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.ContentsSummation 1999: FantasyTerri WindlingSummation 1999: HorrorEllen DatlowHorror and Fantasy in the Media: 1999Edward BryantComics: 1999, Seth JohnsonObituaries: 1999, James FrenkelDarkrose and Diamond, Ursula K. Le GuinThe Chop Girl, Ian R. MacLeodThe Girl Detective, Kelly LinkThe Transformation, N. Scott MomadayCarabosse, Delia ShermanHarlequin Valentine, Neil GaimanToad, Patricia A. McKillipThe Dinner Party, Robert GirardiHeat, Steve Rasnic TemThe Wedding at EsperanzaLinnet TaylorRedescending, Ursula K. Le GuinYou Don't Have to be Mad . . .Kim NewmanThe Paper-Thin Garden, Thomas WhartonThe Anatomy of a MermaidMary SharrattThe Grammarian's Five DaughtersEleanor ArnasonThe Tree Is My Hat, Gene WolfeWelcome, Michael Marshall SmithThe Pathos of Genre, Douglas E. WinterShatsi , Peter CrowtherKeepsakes and Treasures: A Love StoryNeil GaimanWhat You Make It, Michael Marshall SmithThe Parwat Ruby, Delia ShermanOdysseus Old, Geoffrey BrockThe Smell of the Deer, Kent MeyersChorion and the PleiadesSarah Van ArsdaleCrosley, Elizabeth Engstromn0 Naming the Dead, Paul J. McAuleyThe Stork-Men, Juan GoytisoloThe Disappearance of Elaine ColemanSteven MillhauserWhite, Tim LebbonDear Floods of Her Hair, James SallisMrs. Santa Decides to Move to FloridaApril SelleyTanuki, Jan HodgmanAt Reparata, Jeffrey FordSkin So Green and Fine, Wendy WheelerOld Merlin Dancing on the Sands of TimeJane YolenSailing the Painted OceanDenise LeeGrandmother, Laurence SnydalSmall Song, Gary A. BraunbeckThe Emperor's Old BonesGemma FilesThe Duke of Wellington Misplaces His HorseSusanna ClarkeHalloween Street, Steve Rasnic TemThe Kiss, Tia V. TravisThe Beast/The Hedge, Bill LewisPixel Pixies, Charles de LintFalling Away, Elizabeth BirminghamHonorable Mentions: 1999

Year's Best Fantasy & Horror - Thirteenth Annual Collection

Literature & Fiction

Thomas Wharton

GENE WOLFE

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

Douglas E. Winter

kim-newman

Eleanor Arnason

Elizabeth Engstrom

Geoffrey Brock

Paul McAuley

Kent Meyers

peter-crowther

Mary Sharratt

Sarah Van Arsdale

Genre Fiction

St.Martin's Press

Rutland Dinosaur, Cetiosaurus

Leics Museums

"The Hand That Feeds" is a concise horror fantasy in chapbook form. Set in San Francisco in the immediate post-war period it begins with the death of one of 'The Six'; powerful human sentinels in the everlasting fight against darkness. The remaining guardians must find out who or what is stalking them and why - and obviously stop the killing.

The Hand That Feeds

James Lovegrove

Maynard Sims Productions

ABOUT THIS BOOK 
The newest collection by acclaimed British horror master Peter Crowther, these stories are the very best of his incredible short works of horror and suspense: 
Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew: An unusual visitor rolls into town one day under cover of a thick fog . . . just to touch base with someone he maybe once knew. 
All We Know of Heaven: A small boy finds the answer to his and his father's dilemma in the legend of King Arthur and his mystical sword, Excalibur. 
Tomorrow Eyes: A Runyonesque gambler discovers the strangest set of dice you ever saw being rolled on a cloth. 
Some Burial Place, Vast and Dry: The lonely survivor of a long-ago space mission receives a visit from a hauntingly familiar UFO. 
The Musician of Bremen, GA: Cal Williston, who can play the best version of 'Moonlight In Vermont' since Chet Baker teamed up with Gerry Mulligan. 
Boxing Day: A small-town crook about to fall under the spell of London rediscovers his wife. 
Keepsakes: PI. Koko Tate pays his mom a visit on Mother’s Day. 
Too Short A Death: A modern-day poet meets the long-deceased Weldon Kees's greatest literary creation. 
Eater: The cops at an off-the-beaten-track late-night precinct house have got more than they bargained for in one of the cells. 
Sitting Pretty: An armchair fashioned out of the wood from the original cross provides a comfort of sorts down the ages. 
Dark Times: Two old men tamper with the dark arts and open a gateway that threatens the destructions of the world. 
Jewels in the Dust: A couple jaded with their life together are visited by their collective histories. 
And, in Songs of Leaving, the imminent impact of a county-sized piece of space debris brings to the remnants of humanity a multitude of old friends to witness the fall of mankind.

Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew: The Best Short Stories of Peter Crowther

Cemetery Dance Publications

A very special jukebox in the abandoned saloon of a dusty deserted town plays much more than mere tunes for two weary wanderers . . . A travelling carnival in a post-apocalyptic world comes across the Earth's very last vampire . . . A chair fashioned out of the wood from the original cross provides a comfort of sorts down the ages . . . A lonely girl dreams of freedom, whatever the cost . . . A one-time orphan embarks on a bizarre bus-journey with his newfound parents . . . Two old men tamper with the dark arts and open a gateway that threatens the destruction of the world . . . A grieving widower goes to great lengths to bring his wife back from the dead only to find that she's brought someone else with her . . . And a man uses a roll of magical tape to halt time and save his wife's life, unaware that there are things in this stopped-clock dimension that take a dim view of visitors . . . Twelve more stories from the fertile mind of Peter Crowther, award-winning author of The Longest Single Note, Songs of Leaving, Lonesome Roads and the Forever Twilight SF/horror sequence.

The Spaces Between the Lines

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Subterranean

A strange light has removed all but a handful of people from Earth and, one day later, returned the tiniest fraction of them. But these new people are different. They come out only at night and even then only with dark glasses; they wear thick gloves (whatever the temperature); and they customize mechanical equipment and vehicles to perform functions for which they were never intended. And they can kill just by the touch of their bare hands. A group of disparate individuals embarks on a journey of revelation and horror through a deserted world...a journey that not all of them will survive. A quartet from a small-town radio station (Forever Twilight Book One: Darkness Darkness); a precognitive girl and a cuckold husband, both survivors of a plane crash; a young serial killer; and a woman who hears voices these are the bedrock of the group so far. But across the country and all around the world time is running out for mankind. Darkness is spreading across the sky from the east and the days are becoming shorter. The newcomers can spend increasingly more time out on the streets and it soon becomes clear that those spared the original cull of humanity must work hard...to save both themselves and the planet.

Forever Twilight 2: Windows to the Soul

In the pages of this latest collection of downright delicate, often enchanting and occasionally distressing stories from the pen of award-winning Peter Crowther you will encounter: * two boys who discover an elaborate trap to capture fairies;* a young musician haunted by the song 'Moonlight In Vermont';* a small-time crook about to fall under the spell of London while, at the same time, rediscovering his wife;* a family who happen across a store with a back door that takes you back to your favorite past;* a Runyon-esque gambler with the strangest set of dice you ever saw;* a couple jaded with their life together who are re-visited by their collective histories;* an unusual visitor who rolls in one fall day under cover of a mighty thick fog just to touch base with someone he maybe once knew;* a dying man who learns that most important of all lessons: his life has been more worthwhile than he realized; and* a carnival come to visit the small turn-of-the-century Texas town of Gault, there to make a big impression on two young women on the cusp of...well, on the cusp of so many things.You'll laugh, you'll cry and, by golly, you'll want to sleep with the light on. Don't say we didn t warn you.

Jewels in the Dust

Short Stories & Anthologies

ABOUT THIS BOOK It was sometime in the mid-nineties at Dangerous Visions Bookstore in Sherman Oaks, when a seismic shift altered the foundations of the room. It wasn t the Northridge quake, but it was certainly a force of nature in walked Harlan. I had told him my dream of putting together an anthology someday, with a table of contents that included some of the very writers in this book. That s a pretty nifty list, Harlan said. Do it, kiddo. As the years passed, I went on to write for Nature Magazine and became a contributing editor at Locus, and the dream kind of fell by the wayside, but Harlan never let me forget. And though I wish Harlan could see it, the dream is finally here a book full of memories and love thirty-three international contributors who have joined together to celebrate his life. It s strong and strange in ways I never expected, full of inspired ideas, anecdotes and stories of Harlan. Of course, to include everyone influenced by Harlan and the work he celebrated would more than fill The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars. I m proud to announce the final table of contents for THE UNQUIET DREAMER: A TRIBUTE TO HARLAN ELLISON. Preston Grassmann CONTENTS Introduction: Older Than Five, Younger Than Twelve Foreword 1 Second Father/First Child by Josh Olson Foreword 2 Harlan Ellison s Influence on Me by Ellen Datlow Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany The Way You Came In May Not Be The Best Way Out by Paul Di Filippo A Thin Silver Line by Steve Rasnic Tem On an Old Man s Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones by Adam Troy Castro Hums by Peter Crowther The Re-Evolution of Cloud Nine by Nikhil Singh The First of Many Shudders by Kaaron Warren Break Into Three by Nick Mamatas Twelve Letters to My Daughter on the Moon by Ian McDonald The Last Shout of the Beast by Bruce Sterling Alice s by Lisa Tuttle Digger Split. by David Gerrold The Wedding Gown by Jeffrey Thomas And Everywhere That Mary Went by Anna Tambour Amniocryptic by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Build Your Own Monster by Rumi Kaneko (translated by Preston Grassmann) Race Across a Vanishing Landscape by Gio Clairval Rave On by Gregory Benford The Collaboration by Allen M. Steele The Man Who Saw Wakanda by Steven Barnes The Starfucker Dyad by Rich Larson With Frank and Lucinda Brewer at the East Pole by Gregory Norman Bossert Perfection by John Skipp &amp; Autumn Christian Silicon Times e-Book Review by Greg Bear The Seer by Chris Kelso Live Inside Your Own Sky by D.R.G Sugawara Various Kinds of Conceits by Arthur Byron Cover Five Years Later by Scott Edelman The Fragments of a Hologram City by Preston Grassmann Flies by Robert Silverberg

The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison

ADAM-TROY CASTRO

Ian McDonald

Samuel R. Delany

Steve Rasnic Tem

Ellen Datlow

Paul Di Filippo

Nick Mamatas

Kaaron Warren

Preston Grassmann

Josh Olson

Nikhil Singh

PS Publishing

ABOUT THE BOOK 
In the 1960s and 1970s, New Worlds magazine, edited by Michael Moorcock, became famous for its avant garde approach to SF, energising the genre’s New Wave with exciting innovations in style, content, and presentation. Here J G Ballard and Brian Aldiss shared pages with Samuel R Delany and Norman Spinrad, Pamela Zoline with M John Harrison, Charles Platt with Harlan Ellison. Hilary Bailey with Thomas M. Disch. 
Now PS Publishing, with the enthusiastic endorsement and participation of Moorcock himself, presents the first in a revived New Worlds anthology series. Award-winning co-editors Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers have gathered brilliant new stories by the finest short fiction writers in SF. A sampling: 
Continuing his topical yet timeless Jerry Cornelius sequence begun during the heyday of New Worlds, Michael Moorcock delineates ‘The Wokingham Agreement’. 
Alan Moore, titan of the graphic novel, artfully explores surprising and hilarious events immediately after the Bing Bang in ‘The Improbably Complex High-Energy State’. 
Gwyneth Jones ventures to the outer solar system and probes the perils of posthumanity in ‘The Ploughshare and the Storm’. 
Ken MacLeod explores the subtle dangers of a very wired future Europe in ‘Cold Revolution Blues’. 
Margo Lanagan brings her cunning sidewise sensibility to another England in ‘Tell-Tale Tit’. 
Michael Swanwick slyly and movingly contemplates combat-machine fetishism in ‘The White Leopard’. 
Add tales by Ian R. MacLeod, Lavie Tidhar, Ian Watson, Paul Park, James Lovegrove, M T Hill, Robert Edric, John Grant, a reprint story by Peter Crowther, the first in a series of columns from Steve Aylett, and a knowledgeable Introduction by the noted SF scholar Mike Ashley, and here is New Worlds reborn in all its fabled glory.

New Worlds [Trade Paperback]

ALAN MOORE

Ian WATSON

Lavie Tidhar

Gwyneth Jones

KEN MACLEOD

Michael Swanwick

Nick Gevers

Paul Park

Ian R. MacLeod

M T Hill

ROBERT EDRIC

margo-lanagan

michael-moorcock

John, Grant

Into the Wild Green Yonder

Tim Lebbon

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