Another survey of the best short fantasy and horror fiction published in the prior year.

Contents:

• Summation 1990: Fantasy by Terri Windling
• Summation 1990: Horror by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries
• Freewheeling [Newford] by Charles de Lint
• Coming Home by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Sweeper by George Szanto
• Ladies and Gentlemen by Joyce Carol Oates
• Freaktent by Nancy A. Collins
• Missolonghi 1824 by John Crowley
• The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti
• Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light by David Memmott
• Harvest by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Fantasy in the Real World [adapted from the Anne Carroll Moore Lecture, delivered at the New York Public Library on December 29, 1988] by Susan Cooper (ARTICLE)
• The Dream by Dyan Sheldon
• Moths by John Brunner
• Frozen Charlottes by Susan Prospere
• Little Nightmares, Little Dreams by Rachel Simon
• Timekeeper by John Morressy
• Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble by Ellen Kushner
• Death of a Right Fielder by Stuart Dybek
• Not from Around Here by David J. Schow
• Lieserl by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Last Game by Sharon M. Hall
• Offerings by Susan Palwick
• The Muses of Rooms by Vern Rutsala
• A Touch of the Old Lilith by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Calling by David B. Silva
• TV People [1989] by Haruki Murakami; trans. by Alfred Birnbaum
• In the Trees by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Truman Capote’s Trilby: The Facts by Garry Kilworth
• Green by Ian R. MacLeod
• Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks by Garry Kilworth
• The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll
• Bestseller by Michael Blumlein
• Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride by Delia Sherman
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Jack Womack
• Midwife to the Fairies by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
• The Phone Woman by Joe R. Lansdale
• Ladder by T.E.D. Klein
• Alice, Falling by Steven Millhauser
• Ashputtle: or, The Mother’s Ghost by Angela Carter
• Face to Face by Adrian Cole
• The Dog’s Tale by Karel Capek
• Stephen by Elizabeth Massie
• A Short Guide to the City by Peter Straub
• The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study by R.A. Lafferty
• The First Time by K.W. Jeter
• Coyote vs. Acme by Ian Frazier
• Arousal by Richard Christian Matheson
• The Waiting Wolf by Gwen Straus
• Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague by Michael Bishop
• Two Words [1989] by Isabel Allende; trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden
• The All-Consuming by Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier
• The Sadness of Detail by Jonathan Carroll
• Honorable Mentions