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For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Summation 1999: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
• Summation 1999: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 1999 - essay by Edward Bryant
• Comics: 1999 - essay by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries: 1999 - essay by James R. Frenkel
• Darkrose and Diamond - (1999) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Chop Girl - (1999) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Girl Detective - (1999) - novelette by Kelly Link
• The Transformation - (1999) - shortstory by N. Scott Momaday
• Carabosse - (1999) - poem by Delia Sherman
• Harlequin Valentine - (1999) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Toad - (1999) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
• Washed in the River - (1999) - poem by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
• The Dinner Party - (1999) - shortstory by Robert Girardi
• Heat - (1999) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Wedding at Esperanza - (1999) - shortstory by Linnet Taylor
• Redescending - (1999) - poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
• You Don't Have to Be Mad ... - (1999) - novelette by Kim Newman
• The Paper-Thin Garden - (1999) - shortstory by Thomas Wharton
• The Anatomy of a Mermaid - (1999) - shortstory by Mary Sharratt
• The Grammarian's Five Daughters - (1999) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• The Tree Is My Hat - (1999) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• Welcome - (1999) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Pathos of Genre - (1999) - shortstory by Douglas E. Winter
• Shatsi - (1999) - shortstory by Peter Crowther
• Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story - (1999) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• What You Make It - (1999) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Parwat Ruby - (1999) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
• Odysseus Old - (1999) - poem by Geoffrey Brock
• The Smell of the Deer - (1999) - shortstory by Kent Meyers
• Chorion and the Pleiades - (1999) - poem by Sarah Van Arsdale
• Crosley - (1998) - shortstory by Elizabeth Engstrom
• Naming the Dead - (1999) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• The Stork-men - (1999) - shortstory by Juan Goytisolo
• The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman - (1999) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
• White - (1999) - novella by Tim Lebbon
• Dear Floods of Her Hair - (1999) - shortstory by James Sallis
• Mrs. Santa Decides to Move to Florida - (1999) - shortstory by April Selley
• Tanuki - (1999) - shortstory by Jan Hodgman
• At Reparata - (1999) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Skin So Green and Fine - (1999) - novelette by Wendy Wheeler
• Old Merlin Dancing on the Sands of Time - (1999) - poem by Jane Yolen
• Sailing the Painted Ocean - (1999) - shortstory by Denise Lee
• Grandmother - (1999) - poem by Laurence Snydal
• Small Song - (1999) - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
• The Emperor's Old Bones - (1999) - shortstory by Gemma Files
• The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse - (1999) - shortstory by Susanna Clarke
• Halloween Street - (1999) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Kiss - (1999) - novelette by Tia V. Travis
• The Beast - (1999) - poem by Bill Lewis
• The Hedge - (1999) - poem by Bill Lewis
• Pixel Pixies - (1999) - novelette by Charles de Lint
• Falling Away - (1999) - shortstory by Elizabeth Birmingham
• Honorable Mentions: 1999 - (1999) - essay by uncredited
• The People Behind the Book - essay by uncredited

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