
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection
Pat CadiganDavid J. SchowTerry WindlingChristopher KenworthyMichael Marshall SmithSteve Rasnic TemPatricia A. McKillipScott BradfieldStephen KingEdward BryantJane YolenSharon N. FarberPeter S. BeagleNeil GaimanPat MoraVivian Vande VeldeLamsley, TerryTanith LeeMargaret AtwoodEllen KushnerMidori SnyderRobert ReedA. S. ByattMarcia GuthridgeLucy TaylorUrsula K. Le GuinEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinSusan MoodyNancy WillardJoyce Carol OatesGary A. BraunbeckDelia ShermanNina Kiriki HoffmanEllen DatlowLouise GlückDouglas E. WinterCharles de LintStuart DybekS. P. SomtowMary O'MalleySue Kepros HartmanEileen KernaghanRick MoodyJames FrankelPeter Crowther
About this book
A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors
Acknowledgement --
Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling --
Summation 1995: horror / Ellen Datlow --
Horror and fantasy in the media: 1995 / Edward Bryant --
Obituaries / James Frankel --
Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman --
Heartfires / Charles de Lint --
Screens / Terry Lamsley --
King of crows / Midori Snyder --
Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle --
The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner --
More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith --
Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield --
Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek --
[Lunch at the Gotham café](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W) / Stephen King --
Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman --
Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan --
Llantos de la Llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora --
Too short a death / Peter Crowther --
The James Dean garage band / Rick Moody --
Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy --
Loop / Douglas E. Winter --
La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman --
Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen --
Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen --
Switch / Lucy Taylor --
Scaring the train / Terry Dowling --
Blood knot / Steve Rasnic Tem --
The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin --
The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley --
Resolve and resistance / S.N. Dyer --
La dame / Tanith Lee --
Circe's power (poem) / Louise Glück --
Dragon's fin soup / S.P. Somtow --
The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde --
Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood --
A lamia in the Cévennes / A.S. Byatt --
The guilty party / Susan Moody --
She's not there / Pat Cadigan --
The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman --
Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow --
After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck --
Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge --
Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed --
############## / Joyce Carol Oates --
The printer's daughter / Delia Sherman --
Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard --
Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen --
The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip --
Honorable mentions.
Subjects
horrordepressionnicotinechef's knivesfrying pansFiction anthologies & collectionsHorror FictionScience Fiction And FantasyFiction - FantasyFantasyFantasy - GeneralScience Fiction - AnthologiesFantasy fiction, AmericanFantasy fiction, EnglishHorror tales, AmericanHorror talesFantasy fiction