TOC: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection edited by Datlow/Gavin/Grant

Editor Ellen Datlow has posted the contents of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection, the anthology she coedits with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant:

1. “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham
2. “The Gray Boy’s Work” by M.T. Anderson
3. “Troll” by (poem) Nathalie Anderson
4. “The Monsters of Heaven” by Nathan Ballingrud
5. “The Forest” by Laird Barron
6. “Reversal of Fortune” by Holly Black
7. “The House of Mechanical Pain” by Chaz Brenchley
8. “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang
9. “Scenes of Hell” by (poem) Billy Collins
10. “Toother” by Terry Dowling
11. “The Drowned Life” by Jeffrey Ford
12. “The Last Worders” by Karen Joy Fowler
13. “Monkey” by (poem) Eliza Griswold
14. “Up the Fire Road” by Eileen Gunn
15. “Winter’s Wife” by Elizabeth Hand
16. “A Perfect and Unmappable Grace” by Jack Haringa
17. “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change” by Kij Johnson
18. “The Boulder” by Lucy Kemnitzer
19. “The Hill” by Tanith Lee
20. “The Ape Man” by Alexander MacBride
21. “Lovers (Jafaar the Winged)” by (poem) Khaled Mattawa
22. “Hum Drum” by Gary McMahon
23. “A Thing Forbidden” by Donald Mead
24. “England and Nowhere” by Tim Nickels
25. “Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again” by Garth Nix
26. “Valentine, July Heat Wave” by Joyce Carol Oates
27. “Mr. Poo Poo” by Reggie Oliver
28. “Fragrant Goddess” by Paul Park
29. “Holiday” by M. Rickert
30. “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” by Karen Russell
31. “Rats” by Veronica Schanoes
32. “The Fiddler of Bayou Teche” by Delia Sherman
33. “Village Smart” by (poem) Maggie Smith
34. “The Tenth Muse” by William Browning Spencer
35. “Follow Me Home” by Sonya Taaffe
36. “The Swing” by Don Tumasonis
37. “Closet Dreams” by Lisa Tuttle
38. “The Seven Devils of Central California” by Catherynne M. Valente
39. “Splitfoot” by Paul Walther
40. “The Hide” by Liz Williams

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