An edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Ninth Annual Collection
By Ellen Datlow,Terry Windling,Edward Bryant,James Frankel,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Charles de Lint,Lamsley, Terry,Midori Snyder,Peter S. Beagle,Ellen Kushner,Michael Marshall Smith,Scott Bradfield,Ursula K. Le Guin,Stuart Dybek,Stephen King,Neil Gaiman,Eileen Kernaghan,Pat Mora,Peter Crowther,Rick Moody,Christopher Kenworthy,Douglas E. Winter,Sue Kepros Hartman,Jane Yolen,Lucy Taylor,Steve Rasnic Tem,Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin,Mary O'Malley,Sharon N. Farber,Tanith Lee,Louise Glück,S. P. Somtow,Vivian Vande Velde,Margaret Atwood,A. S. Byatt,Susan Moody,Pat Cadigan,David J. Schow,Gary A. Braunbeck,Marcia Guthridge,Robert Reed,Joyce Carol Oates,Delia Sherman,Nancy Willard,Patricia A. McKillip
Publish Date
1996-07
Publisher
St Martins Press
Language
eng
Pages
580
Description:
A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors Acknowledgement -- Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling -- Summation 1995: horror / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and fantasy in the media: 1995 / Edward Bryant -- Obituaries / James Frankel -- Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- Heartfires / Charles de Lint -- Screens / Terry Lamsley -- King of crows / Midori Snyder -- Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle -- The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner -- More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith -- Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield -- Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- [Lunch at the Gotham café](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W) / Stephen King -- Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan -- Llantos de la Llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora -- Too short a death / Peter Crowther -- The James Dean garage band / Rick Moody -- Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy -- Loop / Douglas E. Winter -- La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman -- Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Switch / Lucy Taylor -- Scaring the train / Terry Dowling -- Blood knot / Steve Rasnic Tem -- The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley -- Resolve and resistance / S.N. Dyer -- La dame / Tanith Lee -- Circe's power (poem) / Louise Glück -- Dragon's fin soup / S.P. Somtow -- The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde -- Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood -- A lamia in the Cévennes / A.S. Byatt -- The guilty party / Susan Moody -- She's not there / Pat Cadigan -- The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck -- Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge -- Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed -- ############## / Joyce Carol Oates -- The printer's daughter / Delia Sherman -- Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard -- Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen -- The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip -- Honorable mentions.
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