The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection - Hardcover

Datlow, Ellen And Terri Windling (eds.).

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031204447X ISBN 13: 9780312044473

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1990

Synopsis

Collecting the creme de la creme of the horror and fantasy fields, this third volume amasses the best from 1989, including works by Scott Baker, Pat Cadigan, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, Jonah Carroll, Robert McCammon and Bruce Sterling, as well as extensive overviews of the year in horror and fantasy, and Ed Bryant's survey of the year's movies.

About this title

About the Author

Ellen Datlow is a winner of eight World Fantasy Awards, two Hugo Awards for Best Editor, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre." In a career spanning more than twenty-five years, she has been the long-time fiction editor of Omni and more recently the fiction editor of SCIFI.COM. She has edited many successful anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, A Whisper of Blood, Alien Sex, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and, with Terri Windling, Sirens, Salon Fantastique, Snow White, Blood Red and five other titles in their adult Fairy Tales anthology series; The Green Man, The Faery Reel, and The Coyote Road for young adults; and, for younger readers, A Wolf at the Door, Swan Sister, and forthcoming Troll's Eye View. Ellen Datlow lives in Manhattan. Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. She has won six World Fantasy awards for her editorial work and the Mythopoeic Award for her novel The Wood Wife. She has edited over thirty anthologies, many in collaboration with Ellen Datlow--including the Snow White, Blood Red adult fairy-tale series, The Armless Maiden, Sirens, The Green Man, and Swan Sister. She has also written children's books and articles on myth and folklore, and she edits the Endicott Studio Online Journal of Mythic Arts website. She divides her time between homes in Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.

From Publishers Weekly

The 48 stories and poems in this third annual collection encompass a wide variety of subjects and styles. Several pieces, such as Dan Daly's "Self-Portrait Mixed-Media on Pavement, 1988," are set in a recognizable time and place but offer a bracing--and sometimes shocking--twist, while others, like Tanith Lee's "White as Sin, Now," create realities far removed from our everyday world. The volume features work by such stalwarts of these genres as Edward Bryant, Jane Yolen and Lisa Tuttle. Of particular note are Joyce Carol Oates's chronicle of the debilitating physical and psychological effects of a nuclear-like holocaust in "Family"; James Powell's wry account of a murder investigation in Clowntown, where everyone looks literally as if they belong in a circus ("A Dirge for Clowntown"); Steven Millhauser's "The Illusionist," about a magician who conjures people into existence using the power of his mind; and Robert R. McCammon's terrifying version of the end of the world in "Something Passed By." Also included is a summation of the year's fictional and film works in fantasy and horror. Datlow is fiction editor at Omni magazine and Windling is a veteran fantasy editor.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 031204447X
• ISBN 13: 9780312044473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 563