The Year's best fantasy and horror eighth annual collection / edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Other author Datlow, Ellen.
Other author Windling, Terri.
Other author Canty, Thomas.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Griffin, ©1995.
Descriptionxcvi, 542 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Horror tales.
Fantasy fiction.
Short stories.

Contents Summation 1994: Fantasy / Terri Windling -- Summation 1994: Horror / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994 / Edward Bryant -- Comics 1994 / Will Shetterly and Emma Bull -- Obituaries -- Transmutations / Patricia A. McKillip -- Bottom's dream (poem) / Rachel Wetzsteon -- La Promesa / Leroy Quintana -- Aweary of the sun / Gregory Feeley -- A Wheel in the desert, the moon on some swings / Jonathan Carroll -- Who will love the river god? / Emily Newland -- Brothers / Joyce Carol Oates -- Subsoil / Nicholson Baker -- Elvis's bathroom / Pagan Kennedy -- Yet another poisoned apple for the fairy princess / A.R. Morlan -- The Big game / Nicholas Royle -- Buenaventura and the fifteen sisters / Margarita Engle -- De Natura unicorni / Jane Yolen -- Blue motel / Ian McDonald -- A Friend indeed / David Garnett -- Sometimes, in the rain / Charles Grant -- Rain falls / Michael Marshall Smith -- That old school tie / Jack Womack -- Animals behind bars! / Scott Bradfield -- Monuments to the dead / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Unterseeboot doktor / Ray Bradbury -- Young woman in a garden / Delia Sherman -- The Man in the black suit / Stephen King --"In the tradition..." (essay) / Michael Swanwick -- Words like pale stones / Nancy Kress -- Marchen (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Giants in the earth / Dale Bailey -- A Conflagration artist / Bradley Denton -- Report / Carme Riera -- The Village of the mermaids (poem) / John Bradley -- -And the horses hiss at midnight / A. R. Morlan -- The Entreaty of the Wiideema / Barry Lopez -- White Chapel / Douglas Clegg -- The Stone woman (poem) / Linda Weasel Head -- Coyote stories / Charles de Lint -- The Box / Jack Ketchum --
Contents A Fear of dead things / Andrew Klavan -- He unwraps himself (poem) / Darrell Schweitzer -- Chandira / Brian Mooney -- Fever / Harlan Ellison -- The Best things in life / Lenora Champagne -- Mending souls / Judith Tarr -- The Ocean and all its devices / William Browning Spencer -- Strings / Kelley Eskridge -- Superman's diary / B. Brandon Barker -- Isobel Avens returns to Stepney in the spring / M. John Harrison -- The Sisterhood of night / Steven Millhauser -- Winter bodies / Noy Holland -- The Sloan men / David Nickle -- Is that them? / Kevin Roice -- The Kingdom of cats and birds / Geoffrey A. Landis -- Angel combs / Steve Rasnic Tem -- Snow, glass, apples. / Neil Gaiman -- Honorable Mentions: 1994.
Local noteJoyner-See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General noteCover art by Thomas Canty.
Acquisitions source Joyner- Gift of Roger Schlobin 2008.
LCCN 91659320
ISBN0312132190 (pbk.) :
ISBN9780312132194 (pbk.)
ISBN0312132204 (hc)
ISBN9780312132200 (hc)