The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection
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A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors Acknowledgement -- Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling -- Summation 1995: horror / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and fantasy in the media: 1995 / Edward Bryant -- Obituaries / James Frankel -- Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- Heartfires / Charles de Lint -- Screens / Terry Lamsley -- King of crows / Midori Snyder -- Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle -- The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner -- More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith -- Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield -- Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- [Lunch at the Gotham café](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W) / Stephen King -- Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan -- Llantos de la Llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora -- Too short a death / Peter Crowther -- The James Dean garage band / Rick Moody -- Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy -- Loop / Douglas E. Winter -- La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman -- Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Switch / Lucy Taylor -- Scaring the train / Terry Dowling -- Blood knot / Steve Rasnic Tem -- The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley -- Resolve and resistance / S.N. Dyer -- La dame / Tanith Lee -- Circe's power (poem) / Louise Glück -- Dragon's fin soup / S.P. Somtow -- The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde -- Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood -- A lamia in the Cévennes / A.S. Byatt -- The guilty party / Susan Moody -- She's not there / Pat Cadigan -- The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck -- Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge -- Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed -- ############## / Joyce Carol Oates -- The printer's daughter / Delia Sherman -- Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard -- Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen -- The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip -- Honorable mentions.
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Gary A. Braunbeck
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Jane Yolen
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A. S. Byatt
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Vivian Vande Velde
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Stephen King
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Pat Cadigan
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Midori Snyder
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Louise Glück
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Charles de Lint
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Michael Marshall Smith
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Pat Mora
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Susan Moody
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Robert Reed
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Tanith Lee
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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Peter S. Beagle
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Edward Bryant
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Terry Windling
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Peter Crowther
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Douglas E. Winter
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Steve Rasnic Tem
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Patricia A. McKillip
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S. P. Somtow
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Lamsley, Terry
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ellen Datlow
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Nancy Willard
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Christopher Kenworthy
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Scott Bradfield
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Eileen Kernaghan
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Margaret Atwood
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Neil Gaiman
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Rick Moody
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Lucy Taylor
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Ellen Kushner
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James Frankel
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David J. Schow
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Delia Sherman
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Sharon N. Farber
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Stuart Dybek
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Sue Kepros Hartman
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
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Mary O'Malley
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Marcia Guthridge
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