The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection

The first volume in a long-running annual anthology series, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, collects 37 stories and poems chosen as the best fantasy and horror of the year. The selections range widely in tone, from quiet literary pieces and a ghost story set during the Vietnam War to a story told from a dog's point of view and a harsh modern vampire tale. Contributors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, George R. R. Martin, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Joyce Carol Oates, Lisa Tuttle and M. John Harrison. Alongside the fiction, the editors survey the year's fantasy and horror publishing, and Edward Bryant reviews the year's genre films, making the book both a reading collection and a record of the field. It won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology.