The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection

For more than a decade, readers have turned toThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horrorto find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, a new Year's Best section, on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Ellen Datlow has won the World Fantasy Award six times. She lives in New York City and currently edits fiction for SCIFI.COM Terri Windling won the Mythopoeic Award for her first adult novel. She has edited numerous books and anthologies. Honored six times with the World Fantasy Award, she divides her time between Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona