Authors: Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), James Frenkel
ISBN-13: 9780312290696, ISBN-10: 0312290691
Format: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: First Edition
Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling), Lethal Kisses, Off Limits, and Endangered Species, and has won the World Fantasy Award six times. She lives in New York City.
Terri Windling won the Mythopoeic Award for her first adult novel, The Wood Wife. She had edited numerous books and anthologies, including The Essential Bordertown and Silver Birch, Blood Moon, the most recent in a series of contemporary fairy-tale anthologies, edited with Ellen Datlow. She divides her time between Devon, England and Tucson, Arizona.
The legendary anthology is back, with witches and warlocks, fairy rings and gothic tales. The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 presents the best short stories and poetry published in this genre, and takes readers into the most fantastic realms imaginable. Culled from thousands of magazines, anthologies, and collections, acclaimed genre specialists Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant offer a broad range of fantastical and horrific fiction, including work from Jeffrey Ford, China MiƩville, Bruce Sterling, Mark Samuels, Barbara Roden and many others. In addition, this critically renowned series offers an extensive overview of the year in fantasy and horror. The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 is the best source for fans or nascent readers of fantasy and horror.
You can't improve on the "best," but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to present it. For the first time ever, they have selected an essay, Douglas Winter's "The Pathos of Genre," and this incisive critique of the limits of genre branding subtly calls attention to how Datlow and Windling's fiction and poetry selections usually resist simple categorizing. Many of their best picks from 1999 willfully bend, blend and move beyond expected genre materials: Tim Lebbon's "White," a horror and SF cross-stitch, uses B-movie imagery to explore the behavior of people confronted with ecological apocalypse. Kim Newman, in "You Don't Have to Be Mad," grounds a caustic horror satire of modern business mores in set pieces appropriated from television espionage programs of the 1960s. Michael Marshall Smith, in "Welcome," and Charles de Lint, in "Pixel Pixies," conjure alternate fantasy worlds with the most unlikely of talismans--a computer. Neil Gaiman, one of six authors represented by more than one contribution, places both a horror and a fantasy tale: "Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story," a nasty bit on the death of romance, and "Harlequin Valentine," a darkly funny fantasy. There are more than a few modern fairy tale variants, but even these show a refreshing range of styles and approaches, notably Patricia McKillip's "Toad," a delightful deflation of the frog prince's tale. The usual generous survey essays by Datlow, Windling, Ed Bryant and Seth Johnson only enhance the volume's reputation as indispensable reading for the year. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|
Summation 2005 : fantasy | ||
Summation 2005 : horror | ||
Fantasy and horror in the media : 2005 | ||
Graphic novels : 2005 | ||
Anime and manga : 2005 | ||
Music of the fantastic : 2005 | ||
Obituaries : 2005 | ||
Walpurgis afternoon | 1 | |
The mushroom duchess | 17 | |
An incident at Agate Beach | 25 | |
Among the tombs | 47 | |
Obedience, or the lying tale (poem) | 60 | |
American morons | 62 | |
Shallaballah | 72 | |
Night train : heading west (poem) | 78 | |
Denial | 80 | |
Northwest passage | 92 | |
Proboscis | 113 | |
Kronia | 129 | |
Omens (poem) | 132 | |
Follow me light | 133 | |
Boatman's holiday | 143 | |
The horse of a different color (that you rode in on) | 153 | |
Where angels come in | 166 | |
Twilight states | 177 | |
Jolly Bonnet | 190 | |
The last ten years in the life of Hero Kai | 192 | |
The souls of Drowning Mountain | 214 | |
The last one | 223 | |
The ball room | 231 | |
Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus (poem) | 240 | |
Vacation | 241 | |
Cruel sistah | 251 | |
Ding-dong-bell | 258 | |
A case study of emergency room procedure and risk management by hospital staff members in the urban facility | 271 | |
The scribble mind | 277 | |
Scarecrow | 295 | |
Going the Jerusalem mile | 299 | |
Grief (poem) | 311 | |
Boman | 313 | |
The machine of a religious man | 334 | |
Hot potting | 348 | |
My father's mask | 355 | |
The Guggenheim lovers | 369 | |
A statement in the case | 376 | |
The pavement artist | 383 | |
The gypsies in the wood | 398 | |
Honorable mentions : 2005 | 461 |