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The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s, August 1993, 0-312-09422-1, $16.95, 529pp, tp, an, cover by Thomas Canty)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 49 stories and three poems, plus a summation of the year in horror and fantasy by the editors, a survey of fantasy and sf in the media, and a necrology. This edition has several errors in the front matter, including the second page of the table of contents being without page numbers. A hardcover edition (-09421-1, $27.95) was announced but not seen. xiii · Summation 1992: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar xxxi · Summation 1992: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar lxxii · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1992 · Edward Bryant · ar lxxxvii · Obituaries: 1992 · [uncredited] · ob 1 · Silver or Gold · Emma Bull · nv After the King ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1992 28 · Tinker · Jack Cady · ss Glimmer Train #2, Spring 1992 35 · Queequeg · Craig Curtis · ss Chicago Review v37 #4, 1992 42 · Anima · M. John Harrison · ss Interzone #58, April 1992 57 · Skin · Steve Rasnic Tem · pm Psychos: An Anthology of Psychological Horror in Verse ed. Michael A. Arnzen, Mastication Publications, 1992 58 · The Homunculus: A Novel in One Chapter · Reginald McKnight · ss The Colorado College Magazine 1992 taken from the collection The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas (Little, Brown, 1992). 66 · The Annunciation · Cristina Peri Rossi; translated by Mary Jane Tracy · ss The Secret Weavers ed. Marjorie Agosin, White Pine Press, 1991 76 · The Bone Woman [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Triskell Press, 1992 84 · The Story of the Eldest Princess · A. S. Byatt · nv Caught in a Story ed. Christine Park & Caroline Heaton, Vintage UK, 1992 95 · Calcutta, Lord of Nerves · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Still Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Ziesing, 1992 104 · In the Looking Glass, Life Is Death · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · pm Deathrealm #17, Fall/Winter 1992 106 · The Parakeet and the Cat · Scott Bradfield · ss Conjunctions #18, Spring 1992 116 · Glory · Nicholas Royle · ss Narrow Houses: Volume I ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1992 124 · Murder Mysteries · Neil Gaiman · nv Midnight Graffiti ed. Jessica Horsting & James Van Hise, Warner, 1992 144 · Hungry · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Borderlands 3 ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993 151 · Playing With · M. R. Scofidio · ss The Urbanite #2, 1992 156 · Human Remains · Edward Bryant · ss Darker Passions by Edward Bryant, Roadkill Press, 1992 168 · It Comes and Goes · Robert Silverberg · ss Playboy January 1992 181 · The Bewitched Burr · Grozdana Olujic; translated by Jascha Kessler · ss Conjunctions #18, Spring 1992 translated from the Serbo-Croatian. 184 · Swimming Lesson · Charlotte Watson Sherman · ss Killing Color by Charlotte Watson Sherman, Calyx Books, 1992 188 · Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop · Garry Kilworth · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1992 202 · Bats · Diane de Avalle-Arce · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 1992 208 · Origami Mountain · Nancy Farmer · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 1992 217 · Ruby Laughter, Tears of Pearl [Fantasy and Fable] · James Powell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1992 225 · I Sing of a Maiden · Judith Tarr · nv The Magic of Christmas, Roc, 1992 237 · Also Starring · Cliff Burns · vi Tesseracts4 ed. Lorna Toolis & Michael Skeet, Porcepic, 1992 239 · On Edge · Christopher Fowler · ss Dark Voices 4 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1992 247 · Martyrdom · Joyce Carol Oates · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 259 · The Second Bakery Attack · Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Rubin · ss Playboy January 1992 268 · A Little Night Music · Lucius Shepard · ss Omni March 1992 280 · Tom and Jerry Visit England · Jo Shapcott · pm The Southern Review Spring 1992 taken from Phrase Book, Oxford University Press, 1992. 282 · The Sluice · Stephen Gallagher · ss Narrow Houses: Volume I ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1992 294 · Ratbird · Brian W. Aldiss · nv New Worlds 2 ed. David S. Garnett, Gollancz, 1992 308 · The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun · Gene Wolfe · ss Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Unnameable Press, 1992 319 · On Death and the Deuce [Kevin Grierson] · Rick Bowes · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1992 328 · The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore · Harlan Ellison · ss World Fantasy Convention Program Book, 1991 340 · Graves · Joe Haldeman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 1992 346 · The Ugly File · Ed Gorman · ss Prisoners and Other Stories by Ed Gorman, Cemetery Dance, 1992 353 · Elfhouses · Midori Snyder · ss Mothering Summer 1992 360 · Candles on the Pond · Sue Ellen Sloca · ss Pulphouse, 1992 375 · Tree of Life, Book of Death · Grania Davis · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 1992 391 · Puja · D. R. McBride · ss Grue #14, Summer 1992 401 · Hermione and the Moon · Clive Barker · ss The New York Times October 30 1992 407 · Absence of Beast · Graham Masterton · ss Dark Voices 4 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1992 418 · Rat Catcher · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 432 · Will · Jane Yolen · pm The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Spring 1992 433 · The Question of the Grail · Jane Yolen · pm Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Unnameable Press, 1992 434 · In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells · John Brunner · na After the King ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1992 468 · The Blue Stone Emperor’s Thirty-Three Wives · Sara Gallardo; translated by Elizabeth Rhodes · ss The Secret Weavers ed. Marjorie Agosin, White Pine Press, 1991 476 · Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room · Angela Carter · ss SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature) Volume 5, 1990 486 · Replacements · Lisa Tuttle · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 497 · The Ghost Village [Blue Rose] · Peter Straub · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 520 · Honorable Mentions: 1992 · [uncredited] · bi

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s, October 1994, 0-312-11102-9, $16.95, 523pp, tp, an, cover by Thomas Canty)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 50 stories and four poems, plus a summation of the year in horror and fantasy by the editors, a survey of fantasy and sf in the media, and a necrology. A hardcover edition (-11103-7, $26.95) is also available. xiii · Summation 1993: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar xxxvi · Comics 1993 · Will Shetterly & Emma Bull · ar xxxviii · Summation 1993: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar lxxxi · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1993 · Edward Bryant · ar xciii · Obituaries: 1993 · [uncredited] · ob 1 · The Poacher · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Xanadu ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1993 12 · England Underway · Terry Bisson · nv Omni July 1993 27 · The Woman in the Painting · Lisa Goldstein · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 1993 38 · The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap · Terry Dowling · ss Terror Australis ed. Leigh Blackmore, Coronet Australia, 1993 49 · Memo for Freud · Daína Chaviano; translated by Heather Rosario-Sievert · pm Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writing by Latin American Women ed. Margarite Fern^a'ndez Olmos & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, White Pine Press, 1993 50 · The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw · Nancy A. Collins · nv Confederacy of the Dead ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Roc, 1993 63 · Breath · Adam Corbin Fusco · ss Touch Wood ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1993 73 · Knives · Jane Yolen · pm Snow White, Blood Red ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1993 75 · Mrs. Jones · Carol Emshwiller · ss Omni August 1993 85 · Snow Man · John Coyne · nv Monsters in Our Midst ed. Robert Bloch, Tor, 1993 99 · One Night, or Scheherazade’s Bare Minimum · Thomas M. Disch · ss Omni Best Science Fiction Three ed. Ellen Datlow, Omni, 1993 103 · Dead Man’s Shoes [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Touch Wood ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1993 116 · The Lodger · Fred Chappell · ss Necronomicon Press, 1993 131 · The Erl-King · Elizabeth Hand · nv Full Spectrum 4 ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Bantam Spectra, 1993 158 · The Chrysanthemum Spirit · Osamu Dazai; translated by Ralph F. McCarthy · ss Blue Bamboo by Osamu Dazai, tr. Ralph F. McCarthy, Kodansha International, 1993 translated from the Japanese. 166 · Angel · Mary Ellis · ss Glimmer Train #5, Winter 1993 176 · The Taking of Mr. Bill · Graham Masterton · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993 185 · The Saint · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by Edith Grossman · ss Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez, Knopf, 1993 translated from the Spanish. 194 · Cottage · Bruce McAllister · ss Christmas Forever ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor, 1993 204 · Doodles · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Sinistre ed. George Hatch, Horror's Head Press, 1993 211 · Dying in Bangkok · Dan Simmons · nv Playboy June 1993, as “Death in Bangkok”; slightly revised. 237 · Prisoners of the Royal Weather · Bruce Boston · pm Weird Tales Spring 1993 239 · The Snow Queen · Patricia A. McKillip · nv Snow White, Blood Red ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1993 254 · Troll Bridge · Neil Gaiman · ss Snow White, Blood Red ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1993 261 · The Storyteller · Rafik Schami · ss Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993 267 · Rice and Milk · Rosario Ferré · vi Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writing by Latin American Women ed. Margarite Fern^a'ndez Olmos & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, White Pine Press, 1993 270 · Ridi Bobo · Robert Devereaux · ss Weird Tales Spring 1993 277 · Playing with Fire · Ellen Kushner · nv The Women’s Press Book of New Myth and Magic ed. Helen Windrath, The Women's Press, 1993 293 · Later · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993 298 · Distances · Sherman Alexie · vi The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993 302 · Crash Cart · Nancy Holder · ss Cemetery Dance #17/18, Fall 1993 310 · Some Strange Desire · Ian McDonald · nv Omni Best Science Fiction Three ed. Ellen Datlow, Omni, 1993 325 · The Dog Park · Dennis Etchison · ss Dark Voices 5 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1993 334 · Wooden Druthers · E. R. Stewart · ss The Ultimate Witch ed. Byron Preiss & John Betancourt, Dell, 1993 340 · Inscription · Jane Yolen · ss The Ultimate Witch ed. Byron Preiss & John Betancourt, Dell, 1993 350 · In Camera · Robert Westall · nv The Fearful Lovers by Robert Westall, Macmillan UK, 1992 365 · The Wealth of Kingdoms (An Inflationary Tale) · Daniel Hood · ss Science Fiction Age November 1993 369 · The Crucian Pit · Nicholas Royle · ss The Mammoth Book of Zombies ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1993 381 · The Ecology of Reptiles · John Coyne · ss Predators ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1993 395 · The Last Crossing · Thomas Tessier · ss Hottest Blood ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1993 403 · Small Adjustments · Caila Rossi · ss TriQuarterly #87, Spring/Summer 1993 411 · Precious · Roberta Lannes · ss Dark Voices 5 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1993 422 · Susan · Harlan Ellison · vi The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1993 425 · Freud at Thirty Paces · Sara Paretsky · ss 1st Culprit ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus, 1992 436 · If Angels Ate Apples · Geoffrey A. Landis · pm Asimov’s Science Fiction June 1993 437 · Exogamy · John Crowley · ss Omni Best Science Fiction Three ed. Ellen Datlow, Omni, 1993 440 · The Princess Who Kicked Butt · Will Shetterly · ss A Wizard’s Dozen ed. Michael Stearns, Harcourt Brace, 1993 446 · The Apprentice · Miriam Grace Monfredo · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1993 455 · Alvyta (A Lithuanian Fairy Tale) · O. V. de L. Milosz; translated by Edouard Roditi · ss Conjunctions #18, Spring 1992 460 · The Pig Man · Augustine Bruins Funnell · ss Cemetery Dance #16, Spring 1993 471 · Tattoo · A. R. Morlan · ss Sinistre ed. George Hatch, Horror's Head Press, 1993 476 · Lady of the Skulls · Patricia A. McKillip · ss Strange Dreams ed. Stephen R. Donaldson, Bantam Spectra, 1993 484 · To Scale · Nancy Kress · ss Xanadu ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1993 495 · Roar at the Heart of the World · Danith McPherson · ss Full Spectrum 4 ed. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell, Bantam Spectra, 1993 511 · Honorable Mentions: 1993 · [uncredited] · bi

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s, September 1995, 0-312-13220-4, $27.95, 542pp, hc, an, cover by Thomas Canty)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 48 stories, four poems, and one essay. There are also a necrology and summations of 1994 fantasy and horror by the editors; Ed Bryant discusses “Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994”, and Will Shetterly and Emma Bull cover “Comics 1994”. Also available in trade paperback (-13219-0, $16.95). xiii · Summation 1994: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar xxxiv · Summation 1994: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar lxxvi · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994 · Edward Bryant · ar xc · Comics 1994 · Will Shetterly & Emma Bull · ar xciv · Obituaries: 1994 · James Frenkel · ob 1 · Transmutations · Patricia A. McKillip · ss Xanadu 2 ed. Jane Yolen, Tor, 1994 8 · Bottom’s Dream · Rachel Wetzsteon · pm Other Stars by Rachel Wetzsteon, Penguin, 1994 10 · La Promesa · Leroy Quintana · ss Pleiades Fall 1994 15 · Aweary of the Sun · Gregory Feeley · nv Weird Tales from Shakespeare ed. Katharine Kerr & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1994 45 · A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings · Jonathan Carroll · ss Omni March 1994 53 · Who Will Love the River God? · Emily Newland · ss Grue #16, Summer 1994 57 · Brothers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1994 71 · Subsoil · Nicholson Baker · ss The New Yorker June 27/July 4 1994 80 · Elvis’s Bathroom · Pagan Kennedy · ss The Village Voice 1989 91 · Yet Another Poisoned Apple for the Fairy Princess · A. R. Morlan · ss Deadly After Dark ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1994 99 · The Big Game · Nicholas Royle · nv The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Tiger Books, 1994 109 · Buenaventura and the Fifteen Sisters · Margarita Engle · ss In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States ed. Roberta Fernández, Arte Público Press-University of Houston, 1994 115 · De Natura Unicorni · Jane Yolen · ss Here There Be Unicorns by Jane Yolen, Harcourt Brace, 1994 124 · Blue Motel · Ian McDonald · nv Blue Motel ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1994 145 · A Friend Indeed · David Garnett · ss Interzone #89, November 1994 151 · Sometimes, in the Rain · Charles Grant · ss Northern Frights 2 ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1994 160 · Rain Falls · Michael Marshall Smith · ss The Mammoth Book of Werewolves ed. Stephen Jones, Carroll & Graf, 1994 168 · That Old School Tie · Jack Womack · nv Little Deaths ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994 190 · Animals Behind Bars! · Scott Bradfield · ss Conjunctions #21, Fall 1993 207 · Monuments to the Dead · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Tales from the Great Turtle ed. Piers Anthony & Richard Gilliam, Tor, 1994 219 · Unterseeboot Doktor · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy January 1994 227 · Young Woman in a Garden · Delia Sherman · nv Xanadu 2 ed. Jane Yolen, Tor, 1994 246 · The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994 262 · “In the Tradition…” · Michael Swanwick · ar Asimov’s Science Fiction November 1994 284 · Words Like Pale Stones · Nancy Kress · nv Black Thorn, White Rose ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1994 295 · Märchen · Jane Yolen · pm Merveilles May 1994 296 · Giants in the Earth · Dale Bailey · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 1994 305 · A Conflagration Artist · Bradley Denton · ss A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton, Wildside Press, 1994 310 · Report · Carme Riera · ss The Origins of Desire: Modern Spanish Stories ed. Juan Antonio Masoliver, Serpent's Tail, 1993 316 · The Village of the Mermaids · John Bradley · pm Asylum Annual, 1994 ed. Greg Boyd, Asylum Arts, 1994 320 · —And the Horses Hiss at Midnight · A. R. Morlan · ss Love in Vein ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1994 325 · The Entreaty of the Wiideema · Barry Lopez · ss Field Notes by Barry Lopez, Knopf, 1994 331 · White Chapel · Douglas Clegg · nv Love in Vein ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1994 350 · The Stone Woman · Linda Weasel Head · pm CutBank #25, 1989 351 · Coyote Stories [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Triskell Press, 1993 originally privately printed as a gift, winter ’93/94. 356 · The Box · Jack Ketchum · ss Cemetery Dance #20, Spring 1994 364 · A Fear of Dead Things · Andrew Klavan · ss Phobias ed. Wendy Webb, Richard Gilliam, Edward Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg, Pocket, 1994 374 · He Unwraps Himself · Darrell Schweitzer · pm Weird Tales Spring 1994 376 · Chandira · Brian Mooney · ss The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1994 390 · Fever · Harlan Ellison · vi Mind Fields by Jacek Yerka & Harlan Ellison, Morpheus International, 1994 392 · The Best Things in Life · Lenora Champagne · ss The Iowa Review Spring/Summer 1994 399 · Mending Souls · Judith Tarr · ss Deals with the Devil ed. Mike Resnick, Martin H. Greenberg & Loren D. Estleman, DAW, 1994 408 · The Ocean and All Its Devices [Cthulhu] · William Browning Spencer · nv Borderlands 4 ed. Elizabeth & Thomas Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1994 423 · Strings · Kelley Eskridge · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 1994 436 · Superman’s Diary · B. Brandon Barker · ss Global City Review Spring 1994 444 · Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring · M. John Harrison · nv Little Deaths ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994 463 · The Sisterhood of Night · Steven Millhauser · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1994 471 · Winter Bodies · Noy Holland · vi The Spectacle of the Body by Noy Holland, Knopf, 1994 473 · The Sloan Men · David Nickle · ss Northern Frights 2 ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press, 1994 486 · Is That Them? · Kevin Roice · ss Grue #16, Summer 1994 498 · The Kingdom of Cats and Birds · Geoffrey A. Landis · ss Science Fiction Age September 1994 509 · Angel Combs · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Tiger Books, 1994 517 · Snow, Glass, Apples. · Neil Gaiman · ss DreamHaven Books, 1995 526 · Honorable Mentions: 1994 · [uncredited] · bi