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 manga, 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 2000: Fantasy by Terri Windling
• Summation 2000: Horror by Ellen Datlow
• Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2000 by Edward Bryant
• Comics: 2000 by Seth Johnson
• Obituaries: 2000 by James Frenkel
• Incognita, Inc. by Harlan Ellison
• Maria de Jesus by Claudia Barbosa Nogueira
• Le Mooz by Louise Erdrich
• Gretel in Berkley by Eve Sweetser
• Granny Weather by Charles de Lint
• The Shape of Things by Ellen Steiber
• No Strings by Ramsey Campbell
• Marilyn by Jack Dann
• Greedy Choke Puppy by Nalo Hopkinson
• The Crone by Delia Sherman
• Achilles’ Grave by Ben Pastor
• Down Here in the Garden by Tia V. Travis
• Meeting the Graiae by Laurence Goldstein
• Riding the Black Horse by Elizabeth Engstrom
• At Eventide by Kathe Koja
• The Saltimbanques by Terry Dowling
• The Monster of Childhood by Janet McAdams
• Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link
• Mr. Dark’s Carnival by Glen Hirshberg
• The Cavemen in the Hedges by Stacey Richter
• Circe and Little Red-Cap by Carol Ann Duffy
• Basic Black by Terry Dowling
• The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem
• Climbing Down from Heaven by Terry Lamsley
• Jeremiah by Jack Cady
• Three Questions by Jane Yolen
• The Penny Drops [Five Quarters] by Ian Rodwell & Steve Duffy
• The Train, the Lake, the Bridge by Bret Lott
• Buttons by Claudia Adriázola
• Snow Blindness by Elizabeth Howkins
• Jack Daw’s Pack by Greer Gilman
• The Artificial Cloud by Justin Tussing
• No Story in It by Ramsey Campbell
• A Migrant Bird by John F. Deane
• The Thousandth Night by Donelle R. Ruwe
• The Pottawatomie Giant by Andy Duncan
• George Is All Right by Howard Wandrei
• Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower by Susanna Clarke
• Bones by Francesca Lia Block
• The Abortionist’s Horse (A Nightmare) by Tanith Lee
• Endless Summer by Stewart O’Nan
• The Heidelberg Cylinder by Jonathan Carroll
• Gone by Jack Ketchum
• An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings by John Crowley
• Atasdi: Fish Story by Dawn Karima Pettigrew
• Tooth Fairy by Amy Wack
• The Sandman by Amy Wack
• Tasting Songs by Leone Ross
• My Present Wife by Dennis Etchison
• The Flaying Season [Punktown] by Jeffrey Thomas
• Bone Orchards [Mr. Carlyle] by Paul J. McAuley
• Instructions by Neil Gaiman
• Hallowmass by Esther M. Friesner
• Honorable Mentions: 2000
• The People Behind the Book