The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection
For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stor For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror. Contents Summation 1999: Fantasy, Terri Windling Summation 1999: Horror, Ellen Datlow Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1999, Edward Bryant Comics: 1999, Seth Johnson Obituaries: 1999, James Frenkel Darkrose and Diamond, Ursula K. Le Guin The Chop Girl, Ian R. MacLeod The Girl Detective, Kelly Link The Transformation, N. Scott Momaday Carabosse, Delia Sherman Harlequin Valentine, Neil Gaiman Toad, Patricia A. McKillip The Dinner Party, Robert Girardi Heat, Steve Rasnic Tem The Wedding at Esperanza, Linnet Taylor Redescending, Ursula K. Le Guin You Don't Have to be Mad . . .Kim Newman The Paper-Thin Garden, Thomas Wharton The Anatomy of a Mermaid, Mary Sharratt The Grammarian's Five Daughters, Eleanor Arnason The Tree Is My Hat, Gene Wolfe Welcome, Michael Marshall Smith The Pathos of Genre, Douglas E. Winter Shatsi, Peter Crowther Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story, Neil Gaiman What You Make It, Michael Marshall Smith The Parwat Ruby, Delia Sherman Odysseus Old, Geoffrey Brock The Smell of the Deer, Kent Meyers Chorion and the Pleiades, Sarah Van Arsdale Crosley, Elizabeth Engstrom n0 Naming the Dead, Paul J. McAuley The Stork-Men, Juan Goytisolo The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman, Steven Millhauser White, Tim Lebbon Dear Floods of Her Hair, James Sallis Mrs. Santa Decides to Move to Florida, April Selley Tanuki, Jan Hodgman At Reparata, Jeffrey Ford Skin So Green and Fine, Wendy Wheeler Old Merlin Dancing on the Sands of Time, Jane Yolen Sailing the Painted Ocean, Denise Lee Grandmother, Laurence Snydal Small Song, Gary A. Braunbeck The Emperor's Old Bones, Gemma Files The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse, Susanna Clarke Halloween Street, Steve Rasnic Tem The Kiss, Tia V. Travis The Beast/The Hedge, Bill Lewis Pixel Pixies, Charles de Lint Falling Away, Elizabeth Birmingham Honorable Mentions: 1999 ...more
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Odile
This is the first of this anthology series that I've read, but it was a very refreshing and entertaining look at the world of imaginative fiction. I'm definitely going to keep my eye out for the other instalments. After reading a collection of short stories and poems like this, you realise how horribly dull the mainstream fantasy/horror market can be, compared to what is written by authors operating in the periphery. This truly is the *best* in Fantasy and Horror, or at least, it is certainly muc This is the first of this anthology series that I've read, but it was a very refreshing and entertaining look at the world of imaginative fiction. I'm definitely going to keep my eye out for the other instalments. After reading a collection of short stories and poems like this, you realise how horribly dull the mainstream fantasy/horror market can be, compared to what is written by authors operating in the periphery. This truly is the *best* in Fantasy and Horror, or at least, it is certainly much better than much of the material that gets put out on the mass market. The stories range from magical realism to folkloric adaptions to just plain old ghost and horror stories and fantastic tales. The material is extremely varied, and will hold interesting bits and pieces for many types of readers. Here's a selection of my favourites: Neil Gaiman - "Harlequin Valentine" [A typical Gaiman piece, nicely dirty and original] Thomas Wharton - "The Paper-Thin Garden" [A beautifully evocative concept, worked out brilliantly in only a couple of pages] Michael Marshall Smith - "Welcome" [Nicely melancholic piece about a man slowly fading from this world] Tim Lebbon - "White" [Good old fashioned 'monsters kill occupants of a snowed-in cabin one by one', but superbly done, with great atmosphere] Charles de Lint - "Pixel Pixies" [original and funny folkloric fantasy in an everyday setting] Also, the extensive overview (200+ pages) of new work in these areas of fiction is indispensible for those who follow the field in detail.
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Mylee
A hit or miss collection, mostly misses for this reader due to the editors’ overly romantic, laboriously Victorian and slow-paced choices. In other words, I got bored. The Momaday, Sherman, McKillip, Frits Goldberg, and Rasmic Tem pieces were good — particularly the poems. Otherwise, I found the collection a snoozer.
"It fell as gracefully as a falling world." "It's a sound. Like silk ripping. Cerise." "I don't want a silent shining path of gold. I need the imperfect world broken up into words" - Patricia McKillip "Harrowing the Dragon" "It fell as gracefully as a falling world." "It's a sound. Like silk ripping. Cerise." "I don't want a silent shining path of gold. I need the imperfect world broken up into words" - Patricia McKillip "Harrowing the Dragon"