The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 19th Annual Collection
by Datlow, Ellen; Link, Kelly; Grant, GavinFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-22
Publisher(s): Griffin
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Summary
The legendary anthology is back, with witches and warlocks, fairy rings and gothic tales. The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 presents the best short stories and poetry published in this genre, and takes readers into the most fantastic realms imaginable. Culled from thousands of annuals, acclaimed writers and genre specialists Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant offer a broad range of fantastical and horrific fiction, including work from Jeffery Ford, China Miville, Bruce Sterling, Mark Samuels, Barbara Rhoden and many more. In addition, this critically renowned series offers an extensive overview of the year in fantasy and horror. The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 is the best source for fans or nascent readers of fantasy and horror.
Author Biography
Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as Blood Is Not Enough, Little Deaths, Alien Sex, Vanishing Acts and The Dark. She has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor once, the World Fantasy Award seven times, and the International Horror Guild Award for The Dark. She and Terri Windling also won the Bram Stoker Award forThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: SeventeenthAnnual Collection and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection. She currently edits fiction for SCIFI.COM.
Kelly Link and Gavin Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (“tiny but celebrated”---The Washington Post) for seven years.
Kelly Link’s first collection of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by Salon, Locus, and The Village Voice. Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards. Her most recent short stories have appeared in The Dark and The Faery Reel. She recently published Magic for Beginners, and when she isn’t writing, she edits the anthology Trampoline.
Originally from Scotland, Gavin Grant regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include Scifiction, Strange Horizons, The Third Alternative, and Singularity.
Kelly Link and Gavin Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (“tiny but celebrated”---The Washington Post) for seven years.
Kelly Link’s first collection of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by Salon, Locus, and The Village Voice. Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards. Her most recent short stories have appeared in The Dark and The Faery Reel. She recently published Magic for Beginners, and when she isn’t writing, she edits the anthology Trampoline.
Originally from Scotland, Gavin Grant regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include Scifiction, Strange Horizons, The Third Alternative, and Singularity.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | xiii | ||||
| Summation 2005: Fantasy | |||||
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xv | ||||
| Summation 2005: Horror | |||||
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xli | ||||
| Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2005 | |||||
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lxxxi | ||||
| Graphic Novels: 2005 | |||||
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xcvii | ||||
| Anime and Manga: 2005 | |||||
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cv | ||||
| Music of the Fantastic: 2005 | |||||
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cix | ||||
| Obituaries: 2005 | |||||
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cxv | ||||
| Walpurgis Afternoon | |||||
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1 | (16) | |||
| The Mushroom Duchess | |||||
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17 | (8) | |||
| An Incident at Agate Beach | |||||
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25 | (22) | |||
| Among the Tombs | |||||
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47 | (13) | |||
| Obedience, or The Lying Tale (poem) | |||||
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60 | (2) | |||
| American Morons | |||||
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62 | (10) | |||
| Shallaballah | |||||
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72 | (6) | |||
| Night Train: Heading West (poem) | |||||
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78 | (2) | |||
| Denial | |||||
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80 | (12) | |||
| Northwest Passage | |||||
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92 | (21) | |||
| Proboscis | |||||
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113 | (16) | |||
| Kronia | |||||
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129 | (3) | |||
| Omens (poem) | |||||
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132 | (1) | |||
| Follow Me Light | |||||
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133 | (10) | |||
| Boatman's Holiday | |||||
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143 | (10) | |||
| The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On) | |||||
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153 | (13) | |||
| Where Angels Come In | |||||
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166 | (11) | |||
| Twilight States | |||||
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177 | (13) | |||
| Jolly Bonnet | |||||
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190 | (2) | |||
| The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai | |||||
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192 | (22) | |||
| The Souls of Drowning Mountain | |||||
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214 | (9) | |||
| The Last One | |||||
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223 | (8) | |||
| The Ball Room | |||||
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231 | (9) | |||
| Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus (poem) | |||||
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240 | (1) | |||
| Vacation | |||||
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241 | (10) | |||
| Cruel Sistah | |||||
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251 | (7) | |||
| Ding-Dong-Bell | |||||
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258 | (13) | |||
| A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility | |||||
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271 | (6) | |||
| The Scribble Mind | |||||
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277 | (18) | |||
| Scarecrow | |||||
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295 | (4) | |||
| Going the Jerusalem Mile | |||||
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299 | (12) | |||
| Grief (poem) | |||||
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311 | (2) | |||
| Boman | |||||
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313 | (21) | |||
| The Machine of a Religious Man | |||||
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334 | (14) | |||
| Hot Potting | |||||
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348 | (7) | |||
| My Father's Mask | |||||
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355 | (14) | |||
| The Guggenheim Lovers | |||||
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369 | (7) | |||
| A Statement in the Case | |||||
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376 | (7) | |||
| The Pavement Artist | |||||
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383 | (15) | |||
| The Gypsies in the Wood | |||||
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398 | (63) | |||
| Honorable Mentions: 2005 | 461 |
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