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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 18th Annual Collection
from: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.0876608
EAN: 9780312341930
ISBN: 0312341938
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: August 01, 2005
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Studio: St. Martin's Press
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Editorial Review:
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, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this 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 magic 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 sections on comics, by Charles Vess; on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge; on media, by Ed Bryant; and on music, by Charles de Lint. With a long list of Honorable Mentions, this is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not Free SF Reader
A major problem with this collection is that a lot of it is pretty dull. Definitely a few good stories, but that is not the case for a fair chunk of it, unfortunately. This is not the case with the extensive overview of the genres in all sorts of media, even anime and manga, which is an interesting surprise. That part is definitely good, and probably worth an extra 1 out of 5 at least for the book, whereas the fiction part is only around a bit under a 3 itself, but there is definitely a lot of it. ... Read More
Rating: - Still wonderfully diverse...
This collection is at least as good as any of the others, though some of the stories seemed rather out of place (Chuck Palahniuk's infamous story "Guts," for example) or were just too strange in imagery for me to get into ("The Revenge of the Calico Cat," in an imaginary world of plushies). A few were also a bit simplistic or cliched and I was surprised that they were recognised as being the best of the year. However, most of the selected pieces were hauntingly eerie or strange or beautiful, and ... Read More
Rating:  - Outstanding Quality and Variety of Stories! Not to be Missed!
I look forward to this collection every year, but I must admit this 18th annual collection was one of the best ever. I am a huge horror fan and usually just skip over the scifi stories, but began to read the scifi stories as well this time and to my great pleasure, really enjoyed these as well. For anyone who enjoys a good short story or good literature of any type I highly recommend this collection. Standout stories by Alice Hoffman, Joyce Carol Oates and the best short story by Peter Straub I've ... Read More
Rating: - Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
continues to provide an avenue to wonderful short stories in the fantasy and horror genre, along with excellent essays on what is going on in the field. I wish I had the time and resources to track down and read all of their recommendations. The series has not diminished with the departure of Terri Windling.
Rating:  - Not the same with new fantasy editors
Something like 15 years ago, I ran across the first three annual volumes of this anthology at a science fiction and fantasy bookstore. Ever since, I've eagerly looked forward to every volume, for weeks or months ahead of publication. Once received, each yielded a couple of weeks of daily reading treat. I admit, since I dislike horror, I've always wished that the horror had been spun off into a separate volume. Still, Ellen Datlow's taste in horror is pretty sophisticated, some of it being closer to ... Read More
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