The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection

[ellen_datlow]

Today is its pub date!! Here's the Table of Contents (not in order)
La Profonde - Terry Dowling
Sob in the Silence - Gene Wolfe
A Pig’s Whisper - Margo Lanagan
Winkie - Margo Lanagan
Journey into the Kingdom - M. Rickert
Father Muerte and the Flesh - Lee Battersby
The Muldoon - Glen Hirshberg
Ballade (poem) - William Hope Hodgson
My Babe, My Babe (poem) - William Hope Hodgson
31/10 - Stephen Volk
Messages - Brett Alexander Savory
Raphael - Stephen Graham Jones
The Last to be Found - Christopher Harman
The Box - Stephen Gallagher
Landfill - Joyce Carol Oates
The Churring - Nicholas Royle
First Kisses From Beyond the Grave - Nik Houser
The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness - Simon Clark
Drowning Palmer - Sarah Monette
Dead Sea Fruit - Kaaron Warren
Dog Person - Scott Nicholson
Tell (poem) - Nathalie Anderson
Is Rain My Bearskin? (poem) - Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Yep, I Said Camel (poem) - Josh Bell
Femaville - Paul Di Filippo
The Night Whiskey - Jeffrey Ford
The Good Ones Are Already Taken - Ben Fountain
Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks (poem) - Jeannine Hall Gailey
Becoming the Villainess (poem) - Jeannine Hall Gailey
Halfway House - Frances Hardinge
A Fearful Symmetry - Minsoo Kang
In the House of the Seven Librarians - Ellen Klages
Cup and Table - Tim Pratt
Journey into the Kingdom - M. Rickert
A Siege of Cranes - Benjamin Rosenbaum
Another Word for Map is Faith - Christopher Rowe
Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter - Geoff Ryman
Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery - John Schoffstall
Lionflower Hedge - Ira Sher
La Fee Verte - Delia Sherman
The Lineaments of Gratified Desire - Ysabeau S. Wilce
Directions - Caleb Wilson

And of course, I'm deep into reading for #21!

Comments

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

There's a Dowling I might be able to find then, eventually. :)

I really like that Siege of Cranes story too - has he written anything else in that vein off the top of your head?

The Father Muerte story from the unobtainable Aurealis 36 too, cool. :) I thought the one in the issue after was very good, nice to know more of them are nifty.

Thanks for the list.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid "Siege of Cranes" was a fantasy choice so I don't recall having read it...and can't compare to his other work. Maybe someone else here can make recs.

The Father Muerte story is very very good (I think). I like the series.

[tim-pratt.livejournal.com]

Siege of Cranes is a very good story, but I can't think of any other stories by Ben that have the same tone or feel or subject matter... he's one of those writers who seldom does the same thing twice. He has a collection, The Ant King and Other Stories, coming out next summer from Small Beer Press.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Ok, thanks Tim. There are some others online I haven't got to I believe, so I will check those out too.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

You are right, Eclectic Boy he is.