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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.0876608
EAN num: 9780312341947
ISBN number: 0312341946
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 608
Printing Date: August 01, 2005
Publishing house: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: July 28, 2005
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For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories by M. T. Anderson, Laird Barron, Simon Bestwick, Simon Brown, Stepan Chapman, Douglas Clegg, D. Ellis Dickerson, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jean Esteve, John Farris, Mélanie Fazi, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Stephen Gallagher, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Alice Hoffman, Shelley Jackson, John Kessel, Margo Lanagan, Tanith Lee, Bentley Little, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Gregory Maguire, China Miéville, Richard Mueller, Joyce Carol Oates, Frances Oliver, Chuck Palahniuk, Tina Rath, Philip Raines and Harvey Welles, M. Rickert, Anna Ross, Alison Smith, R.T. Smith, Peter Straub, Lucy Sussex, Catherynne M. Valente, Greg Van Eekhout, and Conrad Williams. Rounding out the volume are the editors’ invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and sections on comics, by Charles Vess, on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, on media, by Ed Bryant, and on music, by Charles de Lint. With a long list of Honorable Mentions, this is an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.
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A major problem with this collection is that a lot of it is pretty dull. Definitely a few good stories, but that is not the case for a fair chunk of it, unfortunately. This is not the case with the extensive overview of the genres in all sorts of media, even anime and manga, which is an interesting surprise. That part is definitely good, and probably worth an extra 1 out of 5 at least for the book, whereas the fiction part is only around a bit under a 3 itself, but there is definitely a lot of it.
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Oakthing - Gregory Maguire
Year's Best F&H 18 : Rite of Spring - Margo Lanagan
Year's Best F&H 18 : A Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon Bestwick
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Skin of the World - Douglas Clegg
Year's Best F&H 18 : Zora and the Zombie - Andy Duncan
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Revenge of the Calico Cat - Stepan Chapman
Year's Best F&H 18 : Frozen Charlottes - Lucy Sussex
Year's Best F&H 18 : Reports of Certain Events in London - China Miéville
Year's Best F&H 18 : Restraint - Stephen Gallagher
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Baum Plan for Financial Independence - John Kessel
Year's Best F&H 18 : Dancing on Air - Frances Oliver
Year's Best F&H 18 : Cold Fires - M. Rickert
Year's Best F&H 18 : And the Sea Shall Give Up Uts Dead [Jew if by Sea] - Richard Mueller
Year's Best F&H 18 : A Trick of the Dark - Tina Rath
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Bad Magician - Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
Year's Best F&H 18 : Speir-Bhan - Tanith Lee
Year's Best F&H 18 : Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland - John Farris
Year's Best F&H 18 : Guts - Chuck Palahniuk
Year's Best F&H 18 : Water Babies - Simon Brown
Year's Best F&H 18 : Mr Aickman's Air Rifle - Peter Straub
Year's Best F&H 18 : We Find Things Old - Bentley Little
Year's Best F&H 18 : Wonderwall - Elizabeth Hand
Year's Best F&H 18 : Postcretaceous Era - D. Ellis Dickerson
Year's Best F&H 18 : Watch and Wake - M. T. Anderson
Year's Best F&H 18 : A Night in the Tropics - Jeffrey Ford
Year's Best F&H 18 : Clownette - Terry Dowling
Year's Best F&H 18 : Stripping - Joyce Carol Oates
Year's Best F&H 18 : Seven Feet - Christopher Fowler
Year's Best F&H 18 : Singing My Sister Down - Margo Lanagan
Year's Best F&H 18 : Bulldozer - Laird Barron
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Cajun Knot - Melanie Fazi
Year's Best F&H 18 : Tales from the City of Seams - Greg van Eekhout
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Specialist - Alison Smith
Year's Best F&H 18 : Here Is the Church - Shelley Jackson
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Witch of Truro - Alice Hoffman
Year's Best F&H 18 : Lapland or Film Noir - Peter Straub
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Owl - Conrad Williams
Year's Best F&H 18 : The Silver Dragon - Elizabeth A. Lynn
Woodman and a lot of Jerry.
2.5 out of 5
Missing the mutt.
3 out of 5
Hark, local demon bashing.
3.5 out of 5
Chop off the bad bits.
2.5 out of 5
Jealous writer's Haitian zombie chat.
3.5 out of 5
Teddy bear nightly noir.
4.5 out of 5
Wicked widow's death dolls.
3.5 out of 5
Mysterious goings on with mail, Charley.
3.5 out of 5
Kid car trouble.
2.5 out of 5
Magic money.
3 out of 5
Waltz, in Simple Minds fashion.
2.5 out of 5
Weather complaints.
1.5 out of 5
Torpedoed nazi shark slaughter solution.
4 out of 5
Packaged bloody dinner.
3 out of 5
Case of magic is for losers and skilled magicians.
3 out of 5
Faerie werefox hero longevity deal.
4 out of 5
Juju junkie junking junket.
4 out of 5
Vegie dildo date diddler overdoes it with pool pump butt gut suck.
4 out of 5
Monster likes to wash down its mini-people munchings.
4.5 out of 5
Killer clown prop roast.
3.5 out of 5
Drug digs diatribe with delusions.
3 out of 5
Dino people cross-diet dating.
3.5 out of 5
You're dead Jim: Necromancer.
3 out of 5
Crim crap and the odd serious sword.
2 out of 5
Creepy image on wall of low rent room.
3.5 out of 5
Showermania.
2.5 out of 5
Rattus rattus terminus.
3.5 out of 5
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This collection is at least as good as any of the others, though some of the stories seemed rather out of place (Chuck Palahniuk's infamous story "Guts," for example) or were just too strange in imagery for me to get into ("The Revenge of the Calico Cat," in an imaginary world of plushies). A few were also a bit simplistic or cliched and I was surprised that they were recognised as being the best of the year. However, most of the selected pieces were hauntingly eerie or strange or beautiful, and I have been introduced to a number of fabulous writers within the genres (Francis Oliver, John Farris, Simon Brown, and Margo Lanagan, to name a few). And once again, these stories are definitely not good for light bedtime reading...
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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 yesterday and this particular collection is not to be missed.
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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.
Rated by buyers 
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Something like 15 years ago, I ran across the very first three annual volumes of this anthology at a science fiction and fantasy bookstore. Ever since, I've eagerly looked forward to every volume, for weeks or months ahead of publication. Once received, each yielded a couple of weeks of daily reading treat. I admit, since I dislike horror, I've always wished that the horror had been spun off into a separate volume. Still, Ellen Datlow's taste in horror is pretty sophisticated, some of it being closer to dark fantasy, which I do like. I always read the horror last. But Terri Windling's fantasy selection more than made up for the horror content of the volume. All those stories culled from "literary" magazines I never read (as being too modern and New-Yorky) for my taste. And her roundups/brief reviews of new fantasy books! I've discovered so many "mainstream" books and authors not marketed as fantasy from Windling's reviews. Since the inception of Amazon, every roundup had me rushing to put at least ten more books in my shopping cart.
Unfortunately, this is probably the last annual volume I'll ever buy. The new team editing the fantasy content, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, just are not up to Windling's standards. First, in both the story selection and the roundups, it seems that they did not read nearly as wide a range of sources as Windling did. Second, their selections were lackluster. The stories I really liked I'd already read in major fantasy magazines. The others were . . . sort of all right. Mildly interesting. But not worth that many pages. I discovered one book worth buying in the review roundups, which were also lackluster.
All in all, the uninteresting fantasy combined with that much horror, meant that the two weeks' delight I'd experienced for so many years, turned into a month-long slog, with me frequently counting stories (I don't read them in order) to see if I was finally almost done with the thing yet.
Let's hope there's another change of editors soon. And maybe, just maybe, they'll put the horror in a separate anthology, where it belongs.
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