Collects fantasy, horror, fairy tales, and gothic stories chosen from the past year, including works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Neil Gaiman, and Bill Lewis.
Acknowledgments xi Summation 1998: Fantasy xiii Terri Windling Summation 1998: Horror lii Ellen Datlow Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1998 lxxxviii Edward Bryant Comics: 1998 ciii Seth Johnson Obituaries: 1998 cvii James Frenkel Travels with the Snow Queen 1(13) Kelly Link Running Dogs 14(11) Steve Duffy Wiglaf (poem) 25(2) Marisa de los Santos Mrs Mabb 27(20) Susanna Clarke Due West 47(19) Rick Kennett Kokopelli (poem) 66(2) Catharine Savage Brosman Taking Loup 68(4) Bruce Glassco The Evil Within 72(20) Sara Douglass Wile E. Coyotes Lament (poem) 92(2) Larry Fontenot The Rainmaker 94(14) Mary Rosenblum A Place to Stay 108(16) Michael Marshall Smith The Fantasma of Q___ 124(9) Lisa Goldstein Hoopa, the White Deer Dance 133(9) Ralph Salisbury That Feeling, You can Only say What it is in French 142(12) Stephen King The Travails 154(8) Karen Joy Fowler Suburban Blight 162(26) Terry Lamsley Inside the Cackle Factory 188(15) Dennis Etchison The House of the Black Cat 203(4) Kurahashi Yumiko Every Angel is Terrifying 207(13) John Kessel Shoggoths Old Peculiar 220(8) Neil Gaiman Great Sedna 228(6) Lawrence Osgood The Bird Chick 234(7) Sylvia Brownrigg Psyche 241(11) Mark W. Tiedemann Mrs. Beast (poem) 252(3) Carol Ann Duffy Become a Warrior 255(7) Jane Yolen Blackbirds 262(9) Norman Partridge Carp Man 271(4) Nick DiChario The Faerie Cony-catcher 275(9) Delia Sherman At The River of Crocodiles (poem) 284(3) Zan Ross Clair de Lune 287(6) Steven Millhause The Rose of Paracelsus 293(4) Jorge Luis Borges Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff 297(59) Peter Straub Revenge 356(14) Michael Blumlein The Tall, Upheaving One (poem) 370(2) Holly Prado Oak Hill 372(9) Patricia A. McKillip Jackdaw Jack 381(10) Christopher Harman Dark Moon (poem) 391(1) Sarah Corbett The Death of the Duke 392(9) Ellen Kushner Hershel 401(5) Judy Budnitz By the Time We Get to Uranus 406(8) Ray Vukcevich The Specialists Hat 414(10) Kelly Link Twa Corbies 424(8) Charles de Lint Jenny Come to Play 432(24) Terry Dowling Blimunda 456(4) Ilan Stavans Mrs. Dumpty (poem) 460(2) Chana Bloch Cold 462(23) A. S. Byatt Honorable Mentions: 1998 485
