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

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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

[lonesome-crow.livejournal.com]

Amazon told me my copy shipped yesterday. Hurrah!

[ericmarin.livejournal.com]

I picked up a copy this past weekend. :-)

[orrin.livejournal.com]

This seems as good a time to segue into this question as any: How does one go about getting work considered for YBFH? Is there a submission process?

Also, I remember you mentioning that you're working on a Poe anthology that isn't currently open to unsolicited submissions but I happen to have just finished a story inspired by "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and nballingrud encouraged me to just go ahead and ask if you'd be willing to consider it. So this is me asking.

I apologize if this is inappropriate for the comments on your LJ, but I was unable to turn up an email address for you. If you'd prefer to continue this via email I can be reached at greyorrin@gmail.com

[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.

ooooh...

[themadblonde]

spooky poems?? I collect spooky poems.

[splinister.livejournal.com]

That's a very attractive list of stories and authors. Looking forward to picking up a copy.

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

I'm running away to the book store tonight to see if they have a copy. I'm looking forward to reading it.

[thornnuminous.livejournal.com]

Excellent! The titles definitely whet the appetite for some good stories. :)

I haven't commented before. I'm a member of WSFA, though. I was wondering if you had heard of the Amazon.com break through novel contest, http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/103-7822924-9497423?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200183180, and, if so, what you think about it. There is some debate going on within the Maryland Writer's Association as to whether or not this is a good thing to try.

[unrealfred.livejournal.com]

I bought my copy today, and I'm really looking forward to reading (or re-reading) the stories.

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Hope it's at the local bookstore as their new stocks arrive on the weekend. =)

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Yay! :)

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

I do have a question about these (or older ones). It seems you can buy ebooks of occasional older collections, but not recent ones. Any idea why? Seems rather odd.

Same goes for some others like Dozois/Jones/Hartwell (but Horton's are) etc. too, not that those have anything to do with you.