- Hardcover: 608 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312341938
- ISBN-13: 978-0312341930
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.8 x 4.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,802,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror"
Seventeenth Annual Collection
"Datlow (the horror half) teams with new coeditors (who assume the fantasy detail once handled by Terri Windling) and the series doesn't skip a beat in quality, delivering forty-three stories and poems published in 2003 that illustrate modern fantasy's breadth and variety...proof that the best fantastic fiction is modern mythmaking at its finest."
---"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Link and Grant's good taste in outre setups, stylistic and formal adventurousness, and ambiguity shows in these challenging selections."
"---Booklist"
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Seventeenth Annual Collection
"Datlow (the horror half) teams with new coeditors (who assume the fantasy detail once handled by Terri Windling) and the series doesn't skip a beat in quality, delivering forty-three stories and poems published in 2003 that illustrate modern fantasy's breadth and variety...proof that the best fantastic fiction is modern mythmaking at its finest."
---"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Link and Grant's good taste in outre setups, stylistic and formal adventurousness, and ambiguity shows in these challenging selections."
"---Booklist"
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Highly acclaimed for collecting the finest short fantasy and horror fiction, the World Fantasy Award-winning annual series continues its tradition of excellence with the most groundbreaking and engaging work by some of the world's most talented authors. Highlights of this year's edition include works by: John Farris, Margo Lanagan, Jay Russell, and many others. Also included are year-end wrap-ups and the popular comics and manga sections.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
16 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
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.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighteenth
14 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
A modified editorial team created this eighteenth edition of the classic yearly anthology.
The recaps of the year's fiction and other media are still present, though a bit less inclusive than in the past. The stories that I thought were the strongest were by Gregory Maguire, Margo Lanagan, Stepan Chapman, Tanith Lee, Catherynne M. Valente, Conrad Williams and Elizabeth A. Lynn, with a particular mention for Laird Barron's creepy, poetic western "Bulldozer". The mix of new and established writers, visible in that list, adds interest. As in the past, the stories tend toward urban/modern-day settings, but a few do represent the historical and otherworld facets of the genre.
If any story in the anthology is controversial, it'll be the Chuck Palahniuk. I didn't like it -- I thought it read sort of like a grade schooler's gross-out combined with a careful reading of the Anatomy and Physiology Coloring Book -- but on the other hand, it does take something really gross to gross me out these days. And gross me out it did. Recommended for strong stomachs (heh) only.
On page 466 my story "The Elf Knight and Lady Isabelle" from the anthology CLOAKED IN SHADOW got an honorable mention.
The recaps of the year's fiction and other media are still present, though a bit less inclusive than in the past. The stories that I thought were the strongest were by Gregory Maguire, Margo Lanagan, Stepan Chapman, Tanith Lee, Catherynne M. Valente, Conrad Williams and Elizabeth A. Lynn, with a particular mention for Laird Barron's creepy, poetic western "Bulldozer". The mix of new and established writers, visible in that list, adds interest. As in the past, the stories tend toward urban/modern-day settings, but a few do represent the historical and otherworld facets of the genre.
If any story in the anthology is controversial, it'll be the Chuck Palahniuk. I didn't like it -- I thought it read sort of like a grade schooler's gross-out combined with a careful reading of the Anatomy and Physiology Coloring Book -- but on the other hand, it does take something really gross to gross me out these days. And gross me out it did. Recommended for strong stomachs (heh) only.
On page 466 my story "The Elf Knight and Lady Isabelle" from the anthology CLOAKED IN SHADOW got an honorable mention.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding Quality and Variety of Stories! Not to be Missed!
23 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
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 ever read will greatly please. Be warned though, some of these stories are not for the squeamish ("Guts" was very grotesque, but I've also never laughed so hard in my life, what a great story!) As always, I greatly enjoyed the summations at the beginning of the book - they always give me the names of new books and authors I haven't discovered yet to look into. The overall quality of the stories is far superior from any of the other "horror" collections out there today and this particular collection is not to be missed.
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