The second in the series of annual collections of the editors picks for the best short fiction in fantasy and horror.

Contents:

• Summation 1988: Fantasy by Terri Windling
• Summation 1988: Horror by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy on the Screen by Edward Bryant
• Obituaries
• Death is Different by Lisa Goldstein
• The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) by Gene Wolfe
• It Was the Heat by Pat Cadigan
• The Cutter by Edward Bryant
• The Freezer Jesus by John DuFresne
• Voices of the Kill by Thomas M. Disch
• Secretly by Ruth Roston
• The Devil's Rose by Tanith Lee
• Wempires by Daniel Pinkwater
• Scatter My Ashes by Greg Egan
• Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh by Ian McDonald
• Shoo Fly by Richard Matheson
• The Thing Itself by Michael Blumlein
• The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow by Charles de Lint
• Roman Games by Ann Gay
• The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Book and Its Contents by Robert Kelly
• The Great God Pan by M. John Harrison
• Lost Bodies by Ian Watson
• Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons
• Preflash by John M. Ford
• Life of Buddha by Lucius Shepard
• Appointment With Eddie by Charles Beaumont
• Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods by William Kotzwinkle
• Spillage by Nancy Kress
• Snowman by Charles L. Grant
• The Scar by Dennis Etchison
• Laiken Langstrand by Gwyneth Jones
• The Last Poem About the Snow Queen and Pinocchio by Sandra M. Gilbert
• Game in the Pope's Head by Gene Wolfe
• Playing the Game by Ramsey Campbell
• Faces by F. Paul Wilson
• Snowfall by Jessie Thompson
• Seal-Self by Sara Maitland
• No Hearts, No Flowers by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Boy Who Drew Unicorns by Jane Yolen
• The Darling by Scott Bradfield
• Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R. Lansdale
• Your Story by Rick DeMarinis
• Winter Solstice - Camelot Station by John M. Ford
• The Boy Who Hooked the Sun by Gene Wolfe
• Clem's Dream by Joan Aiken
• Love In Vain by Lewis Shiner
• In the Darkened Hours by Bruce Boston
• A Golden Net for Silver Fishes by Ru Emerson
• Dancing Among Ghosts by Jim Aikin
• Honorable Mentions: 1988