The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312078889 ISBN 13: 9780312078881

Publisher: St. Martin's, 1992

Synopsis

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions -- all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

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Review

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annuals are always a treat; read this one and The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois and you'll have a fairly complete overview of speculative fiction from 1998 as well as hours of great reading.

Datlow and Windling, renowned for crossing genre boundaries, gather stories and poems from mainstream magazines, literary journals, and Internet zines. There are vampires, a Lovecraft homage, enchanted birds and animals, shapeshifters, adult fairy tales, ghosts, and even a hunted muse. The best are Byatt's sensuous, enchanting "Cold"--about an ice princess who marries a glass-blowing desert prince--and Straub's novella, "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" (which won the Stoker award for Best Long Fiction in 1999), a black comedy of revenge gone awry. The reference material includes each editor's review of the year's best novels, collections and anthologies, magazines, related nonfiction, children's books, and art. There's also a roundup of 1998's film, television, and dramatic offerings by Ed Bryant, a brief essay on comics by Seth Johnson, and obituaries by James Frenkel.

It's an invaluable source of introductions to authors you might not otherwise try, plus thought-provoking observations on fantasy in all its guises. You may not get to a convention this year, but if you've read Datlow and Windling, you'll know what a good one is like. --Nona Vero

From the Publisher

This volume includes stores from:

Jorge Luis Borges
Chana Bloch
Michael Blumlein
Catharine Savage Brosman
Sylvia Brownrigg
Judy Budnitz
A. S. Byatt
Susanna Clarke
Sarah Corbett
Charles de Lint
Marisa de los Santos
Nick DiChario
Terry Dowling
Carol Ann Duffy
Steve Duffy
Sara Douglass
Dennis Etchison
Larry Fontenot
Karen Joy Fowler
Neil Gaiman
Bruce Glassco
Lisa Goldstein
Christopher Harman
Rick Kennett
John Kessel
Stephen King
Ellen Kushner
Terry Lamsley
Kelly Link
Patricia A. McKillip
Steven Millhauser
Lawrence Osgood
Norman Partridge
Holly Prado
Mary Rosenblum
Ralph Salisbury
Delia Sherman
Michael Marshall Smith
Ilan Stavans
Peter Straub
Mark W. Tiedemann
Ray Vukcevich
Jane Yolen
Kurahashi Yukimo

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312078889
• ISBN 13: 9780312078881
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 518
• Editor: Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
• Illustrator: Thomas Canty