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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection
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.
Table of Contents:
- Summation 1990: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
- Summation 1990: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
- Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1990 - essay by Edward Bryant
- Obituaries - essay by uncredited
- Freewheeling - (1990) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
- Coming Home - (1990) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- The Sweeper - (1990) - shortstory by George Szanto
- Ladies and Gentlemen - (1990) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
- Freaktent - (1990) - shortstory by Nancy A. Collins
- Missolonghi 1824 - (1990) - shortstory by John Crowley
- The Last Feast of Harlequin - (1990) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
- Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light - (1991) - poem by David Memmott
- Harvest - (1990) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Fantasy in the Real World - (1990) - essay by Susan Cooper
- The Dream - (1990) - shortstory by Dyan Sheldon
- Moths - (1990) - shortstory by John Brunner
- Frozen Charlottes - (1990) - poem by Susan Prospere
- Little Nightmares, Little Dreams - (1990) - shortstory by Rachel Simon
- Timekeeper - (1990) - novelette by John Morressy
- Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble - (1990) - poem by Ellen Kushner
- Death of a Right Fielder - (1990) - shortstory by Stuart Dybek
- Not from Around Here - (1990) - novelette by David J. Schow
- Lieserl - (1990) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
- The Last Game - (1990) - shortstory by Sharon M. Hall
- Offerings - (1990) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
- The Muses of Rooms - (1990) - poem by Vern Rutsala
- A Touch of the Old Lilith - (1990) - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- The Calling - (1990) - shortstory by David B. Silva
- TV People - (1990) - shortstory by Haruki Murakami
- In the Trees - (1990) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts - (1990) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
- Green - (1990) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
- Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks - (1990) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
- The Panic Hand - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
- Bestseller - (1990) - novelette by Michael Blumlein
- Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride - (1990) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind - (1990) - shortstory by Jack Womack
- Midwife to the Fairies - (1990) - shortstory by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
- The Phone Woman - (1990) - shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
- Ladder - (1990) - shortstory by T. E. D. Klein
- Alice, Falling - (1990) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
- Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost - (1987) - shortstory by Angela Carter
- Face to Face - (1990) - shortstory by Adrian Cole
- The Dog's Tale - (1933) - shortstory by Karel Capek
- Stephen - (1990) - novelette by Elizabeth Massie
- A Short Guide to the City - (1990) - shortstory by Peter Straub
- The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study - (1988) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
- The First Time - (1990) - shortstory by K. W. Jeter
- Coyote v. Acme - (1990) - shortstory by Ian Frazier
- Arousal - (1990) - shortstory by Richard Christian Matheson
- The Waiting Wolf - (1990) - poem by Gwen Strauss
- The Beast - (1990) - poem by Gwen Strauss
- Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague - (1990) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
- Two Words - (1989) - shortstory by Isabel Allende
- The All-Consuming - (1990) - novelette by Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
- The Sadness of Detail - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
- Honorable Mentions: 1990 - essay by uncredited
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