The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection

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Here is a splendid selection of horror and fantasy stories by Ramsey Campbell, Jane Yolen, Nancy Kress, Thomas Disch, Gene Wolfe and many more writers. Recommended reading lists and selected poetry complete the volume.

Contents:

* Summation 1988: Fantasy by Terri Windling
* Summation 1988: Horror by Ellen Datlow
* Horror and Fantasy on the Screen by Edward Bryant
* Obituaries
* Death is Different by Lisa Goldstein
* The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale by Gene Wolfe
* It Was the Heat by Pat Cadigan
* The Cutter by Edward Bryant
* The Freezer Jesus by John DuFresne
* Voices of the Kill by Thomas M. Disch
* Secretly by Ruth Roston
* The Devil's Rose by Tanith Lee
* Wempires by Daniel Pinkwater
* Scatter My Ashes by Greg Egan
* Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh by Ian McDonald
* Shoo Fly by Richard Matheson
* The Thing Itself by Michael Blumlein
* The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow by Charles de Lint
* Roman Games by Ann Gay
* The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn by Patricia C. Wrede
* The Book and Its Contents by Robert Kelly
* The Great God Pan by M. John Harrison
* Lost Bodies by Ian Watson
* Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons
* Preflash by John M. Ford
* Life of Buddha by Lucius Shepard
* Appointment With Eddie by Charles Beaumont
* Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods by William Kotzwinkle
* Spillage by Nancy Kress
* Snowman by Charles L. Grant
* The Scar by Dennis Etchison
* Laiken Langstrand by Gwyneth Jones
* The Last Poem About the Snow Queen and Pinocchio by Sandra M. Gilbert
* Game in the Pope's Head by Gene Wolfe
* Playing the Game by Ramsey Campbell
* Faces by F. Paul Wilson
* Snowfall by Jessie Thompson
* Seal-Self by Sara Maitland
* No Hearts, No Flowers by Barry N. Malzberg
* The Boy Who Drew Unicorns by Jane Yolen
* The Darling by Scott Bradfield
* Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R. Lansdale
* Your Story by Rick DeMarinis
* Winter Solstice - Camelot Station by John M. Ford
* The Boy Who Hooked the Sun by Gene Wolfe
* Clem's Dream by Joan Aiken
* Love In Vain by Lewis Shiner
* In the Darkened Hours by Bruce Boston
* A Golden Net for Silver Fishes by Ru Emerson
* Dancing Among Ghosts by Jim Aikin
* Honorable Mentions: 1988