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

Highly acclaimed for collecting the finest short fiction in fantasy and horror, the World Fantasy Award-winning annual series continues its eclectic and always interesting tradition with this seventeenth volume. Highlights include year-end wrap-ups and the popular comics and manga sections plus works by: Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler, Alex Irvine, Richard Butner, Glen Hirshberg, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Dale Bailey, and many others.

Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling), Lethal Kisses, Off Limits, and Endangered Species, and has won the World Fantasy Award six times. She has won and been nominated for the Stolker Award. She lives in New York City and currently edits fiction for SCIFI.COM

Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet ("tiny, but celebrated"-Washington Post) for seven years. They live in an old farmhouse in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Kelly Link's first collection of short stories, Stranger Things Happen, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by Salon, Locus, and The Village Voice. Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards. Her most recent short stories have appeared in Conjunctions and McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. She is the editor of the anthology Trampoline and is currently working on more short stories.

Originally from Scotland, Gavin J. Grant worked in bookshops in Los Angeles and Boston and BookSense.com a website for independent bookshops. He regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include Scifiction, Strange Horizons, The Third Alternative, Singularity, and The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.

Contributors include:
 
Terry Bisson
Kevin Brockmeier
Dan Chaon
Peter Crowther
Theodora Goss
Daphne Gottlieb
Glen Hirshberg
Brian Hodge
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Kij Johnson
Stephen King
Ursula K. Le Guin
Paul LaFarge
Thomas Ligotti
Sara Maitland
Maureen F. McHugh
Steve Rasnic Tem
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Swanwick
Karen Traviss
Megan Whalen Turner