The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 20th Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Hardcover)) - Tapa dura

"The best anthology I have read in a while, this is great for keeping up with what is going on in the worlds of fantasy and horror, or simply as a collection of fine stories." --The Zone "This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music that was released in that year."--Green Man Review "Long lived and always outstanding." --"Science Fiction Chronicle" "A standard that... will be the one to beat in the future." --"Locus" Treasures abound here." --"Minneapolis Star Tribune" " " "You can't improve on the "best," but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to present it.. . . The usual generous survey essays only enhance the volume's reputation as indispensable for the year.""--Publishers Weekly" " The best anthology I have read in a while, this is great for keeping up with what is going on in the worlds of fantasy and horror, or simply as a collection of fine stories." --The Zone " This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music that was released in that year." --Green Man Review " Long lived and always outstanding." --"Science Fiction Chronicle" " A standard that... will be the one to beat in the future." --"Locus" Treasures abound here." --"Minneapolis Star Tribune" " " "You can't improve on the "best," but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to present it.. . . The usual generous survey essays only enhance the volume's reputation as indispensable for the year.""--Publishers Weekly" Praise for "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" Seventeenth Annual Collection "Datlow (the horror half) teams with new coeditors (who assume the fantasy detail once handled by Terri Windling) and the series doesn't skip a beat in quality, delivering forty-three stories and poems published in 2003 that illustrate modern fantasy's breadth and variety...proof that the best fantastic fiction is modern mythmaking at its finest." ---"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Link and Grant's good taste in outre setups, stylistic and formal adventurousness, and ambiguity shows in these challenging selections." ---"Booklist" Praise for "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" Sixteenth Annual Collection "This sixteenth incarnation of their award-winning anthology series shows fantasy and horror fiction to be alive, well and accessible in an impressively broad array of venues...delectably varied in theme and approach." ---"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "A diverse collection of fiction and poetry...The stories constitute an entertaining, eerie mixture of creepiness and suspense." ---"Booklist"

For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, it consistently presents the strangest, the funniest, the darkest, the sharpest, the most original--in short, the "best" fantasy and horror. The current collection, marking a score of years, offers more than forty stories and poems from almost as many sources. Summations of the field by the editors are complemented by articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint and Jeff VanderMeer highlighting the best of the fantastic in, respectively, media, music and comics as well as honorable mentions--notable works that didn't quite make the cut but are nonetheless worthy of attention. "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 20th Annual Collection" is a cornucopia of fantastic delights, an unparalleled resource and indispensable reference that captures the unique excitement and beauty of the fantastic in all its gloriously diverse forms, from the lightest fantasy to the darkest horror.