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

Acknowledgments Summation 1994: Fantasy — Terri Windling Summation 1994: Horror — Ellen Datlow Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994 — Edward Bryant Comics 1994 — Will Shetterly and Emma Bull Obituaries Transmutations — Patricia A. McKillip Bottom's Dream (poem) — Rachel Wetzsteon La Promesa — Leroy Quintana Aweary of the Sun — Gregory Feeley A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Wings — Jonathan Carroll Who Will Love the River God? — Emily Newland Brothers — Joyce Carol Oates Subsoil — Nicholson Baker Elvis's Bathroom — Pagan Kennedy Yet Another Poisoned Apple for the Fairy Princess — A. R. Morlan The Big Game — Nicholas Royle Buenaventura and the Fifteen Sisters — Margarita Engle De Natura Unicorni — Jane Yolen Blue Motel — Ian McDonald A Friend Indeed — David Garnett Sometimes, in the Rain — Charles Grant Rain Falls — Michael Marshall Smith That Old School Tie — Jack Womack Animals Behind Bars! — Scott Bradfield Monuments to the Dead — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Unterseeboot Doktor — Ray Bradbury Young Woman in a Garden — Delia Sherman The Man in the Black Suit — Stephen King "In the Tradition..." (essay) — Michael Swanwick Words Like Pale Stones — Nancy Kress Märchen (poem) — Jane Yolen Giants in the Earth — Dale Bailey A Conflagration Artist — Bradley Denton Report — Carme Riera The Village of the Mermaids (poem) — John Bradley —And the Horses Hiss at Midnight — A. R. Morlan The Entreaty of the Wiideema — Barry Lopez White Chapel — Douglas Clegg The Stone Woman (poem) — Linda Weasel Head Coyote Stories — Charles de Lint The Box — Jack Ketchum A Fear of Dead Things — Andrew Klavan He Unwraps Himself (poem) — Darrell Schweitzer Chandira — Brian Mooney Fever — Harlan Ellison The Best Things in Life — Lenora Champagne Mending Souls — Judith Tarr The Ocean and All Its Devices — William Browning Spencer Strings — Kelley Eskridge Superman's Diary — B. Brandon Barker Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring — M. John Harrison The Sisterhood of Night — Steven Millhauser Winter Bodies — Noy Holland The Sloan Men — David Nickle Is That Them? — Kevin Roice The Kingdom of Cats and Birds — Geoffrey A. Landis Angel Combs — Steve Rasnic Tem Snow, Glass, Apples. — Neil Gaiman Honorable Mentions: 1994