The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Fifth Annual Collection

Many thanks to all the publishers, editors, writers, artists, booksellers, librarians and readers who sent material and recommended favorite titles; and to Locus, Library Journal and Folk Roots magazines, which are invaluable reference sources. (Anyone wishing to recommend stories, music or art published in 1992 can do so October-December do The Endicott Studio, 781 South Calle Escondido, Tucson, AZ 85748.)

Special thanks to the Tucson and Chagford public library staffs, the Book Mark bookstore and Tucson’s Book Arts Gallery; to Robert Gould and Charles de Lint for music recommendations; to Lawrence Schimel and Jane Yolen for story recommendations; to Beth Mea-cham, Tappan King, Robin Hardy and Ellen Steiber; to Rob Killheffer at Omni; and in particular to our editor Gordon Van Gelder, our packager Jim Frenkel, our cover artist Tom Canty, to Editorial Assistant Brian McDonald, and my hard-working co-editor and friend Ellen Datlow.

—Terri Windling

I would like to thank Robert Killheffer, Gordon Van Gelder, Lisa Kahlden, Merrilee Heifetz, Keith Ferrell, Linda Marotta, Mike Baker, Matthew Bialer, and Jim Frenkel for all their help and encouragement. Also, a special thank-you to Tom Canty and Terri Windling. Finally, I appreciate all the book publishers and magazine editors who sent material for 1991.

(Please note: It’s difficult to cover all nongenre sources of short horror, so should readers see a story or poem from such a source, I’d appreciate their bringing it to my attention. Drop me a line c/o Omni Magazine, 1965 Broadway, New York, NY 10023.)

I’d like to acknowledge Charles N. Brown’s Locus magazine (Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661; $48.00 for a one-year, first-class subscription [12 issues], $35.00 second class) as an invaluable reference source throughout the Summation; and Andrew I. Porter’s Science Fiction Chronicle (S.F.C., P.O. Box 2730, Brooklyn, NY 112020056; $36.00 for a one-year, first-class subscription [12 issues], $30.00 second class), also an invaluable reference source throughout.

—Ellen Datlow