The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s, July 1991, 0-312-06007-6, $15.95, 552pp, tp, an, cover by Thomas Canty)
Best-of-the-year anthology of 51 horror and fantasy stories and poems from 1990, plus summations of the year in fantasy by Windling, the year in horror by Datlow, and the year in films by Edward Bryant. A hardcover edition (-06005-X, $27.95) is also available.
- xii · Summation 1990: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar
- xxiii · Summation 1990: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar
- xlv · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1990 · Edward Bryant · ar
- lii · Obituaries: 1990 · [uncredited] · ob
- 1 · Freewheeling [Newford] · Charles de Lint · nv Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine #6, Winter 1990
- 16 · Coming Home · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Author’s Choice Monthly #14, November 1990
- 24 · The Sweeper · George Szanto · ss The Underside of Stones by George Szanto, HarperCollins, 1990
- 38 · Ladies and Gentlemen · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1990
- 45 · Freaktent · Nancy A. Collins · ss The Horror Show Spring 1990
- 55 · Missolonghi 1824 · John Crowley · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1990
- 64 · The Last Feast of Harlequin [Cthulhu] · Thomas Ligotti · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1990
- 92 · Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light · David Memmott · pm House On Fire by David Memmott, Hypatia Press, 1991
- 95 · Harvest · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Amazing Stories July 1990
- 105 · Fantasy in the Real World · Susan Cooper · ar The Hornbook Magazine May 1990
adapted from the Anne Carroll Moore Lecture, delivered at the New York Public Library on December 29, 1988.
- 116 · The Dream · Dyan Sheldon · ss Skin of the Soul ed. Lisa Tuttle, The Women's Press, 1990
- 123 · Moths · John Brunner · ss Dark Voices 2 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1990
- 136 · Frozen Charlottes · Susan Prospere · pm The New Yorker September 17 1990
- 139 · Little Nightmares, Little Dreams · Rachel Simon · ss Story Summer 1990
- 148 · Timekeeper · John Morressy · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 1990
- 165 · Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble · Ellen Kushner · pm Monochrome ed. Bryan Cholfin, Broken Mirrors Press, 1990
- 168 · Death of a Right Fielder · Stuart Dybek · ss The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek, Knopf, 1990
- 172 · Not from Around Here · David J. Schow · nv Seeing Red by David J. Schow, Tor, 1990
- 198 · Lieserl · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Author’s Choice Monthly #6, March 1990
- 205 · The Last Game · Sharon M. Hall · ss Interzone #33, January/February 1990
- 220 · Offerings · Susan Palwick · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine #6, Winter 1990
- 233 · The Muses of Rooms · Vern Rutsala · pm Poetry January 1990
- 236 · A Touch of the Old Lilith · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · nv Women of Darkness II ed. Kathryn Ptacek, Tor, 1990
- 250 · The Calling · David B. Silva · ss Borderlands ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon, 1990
- 261 · TV People · Haruki Murakami; translated by Alfred Birnbaum · ss The New Yorker September 10 1990
translated from the Japanese.
- 276 · In the Trees · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Fantasy Tales, v.11 #4 ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson, 1990
- 282 · Truman Capote’s Trilby: The Facts · Garry Kilworth · ss Back Brain Recluse #15, Spring 1990
- 290 · Green · Ian R. MacLeod · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine mid December 1990
- 310 · Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks · Garry Kilworth · ss Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks by Garry Kilworth, Methuen, 1990
- 318 · The Panic Hand · Jonathan Carroll · ss Interzone #33, January/February 1990
first published, in German, in Die Panische Hand (1989).
- 326 · Bestseller · Michael Blumlein · nv The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein, Scream/Press, 1989
- 351 · Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride · Delia Sherman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 1990
- 357 · Out of Sight, Out of Mind · Jack Womack · ss Walls of Fear ed. Kathryn Cramer, Morrow, 1990
- 368 · Midwife to the Fairies · Éilís Ní Dhuibhne · ss Blood and Water by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Attic Press, 1990
- 376 · The Phone Woman · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Night Visions 8, Dark Harvest, 1991
- 387 · Ladder · T. E. D. Klein · ss Borderlands ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon, 1990
- 397 · Alice, Falling · Steven Millhauser · ss Antæus 1990
- 409 · Ashputtle: or, The Mother’s Ghost · Angela Carter · ss The Virago Book of Ghost Stories ed. Richard Dalby, Virago, 1987
- 416 · Face to Face · Adrian Cole · ss Dark Voices 2 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1990
- 428 · The Dog’s Tale · Karel Capek · ss Nine Fairytales by Karel Capek and One More Thrown In For Good Measure by Karel Capek, Northwestern University Press, 1990
- 435 · Stephen · Elizabeth Massie · nv Borderlands ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon, 1990
- 454 · A Short Guide to the City · Peter Straub · ss Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub, Grafton, 1990
- 463 · The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study · R. A. Lafferty · ss East of Laughter (limited edition) by R. A. Lafferty, Morrigan, 1988
- 469 · The First Time · K. W. Jeter · ss Alien Sex ed. Ellen Datlow, Dutton, 1990
- 481 · Coyote vs. Acme · Ian Frazier · ss The New Yorker February 26 1990
- 486 · Arousal · Richard Christian Matheson · ss Alien Sex ed. Ellen Datlow, Dutton, 1990
- 491 · The Waiting Wolf · Gwen Strauss · pm Trail of Stones by Gwen Strauss, Knopf, 1990
- 494 · The Beast · Gwen Strauss · pm Trail of Stones by Gwen Strauss, Knopf, 1990
- 496 · Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague · Michael Bishop · ss Omni December 1990
- 510 · Two Words · Isabel Allende; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss Mother Jones January/February 1991
- 517 · The All-Consuming · Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier · nv Playboy July 1990
- 536 · The Sadness of Detail · Jonathan Carroll · ss Omni February 1990
first published, in German, in Die Panische Hand (1989).
- 545 · Honorable Mentions: 1990 · [uncredited] · bi
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