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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 21st Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror)

by Ellen Datlow

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 21st Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror) Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

As in every year since 1988, the editors tirelessly scoured story collections, magazines, and anthologies worldwide to compile a delightful, diverse feast of tales and poems.

On this anniversary, the editors have increased the size of  the collection to 300,000 words of fiction and poetry, including works by Billy Collins, Ted Chiang, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Hand, Glen Hirshberg, Joyce Carol Oates, and new World Fantasy Award winner M. Rickert. With impeccably researched summations of the field by the editors, Honorable Mentions, and articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint and Jeff VanderMeer on media, music and graphic novels, this is a heady brew topped off by an unparalleled list of sources of fabulous works both light and dark.

Review:

"The 40 selections in this exemplary anthology from Link and Grant (the fantasy half) and Datlow (the horror half) reflect virtually every hue of the fantasy/horror palette: urban fantasy in Jeffrey Ford's 'The Drowned Life' and Karen Joy Fowler's 'The Last Worders'; traditional supernatural horror in Paul Walther's 'Splitfoot' and Terry Dowling's 'Toother'; modern folk fantasy in Elizabeth Hand's 'Winter's Wife' and Eileen Gunn's 'Up the Fire Road'; and cosmic terror fiction in Laird Barron's 'The Forest' and Don Tumasonis's 'The Swing.' A handful of stories involve child abuse and abduction, of which Lisa Tuttle's 'Closet Dreams' is the most horrifying. The front matter's snapshot summaries of the past year's yield in fantasy, horror, comics, mixed media and music are a small and invaluable book unto themselves." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Review:

"There is no more essential a guide to the glorious fecundity of our imaginative literature in the last two decades." --Clive Barker “These books define the absolute best contemporary fantasy and horror for me and for a whole generation.” --Holly Black, bestselling author of the Spiderwick Chronicles

About the Author

ELLEN DATLOW, winner of multiple World Fantasy, Stoker, and many other awards, has been fiction editor for OMNI and SCIFI.COM, and many successful anthologies. She lives in New York City. KELLY LINK & GAVIN J. GRANT are publishers of Small Beer Press. Link is the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of the story collections  Strange Things Happen and Magic for Beginners. They live in Western Massachusetts.

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acrisalves, October 5, 2008 (view all comments by acrisalves)
The full list of contents was publish in Elleen Datlow's Livejournal (entry 59665)
http:// ellen-datlow . livejournal . com / 59665 . html
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312380489
Subtitle:
Twenty-First Annual Collection
Author:
Datlow, Ellen
Editor:
Link, Kelly
Editor:
Grant, Gavin
Author:
Grant, Gavin
Author:
Link, Kelly
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin
Subject:
Fantasy - General
Subject:
Fantasy - Anthologies
Subject:
Horror - Anthologies
Subject:
Horror tales, American
Subject:
Horror tales, English
Subject:
Fantasy fiction, American
Edition Description:
2008 Paperback
Series:
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
Publication Date:
September 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
458
Dimensions:
9.24x5.92x1.48 in. 1.42 lbs.

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