The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection

xiii • Summation 1988: Fantasy • essay by Terri Windling xxv • Summation 1988: Horror • essay by Ellen Datlow xlvi • 1988: Horror and Fantasy on the Screen • essay by Edward Bryant liii • Obituaries (The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection) • essay by James R. Frenkel [as by James Frenkel] 1 • Death Is Different • (1988) • short story by Lisa Goldstein 16 • The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) • (1988) • novelette by Gene Wolfe 38 • It Was the Heat • (1988) • short story by Pat Cadigan 53 • The Cutter • (1988) • short story by Edward Bryant 66 • The Freezer Jesus • (1988) • short fiction by John DuFresne 70 • Voices of the Kill • (1988) • short story by Thomas M. Disch 86 • Secretly • (1988) • poem by Ruth Roston 89 • The Devil's Rose • (1988) • novelette by Tanith Lee 110 • Wempires • (1988) • short story by Daniel M. Pinkwater [as by Daniel Pinkwater] 114 • Scatter My Ashes • (1988) • short story by Greg Egan 125 • Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh • (1988) • novelette by Ian McDonald 149 • Shoo Fly • (1988) • short story by Richard Matheson 164 • The Thing Itself • (1988) • short story by Michael Blumlein 178 • The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow • (1988) • short story by Charles de Lint 192 • Roman Games • (1988) • short story by Anne Gay 200 • The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn • [Enchanted Forest] • (1988) • short story by Patricia C. Wrede 211 • The Book and Its Contents • (1988) • short story by Robert Kelly 224 • The Great God Pan • (1988) • novelette by M. John Harrison 245 • Lost Bodies • (1988) • short story by Ian Watson 257 • Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds • (1988) • short story by Dan Simmons 264 • Preflash • (1988) • short story by John M. Ford 283 • Life of Buddha • (1988) • novelette by Lucius Shepard 301 • Appointment with Eddie • (1988) • short story by Charles Beaumont 315 • Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods • (1988) • short story by William Kotzwinkle 323 • Spillage • (1988) • short story by Nancy Kress 334 • Snowman • (1988) • short story by Charles L. Grant 343 • The Scar • (1987) • short story by Dennis Etchison 351 • Laiken Langstrand • (1988) • short story by Gwyneth Jones 364 • The Last Poem About the Snow Queen • (1988) • poem by Sandra M. Gilbert 367 • Pinocchio • (1988) • poem by Sandra M. Gilbert 369 • Game in the Pope's Head • (1988) • short story by Gene Wolfe 376 • Playing the Game • (1988) • short story by Ramsey Campbell 388 • Faces • [The Secret History of the World] • (1988) • novelette by F. Paul Wilson 412 • Snowfall • (1988) • short story by Jessie Thompson 417 • Seal-Self • (1987) • short story by Sara Maitland 427 • No Hearts, No Flowers • (1988) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg 437 • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • (1988) • short story by Jane Yolen 445 • The Darling • (1988) • short story by Scott Bradfield 462 • Night They Missed the Horror Show • (1988) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale 477 • Your Story • (1988) • short story by Rick DeMarinis 488 • Winter Solstice, Camelot Station • (1988) • poem by John M. Ford 494 • The Boy Who Hooked the Sun • (1985) • short story by Gene Wolfe 498 • Clem's Dream • (1985) • short story by Joan Aiken 505 • Love in Vain • (1988) • novelette by Lewis Shiner 524 • In the Darkened Hours • (1988) • poem by Bruce Boston 528 • A Golden Net for Silver Fishes • (1988) • short story by Ru Emerson 537 • Dancing Among Ghosts • (1988) • novella by Jim Aikin 575 • Honorable Mentions: 1988 • essay by uncredited