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

Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION – Summation 1990: Fantasy by Terri Windling – Summation 1990: Horror by Ellen Datlow – Horror and Fantasy in the Media by Edward Bryant – Obituaries Charles de Lint — Freewheeling Nina Kiriki Hoffman — Coming Home George Szanto — The Sweeper Joyce Carol Oates — Ladies and Gentlemen Nancy A. Collins — Freaktent John Crowley — Missolonghi 1824 Thomas Ligotti — The Last Feast of Harlequin David Memmott — Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light (poem) Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Harvest Susan Cooper — Fantasy in the Real World (essay) Dyan Sheldon — The Dream John Brunner — Moths Susan Prospere — Frozen Charlottes (poem) Rachel Simon — Little Nightmares, Little Dreams John Morressy — Timekeeper Ellen Kushner — Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble (poem) Stuart Dybek — Death of a Right Fielder David J. Schow — Not from Around Here Karen Joy Fowler — Lieserl Sharon M. Hall — The Last Game Susan Palwick — Offerings Vern Rutsala — The Muses of Rooms (poem) Nina Kiriki Hoffman — A Touch of the Old Lilith David B. Silva — The Calling Haruki Murakami — TV People (translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum) Steve Rasnic Tem — In the Trees Garry Kilworth — Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts Ian R. MacLeod — Green Garry Kilworth — Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks Jonathan Carroll — The Panic Hand Michael Blumlein — Bestseller Delia Sherman — Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride Jack Womack — Out of Sight, Out of Mind Éilis Ní Dhuibhne — Midwife to the Fairies Joe R. Lansdale — The Phone Woman T. E. D. Klein — Ladder Steven Millhauser — Alice, Falling Angela Carter — Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost Adrian Cole — Face to Face Karel Capek — The Dog's Tale (translated from the Czechoslovakian by Dagmar Herrmann) Elizabeth Massie — Stephen Peter Straub — A Short Guide to the City R. A. Lafferty — The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study K. W. Jeter — The First Time Ian Frazier — Coyote vs. Acme Richard Christian Matheson — Arousal Gwen Strauss — The Waiting Wolf (poem) Gwen Strauss — The Beast (poem) Michael Bishop — Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague Isabel Allende — Two Words (translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden) Lucius Shepard & Robert Frazier — The All-Consuming Jonathan Carroll — The Sadness of Detail Honorable Mentions