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

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published annually by

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from 1988 to 2007. 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 St ...

and Ellen Datlow, 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

Kelly Link Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) is an American editor and writer. Mainly known as an author of short stories, she published her first novel, ''The Book of Love'' in 2024. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many ...

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 '' The Best Horror of the Year'' published by Night Shade Books.

Volumes

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

The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection

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Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the ''Earthsea'' fantas ...

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

Joe Haldeman Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American people, American science fiction author and former college professor. He is best known for his novel ''The Forever War'' (1974), which was inspired by his experiences as a combat soldier ...

(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 bo ...

* The Snow Apples - Gwyneth Jones * Ever After -

Susan Palwick Susan Palwick (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer and associate professor emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She began her professional career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for ''Isaac Asimov's Sc ...

* 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 ''Th ...

* Author's Notes -

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

* Lake George in High August - John Robert Bensink * Csucskári -

Steven Brust Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans livi ...

* 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 * 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 400 books, of which the best known is '' The Devil's Arithmetic'', a Holocaust novella. H ...

(poem) * The Circular Library of Stones -

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

* 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 science fiction, New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published wo ...

* 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. Primarily a writer of fantasy fiction, he has composed works of urban fantasy, contemporary magical realism, and mythic fiction. Along with authors like Terri Windling, Emma Bull ...

* The Pear-Shaped Man -

George R. R. Martin George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948) also known by the initials G.R.R.M. is an American author, television writer, and television producer. He is best known as the author of the unfinished series of Hi ...

* Delta Sly Honey -

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, wher ...

* Small Heirlooms - M. John Harrison * The Improper Princess nchanted Forest- Patricia C. Wrede * 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 nonfiction. Her novels ''Black ...

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

(poem) * Splatter: A Cautionary Tale - Douglas E. Winter * Gentlemen -

John Skipp John Skipp (born May 20, 1957) 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 colla ...

, 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 Hero ...

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* Jamie's Grave -

Lisa Tuttle Lisa Gracia Tuttle (born September 16, 1952) is an American 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 on fem ...

* 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 Sch ...

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

(poem) * Simple Sentences - Natalie Babbitt * 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 (comic book), ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman: The Killing Joke' ...

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