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For nearly two decades, 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... read more

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1. Walpurgis Afternoon - Delia Sherman
2. The Mushroom Duchess - Deborah Roggie
3. An Incident at Agate Beach - Marley Youmans
4. Among the Tombs - Reggie Oliver
5. Obedience, or The Lying Tale (poem) - Jennifer Chang
6. American Morons - Glen Hirshberg
7. Shallaballah - Mark Samuels
8. Night Train: Heading West (poem) - Sarah Monette
9. Denial - Bruce Sterling
10. Northwest Passage - Barbara Roden
11. Proboscis - Laird Barron
12. Kronia - Elizabeth Hand
13. Omens (poem) - Kelly Everding
14. Follow Me Light - Elizabeth Bear
15. Boatman's Holiday - Jeffrey Ford
16. The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On) - Howard Waldrop-
17. Where Angels Come In - Adam L. G. Nevill
18. Twilight States - Albert E. Cowdrey
19. Jolly Bonnet - Andrew Bonia
20. The Last Ten Years in th eLife of Hero Kai - Geoff Ryman
21. The Souls of Drowning Mountain - Jack Cady
22. The Last One - Robert Coover
23. The Ball Room - China Mieville, Emma Bircham, and Max Schafer
24. Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus (poem) - Theodora Goss
25. Vacation - Daniel Wallace
26. Cruel Sistah - Nisi Shawl
27. Ding-Dong-Bell - Jay Russell
28. A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by
Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility - Stacey Richter
29. The Scribble Mind - Jeffrey Ford
30. Scarecrow - Tom Brennan
31. Going the Jerusalem Mile - Chaz Brenchley
32. Grief (poem) - Willa Schneberg
33. Boman - Pentti Holappa
34. The Machine of a Religious Man - Ralph Robert Moore
35. Hot Potting - Chuck Palahniuk
36. My Father's Mask - Joe Hill
37. The Guggenheim Lovers - Isabel Allende
38. A Statement in the Case - Theodora Goss
39. The Pavement Artist - Dave Hutchinson
40. The Gypsies in the Wood - Kim Newman

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 19 of 0 in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror. (standard series)
This is book 19 of 23 in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, and followed by The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Ellen Datlow (Editor)
  2. Kelly Link (Editor)
  3. Gavin J. Grant (Editor)

Other Contributors:

  1. Thomas Canty (Cover Artist)

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