The year's best fantasy and horror : eleventh annual collection.
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Summation 1997 fantasy / Terry Windley -- Summation 1997 horros / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and fantasy in the media 1997 / Edward Bryant -- Comic 1997 / Seth Johnson -- Obituaries 1997 / James Frenkel -- The tale of the skin / Emma Donoghue -- Beauty and the beast (poem) / Gulliver at home / John Keessel -- It had to be you / Nancy Picard -- The skull of Charlotte Corday -- Leslie Dick-- I am infinte; I contain multitudes / Douglas Clegg -- Coffee jerk at the gates of hell (poem) / Cristopher Jones -- Riding in black / Charles Grant -- in the fields / Chritopher Harman -- Mbo / Nicholas Royle -- Winter take all / Jeffrey Shaffer -- Safe / Gary A. Braubeck -- El Castillo de la perseverancia / Howard Waldrop -- The sin eater's tale / Brenner Wysong -- A visit / Steven Milhauser - A globe of glass / Sonia Gernes -- The fall of the kings / Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman -- Coyote and the white folks (poem) / Bill Lewis -- Shella Na Gia (poem) / Bill Lewis -- The founder's kiss / Residuils / Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman -- The psychomantium / Molly Brown -- In the black mill / Micharel Chabon -- Dust motes / P.D. Cacek -- La muerte (poem) / Pat Mora -- Spanky's back in town / Christopher Fowler -- Marriage (poem) / Denise Duhamel -- Kingo no fun / Nichlas Royle -- Bucket of blood / Norman Patridge -- Mermaid (poem) / A. Alvarez -- Estate / Caitlin R.Kiernan -- The sin of Elijah / Steve Stern -- Driving blind / Ray Bradbury - The sky blue ball / Joyce Carol Oates -- The black fairy's curse / Karen Joy Fowler -- The last song of Sirit Byar -- Peter S. Beagle -- Marina's fragrance / Mayra Santos-Febres -- Setting celestial signs on terrestrial beings (poem)/ Emily Warns -- Rabit hole / Jane Yolan -- Wild horses / Charles de Lint -- Princess (poem) / Matthew Sweeney -- Audience Jack Womack -- Merlin / Robert Clinton -- The crawl / Stephen Laws -- The remains of princess Kaiulani's garden / Katherine Vaz -- Dharma / Vikram Chandra.