The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection

Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Summation 1987: Fantasy — Terri Windling Summation 1987: Horror — Ellen Datlow Horror and Fantasy on the Screen — Edward Bryant Obituaries Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight Ursula K. Le Guin A World without Toys T. M. Wright DX Joe Haldeman Friend's Best Man Jonathan Carroll The Snow Apples Gwyneth Jones Ever After Susan Palwick My Name Is Dolly William F. Nolan The Moon's Revenge Joan Aiken Author's Notes Edward Bryant Lake George in High August John Robert Bensink Csucskári Steven Brust The Other Side Ramsey Campbell Pamela's Get David J. Schow Voices in the Wind Elizabeth S. Helfman Once Upon a Time, She Said Jane Yolen The Circular Library of Stones Carol Emshwiller Soft Monkey Harlan Ellison Fat Face Michael Shea Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair Charles de Lint The Pear-Shaped Man George R. R. Martin Delta Sly Honey Lucius Shepard Small Heirlooms M. John Harrison The Improper Princess Patricia C. Wrede The Fable of the Farmer and Fox John Brunner Haunted Joyce Carol Oates Dead Possums Kathryn Ptacek Pictures Made of Stones Lucius Shepard Splatter: A Cautionary Tale Douglas E. Winter Gentlemen John Skipp and Craig Spector Demon Luck Craig Shaw Gardner Words of Power Jane Yolen Jamie's Grave Lisa Tuttle The Maid on the Shore Delia Sherman Halley's Passing Michael McDowell White Trains Lucius Shepard Simple Sentences Natalie Babbitt A Hypothetical Lizard Alan Moore Honorable Mentions: 1987