The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

Books: Fantasy

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994), The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1995), Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Edition (2003), The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004)

I used to collect The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, but then I loaned and lost some volumes, and then I realized I hated reading books that large, so...

Despite that, they really were wonderful collections.

SF Site's Compilation of all the authors and volumes, sortable by author or volume.

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

• The Poacher by Ursula K. Le Guin
• England Underway by Terry Bisson
• The Woman in the Painting by Lisa Goldstein
• The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap by Terry Dowling
• Memo for Freud by Daína Chaviano; trans. by Heather Rosario-Sievert
• The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw by Nancy A. Collins
• Breath by Adam Corbin Fusco
• Knives by Jane Yolen
• Mrs. Jones by Carol Emshwiller
• Snow Man by John Coyne
• One Night, or Scheherazade's Bare Minimum by Thomas M. Disch
• Dead Man's Shoes by Charles de Lint
• The Lodger by Fred Chappell
• The Erl-King by Elizabeth Hand
• The Chrysanthemum Spirit by Osamu Dazai; trans. by Ralph F. McCarthy
• Angel by Mary Ellis
• The Taking of Mr. Bill by Graham Masterton
• The Saint by Gabriel García Márquez; trans. by Edith Grossman
• Cottage by Bruce McAllister
• Doodles by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Dying in Bangkok by Dan Simmons
• Prisoners of the Royal Weather by Bruce Boston
• The Snow Queen by Patricia A. McKillip
• Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman
• The Storyteller by Rafik Schami
• Rice and Milk by Rosario Ferr‚
• Ridi Bobo by Robert Devereaux
• Playing with Fire by Ellen Kushner
• Later by Michael Marshall Smith
• Distances by Sherman Alexie
• Crash Cart by Nancy Holder
• Some Strange Desire by Ian McDonald
• The Dog Park by Dennis Etchison
• Wooden Druthers by E. R. Stewart
• Inscription by Jane Yolen
• In Camera by Robert Westall
• The Wealth of Kingdoms (An Inflationary Tale) by Daniel Hood
• The Crucian Pit by Nicholas Royle
• The Ecology of Reptiles by John Coyne
• The Last Crossing by Thomas Tessier
• Small Adjustments by Caila Rossi
• Precious by Roberta Lannes
• Susan by Harlan Ellison
• Freud at Thirty Paces by Sara Paretsky
• If Angels Ate Apples by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Exogamy by John Crowley
• The Princess Who Kicked Butt by Will Shetterly
• The Apprentice by Miriam Grace Monfredo
• Alvyta (A Lithuanian Fairy Tale) by O. V. de L. Milosz; trans. by Edouard Roditi
• The Pig Man by Augustine Bruins Funnell
• Tattoo by A. R. Morlan
• Lady of the Skulls by Patricia A. McKillip
• To Scale by Nancy Kress
• Roar at the Heart of the World by Danith McPherson

Published by St Martins Press

The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1995) edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

• Transmutations by Patricia A. McKillip
• Bottom's Dream by Rachel Wetzsteon
• La Promesa by Leroy Quintana
• Aweary of the Sun by Gregory Feeley
• A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings by Jonathan Carroll
• Who Will Love the River God? by Emily Newland
• Brothers by Joyce Carol Oates
• Subsoil by Nicholson Baker
• Elvis's Bathroom by Pagan Kennedy
• Yet Another Poisoned Apple for the Fairy Princess by A. R. Morlan
• The Big Game by Nicholas Royle
• Buenaventura and the Fifteen Sisters by Margarita Engle
• De Natura Unicorni by Jane Yolen
• Blue Motel by Ian McDonald
• A Friend Indeed by David Garnett
• Sometimes, in the Rain by Charles L. Grant
• Rain Falls by Michael Marshall Smith
• That Old School Tie by Jack Womack
• Animals Behind Bars! by Scott Bradfield
• Monuments to the Dead by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Unterseeboot Doktor by Ray Bradbury
• Young Woman in a Garden by Delia Sherman
• The Man in the Black Suit by Stephen King
• 'In the Tradition...' by Michael Swanwick
• Words Like Pale Stones by Nancy Kress
• Märchen by Jane Yolen
• Giants in the Earth by Dale Bailey
• A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton
• Report by Carme Riera
• The Village of the Mermaids by John Bradley
• —And the Horses Hiss at Midnight by A. R. Morlan
• The Entreaty of the Wiideema by Barry Lopez
• White Chapel by Douglas Clegg
• The Stone Woman by Linda Weasel Head
• Coyote Stories by Charles de Lint
• The Box by Jack Ketchum
• A Fear of Dead Things by Andrew Klavan
• He Unwraps Himself by Darrell Schweitzer
• Chandira by Brian Mooney
• Fever by Harlan Ellison
• The Best Things in Life by Lenora Champagne
• Mending Souls by Judith Tarr
• The Ocean and All Its Devices by William Browning Spencer
• Strings by Kelley Eskridge
• Superman's Diary by B. Brandon Barker
• Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring by M. John Harrison
• The Sisterhood of Night by Steven Millhauser
• Winter Bodies by Noy Holland
• The Sloan Men by David Nickle
• Is That Them? by Kevin Roice
• The Kingdom of Cats and Birds by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Angel Combs by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Snow, Glass, Apples. by Neil Gaiman

Published by St Martins Press

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Edition (2003) edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

• Lull by Kelly Link
• Egyptian Avenue by Kim Newman
• A Letter of Explanation by Corey Marks
• Details by China Miéville
• The Assistant to Dr. Jacob by Eric Schaller
• The Pagodas of Ciboure by M. Shayne Bell
• The Coventry Boy by Graham Joyce
• The Wild Hunt by Helga M. Novak
• The Green Word by Jeffrey Ford
• Stitch by Terry Dowling
• Puce Boy by Michael Libling
• The Violin- Maker by Zoran Zivkovic
• Maya's Mother by Bentley Little
• Porno in August by Carlton Mellick, III
• Nesting Instincts by Brian Hodge
• The Machine by Conrad Williams
• Hansel, A Retrospective, or, The Danger of Childhood Obesity by Thomas M. Disch
• Aquerò by Melissa Hardy
• The Receivers by Joel Lane
• Standard Gauge by Nicholas Royle
• Creation by Jeffrey Ford
• Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes by Tracina Jackson- Adams
• What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler
• Reading Myth to Kindergartners by Jackie Bartley
• Mermaid Song by Peter Dickinson
• Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky by Neil Gaiman
• No End of Fun by Ramsey Campbell
• Swiftly by Adam Roberts
• The Green Man by Christopher Fowler
• Some Other Me by Brian Hodge
• The Snow Queen by Robert Phillips
• Hides by Jay Russell
• Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Five Poems by Margaret Lloyd
• Little Dead Girl Singing by Stephen Gallagher
• The Pool in the Desert by Robin McKinley
• Thailand by Haruki Murakami
• The Rose in Twelve Petals by Theodora Goss
• Road Trip by Kathe Koja
• Unspeakable by Lucy Taylor
• Inside Out: On Henry Darger by Elizabeth Hand
• The Green Children by Kevin Brockmeier
• After the Chuck Jones Tribute on Teletoon by Sharon McCartney
• Feeders and Eaters by Neil Gaiman
• Roofwalker by Susan Power
• The Prospect Cards by Don Tumasonis
• Hide and Seek by Nicholas Royle
• The Wolf's Story by Nan Fry
• The Least Trumps by Elizabeth Hand

Published by St. Martin's Griffin

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

• At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson
• Why I Became a Plumber by Sara Maitland
• Bread and Bombs by M. Rickert
• The Red Bow by George Saunders
• The Wife by Vandana Singh
• Only Partly Here by Lucius Shepard
• Bone by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Old Virginia by Laird Barron
• A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman
• You Go Where It Takes You by Nathan Ballingrud
• L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) by Dean Francis Alfar
• Harvey's Dream by Stephen King
• Woeful Tales from Mahigul by Ursula K. Le Guin
• King Rat by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Hortlak by Kelly Link
• With Acknowledgments to Sun Tzu by Brian Hodge
• Ash City Stomp by Richard Butner
• King Dragon by Michael Swanwick
• Invisible Geese: A Theory by Patrick O'Leary
• The Perfect City by Patrick O'Leary
• Bedfordshire by Peter Crowther
• N007- JK1 by Adam Corbin Fusco
• Cell Call by Marc Laidlaw
• The Fishie by Philip Raines and Harvey Wells
• Hunger: A Confession by Dale Bailey
• Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe by Scott Emerson Bull
• The Baby in the Night Deposit Box by Megan Whalen Turner
• Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur by Paul LaFarge
• The Silence of the Falling Stars by Mike O'Driscoll
• At the Mythical Beast by Jon Woodward
• The Fluted Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
• Flotsam by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Bees by Dan Chaon
• Dancing Men by Glen Hirshberg
• Lily, with Clouds by Theodora Goss
• The Man Who Did Nothing by Karen Traviss
• Husband by Shelley Jackson
• Open Doors by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Valley of the Giants by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Purity by Thomas Ligotti
• Ancestor Money by Maureen F. McHugh
• Almost Home by Terry Bisson
• Final Girl II: The Frame by Daphne Gottlieb

Published by St. Martin's Griffin