Product Description
As in every year since 1988, the editors tirelessly scoured story collections, magazines, and anthologies worldwide to compile a delightful, diverse feast of tales and poems.
On this anniversary, the editors have increased the size of the collection to 300,000 words of fiction and poetry, including works by Billy Collins, Ted Chiang, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Hand, Glen Hirshberg, Joyce Carol Oates, and new World Fantasy Award winner M. Rickert. With impeccably researched summations of the field by the editors, Honorable Mentions, and articles by Edward Bryant, Charles de Lint and Jeff VanderMeer on media, music and graphic novels, this is a heady brew topped off by an unparalleled list of sources of fab… More >>
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection
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What is the use of including a few more stories if such inclusion results in so small a type-font that the enjoyment of the whole is reduced?
It’s not an f-ing dictionary, people.
In future, less content, more readability, please?
Thank you, in advance.
Rating: 3 / 5
I did’t finish the book but I did read most of it and it did live up to expations many of the stories where abslotey gut clenching outhrs where mudane and peacful offen enough the stories turned there where some that seemed to be a spin off of one of the disney classics although it wasent a book that relly grabed youre intrest mainly because the first hundred pages or so was simlar to that of movie credits I would say it’s more of a book where you flip through it untile you find a story you liker read maby five more and then a mounth or so later you do the exact same thing over and over again untill you’r fifty somthing and you finaly finish it
Rating: 3 / 5
Some I like. Some I don’t. Some I love. But all well written. Still the definitive collection of the two genres. Having them combined inside the same cover; they complimented one another.
The last year for YBF&H. A shame.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is one of several horror anthologies I have read over the years and this one fulfills its mission of providing reviews of fiction/film/media in this genre as well as including a broad array of short stories. The update was sufficient and the stories were of variable quality. There were some outstanding ones that will stay with me a long time…The Swing, England and Nowhere, Sir Hereward, Closet Dreams, but the majority would appeal to those who are really into fantasy. The bone-chilling, sweaty palms stuff is not here. Overall, a solid B read.
Rating: 4 / 5