, 2005 277 · The Scribble Mind · Jeffrey Ford · nv Sci Fiction May 25 2005 295 · Scarecrow · Tom Brennan · ss Crimewave #8, 2005 299 · Going the Jerusalem Mile · Chaz Brenchley · ss The Third Alternative #41, Spring 2005 311 · Grief · Willa Schneberg · pm Chance of a Ghost: An Anthology of Contemporary Ghost Poems ed. Gloria Vando & Philip Miller, 2005 313 · Boman · Pentti Holappa; translated by David Hackston · nv The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy ed. Johanna Sinisalo, Dedalus, 2006 originally published in Finnish in Muodonmuutoksia (1959). 334 · The Machine of a Religious Man · Ralph Robert Moore · ss Midnight Street #4, Spring 2005 348 · Hot Potting · Chuck Palahniuk · ss Haunted: A Novel of Stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Random House, 2005 355 · My Father’s Mask · Joe Hill · nv 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, PS Publishing, 2005 369 · Guggenheim Lovers · Isabel Allende; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 2005 376 · A Statement in the Case · Theodora Goss · ss Realms of Fantasy August 2005 383 · The Pavement Artist · Dave Hutchinson · nv As the Crow Flies by Dave Hutchinson, BeWrite Books, 2004 398 · The Gypsies in the Wood [Diogenes Club] · Kim Newman · na The Fair Folk ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC, 2005 461 · Honorable Mentions: 2005 · [uncredited] · bi

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (St. Martin’s, October 2007, 978-0-312-36943-9, $35.00, cxxxi+472pp, hc, an, cover by Thomas Canty)     Best-of-the-year anthology, 20th in the series, with 34 stories, seven poems, and 117 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2006 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, a comics summary by Jeff VanderMeer, and a music summary by Charles de Lint. Also available as a St. Martin’s Griffin trade paperback (-36942-2, $21.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates. xiii · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms (r) xv · Summation 2006: Fantasy · Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant · ar xiv · Summation 2006: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar ixxxi · The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2006 · Edward Bryant · ar cix · Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels · Jeff VanderMeer · ar cxix · Music of the Fantastic: 2006 · Charles de Lint · ar cxxvii · Obituaries: 2006 · James Frenkel · ob 1 · Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter · Geoff Ryman · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2006 24 · First Kisses from Beyond the Grave · Nik Houser · na Gargoyle 51, Paycock Press, 2006 51 · The Last to Be Found · Christopher Harman · nv New Genre Winter 2006 67 · Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery · John Schoffstall · ss Strange Horizons June 5 2006; illustrated by Michael Ryan 76 · Becoming the Villainess · Jeannine Hall Gailey · pm Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey, Steel Toe Books, 2006 77 · Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks · Jeannine Hall Gailey · pm Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey, Steel Toe Books, 2006 78 · The Night Whiskey · Jeffrey Ford · nv Salon Fantastique ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006 93 · In the House of the Seven Librarians · Ellen Klages · nv Firebirds Rising ed. Sharyn November, Firebird, 2006 110 · Drowning Palmer [Kyle Murchison Booth] · Sarah Monette · ss All Hallows #41, February 2006 128 · Landfill · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The New Yorker October 9 2006 139 · Another Word for Map Is Faith · Christopher Rowe · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 2006 148 · Lionflower Hedge · Ira Sher · vi ParaSpheres ed. Ken Keegan & Rusty Morrison, Omnidawn Publishing, 2006 150 · A Fearful Symmetry · Minsoo Kang · ss Of Tales and Enigmas by Minsoo Kang, Prime Books, 2006 154 · Messages · Brett Alexander Savory · ss Realms of Fantasy February 2006 165 · Ballade · William Hope Hodgson · pm The Lost Poetry by William Hope Hodgson, Tartarus Press, 2005 · My Babe, My Babe · William Hope Hodgson · pm “Poems” and “The Dream of X” by William Hope Hodgson, R.H. Paget, 1912 168 · The Box · Stephen Gallagher · ss Retro Pulp Tales ed. Joe R. Lansdale, Subterranean Press, 2006 179 · Halfway House · Frances Hardinge · ss Alchemy #3, 2006 189 · La Fée Verte · Delia Sherman · nv Salon Fantastique ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006 210 · Father Muerte & the Flesh [Father Muerte] · Lee Battersby · ss Aurealis #36, December 2005 221 · Winkie · Margo Lanagan · ss Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan, Allen & Unwin Australia, 2006 229 · Tell · Nathalie Anderson · pm The Journal of Mythic Arts Summer/Autumn 2006 230 · Dog Person · Scott Nicholson · ss Cemetery Dance #56, 2006 237 · The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness · Simon Clark · ss Shrouded by Darkness ed. Alison L. R. Davies, Telos, 2006 248 · Cup and Table · Tim Pratt · ss Twenty Epics ed. David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, All-Star Stories, 2006 258 · The Churring · Nicholas Royle · ss Mortality by Nicholas Royle, Serpent's Tail, 2006 272 · Dead Sea Fruit · Kaaron Warren · ss Fantasy Magazine #4, Fall 2006 279 · Directions · Caleb Wilson · ss Diagram v6 #4, 2006 281 · La Profonde · Terry Dowling · ss Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear by Terry Dowling, Cemetery Dance, 2006 288 · Journey Into the Kingdom · M. Rickert · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 2006 306 · The Good Ones Are Already Taken · Ben Fountain · ss Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain, HarperCollins, 2006 323 · A Pig’s Whisper · Margo Lanagan · ss Agog! Ripping Reads ed. Cat Sparks, Agog Press, 2006 329 · 31/10 · Stephen Volk · ss Dark Corners by Stephen Volk, Gray Friar Press, 2006 338 · Sob in the Silence · Gene Wolfe · ss Strange Birds by Gene Wolfe, Dreamhaven Books, 2006 350 · Yep, I Said Camel · Josh Bell · pm Ninth Letter Spring/Summer 2006 351 · Femaville 29 · Paul Di Filippo · nv Salon Fantastique ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006 366 · A Siege of Cranes · Benjamin Rosenbaum · nv Twenty Epics ed. David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, All-Star Stories, 2006 384 · Is Rain My Bearskin? · Jeanne Marie Beaumont · pm Fairy Tale Review #2, 2006 386 · The Lineaments of Gratified Desire [Califa] · Ysabeau S. Wilce · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 2006 419 · Raphael · Stephen Graham Jones · nv Cemetery Dance #55, 2006 435 · The Muldoon · Glen Hirshberg · nv American Morons by Glen Hirshberg, Earthling Publications, 2006 453 · Honorable Mentions: 2006 · [uncredited] · bi

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (St. Martin’s, October 2008, 978-0-312-38047-2, $35.00, cxiii + 458pp, hc, an, cover by Thomas Canty)     Best-of-the-year anthology, 21st in the series, with 33 stories, seven poems, and 97 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2007 fantasy and horror by the editors, and comments on media by Edward Bryant, comics by Jeff VanderMeer, and music by Charles de Lint. Also available as a St. Martin’s Griffin trade paperback (-38048-9, $21.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates. xvii · Summation 2007: Fantasy · Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant · ar xli · Summation 2007: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar lxxvii · The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2007 · Edward Bryant · ar xciii · Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2007 · Jeff VanderMeer · ar ci · Music of the Fantastic: 2007 · Charles de Lint · ar cix · Obituaries: 2007 · James Frenkel · ob 1 · The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics · Daniel Abraham · nv Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories ed. John Klima, Bantam Spectra, 2007 16 · Vampires in the Lemon Grove · Karen Russell · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Winter 2007 27 · Holiday · M. Rickert · ss Subterranean #7, 2007 35 · Hum Drum · Gary McMahon · ss The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories ed. Ian Alexander Martin, Humdrumming, 2007 44 · Scenes of Hell · Billy Collins · pm A Public Space #3, Spring 2007 45 · Splitfoot · Paul Walther · ss New Genre Spring 2007 54 · The House of Mechanical Pain · Chaz Brenchley · ss Phantoms at the Phil: The Third Proceedings, Side Real Press, 2007 69 · The Last Worders · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #20, June 2007 79 · The Monsters of Heaven · Nathan Ballingrud · ss Inferno ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2007 91 · The Fiddler of Bayou Teche · Delia Sherman · nv The Coyote Road ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2007 103 · Monkey · Eliza Griswold · pm The New Yorker February 5 2007 104 · Mr. Poo-Poo · Reggie Oliver · ss At Ease with the Dead ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007 117 · Winter’s Wife · Elizabeth Hand · nv Wizards ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Berkley, 2007 140 · Troll · Nathalie Anderson · pm The Journal of Mythic Arts Winter 2007 142 · The Tenth Muse · William Browning Spencer · nv Subterranean #6, 2007 158 · The Drowned Life · Jeffrey Ford · nv Eclipse One ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007 171 · The Swing · Don Tumasonis · ss At Ease with the Dead ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007 189 · Follow Me Home · Sonya Taaffe · pm Lone Star Stories #19, February 2007 191 · The Forest · Laird Barron · nv Inferno ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2007 212 · Fragrant Goddess · Paul Park · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2007 224 · Up the Fire Road · Eileen Gunn · nv Eclipse One ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007 241 · The Gray Boy’s Work · M. T. Anderson · nv The Restless Dead ed. Deborah Noyes, Candlewick Press, 2007 256 · The Seven Devils of Central California · Catherynne M. Valente · pm Farrago’s Wainscot #3, July 2007 265 · The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate · Ted Chiang · nv Subterranean Press, July 2007 282 · Valentine, July Heat Wave · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2007 289 · A Thing Forbidden · Donald Mead · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 2007 300 · A Reversal of Fortune · Holly Black · ss The Coyote Road ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2007 309 · Village Smart · Maggie Smith · pm Mid-American Review v27 #2, 2007 310 · Rats · Veronica Schanoes · ss Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing ed. Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss, Interstitial Arts Foundation, 2007 318 · A Perfect and Unmappable Grace · Jack M. Haringa · ss Bandersnatch ed. Paul Tremblay & Sean Wallace, Prime Books, 2007 325 · The Boulder · Lucy Kemnitzer · ss Fantasy Magazine #6, Spring 2007 334 · The Hill · Tanith Lee · nv The Mammoth Book of Monsters ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2007 356 · Lovers: (Jaafar the Winged) · Khaled Mattawa · pm Mid-American Review v28 #1, 2007 358 · The Ape Man · Alexander MacBride · vi McSweeney’s #25, 2007 360 · The Hide · Liz Williams · ss Strange Horizons May 7 2007; illustrated by Liz Clarke 368 · England and Nowhere · Tim Nickels · ss Nemonymous #7, 2007, uncredited. 379 · Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again [Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz] · Garth Nix · nv Jim Baen’s Universe April 2007 399 · Toother [Dan Truswell] · Terry Dowling · nv Eclipse One ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007 415 · Closet Dreams · Lisa Tuttle · ss Postscripts #10, Spring 2007; illustrated by David Kendall 423 · The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change · Kij Johnson · nv The Coyote Road ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2007 439 · Honorable Mentions: 2007 · [uncredited] · bi

The Elemental: Tales of the Supernormal and the Inexplicable by Ulric Daubeny (Ash-Tree Press, July 28, 2006, 978-1-55310-090-4, C$50.00, xiv +166pp, hc, co)     Reprint (Routledge 1919) collection. This adds one story (“The Goblet”) that wasn’t in the original edition. This is a limited edition of 500. A world-wide edition available in the US for $46.00 and in the UK for £27.00. Details supplied by Denny Lien. ix · Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson · in 3 · The Elemental · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 5 · The Diary · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 21 · The Garden That Was Desolate · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 31 · The Sumach · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 41 · Winds of Memory · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 49 · The Hand of Glory · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 63 · Matheson’s Mummy · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 73 · ’H. F.’ · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 83 · The Broze Devil · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 93 · The People of the Hidden Room · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 103 · The Apostate · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 113 · A Lasting Legacy · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 123 · The Other Occupant · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 127 · As It Was Written · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 135 · Scarlet Poppies · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 139 · The Serpent · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 147 · The Goblet · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Premier Magazine #60, April 1919 157 · Sources and Acknowledgments · Douglas A. Anderson · ms

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Deals with the Devil ed. Basil Davenport (ghost written by ed. Albert Paul Blaustein) (Dodd, Mead, September 4, 1958, $4.00, xvii+332pp, hc, an) xi · Introduction · Basil Davenport · in 1 · The Brazen Locked Room · Isaac Asimov · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1956 9 · Time Trammel · Miriam Allen deFord · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1956 16 · Impact with the Devil · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1956 27 · Doctor Faustus · [uncredited] · ss (r) 37 · The Devil and Mr. Chips · Charles Dickens · ss from The Uncommercial Traveller, Chapman & Hall, 1860; also known as “The Rat That Could Speak”. 43 · Sir Dominick’s Bargain · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · ss All the Year Round July 6 1872, uncredited. revised from “The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh”, Dublin University Magazine Mar 1838. 61 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916 95 · A Deal with the Devil [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Collier’s August 31 1946 117 · Satan and Sam Shay · Robert Arthur · ss The Elks Magazine August 1942 135 · The Legend of Mont St. Michel · Guy de Maupassant · ss 1888 translated from the French (“La légende du Mont Saint-Michel”, Gil Blas December 19, 1882 as by Maufrigneuse). 141 · The Tinker of Tamlacht · Seumas MacManus · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903 151 · The Devil and Simon Flagg · Arthur Porges · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1954 160 · The Devil and the Old Man · John Masefield · ss The Green Sheaf #6, 1903, as “A Deep Sea Yarn” 167 · Devil-Puzzlers · F. B. Perkins · ss Old and New August 1871 186 · Threshold · Henry Kuttner · ss Unknown December 1940 206 · The Three Wishes · Vance Randolph · ss (r) 209 · Nellthu · Anthony Boucher · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955 211 · Threesie · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1956 222 · A Bargain in Bodies · Moses Schere · ss Unknown Worlds June 1943 240 · Caveat Emptor [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss Weird Tales March 1953 250 · Hell-Bent · Ford McCormack · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1951 274 · The Devil and Daniel Webster · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 24 1936 292 · Countess Kathleen O’Shea · [uncredited] · vi (r) 297 · The Devil, George, and Rosie · John Collier · nv The Devil and All by John Collier, Nonesuch Press, 1934 321 · The Devil Was Sick · Bruce Elliott · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1951