''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'' was a reprint

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published annually by

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from 1987 to 2008. In addition to the short stories, supplemented by a list of honorable mentions, each edition included a number of retrospective essays by the editors and others. The first two anthologies were originally published under the name ''The Year's Best Fantasy'' before the title was changed beginning with the third book. For most of its run, the series was edited by

Terri Windling Terri Windling (born December 3, 1958 in Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoke ...

and

Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award (Horror Writers Association). Career Datlow began her career ...

, with Windling primarily responsible for the "fantasy" portion of the content and Datlow for the "horror" portion. From the 16th edition (covering works first published in 2003), Windling's role was taken by the team of

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and Gavin Grant. The cover art for every edition was done by Thomas Canty. In 2009, it was announced that there would be no 2009 edition. Ellen Datlow is now editing ''

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'' published by

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Volumes

* ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection'' 1987 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection'' 1988 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection'' 1989 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection'' 1990 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection'' 1991 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection'' 1992 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection'' 1993 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection'' 1994 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection'' 1995 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection'' 1996 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection'' 1997 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection'' 1998 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection'' 1999 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection'' 2000 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection'' 2001 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection'' 2002 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection'' 2003 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection'' 2004 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection'' 2005 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection'' 2006 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twenty-First Annual Collection'' 2007 * ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twenty-Second Annual Collection'' 2008

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection

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* A World Without Toys - T. M. Wright * DX -

Joe Haldeman Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his novel ''The Forever War'' (1974). That novel and other works, including ''The Hemingway Hoax'' (1991) and '' Forever Peace'' (1997), have wo ...

(poem) * Friend's Best Man -

Jonathan Carroll Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria since 1974. Life and work Carroll was b ...

* The Snow Apples - Gwyneth Jones * Ever After - Susan Palwick * My Name Is Dolly - William F. Nolan * The Moon's Revenge -

Joan Aiken Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For ''The ...

* Author's Notes -

Edward Bryant Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017) was an American science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave. At the time of his death, ...

* Lake George in High August - John Robert Bensink * Csucskári - Steven Brust * The Other Side -

Ramsey Campbell Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. He is the author of over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them winners of literary awa ...

* Pamela's Get -

David J. Schow David J. Schow (born July 13, 1955) is an American author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays. His credits include films such as '' Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III'', ''The Crow'' and '' The Hills Run Red''. Most of ...

* Voices in the Wind - Elizabeth S. Helfman * Once Upon a Time, She Said -

Jane Yolen Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 350 books, of which the best known is '' The Devil's Arithmetic'', a Holocaust novella. H ...

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Carol Emshwiller Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a ma ...

* Soft Monkey -

Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. Robert Bloch, the author of '' Psycho'' ...

* Fat Face thulhu Mythos- Michael Shea * Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair ewford-

Charles de Lint Charles de Lint (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian writer of Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese ancestry. He is married to, and plays music with, MaryAnn Harris. Primarily a writer of fantasy fiction, he has composed works of urban fantasy, cont ...

* The Pear-Shaped Man -

George R. R. Martin George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels ''A Song ...

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Lucius Shepard Lucius Shepard (August 21, 1943 – March 18, 2014) was an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leaned into other genres, such as magical realism. Career Shepard was a native of Lynchburg, Virginia where ...

* Small Heirlooms - M. John Harrison * The Improper Princess nchanted Forest-

Patricia C. Wrede Patricia Collins Wrede (; born March 27, 1953) is an American author of fantasy literature. She is known for her ''Enchanted Forest Chronicles'' series for young adults, which was voted number 84 in NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels list. Caree ...

* The Fable of the Farmer and Fox - John Brunner * Haunted -

Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...

* Dead Possums - Kathryn Ptacek * Pictures Made of Stones -

(poem) * Splatter: A Cautionary Tale -

Douglas E. Winter Douglas E. Winter (born October 30, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer, critic and lawyer. Winter grew up in Granite City, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1975 and became a lawyer in Washington, DC, currently w ...

* Gentlemen -

John Skipp John Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on multiple novels, and has also collaborated with Marc Le ...

, Craig Spector * Demon Luck thkar-

Craig Shaw Gardner Craig Shaw Gardner (born July 2, 1949) is an American author, best known for producing fantasy parodies similar to those of Terry Pratchett. He was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of Her ...

* Words of Power -

* Jamie's Grave -

Lisa Tuttle Lisa Gracia Tuttle (born September 16, 1952) is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. She has published more than a dozen novels, seven short story collections, and several non-fiction titles, including a reference book o ...

* The Maid on the Shore -

Delia Sherman Cordelia Caroline Sherman (born 1951, Tokyo, Japan), known professionally as Delia Sherman, is an American fantasy writer and editor. Her novel ''The Porcelain Dove'' won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Background Sherman attended The Chapin Scho ...

* Halley's Passing - Michael McDowell * White Trains -

(poem) * Simple Sentences -

Natalie Babbitt Natalie Zane Babbitt (née Moore; July 28, 1932 – October 31, 2016) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Her 1975 novel '' Tuck Everlasting'' was adapted into two feature films and a Broadway musical. She received th ...

* A Hypothetical Lizard iavek-

Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell' ...

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