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

Acknowledgments Summation 2000: Fantasy — Terri Windling Summation 2000: Horror — Ellen Datlow Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2000 — Ed Bryant Comics: 2000 — Seth Johnson Obituaries: 2000 — James Frenkel Incognita, Inc. — Harlan Ellison Maria de Jesus — Claudia Barbosa Nogueira Le Mooz — Louise Erdrich Gretel in Berkeley — Eve Sweetser (poem) Granny Weather — Charles de Lint The Shape of Things — Ellen Steiber No Strings — Ramsey Campbell Marilyn — Jack Dann Greedy Choke Puppy — Nalo Hopkinson The Crone — Delia Sherman (poem) Achilles' Grave — Ben Pastor Down Here in the Garden — Tia V. Travis Meeting the Graiae — Laurence Goldstein (poem) Riding the Black Horse — Elizabeth Engstrom At Eventide — Kathe Koja The Saltimbanques — Terry Dowling The Monster of Childhood — Janet McAdams (poem) Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky — Gavin J. Bryant and Kelly Link Mr. Dark's Carnival — Glen Hirshberg The Cavemen in the Hedges — Stacey Richter Circe and Little Red-Cap — Carol Ann Duffy (poems) Basic Black — Terry Dowling The Man on the Ceiling — Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem Climbing Down from Heaven — Terry Lamsley Jeremiah — Jack Cady Three Questions — Jane Yolen (poem) The Penny Drops — Ian Rodwell and Steve Duffy The Train, the Lake, the Bridge — Bret Lott Buttons — Claudia Adriázola Snow Blindness — Elizabeth Howkins (poem) Jack Daw's Pack — Greer Gilman The Artificial Cloud — Justin Tussing No Story in It — Ramsey Campbell A Migrant Bird — John F. Deane The Thousandth Night — Donelle R. Ruwe The Pottawatomie Giant — Andy Duncan George Is All Right — Howard Wandrei Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower — Susanna Clarke Bones — Francesca Lia Block The Abortionist's Horse (A Nightmare) — Tanith Lee Endless Summer — Stewart O'Nan The Heidelberg Cylinder — Jonathan Carroll Gone — Jack Ketchum An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings — John Crowley Atasdi: Fish Story — Dawn Karima Pettigrew Tooth Fairy and The Sandman — Amy Wack Tasting Songs — Leone Ross My Present Wife — Dennis Etchison The Flaying Season — Jeffrey Thomas Bone Orchards — Paul J. McAuley Instructions — Neil Gaiman (poem) Hallowmass — Esther M. Friesner Honorable Mentions: 2000 The People Behind the Book