Culled from the best of a wide variety of sources, this eleventh annual collection of fantasy fiction features contributions by Kim Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Kushner, Jack Womack, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.

Contents:

• Summation 1997: Fantasy by Terri Windling
• Summation 1997: Horror by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1997 by Edward Bryant
• Comics: 1997 by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries: 1997 by James Frenkel
• The Tale of the Skin by Emma Donoghue
• Beauty and the Beast (poem) by Jaimes Alsop
• Gulliver at Home by John Kessel
• It Had to Be You by Nancy Pickard
• The Skull of Charlotte Corday by Leslie Dick
• I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes by Douglas Clegg
• Coffee Jerk at the Gates of Hell (poem) by Christopher Jones
• Riding the Black by Charles Grant
• In the Fields by Christopher Harman
• Mbo by Nicholas Royle
• Winner Take All by Jeffrey Shaffer
• Safe by Gary A. Braunbeck
• El Castillo de la Perseverancia by Howard Waldrop
• The Sin-Eater's Tale by Brennen Wysong
• A Visit by Steven Millhauser
• A Globe of Glass by Sonia Gernes
• The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
• Coyote and the White Folks (poem) by Bill Lewis
• Sheela Na Gig (poem) by Bill Lewis
• The Flounder's Kiss by Michael Cadnum
• Residuals by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman
• The Psychomantium by Molly Brown
• In the Black Mill by Michael Chabon
• Dust Motes by P.D. Cacek
• La Muerte (poem) by Pat Mora
• Spanky's Back in Town by Christopher Fowler
• Marriage (poem) by Denise Duhamel
• Kingyo no fun by Nicholas Royle
• Bucket of Blood by Norman Partridge
• Mermaid (poem) by A. Alvarez
• Estate by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Sin of Elijah by Steve Stern
• Driving Blind by Ray Bradbury
• The Sky-Blue Ball by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Black Fairy's Curse by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Last Song of Sirit Byar by Peter S. Beagle
• Marina's Fragrance by Mayra Santos-Febres
• Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings (poem) by Emily Warn
• Rabbit Hole by Jane Yolen
• Wild Horses by Charles de Lint
• Princess (poem) by Matthew Sweeney
• Audience by Jack Womack
• Merlin by Robert Clinton
• The Crawl by Stephen Laws
• The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden by Katherine Vaz
• Dharma by Vikram Chandra
• Honorable Mentions: 1997

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling.