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The Year's best fantasy and horror
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1990: Summation 1989: Fantasy / Terri Windling
Summation 1989: Horror / Ellen Datlow
Horror and fantasy on the screen / Edward Bryant
Obituaries
The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick
The adder / Fred Chappell
Cat in glass / Nancy Etchemendy
Monsters, tearing off my face / Rory Harper
Family / Joyce Carol Oates
A dirge for Clowntown / James Powell
Miss Carstairs and the merman / Delia Sherman
Unknown things / Reginald Bretnor
Return to the Mutant Rain Forest (poem) / Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier
Date with a bird / Tatyana Tolstaya
Them bald-headed snays / Joseph A. Citro
A sad last love at the diner of the damned / Edward Bryant
Hanging the fool / Michael Moorcock
Hansel's finger / Leif enger
Dogfaerie / Garry Kilworth
A bird that whistles / Emma Bull
The walled garden / Lisa Tuttle
Varicose worms / Scott Baker
The war with things / Leszek Kolakowski
The faery flag / Jane Yolen
Souls tied to the knots on a leather cord / Zhaxi Dawa
The illusionist / Steven Millhauser
Timeskip / Charles de Lint
Something passed by / Robert R. McCammon
Self-portrait mixed media on pavement, 1988 / Dan Daly
The plane tree and the fountain / Michael de Larrabeiti
White as sin, now / Tanith Lee
The power and the passion / Pat Cadigan
Jack Straw / Midori Snyder
The sudd / J.N. Williamson
Mr. Fiddlehead / Jonathan Carroll
Shave and a haircut, two bites / Dan Simmons
Cinema Altere / Andrew Stephenson
Matters of family / Gary A. Braunbeck
Beauty and the beast: an anniversary (poem) / Jane Yolen
Find me / Joan Aiken
Unidentified objects / James P. Blaylock
Meeting the author / Ramsey Campbell
The lovers / Gwyneth Jones
Your skin's Jes's soft 'n purty ... he said (page 243) / Chet Williamson
Dori Bangs / Bruce Sterling
The steel valentine / Joe R. Lansdale
Equilibrium / John Shirley
Time lapse (poem) / Joe Haldeman
White noise / Garry Kilworth
Terrible kisses / Robley Wilson
Sleepside story / Greg Bear
Honorable memtions: 1989.
1991: Freewheeling / Charles de Lint
Coming home / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The sweeper / George Szanto
Ladies and gentlemen / Joyce Carol Oates
Freaktent / Nancy A. Collins
Missolonghi / John Crowley
The last feast of Harlequin / Thomas Ligotti
Sounding the praises of shadow to the merchants of light / David Memmott
Harvest / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Fantasy in the real world / Susan Cooper
The dream / Dyan Sheldon
Moths / John Brunner
Frozen Charlottes / Susan Prospere
Little nightmares, little dreams / Rachel Simon
Timekeeper / John Morressy
Sonata : for two friends in different times of the same trouble / Ellen Kushner
Death of a right fielder / Stuart Dybek
Not from around here / David J. Schow
Lieserl / Karen Joy Fowler
The last game / Sharon M. Hall
Offerings / Susan Palwick
The muses of rooms / Vern Rutsala
A touch of the old Lilith / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The calling / David B. Silva.
TV people / Haruki Murakami
In the trees / Steve Rasnic Tem
Truman Capote's Trilby : the facts / Garry Kilworth
Green / Ian R. MacLeod
Dark hills, hollow clocks / Garry Kilworth
The panic hand / Jonathan Carroll
Bestseller / Michael Blumlein
Nanny Peters and the feathery bride / Delia Sherman
Out of sight, out of mind / Jack Womack
Midwife to the fairies / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
The phone woman / Joe R. Lansdale
Ladder / T. E. D. Klein
Alice, falling / Steven Millhauser
Ashputtle, or, The mother's ghost / Angela Carter
Face to face / Adrian Cole
The dog's tale / Karel Capek
Stephen / Elizabeth Massie
A short guide to the city / Peter Straub
The story of little Briar-Rose, a scholarly study / R. A. Lafferty
The first time / K. W. Jeter
Coyote v. Acme / Ian Frazier
Arousal / Richard Christian Matheson
The waiting wolf ; The beast / Gwen Strauss
Snapshots from the butterfly plague / Michael Bishop
Two words / Isabel Allende
The all-consuming / Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
The sadness of detail / Jonathan Carroll.
1992: Summation 1991: Fantasy / Terri Windling
Summation 1991: Horror / Ellen Datlow
Horror and fantasy in the media: 1991 / Edward Bryant
Obituaries
The beautiful uncut hair of graves / David Morrell
In carnation / Nancy Springer
The somewhere doors / Fred Chappell
Poe at the end (poem) / R.H.W. Dillard
Angels in love / Kathe Koja
Vivian / Midori Snyder
True love / K.W. Jeter
The second most beautiful woman in the world / A.R. Morlan
The swordsman whose name was not death / Ellen Kushner
The ragthorn / Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth
The smell / Patrick McGrath
The tenth scholar / Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
Fisher death (poem) / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Walk in sable (poem) / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The cut man / Norman Partridge
The kind men like / Karl Edward Wagner
The coon suit / Terry Bisson
Queen Christina and the windsurfer / Alison Fell
Chui Chai / S.P. Somtow
Mama gone / Jane Yolen
Peter / Pat Murphy
Our lady of the harbour / Charles de Lint
The visitor's book / Stephen Gallagher
At the end of the day / Steve Rasnic Tem
The monster / Nina Katerli
Hummers / Lisa Mason
Santa's way / James Powell
Call home / Dennis Etchison
The Braille Encyclopedia / Grant Morrison
The poisoned story / Rosario Ferre
Blood / Janice Galloway
Dogstar man / Nancy Willard
Persistence of memory / Joanne Greenberg
You'll never eat lunch on this continent again / Adam Gopnik
The glamour / Thomas Ligotti
The peony lantern / Kara Dalkey
To be a hero (poem) / Nancy Springer
The same in any language / Ramsey Campbell
Teratisms / Kathe Koja
The life of a poet / Kobo Abe
The witch of Wilton Falls / Gloria Ericson
Home by the sea / Pat Cadigan
Pish, posh, said hieronymus bosch (poem) / Nancy Willard
The ash of memory, the dust of desire / Poppy Z. Brite
The pavilion pf frozen women / S.P. Somtow
Moon songs / Carol Emshwiller
The afternoon of June 8, 1991 / Ian Frazier
Gwydion and the dragon / C.J. Cherryh
A story must be held (poem) / Jane Yolen
The Ogre's wife / Pierrette Fleutiaux
Honorable mentions.
1993: Silver or gold / Emma Bull
Tinker / Jack Cady
Queequeg / Craig Curtis
Anima / M. John Harrison
Skin (poem) / Steve Rasnic Tem
The Homunculus: a novel in one chapter / Reginald McKnight
The annunciation / Cristina Peri Rossi
The bone woman / Charles de Lint
The story of the eldest princess / A.S. Byatt
Calcutta, lord of nerves / Poppy Z. Brite
In the looking glass, life is death (poem) / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The parakeet and the cat / Scott Bradfield
Glory / Nicholas Royle
Murder mysteries / Neil Gaiman
Hungry / Steve Rasnic Tem
Playing with / M.R. Scofidio.
Human remains / Edward Bryant
It comes and goes / Robert Silverberg
The bewitched Burr / Grozdana Olujic
Swimming lesson / Charlotte Watson Sherman
Memories of the flying ball bike shop / Garry Kilworth
Bats / Diane de Avalle-Arce
Origami mountain / Nancy Farmer
Ruby laughter, tears of pearl / James Powell
I sing of a maiden / Judith Tarr
Also starring / Cliff Burns
On edge / Christopher Fowler
Martyrdom / Joyce Carol Oates
The second bakery attack / Haruki Murakami
A little night music / Lucius Shepard
Tom and Jerry visit England (poem) / Jo Shapcott
The sluice / Stephen Gallagher
Ratbird / Brian W. Aldiss.
The sailor who sailed after the sun / Gene Wolfe
On death and the deuce / Rick Bowes
The man who rowed Christopher Columbus ashore / Harlan Ellison
Graves / Joe Haldeman
The ugly file / Ed Gorman
Elfhouses / Midori Snyder
Candles on the pond / Sue Ellen Sloca
Tree of life, book of death / Grania Davis
Puja / D.R. McBride
Hermione and the moon / Clive Barker
Absence of beast / Graham Masterton
Rat catcher / Steve Rasnic Tem
Will (poem) / Jane Yolen
The question of the grail (poem) / Jane Yolen
In the season of the dressing of the wells / John Brunner
The blue stone emperor's thirty-three wives / Sara Gallardo
Alice in Prague, or the curious room / Angela Carter
Replacements / Lisa Tuttle
The ghost village / Peter Straub.
1994: Summation 1993: Fantasy / Terri Windling
Comics 1993 / Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
ummation 1993: Horror / Ellen Datlow
Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1993 / Edward Bryant
Obituaries
The poacher / Ursula K. LeGuin
England underway / Terry Bisson
The woman in the painting / Lisa Goldstein
The Daemon Street ghost-trap / Terry Dowling
Memo for Freud (poem) / Daina Chaviano
The Sunday-go-to-meeting jaw / Nancy A. Collins
Breath / Adam Corbin Fusco
Knives (poem) / Jane Yolen
Mrs. Jones / Carol Emshwiller
Snow man / John Coyne
One night, or Scheherazade's bare minimum / Thomas M. Disch
Dead man's shoes / Charles de Lint
The lodger / Fred Chappell
The Erl-king / Elizabeth Hand
The chrysanthemum spirit / Osamu Dazai
Angel / Mary Ellis
The taking of Mr. Bill / Graham Masterton
The saint / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cottage / Bruce McAllister
Doodles / Steve Rasnic Tem
Dying in Bangkok / Dan Simmons
Prisoners of the royal weather (poem) / Bruce Boston
The snow queen / Patricia A. McKillip
Troll-bridge / Neil Gaiman
The storyteller / Rafik Schami
Rice and milk / Rosario Ferre
Ridi Bobo / Robert Devereaux
Playing with fire / Ellen Kushner
Later / Michael Marshall Smith
Distances / Sherman Alexie
Crash cart / Nancy Holder
Some strange desire / Ian McDonald
The dog park / Dennis Etchison
Wooden druthers / E. R. Stewart
Inscription / Jane Yolen
In camera / Robert Westall
The wealth of kingdoms (an inflationary tale) / Daniel Hood
The Crucian pit / Nicholas Royle
The ecology of reptiles / John Coyne
The last crossing / Thomas Tessier
Small adjustments / Caila Rossi
Precious / Roberta Lannes
Susan / Harlan Ellison
Freud at thirty paces / Sara Paretsky
If angels ate apples (poem) / Geoffrey A. Landis
Exogamy / John Crowley
The princess who kicked butt / Will Shetterly
The apprentice / Miriam Grace Monfredo
Alvyta (a Lithuanian fairy tale) / O. V. de L. Milosz
The pig man / Augustine Bruins Funnell
Tattoo / A. R. Morlan
Lady of the skulls / Patricia A. McKillip
To scale / Nancy Kress
Roar at the heart of the world / Danith McPherson
Honorable Mentions: 1993.
1995: 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
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.
1996: Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Heartfires / Charles de Lint
Screens / Terry Lamsley
King of crows / Midori Snyder
Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle
The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner
More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith
Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield
Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin
Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe / Stephen King
Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman
Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan
Llantos de la llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora
Too short a death / Peter Crowther
The James Dean Garage Band / Rick Moody
Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy
Loop / Douglas E. Winter
La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman
Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen
Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen
Switch / Lucy Taylor
Scaring the train / Terry Dowling
Blook knot / Steve Rasnic Tem
The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley
Resolve and resistance / S. N. Dyer
La dame / Tanith Lee
Circe's power (poem) / Louise Gluck
Dragon's fin soup / S. P. Somtow
The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde
Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood
A lamia in the Cevennes / A. S. Byatt
The guilty party / Susan Moody
She's not there / Pat Cadigan
The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman
Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow
After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck
Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge
Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed
[Untitled] / Joyce Carol Oates
The Printer's daughter / Delia Sherman
Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard
Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen
The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip.
1997: The last rainbow
Lily's whisper
The reason for not going to the ball
Among the handlers
The phantom church
The snow pavilion
Birthdream (poem)
Disillusion
Diana of the hundred breasts
La Llorona
Teatro Grottesco
The secret Shih Tan
In the matter of the Ukdena
O, rare and most exquisite
Never seen by waking eyes
Walking the dog
The goatboy and the giant
Gourd (poem)
The Phoenix
Caribe Magico
The witch's heart
Plumas
Crow girls
Rapunzel's exile
The witches of Junket
The cruel countess
Little beauty's wedding
Eaten (scenes from a moving picture) (poem)
Angel
Elk man (poem)
Beckoning mightframe
The dead cop
Ursus triad, later
JFK secretly attends Jackie auction
...Warmer
Not waving
The ladies of Grace Adieu
Wilderness
Oshkiwiinag: heartlines on the Trickster Express
Persephone sets the record straight
Cruel sisters
The house of seven angels
Radio waves.
1998: The tale of the skin / Emma Donoghue --
Beauty and the beast / Jaimes Alsop --
Gulliver at home / John Kessel --
It had to be you / Nancy Pickard --
The skull of Charlotte Corday / Leslie Dick --
I am infinite, I contain multitudes / Douglas Clegg --
Coffee jerk at the gates of Hell / Christopher Jones --
Riding the black / Charles Grant --
In the fields / Christopher Harman --
Mbo / Nicholas Royle --
Winner take all / Jeffrey Shaffer --
Safe / Gary A. Braunbeck --
El castillo de la perseverancia / Howard Waldrop --
The sin-eater's tale / Brennen Wysong --
A visit / Steven Millhauser --
A globe of glass / Sonia Gernes --
The fall of the kings / Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman --
Coyote and the white folks ; Sheela na gig / Bill Lewis --
The flounder's kiss / Michael Cadnum --
Residuals / Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman --
The psychomantium / Molly Brown --
In the black mill / Michael Chabon --
dust motes / P. D. Cacek --
La muerte / Pat Mora --
Spanky's back in town / Christopher Fowler --
Marriage / Denise Duhamel --
Kingyo no fun / Nicholas Royle --
Bucket of blood / Norman Partridge --
Mermaid / A. Alvarez --
Estate / Caitlin R. Kiernan --
The sin of Elijah / Steve Stern --
Driving blind / Ray Bradbury --
The sky-blue ball / Joyce Carol Oates --
The black fairy's curse / Karen Joy Fowler --
The last song of Sirit Byar / Peter S. Beagle --
Marina's fragrance / Mayra Santos-Febres --
Setting celestial signs on terrestrial beings / Emily Warn --
Rabbit hole / Jane Yolen --
Wild horses / Charles de Lint --
Princess / Matthew Sweeney --
Audience / Jack Womack --
Merlin / Robert Clinton --
The crawl / Stephen Laws --
The remains of Princess Kaiulana's garden / Katherine Vaz --
Dharma / Vikram Chandra.
1999: Terri Windling/Summation 1998 Fantasy
Ellen Datlow/Summation 1998 Horror
Edward Bryant/Horror and fantasy in The Media 1998
Seth Johnson/Comics 1998
James Frenkel/Obituaries 1998
Kelly Link/Travels with the snow queen
Steve Duffy/Running Dogs
Marisa de los Santos/Wiglaf(poem)
Susanna Clark/Mrs. Mabb
Rick Kennett/Due west
Catherine Savage Brosman/Kokopelli(poem)
Bruce Glasso/Taking Loup
Sara Douglass/The evil within
Larry Fontenot/Wile E. Coyote's lament (poem).
2000: Mary Rosenblum/The rainmaker
Michael Marshall Smith/A place to stay
Lisa Goldstein/The fantasma of Q
Ralph Salisbury/Hoopa, the white deer dance
Stephen King/That feeling, you can only say what it is in French
Karen Joy Fowler/The travails
Terry Lamsley/Suburban Blight
Dennis Etchison/Inside the cackle factory
Kurahashi Yumiko/The house of the black cat
John Kessel/Everyangel is terrifying
Neil Gaiman/Shoggoth's old peculiar.
2001 : Incognita, Inc. / Harlan Ellison --
Maria de Jesus / Claudia Barbosa Nogueira --
Le mooz / Louise Erdrich --
Gretel in Berkeley / Eve Sweetser --
Granny weather / Charles de Lint --
The shape of things / Ellen Steiber --
No strings / Ramsey Campbell --
Marilyn / Jack Dann --
Greedy choke puppy / Nalo Hopkinson --
The crone / Delia Sherman --
Achilles' grave / Ben Pastor --
Down here in the garden / Tia V. Travis --
Meeting the Graiae / Laurence Goldstein --
Riding the black horse / Elizabeth Engstrom --
At eventide / Kathe Koja --
The Saltimbanques / Terry Dowling --
The monster of childhood / Janet McAdams --
Ship, sea, mountain, sky / Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link --
Mr. Dark's carnival / Glen Hirshberg --
The cavemen in the hedges / Stacey Richter --
Circe and little red-cap / Carol Ann Duffy --
Basic black / Terry Dowling --
The man on the ceiling / Steve Ransic Tem and Melanie Tem --
Climbing down from heaven / Terry Lamsley --
Jeremiah / Jack Cady --
Three questions / Jane Yolen --
The penny drops / Ian Rodwell and Steve Duffy --
The train, the lake, the bridge / Bret Lott --
Buttons / Claudia Adriazola --
Snow blindness / Elizabeth Howkins --
Jack Daw's pack / Greer Gilman --
The artificial cloud / Justin Tussing --
No story in it / Ramsey Campbell --
A migrant bird / John F. Deane --
The thousandth night / Donelle R. Ruwe --
The Pottawatomie giant / Andy Duncan --
George is all right / Howard Wandrei --
Mr. Simonelli or the fairy widower / Susanna Clarke --
Bones / Francesca Lia Block --
The abortionist's horse (a nightmare) / Tanith Lee --
Endless summer / Stewart O'Nan --
The Heidelberg cylinder / Jonathan Carroll --
Gone / Jack Ketchum --
An earthly mother sits and sings / John Crowley --
Atasdi : fish story / Dawn Karima Pettigrew --
Tooth fairy and the sandman / Amy Wack --
Tasting songs / Leone Ross --
My present wife / Dennis Etchison --
The flaying season / Jeffrey Thomas --
Bone orchards / Paul J. McAuley --
Instructions / Neil Gaiman --
Hallowmass / Esther M. Friesner.
2002: The hunter's wife / James Frenkel
The cowardly coffin / Marin Sorescu
In these final days of sales / Steve Rasnic Tem
To dream of white horses / June Considine
Skin / Charlee Jacob
Prussian snowdrops / Marion Arnott
The honeyed knot / Jeffrey Ford
Timmy Gobels bug jar / The God of dark laughter / Michael Chabon
The adolescence of Orpheus / Kurt Leland
Trading hearts at the Half Kaffe Cafe / Charles de Lint
Louise's ghost / Kelly Link
Fairy tale Pantoum / Ellen Wernecke
The puppet and the train / Scott Thomas
Crocodile lady / Christopher Fowler
The barbarian and the queen: thirteen views / Jane Yolen
Becoming bird / Bob Hicok
Sop doll / Milbre Burch
Plenty / Christopher Barzak
The bones of the earth / Ursula K. Le Guin
What the story weaves, the spinner tells / Terry Blackhawk
Onion / Caitlin R. Kiernan
Where the woodbine twineth / Norman Partridge
Struwwelpeter / Glen Hirshberg
Outfangthief / Gala Blau
Rites: cleaning the last bones / Gavin J. Grant
Watch me when I sleep / Jean-Claude Dunyach
The tattoo artist / Patrick Roscoe
Cleopatra Brimstone / Elizabeth Hand
Grass / Lawrence Miles
If death, a preprimer / Sandra J. Lindow
The bird catcher / S.P. Somtow
Black dust / Graham Joyce
Annabelle's Alphabet / Tim Pratt
Tom Brightwind, or, How the fairy bridge was built at Thoresby / Susanna Clarke
Gestella / Susan Palwick
The legend / Ray Gonzalez
Oh, glorious sight / Tanya Huff
Home cooking / Daniel Ulanovsky Sack
Queen / Gene Wolfe
The project / Carol Emshwiller
The man in the comic shop / Liz Lochhead
Strange things about birds / Scott Thomas
What we did that summer / Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
Aesculapius in the underworld / Ryan G. Van Cleave
Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire
The Bockles / Melissa Hardy
His own back yard / James P. Blaylock.
2003: Lull / Kelly Link
Egyptian Avenue / Kim Newman
A letter of explanation / Corey Marks
Details / China Mieþville
The assistant to Dr. Jacob / Eric Schaller
The pagodas of Ciboure / M. Shayne Bell
The Coventry boy / Graham Joyce
The wild hunt / Helga M. Novak
The green word / Jeffrey Ford
Stitch / Terry Dowling
Puce boy / Michael Libling
The violin-maker / Zoran Z?ivkovicþ
Maya's mother / Bentley Little
Porno in August / Carlton Mellick III
Nesting instincts / Brian Hodge
The machine / Conrad Williams
Hansel, a retrospective, or, The danger of childhood obesity / Tom Disch
Aquero` / Melissa Hardy
The receivers / Joel Lane
Standard gauge / Nicholas Royle
Creation / Jeffrey Ford
Seven pairs of iron shoes / Tracina Jackson-Adams
What I didn't see / Karen Joy Fowler
Reading myth to kindergartenders / Jackie Bartley
Mermaid song / Peter Dickinson
Pages from a journal found in a shoebox left in a Greyhound bus somewhere between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky / Neil Gaiman
No end of fun / Ramsey Campbell
Swiftly / Adam Roberts
The green man / Christopher Fowler
Some other me / Brian Hodge
The snow queen / Robert Phillips
Hides / Jay russell
Mr. Mendoza's paintbrush / Luis Alberto urrea
Five poems / Margaret Lloyd
Little dead girl singing / Stephen Gallagher
A pool in the desert / Robin McKinley
Thailand / Haruki Murakami
The rose in twelve petals / Theodora Goss
Roada trip / Kathe Koja
Unspeakable / Lucy Taylor
Inside out : on Henry Darger / Elizabeth Hand
The green children / Kevin Brockmeier
After the Chuck Jones tribute on Teletoon / Sharon McCartney
Feeders and eaters / Neil Gaiman
Roofwalker / Susan Power
The prospect cards / Don Tumasonis
Hide and seek / nicholas Royle
The wolf's story / Nan Fry
The least trumps / Elizabeth Hand.
2004: At the mouth of the River of Bees / Kij Johnson
Why I became a plumber / Sara Maitland
Bread and bombs / M. Rickert
The red bow / George Saunders
The wife / Vandana Singh
Only partly here / Lucius Shepard
Bone (poem) / Steve Rasnic Tem
Old Virginia / Laird Barron
A study in emerald / Neil Gaiman
You go where it takes you / Nathan Ballingrud
L'Aquilone du estrellas (the kite of stars) / Dean Francis Alfar
Harvey's dream / Stephen King
Woeful tales from Mahigul / Ursula K. Le Guin
King rat / Karen Joy Fowler
The hortlak / Kelly Link
With acknowledgements to Sun Tzu / Brian Hodge
Ash City stomp / Richard Butner
King dragon / Michael Swanwick
Invisible geese: a theory, the perfect city (poems) / Patrick O'Leary
Bedfordshire / Peter Crowther
N0072-JK1 / Adam Corbin Fusco
Cell call / Marc Laidlaw
The fishie / Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
Hunger: a confession / Dale Bailey
Mr. Sly stops for a cup of joe / Scott Emerson Bull
The baby in the night deposit box / Megan Whalen Turner
Lamentation over the destruction of Ur / Paul LaFarge
The silence of the falling stars / Mike O'Driscoll
At the mythical beast (poem) / Jon Woodward
The fluted girl / Paolo Bacigalupi
The brief history of the dead / Kevin Brockmeier
Flotsam / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The bees / Dan Chaon
Dancing men / Glen Hirshberg
Lily, with clouds / Theodora Goss
The man who did nothing / Karen Traviss
Husband / Shelley Jackson
Open doors / Michael Marshall Smith
The valley of giants / Benjamin Rosenbaum
Purity / Thomas Ligotti
Ancestor money / Maureen F. McHugh
Final girl II: the frame (poem) / Daphne Gottlieb
Almost home / Terry Bisson.
2005: The oakthing / Gregory Maguire
Horton's store / R.T. Smith
Rite of spring / Margo Lanagan
A hazy shade of winter / Simon Bestwick
The skin of the world / Douglas Clegg
Zora and the zombie / Andy Duncan
The changeling / Theodora Goss
Revenge of the calico cat / Stepan Chapman
Frozen Charlottes / Lucy Sussex
Reports of certain events in London / China Mieville
House of ice / Jean Esteve
Restraint / Stephen Gallagher
The Baum plan for financial independence / John Kessel
Dancing on air / Frances Oliver
Cold fires / M. Rickert
And the sea shall give up its dead / Richard Mueller
A trick of the dark / Tina Rath
The bad magician / Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
Speir-Bhan / Tanith Lee
Hunting meth zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland / John Farris
Guts / Chuck Palahniuk
Water babies / Simon Brown
Mr. Aickman's air rifle / Peter Straub
We find things old / Bentley Little
Wonderwall / Elizabeth Hand
Postcretaceous Era / D. Ellis Dickerson
Watch and wake / M.T. Anderson
The oracle alone / Catherynne M. Valente
A night in the tropics / Jeffrey Ford
Clownette / Terry Dowling
Stripping / Joyce Carol Oates
Seven feet / Christopher Fowler
Singing my sister down / Margo Lanagan
Bulldozer / Laird Barron
These various methods of brightness / Anna Ross
The cajun knot / Melanie Fazi
Tales from the City of Seams / Greg van Eekhout
The specialist / Alison Smith
Here is the church / Shelley Jackson
The Witch of Truro / Alice Hoffman
Lapland, or Film Noir / Peter Straub
What her mother said / Theodora Goss
The owl / Conrad Williams
The silver dragon / Elizabeth A. Lynn.
2006: Walpurgis afternoon / Delia Sherman
Mushroom duchess / Deborah Roggie
Incident at Agate Beach / Marley Youmans
Among the tombs / Reggie Oliver
Obedience, or the lying tale / Jennifer Chang
American morons / Glen Hirshberg
Shallaballah / Mark Samuels
Night train
heading west / Sarah Monette
Denial / Bruce Sterling
Northwest passage / Barbara Roden
Proboscis / Laird barron
Kronia / Elizabeth Hand
Omens / Kelly Everding
Follow me light / Elizabeth Bear
Boatman's holiday / Jeffrey Ford
Horse of a different color (that you rode in on) / Howard Waldrop
Where angels come in / Adam L.G. Nevill
Twilight States / Albert E. Cowdrey
Jolley bonnet / Andrew Bonia
Last ten years in the life of Hero Kai / Geoff Ryman
Souls of drowning mountain / Jack Cady
Last one / Robert Coover
Ball room / Chine Mieville, Emma Birchman, Max Schifer
Nymphs find the head of Orpheus / Theodora Goss
Vacation / Daniel Wallace
Cruel sistah / Nisi Shawl
Ding-dong bell / Jay Russell
Case study of emergency room procedure and risk management by hospital staff members in the urban facility / Stacey Richter
Scribble mind / Jeffrey Ford
Scarecrow / Tom Brennan
Going the Jerusalem mile / Chaz Brenchley
Grief / Willa Schneberg
Boman / Pentti Holappa
Machine of a religious man / Ralph Robert Moore
Hot potting / Chuck Palahniuk
My father's mask / Joe Hill
Guggenheim lovers / Isabel Allende
Statement in the case / Theodora Goss
Pavement artist / Dave Hutchinson
Gypsies in the wood / Kim Newman.
2007: Summation 2006: fantasy / Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
Summation 2006: horror / Ellen Datlow
The year in media of the fantastic: 2006 / Edward Bryant
Fantasy in comics and graphic novels / Jeff VanderMeer
Music of the fantastic: 2006 / Charles de Lint
Obituaries: 2006 / James Frenkel
Pol Pot's beautiful daughter / Geoff Ryman
First kisses from beyond the grave / Nik Houser
The last to be found / Christopher Harman
Fourteen experiments in postal delivery / John Schoffstall
Becoming the villainess and Persephone and the prince meet over drinks / Jeannine Hall Gailey
The night whiskey / Jeffrey Ford
In the house of the seven librarians / Ellen Klages
Drowning Palmer / Sarah Monette
Landfill / Joyce Carol Oates
Another word for map is faith / Christopher Rowe
Lionflower hedge / Ira Sher
A fearful symmetry / Minsoo Kang
Messages / Brett Alexander Savory
Ballade and My babe, my babe / William Hope Hodgson
The box / Stephen Gallagher
Halfway house / Frances Hardinge
La feþe verte / Delia Sherman
Father Muerte & the flesh / Lee Battersby
Winkie / Margo Lanagan
Tell / Nathalie Anderson
Dog person / Scott Nicholson
The extraordinary limits of darkness / Simon Clark
Cup and table / Tim Pratt
The churring / Nicholas Royle
Dear sea fruit / Kaaron Warren
Directions / Caleb Wilson
La profonde / Terry Dowling
Journey into the kingdom / M. Rickert
The good ones are already taken / Ben Fountain
A pig's whisper / Margo Lanagan
31/10 / Stephen Volk
Sob in the silence / Gene Wolfe
Yep, I said camel / Josh Bell
Femaville 29 / Paul Di Filippo
A siege of cranes / Benjamin Rosenbaum
Is rain my bearskin? / Jeanne Marie Beaumont
The lineaments of gratified desire / Ysabeau S. Wilce
Raphael / Stephen Graham Jones
The muldoon / Glen Hirshberg
Honorable mentions: 2006.
From the Serial
1990: Summation 1989: Fantasy / Terri Windling
Summation 1989: Horror / Ellen Datlow
Horror and fantasy on the screen / Edward Bryant
Obituaries
The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick
The adder / Fred Chappell
Cat in glass / Nancy Etchemendy
Monsters, tearing off my face / Rory Harper
Family / Joyce Carol Oates
A dirge for Clowntown / James Powell
Miss Carstairs and the merman / Delia Sherman
Unknown things / Reginald Bretnor
Return to the Mutant Rain Forest (poem) / Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier
Date with a bird / Tatyana Tolstaya
Them bald-headed snays / Joseph A. Citro
A sad last love at the diner of the damned / Edward Bryant
Hanging the fool / Michael Moorcock
Hansel's finger / Leif enger
Dogfaerie / Garry Kilworth
A bird that whistles / Emma Bull
The walled garden / Lisa Tuttle
Varicose worms / Scott Baker
The war with things / Leszek Kolakowski
The faery flag / Jane Yolen
Souls tied to the knots on a leather cord / Zhaxi Dawa
The illusionist / Steven Millhauser
Timeskip / Charles de Lint
Something passed by / Robert R. McCammon
Self-portrait mixed media on pavement, 1988 / Dan Daly
The plane tree and the fountain / Michael de Larrabeiti
White as sin, now / Tanith Lee
The power and the passion / Pat Cadigan
Jack Straw / Midori Snyder
The sudd / J.N. Williamson
Mr. Fiddlehead / Jonathan Carroll
Shave and a haircut, two bites / Dan Simmons
Cinema Altere / Andrew Stephenson
Matters of family / Gary A. Braunbeck
Beauty and the beast: an anniversary (poem) / Jane Yolen
Find me / Joan Aiken
Unidentified objects / James P. Blaylock
Meeting the author / Ramsey Campbell
The lovers / Gwyneth Jones
Your skin's Jes's soft 'n purty ... he said (page 243) / Chet Williamson
Dori Bangs / Bruce Sterling
The steel valentine / Joe R. Lansdale
Equilibrium / John Shirley
Time lapse (poem) / Joe Haldeman
White noise / Garry Kilworth
Terrible kisses / Robley Wilson
Sleepside story / Greg Bear
Honorable memtions: 1989.
1991: Freewheeling / Charles de Lint
Coming home / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The sweeper / George Szanto
Ladies and gentlemen / Joyce Carol Oates
Freaktent / Nancy A. Collins
Missolonghi / John Crowley
The last feast of Harlequin / Thomas Ligotti
Sounding the praises of shadow to the merchants of light / David Memmott
Harvest / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Fantasy in the real world / Susan Cooper
The dream / Dyan Sheldon
Moths / John Brunner
Frozen Charlottes / Susan Prospere
Little nightmares, little dreams / Rachel Simon
Timekeeper / John Morressy
Sonata : for two friends in different times of the same trouble / Ellen Kushner
Death of a right fielder / Stuart Dybek
Not from around here / David J. Schow
Lieserl / Karen Joy Fowler
The last game / Sharon M. Hall
Offerings / Susan Palwick
The muses of rooms / Vern Rutsala
A touch of the old Lilith / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The calling / David B. Silva.
TV people / Haruki Murakami
In the trees / Steve Rasnic Tem
Truman Capote's Trilby : the facts / Garry Kilworth
Green / Ian R. MacLeod
Dark hills, hollow clocks / Garry Kilworth
The panic hand / Jonathan Carroll
Bestseller / Michael Blumlein
Nanny Peters and the feathery bride / Delia Sherman
Out of sight, out of mind / Jack Womack
Midwife to the fairies / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
The phone woman / Joe R. Lansdale
Ladder / T. E. D. Klein
Alice, falling / Steven Millhauser
Ashputtle, or, The mother's ghost / Angela Carter
Face to face / Adrian Cole
The dog's tale / Karel Capek
Stephen / Elizabeth Massie
A short guide to the city / Peter Straub
The story of little Briar-Rose, a scholarly study / R. A. Lafferty
The first time / K. W. Jeter
Coyote v. Acme / Ian Frazier
Arousal / Richard Christian Matheson
The waiting wolf ; The beast / Gwen Strauss
Snapshots from the butterfly plague / Michael Bishop
Two words / Isabel Allende
The all-consuming / Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
The sadness of detail / Jonathan Carroll.
1992: Summation 1991: Fantasy / Terri Windling
Summation 1991: Horror / Ellen Datlow
Horror and fantasy in the media: 1991 / Edward Bryant
Obituaries
The beautiful uncut hair of graves / David Morrell
In carnation / Nancy Springer
The somewhere doors / Fred Chappell
Poe at the end (poem) / R.H.W. Dillard
Angels in love / Kathe Koja
Vivian / Midori Snyder
True love / K.W. Jeter
The second most beautiful woman in the world / A.R. Morlan
The swordsman whose name was not death / Ellen Kushner
The ragthorn / Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth
The smell / Patrick McGrath
The tenth scholar / Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
Fisher death (poem) / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Walk in sable (poem) / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The cut man / Norman Partridge
The kind men like / Karl Edward Wagner
The coon suit / Terry Bisson
Queen Christina and the windsurfer / Alison Fell
Chui Chai / S.P. Somtow
Mama gone / Jane Yolen
Peter / Pat Murphy
Our lady of the harbour / Charles de Lint
The visitor's book / Stephen Gallagher
At the end of the day / Steve Rasnic Tem
The monster / Nina Katerli
Hummers / Lisa Mason
Santa's way / James Powell
Call home / Dennis Etchison
The Braille Encyclopedia / Grant Morrison
The poisoned story / Rosario Ferre
Blood / Janice Galloway
Dogstar man / Nancy Willard
Persistence of memory / Joanne Greenberg
You'll never eat lunch on this continent again / Adam Gopnik
The glamour / Thomas Ligotti
The peony lantern / Kara Dalkey
To be a hero (poem) / Nancy Springer
The same in any language / Ramsey Campbell
Teratisms / Kathe Koja
The life of a poet / Kobo Abe
The witch of Wilton Falls / Gloria Ericson
Home by the sea / Pat Cadigan
Pish, posh, said hieronymus bosch (poem) / Nancy Willard
The ash of memory, the dust of desire / Poppy Z. Brite
The pavilion pf frozen women / S.P. Somtow
Moon songs / Carol Emshwiller
The afternoon of June 8, 1991 / Ian Frazier
Gwydion and the dragon / C.J. Cherryh
A story must be held (poem) / Jane Yolen
The Ogre's wife / Pierrette Fleutiaux
Honorable mentions.
1993: Silver or gold / Emma Bull
Tinker / Jack Cady
Queequeg / Craig Curtis
Anima / M. John Harrison
Skin (poem) / Steve Rasnic Tem
The Homunculus: a novel in one chapter / Reginald McKnight
The annunciation / Cristina Peri Rossi
The bone woman / Charles de Lint
The story of the eldest princess / A.S. Byatt
Calcutta, lord of nerves / Poppy Z. Brite
In the looking glass, life is death (poem) / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The parakeet and the cat / Scott Bradfield
Glory / Nicholas Royle
Murder mysteries / Neil Gaiman
Hungry / Steve Rasnic Tem
Playing with / M.R. Scofidio.
Human remains / Edward Bryant
It comes and goes / Robert Silverberg
The bewitched Burr / Grozdana Olujic
Swimming lesson / Charlotte Watson Sherman
Memories of the flying ball bike shop / Garry Kilworth
Bats / Diane de Avalle-Arce
Origami mountain / Nancy Farmer
Ruby laughter, tears of pearl / James Powell
I sing of a maiden / Judith Tarr
Also starring / Cliff Burns
On edge / Christopher Fowler
Martyrdom / Joyce Carol Oates
The second bakery attack / Haruki Murakami
A little night music / Lucius Shepard
Tom and Jerry visit England (poem) / Jo Shapcott
The sluice / Stephen Gallagher
Ratbird / Brian W. Aldiss.
The sailor who sailed after the sun / Gene Wolfe
On death and the deuce / Rick Bowes
The man who rowed Christopher Columbus ashore / Harlan Ellison
Graves / Joe Haldeman
The ugly file / Ed Gorman
Elfhouses / Midori Snyder
Candles on the pond / Sue Ellen Sloca
Tree of life, book of death / Grania Davis
Puja / D.R. McBride
Hermione and the moon / Clive Barker
Absence of beast / Graham Masterton
Rat catcher / Steve Rasnic Tem
Will (poem) / Jane Yolen
The question of the grail (poem) / Jane Yolen
In the season of the dressing of the wells / John Brunner
The blue stone emperor's thirty-three wives / Sara Gallardo
Alice in Prague, or the curious room / Angela Carter
Replacements / Lisa Tuttle
The ghost village / Peter Straub.
1994: Summation 1993: Fantasy / Terri Windling
Comics 1993 / Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
ummation 1993: Horror / Ellen Datlow
Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1993 / Edward Bryant
Obituaries
The poacher / Ursula K. LeGuin
England underway / Terry Bisson
The woman in the painting / Lisa Goldstein
The Daemon Street ghost-trap / Terry Dowling
Memo for Freud (poem) / Daina Chaviano
The Sunday-go-to-meeting jaw / Nancy A. Collins
Breath / Adam Corbin Fusco
Knives (poem) / Jane Yolen
Mrs. Jones / Carol Emshwiller
Snow man / John Coyne
One night, or Scheherazade's bare minimum / Thomas M. Disch
Dead man's shoes / Charles de Lint
The lodger / Fred Chappell
The Erl-king / Elizabeth Hand
The chrysanthemum spirit / Osamu Dazai
Angel / Mary Ellis
The taking of Mr. Bill / Graham Masterton
The saint / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cottage / Bruce McAllister
Doodles / Steve Rasnic Tem
Dying in Bangkok / Dan Simmons
Prisoners of the royal weather (poem) / Bruce Boston
The snow queen / Patricia A. McKillip
Troll-bridge / Neil Gaiman
The storyteller / Rafik Schami
Rice and milk / Rosario Ferre
Ridi Bobo / Robert Devereaux
Playing with fire / Ellen Kushner
Later / Michael Marshall Smith
Distances / Sherman Alexie
Crash cart / Nancy Holder
Some strange desire / Ian McDonald
The dog park / Dennis Etchison
Wooden druthers / E. R. Stewart
Inscription / Jane Yolen
In camera / Robert Westall
The wealth of kingdoms (an inflationary tale) / Daniel Hood
The Crucian pit / Nicholas Royle
The ecology of reptiles / John Coyne
The last crossing / Thomas Tessier
Small adjustments / Caila Rossi
Precious / Roberta Lannes
Susan / Harlan Ellison
Freud at thirty paces / Sara Paretsky
If angels ate apples (poem) / Geoffrey A. Landis
Exogamy / John Crowley
The princess who kicked butt / Will Shetterly
The apprentice / Miriam Grace Monfredo
Alvyta (a Lithuanian fairy tale) / O. V. de L. Milosz
The pig man / Augustine Bruins Funnell
Tattoo / A. R. Morlan
Lady of the skulls / Patricia A. McKillip
To scale / Nancy Kress
Roar at the heart of the world / Danith McPherson
Honorable Mentions: 1993.
1995: 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
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.
1996: Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Heartfires / Charles de Lint
Screens / Terry Lamsley
King of crows / Midori Snyder
Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle
The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner
More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith
Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield
Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin
Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe / Stephen King
Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman
Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan
Llantos de la llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora
Too short a death / Peter Crowther
The James Dean Garage Band / Rick Moody
Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy
Loop / Douglas E. Winter
La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman
Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen
Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen
Switch / Lucy Taylor
Scaring the train / Terry Dowling
Blook knot / Steve Rasnic Tem
The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley
Resolve and resistance / S. N. Dyer
La dame / Tanith Lee
Circe's power (poem) / Louise Gluck
Dragon's fin soup / S. P. Somtow
The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde
Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood
A lamia in the Cevennes / A. S. Byatt
The guilty party / Susan Moody
She's not there / Pat Cadigan
The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman
Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow
After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck
Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge
Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed
[Untitled] / Joyce Carol Oates
The Printer's daughter / Delia Sherman
Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard
Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen
The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip.
1997: The last rainbow
Lily's whisper
The reason for not going to the ball
Among the handlers
The phantom church
The snow pavilion
Birthdream (poem)
Disillusion
Diana of the hundred breasts
La Llorona
Teatro Grottesco
The secret Shih Tan
In the matter of the Ukdena
O, rare and most exquisite
Never seen by waking eyes
Walking the dog
The goatboy and the giant
Gourd (poem)
The Phoenix
Caribe Magico
The witch's heart
Plumas
Crow girls
Rapunzel's exile
The witches of Junket
The cruel countess
Little beauty's wedding
Eaten (scenes from a moving picture) (poem)
Angel
Elk man (poem)
Beckoning mightframe
The dead cop
Ursus triad, later
JFK secretly attends Jackie auction
...Warmer
Not waving
The ladies of Grace Adieu
Wilderness
Oshkiwiinag: heartlines on the Trickster Express
Persephone sets the record straight
Cruel sisters
The house of seven angels
Radio waves.
1998: The tale of the skin / Emma Donoghue --
Beauty and the beast / Jaimes Alsop --
Gulliver at home / John Kessel --
It had to be you / Nancy Pickard --
The skull of Charlotte Corday / Leslie Dick --
I am infinite, I contain multitudes / Douglas Clegg --
Coffee jerk at the gates of Hell / Christopher Jones --
Riding the black / Charles Grant --
In the fields / Christopher Harman --
Mbo / Nicholas Royle --
Winner take all / Jeffrey Shaffer --
Safe / Gary A. Braunbeck --
El castillo de la perseverancia / Howard Waldrop --
The sin-eater's tale / Brennen Wysong --
A visit / Steven Millhauser --
A globe of glass / Sonia Gernes --
The fall of the kings / Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman --
Coyote and the white folks ; Sheela na gig / Bill Lewis --
The flounder's kiss / Michael Cadnum --
Residuals / Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman --
The psychomantium / Molly Brown --
In the black mill / Michael Chabon --
dust motes / P. D. Cacek --
La muerte / Pat Mora --
Spanky's back in town / Christopher Fowler --
Marriage / Denise Duhamel --
Kingyo no fun / Nicholas Royle --
Bucket of blood / Norman Partridge --
Mermaid / A. Alvarez --
Estate / Caitlin R. Kiernan --
The sin of Elijah / Steve Stern --
Driving blind / Ray Bradbury --
The sky-blue ball / Joyce Carol Oates --
The black fairy's curse / Karen Joy Fowler --
The last song of Sirit Byar / Peter S. Beagle --
Marina's fragrance / Mayra Santos-Febres --
Setting celestial signs on terrestrial beings / Emily Warn --
Rabbit hole / Jane Yolen --
Wild horses / Charles de Lint --
Princess / Matthew Sweeney --
Audience / Jack Womack --
Merlin / Robert Clinton --
The crawl / Stephen Laws --
The remains of Princess Kaiulana's garden / Katherine Vaz --
Dharma / Vikram Chandra.
1999: Terri Windling/Summation 1998 Fantasy
Ellen Datlow/Summation 1998 Horror
Edward Bryant/Horror and fantasy in The Media 1998
Seth Johnson/Comics 1998
James Frenkel/Obituaries 1998
Kelly Link/Travels with the snow queen
Steve Duffy/Running Dogs
Marisa de los Santos/Wiglaf(poem)
Susanna Clark/Mrs. Mabb
Rick Kennett/Due west
Catherine Savage Brosman/Kokopelli(poem)
Bruce Glasso/Taking Loup
Sara Douglass/The evil within
Larry Fontenot/Wile E. Coyote's lament (poem).
2000: Mary Rosenblum/The rainmaker
Michael Marshall Smith/A place to stay
Lisa Goldstein/The fantasma of Q
Ralph Salisbury/Hoopa, the white deer dance
Stephen King/That feeling, you can only say what it is in French
Karen Joy Fowler/The travails
Terry Lamsley/Suburban Blight
Dennis Etchison/Inside the cackle factory
Kurahashi Yumiko/The house of the black cat
John Kessel/Everyangel is terrifying
Neil Gaiman/Shoggoth's old peculiar.
2001 : Incognita, Inc. / Harlan Ellison --
Maria de Jesus / Claudia Barbosa Nogueira --
Le mooz / Louise Erdrich --
Gretel in Berkeley / Eve Sweetser --
Granny weather / Charles de Lint --
The shape of things / Ellen Steiber --
No strings / Ramsey Campbell --
Marilyn / Jack Dann --
Greedy choke puppy / Nalo Hopkinson --
The crone / Delia Sherman --
Achilles' grave / Ben Pastor --
Down here in the garden / Tia V. Travis --
Meeting the Graiae / Laurence Goldstein --
Riding the black horse / Elizabeth Engstrom --
At eventide / Kathe Koja --
The Saltimbanques / Terry Dowling --
The monster of childhood / Janet McAdams --
Ship, sea, mountain, sky / Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link --
Mr. Dark's carnival / Glen Hirshberg --
The cavemen in the hedges / Stacey Richter --
Circe and little red-cap / Carol Ann Duffy --
Basic black / Terry Dowling --
The man on the ceiling / Steve Ransic Tem and Melanie Tem --
Climbing down from heaven / Terry Lamsley --
Jeremiah / Jack Cady --
Three questions / Jane Yolen --
The penny drops / Ian Rodwell and Steve Duffy --
The train, the lake, the bridge / Bret Lott --
Buttons / Claudia Adriazola --
Snow blindness / Elizabeth Howkins --
Jack Daw's pack / Greer Gilman --
The artificial cloud / Justin Tussing --
No story in it / Ramsey Campbell --
A migrant bird / John F. Deane --
The thousandth night / Donelle R. Ruwe --
The Pottawatomie giant / Andy Duncan --
George is all right / Howard Wandrei --
Mr. Simonelli or the fairy widower / Susanna Clarke --
Bones / Francesca Lia Block --
The abortionist's horse (a nightmare) / Tanith Lee --
Endless summer / Stewart O'Nan --
The Heidelberg cylinder / Jonathan Carroll --
Gone / Jack Ketchum --
An earthly mother sits and sings / John Crowley --
Atasdi : fish story / Dawn Karima Pettigrew --
Tooth fairy and the sandman / Amy Wack --
Tasting songs / Leone Ross --
My present wife / Dennis Etchison --
The flaying season / Jeffrey Thomas --
Bone orchards / Paul J. McAuley --
Instructions / Neil Gaiman --
Hallowmass / Esther M. Friesner.
2002: The hunter's wife / James Frenkel
The cowardly coffin / Marin Sorescu
In these final days of sales / Steve Rasnic Tem
To dream of white horses / June Considine
Skin / Charlee Jacob
Prussian snowdrops / Marion Arnott
The honeyed knot / Jeffrey Ford
Timmy Gobels bug jar / The God of dark laughter / Michael Chabon
The adolescence of Orpheus / Kurt Leland
Trading hearts at the Half Kaffe Cafe / Charles de Lint
Louise's ghost / Kelly Link
Fairy tale Pantoum / Ellen Wernecke
The puppet and the train / Scott Thomas
Crocodile lady / Christopher Fowler
The barbarian and the queen: thirteen views / Jane Yolen
Becoming bird / Bob Hicok
Sop doll / Milbre Burch
Plenty / Christopher Barzak
The bones of the earth / Ursula K. Le Guin
What the story weaves, the spinner tells / Terry Blackhawk
Onion / Caitlin R. Kiernan
Where the woodbine twineth / Norman Partridge
Struwwelpeter / Glen Hirshberg
Outfangthief / Gala Blau
Rites: cleaning the last bones / Gavin J. Grant
Watch me when I sleep / Jean-Claude Dunyach
The tattoo artist / Patrick Roscoe
Cleopatra Brimstone / Elizabeth Hand
Grass / Lawrence Miles
If death, a preprimer / Sandra J. Lindow
The bird catcher / S.P. Somtow
Black dust / Graham Joyce
Annabelle's Alphabet / Tim Pratt
Tom Brightwind, or, How the fairy bridge was built at Thoresby / Susanna Clarke
Gestella / Susan Palwick
The legend / Ray Gonzalez
Oh, glorious sight / Tanya Huff
Home cooking / Daniel Ulanovsky Sack
Queen / Gene Wolfe
The project / Carol Emshwiller
The man in the comic shop / Liz Lochhead
Strange things about birds / Scott Thomas
What we did that summer / Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
Aesculapius in the underworld / Ryan G. Van Cleave
Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire
The Bockles / Melissa Hardy
His own back yard / James P. Blaylock.
2003: Lull / Kelly Link
Egyptian Avenue / Kim Newman
A letter of explanation / Corey Marks
Details / China Mieþville
The assistant to Dr. Jacob / Eric Schaller
The pagodas of Ciboure / M. Shayne Bell
The Coventry boy / Graham Joyce
The wild hunt / Helga M. Novak
The green word / Jeffrey Ford
Stitch / Terry Dowling
Puce boy / Michael Libling
The violin-maker / Zoran Z?ivkovicþ
Maya's mother / Bentley Little
Porno in August / Carlton Mellick III
Nesting instincts / Brian Hodge
The machine / Conrad Williams
Hansel, a retrospective, or, The danger of childhood obesity / Tom Disch
Aquero ̀/ Melissa Hardy
The receivers / Joel Lane
Standard gauge / Nicholas Royle
Creation / Jeffrey Ford
Seven pairs of iron shoes / Tracina Jackson-Adams
What I didn't see / Karen Joy Fowler
Reading myth to kindergartenders / Jackie Bartley
Mermaid song / Peter Dickinson
Pages from a journal found in a shoebox left in a Greyhound bus somewhere between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky / Neil Gaiman
No end of fun / Ramsey Campbell
Swiftly / Adam Roberts
The green man / Christopher Fowler
Some other me / Brian Hodge
The snow queen / Robert Phillips
Hides / Jay russell
Mr. Mendoza's paintbrush / Luis Alberto urrea
Five poems / Margaret Lloyd
Little dead girl singing / Stephen Gallagher
A pool in the desert / Robin McKinley
Thailand / Haruki Murakami
The rose in twelve petals / Theodora Goss
Roada trip / Kathe Koja
Unspeakable / Lucy Taylor
Inside out : on Henry Darger / Elizabeth Hand
The green children / Kevin Brockmeier
After the Chuck Jones tribute on Teletoon / Sharon McCartney
Feeders and eaters / Neil Gaiman
Roofwalker / Susan Power
The prospect cards / Don Tumasonis
Hide and seek / nicholas Royle
The wolf's story / Nan Fry
The least trumps / Elizabeth Hand.
2004: At the mouth of the River of Bees / Kij Johnson
Why I became a plumber / Sara Maitland
Bread and bombs / M. Rickert
The red bow / George Saunders
The wife / Vandana Singh
Only partly here / Lucius Shepard
Bone (poem) / Steve Rasnic Tem
Old Virginia / Laird Barron
A study in emerald / Neil Gaiman
You go where it takes you / Nathan Ballingrud
L'Aquilone du estrellas (the kite of stars) / Dean Francis Alfar
Harvey's dream / Stephen King
Woeful tales from Mahigul / Ursula K. Le Guin
King rat / Karen Joy Fowler
The hortlak / Kelly Link
With acknowledgements to Sun Tzu / Brian Hodge
Ash City stomp / Richard Butner
King dragon / Michael Swanwick
Invisible geese: a theory, the perfect city (poems) / Patrick O'Leary
Bedfordshire / Peter Crowther
N0072-JK1 / Adam Corbin Fusco
Cell call / Marc Laidlaw
The fishie / Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
Hunger: a confession / Dale Bailey
Mr. Sly stops for a cup of joe / Scott Emerson Bull
The baby in the night deposit box / Megan Whalen Turner
Lamentation over the destruction of Ur / Paul LaFarge
The silence of the falling stars / Mike O'Driscoll
At the mythical beast (poem) / Jon Woodward
The fluted girl / Paolo Bacigalupi
The brief history of the dead / Kevin Brockmeier
Flotsam / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The bees / Dan Chaon
Dancing men / Glen Hirshberg
Lily, with clouds / Theodora Goss
The man who did nothing / Karen Traviss
Husband / Shelley Jackson
Open doors / Michael Marshall Smith
The valley of giants / Benjamin Rosenbaum
Purity / Thomas Ligotti
Ancestor money / Maureen F. McHugh
Final girl II: the frame (poem) / Daphne Gottlieb
Almost home / Terry Bisson.
2005: The oakthing / Gregory Maguire
Horton's store / R.T. Smith
Rite of spring / Margo Lanagan
A hazy shade of winter / Simon Bestwick
The skin of the world / Douglas Clegg
Zora and the zombie / Andy Duncan
The changeling / Theodora Goss
Revenge of the calico cat / Stepan Chapman
Frozen Charlottes / Lucy Sussex
Reports of certain events in London / China Mieville
House of ice / Jean Esteve
Restraint / Stephen Gallagher
The Baum plan for financial independence / John Kessel
Dancing on air / Frances Oliver
Cold fires / M. Rickert
And the sea shall give up its dead / Richard Mueller
A trick of the dark / Tina Rath
The bad magician / Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
Speir-Bhan / Tanith Lee
Hunting meth zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland / John Farris
Guts / Chuck Palahniuk
Water babies / Simon Brown
Mr. Aickman's air rifle / Peter Straub
We find things old / Bentley Little
Wonderwall / Elizabeth Hand
Postcretaceous Era / D. Ellis Dickerson
Watch and wake / M.T. Anderson
The oracle alone / Catherynne M. Valente
A night in the tropics / Jeffrey Ford
Clownette / Terry Dowling
Stripping / Joyce Carol Oates
Seven feet / Christopher Fowler
Singing my sister down / Margo Lanagan
Bulldozer / Laird Barron
These various methods of brightness / Anna Ross
The cajun knot / Melanie Fazi
Tales from the City of Seams / Greg van Eekhout
The specialist / Alison Smith
Here is the church / Shelley Jackson
The Witch of Truro / Alice Hoffman
Lapland, or Film Noir / Peter Straub
What her mother said / Theodora Goss
The owl / Conrad Williams
The silver dragon / Elizabeth A. Lynn.
2006: Walpurgis afternoon / Delia Sherman
Mushroom duchess / Deborah Roggie
Incident at Agate Beach / Marley Youmans
Among the tombs / Reggie Oliver
Obedience, or the lying tale / Jennifer Chang
American morons / Glen Hirshberg
Shallaballah / Mark Samuels
Night train
heading west / Sarah Monette
Denial / Bruce Sterling
Northwest passage / Barbara Roden
Proboscis / Laird barron
Kronia / Elizabeth Hand
Omens / Kelly Everding
Follow me light / Elizabeth Bear
Boatman's holiday / Jeffrey Ford
Horse of a different color (that you rode in on) / Howard Waldrop
Where angels come in / Adam L.G. Nevill
Twilight States / Albert E. Cowdrey
Jolley bonnet / Andrew Bonia
Last ten years in the life of Hero Kai / Geoff Ryman
Souls of drowning mountain / Jack Cady
Last one / Robert Coover
Ball room / Chine Mieville, Emma Birchman, Max Schifer
Nymphs find the head of Orpheus / Theodora Goss
Vacation / Daniel Wallace
Cruel sistah / Nisi Shawl
Ding-dong bell / Jay Russell
Case study of emergency room procedure and risk management by hospital staff members in the urban facility / Stacey Richter
Scribble mind / Jeffrey Ford
Scarecrow / Tom Brennan
Going the Jerusalem mile / Chaz Brenchley
Grief / Willa Schneberg
Boman / Pentti Holappa
Machine of a religious man / Ralph Robert Moore
Hot potting / Chuck Palahniuk
My father's mask / Joe Hill
Guggenheim lovers / Isabel Allende
Statement in the case / Theodora Goss
Pavement artist / Dave Hutchinson
Gypsies in the wood / Kim Newman.
2007: Summation 2006: fantasy / Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
Summation 2006: horror / Ellen Datlow
The year in media of the fantastic: 2006 / Edward Bryant
Fantasy in comics and graphic novels / Jeff VanderMeer
Music of the fantastic: 2006 / Charles de Lint
Obituaries: 2006 / James Frenkel
Pol Pot's beautiful daughter / Geoff Ryman
First kisses from beyond the grave / Nik Houser
The last to be found / Christopher Harman
Fourteen experiments in postal delivery / John Schoffstall
Becoming the villainess and Persephone and the prince meet over drinks / Jeannine Hall Gailey
The night whiskey / Jeffrey Ford
In the house of the seven librarians / Ellen Klages
Drowning Palmer / Sarah Monette
Landfill / Joyce Carol Oates
Another word for map is faith / Christopher Rowe
Lionflower hedge / Ira Sher
A fearful symmetry / Minsoo Kang
Messages / Brett Alexander Savory
Ballade and My babe, my babe / William Hope Hodgson
The box / Stephen Gallagher
Halfway house / Frances Hardinge
La feþe verte / Delia Sherman
Father Muerte & the flesh / Lee Battersby
Winkie / Margo Lanagan
Tell / Nathalie Anderson
Dog person / Scott Nicholson
The extraordinary limits of darkness / Simon Clark
Cup and table / Tim Pratt
The churring / Nicholas Royle
Dear sea fruit / Kaaron Warren
Directions / Caleb Wilson
La profonde / Terry Dowling
Journey into the kingdom / M. Rickert
The good ones are already taken / Ben Fountain
A pig's whisper / Margo Lanagan
31/10 / Stephen Volk
Sob in the silence / Gene Wolfe
Yep, I said camel / Josh Bell
Femaville 29 / Paul Di Filippo
A siege of cranes / Benjamin Rosenbaum
Is rain my bearskin? / Jeanne Marie Beaumont
The lineaments of gratified desire / Ysabeau S. Wilce
Raphael / Stephen Graham Jones
The muldoon / Glen Hirshberg
Honorable mentions: 2006.
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