The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection

Ellen Datlow, Sara Douglass, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Marshall Smith, Lisa Goldstein, Ralph Salisbury, Stephen King, Karen Joy Fowler, Terry Lamsley, Dennis Etchison, Yumiko Kurahashi, Edward Bryant, John Kessel, Neil Gaiman, Seth Johnson, James Frenkel, Kelly Link, Steve Duffy, Susanna Clarke, Rick Kennett, Bruce Glassco, Lawrence Osgood, Sylvia Brownrigg, Mark W. Tiedemann, Carol Ann Duffy, Jane Yolen, Norman Partridge, Nick DiChario, Delia Sherman, Steven Millhauser, Jorge Luis Borges, Peter Straub, Michael Blumlein, Patricia A. McKillip, Christopher Harman, Sarah Corbett, Ellen Kushner, Judy Budnitz, Ray Vukcevich, Charles de Lint, Terry Dowling, Ilan Stavans, A.S. Byatt


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4.00 · 6 ratings · 624 pages · Published: 30 Jul 1999

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Sara Douglass, Mary Rosenblum, Michael Marshall Smith, Lisa Goldstein, Ralph Salisbury, Stephen King, Karen Joy Fowler, Terry Lamsley, Dennis Etchison, Yumiko Kurahashi, Edward Bryant, John Kessel, Neil Gaiman, Seth Johnson, James Frenkel, Kelly Link, Steve Duffy, Susanna Clarke, Rick Kennett, Bruce Glassco, Lawrence Osgood, Sylvia Brownrigg, Mark W. Tiedemann, Carol Ann Duffy, Jane Yolen, Norman Partridge, Nick DiChario, Delia Sherman, Steven Millhauser, Jorge Luis Borges, Peter Straub, Michael Blumlein, Patricia A. McKillip, Christopher Harman, Sarah Corbett, Ellen Kushner, Judy Budnitz, Ray Vukcevich, Charles de Lint, Terry Dowling, Ilan Stavans, A.S. Byatt
Over 250,000 words of the finest fantasy and horror

A. S. Byatt
Charles de Lint
Karen Joy Fowler
Neil Gaiman
Lisa Goldstein
Stephen King
Ellen Kushner
Patricia A. McKillip
Steven Millhauser
Michael Marshall Smith
Peter Straub
Jane Yolen

For more than a decade, readers have looked to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to showcase the highest achievements of fantastic fiction. 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 fantastic fiction, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this volume a valubale reference source as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror

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