For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field -- nearly four dozen stories, ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol-style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, two new Year's Best sections -- on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and managa, by Joan D. Vinge -- and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Contents:

• Summation 1999: Fantasy by Terri Windling
• Summation 1999: Horror by Ellen Datlow
• Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1999 by Edward Bryant
• Comics: 1999 by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries: 1999 by James Frenkel
• Darkrose and Diamond by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Chop Girl by Ian R. MacLeod
• The Girl Detective by Kelly Link
• The Transformation by N. Scott Momaday
• Carabosse by Delia Sherman
• Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman
• Toad by Patricia A. McKillip
• Washed in the River by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
• The Dinner Party by Robert Girardi
• Heat by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Wedding at Esperanza by Linnet Taylor
• Redescending by Ursula K. Le Guin
• You Don’t Have To Be Mad... by Kim Newman
• The Paper-Thin Garden by Thomas Wharton
• The Anatomy of a Mermaid by Mary Sharratt
• The Grammarian’s Five Daughters by Eleanor Arnason
• The Tree Is My Hat by Gene Wolfe
• Welcome by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Pathos of Genre by Douglas E. Winter
• Shatsi by Peter Crowther
• Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story by Neil Gaiman
• What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Parwat Ruby by Delia Sherman
• Odysseus Old by Geoffrey Brock
• The Smell of the Deer by Kent Meyers
• Chorion and the Pleiades by Sarah Van Arsdale
• Crosley by Elizabeth Engstrom
• Naming the Dead by Paul J. McAuley
• The Stork-men by Juan Goytisolo; trans. by Annella McDermott
• The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman by Steven Millhauser
• White by Tim Lebbon
• Dear Floods of Her Hair by James Sallis
• Mrs. Santa Decides to Move to Florida by April Selley
• Tanuki by Jan Hodgman
• At Reparata by Jeffrey Ford
• Skin So Green and Fine by Wendy Wheeler
• Old Merlin Dancing on the Sands of Time by Jane Yolen
• Sailing the Painted Ocean by Denise Lee
• Grandmother by Laurence Snydal
• Small Song by Gary A. Braunbeck
• The Emperor’s Old Bones by Gemma Files
• The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse by Susanna Clarke
• Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Kiss by Tia V. Travis
• The Beast by Bill Lewis
• The Hedge by Bill Lewis
• Pixel Pixies by Charles de Lint
• Falling Away by Elizabeth Birmingham
• Honorable Mentions: 1999