The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (No. 9) [Hardcover]

Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror | Publication Date: July 1996

Justly lauded for its diversity and its exellent taste, "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" continues this award-winning tradition with another sterling collection of fantastic short fiction, including stories by Terry Bisson, Fred Chappel, Charles de Lint, Terry Downling, Neil Gaiman, Lisa Goldstein, Elizabeth Hand, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald, Sara Paretsky, Wil Shetterly, Robert Westall, Jane Yolen, and more than forty other distinguished contributors. Rounded out by the editors' insightful and wide-ranging overviews of fantasy and horror literature, film and graphic novels, this volume offers the most comprehensive and entertaining collection of fabulous fiction available anywhere.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This superb anthology is as valuable for its detailed summations of horror and fantasy in 1995 (in literature and in comics, television, movies, etc.), as for the 35 stories and 9 poems. Also useful for its exploration of the crossover genre known as "dark fantasy." Noteworthy authors include Peter S. Beagle, Ursula Le Guin, Stephen King, Lucy Taylor, Steve Rasnic Tem, Tanith Lee, A. S. Byatt, David J. Schow, and Joyce Carol Oates.

From Publishers Weekly

The delicious promise of the first piece, "Home for Christmas," a lyrical tale of modern-day magic by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, is fully realized in this year's offering of the best fantasy and horror by today's finest writers, including Terry Bisson, Joyce Carol Oates, A.S. Byatt, David Schow, Amy Tan and Jane Yolen. Editors Datlow and Windling should be congratulated for selecting a delightful blend that shows the variety of work created in both genres without compromising quality. The 46 short stories and poems range from the folkloric, such as "King of Crows" by Midori Snyder, which weaves the sorrowful tale of a musician who falls in love with a crow, to the truly terrifying as demonstrated in Stephen King's "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," in which a crazed maitre d' turns what is already a tense situation into a bloodbath. Delia Sherman offers a brilliant 17th-century pastiche about a printer's apprentice created by an alchemist from a pile of papers and ultimately returned to that form. From ghosts to unicorns, from dragons to murder on the Internet, there are stories to enthrall and entertain any reader with a love of the bizarre, the mysterious, the frightening.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 534 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; 3rd edition (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312144490
• ISBN-13: 978-0312144494
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,678,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I've been an editor for over thirty years, first in book publishing, but mostly editing short stories for OMNI Magazine and webzine, EVENT HORIZON, a webzine, and SCIFICTION, the fiction area of SCIFI.COM. I now edit original and reprint anthologies. Born and bred New Yorker, although I travel a lot.

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This review is from: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (No.9) (Paperback)

This book is the only one of twelve editions that I have read. It is absolutely amazing. Not only does it question our common place world but it bends, strechtes and recreates you mind. I am looking to buy the book so I can read it all and have the stories at my finger tips. I am also going to read the next editions. Try one story, you will be hooked!