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

I am grateful to the publishers, editors, writers, artists, booksellers, librarians, and readers who sent material and recommended favorite titles for this volume; and to Locus, SF Chronicle, Library Journal, PW, and Folk Roots magazines, which are invaluable reference sources.

Special thanks to the Tucson and Chagford public library staffs; Tucson’s Book Arts Gallery; to Lawrence Schimel, Jane Yolen, and Wendy Froud for story recommendations; to Robert Gould, Charles de Lint, and Ellen Kushner for music recommendations; to Beth Meacham, Tappan King, Ellen Steiber, Robin Hardy, and Munro Sickafoose in Tucson; to Rob Killheffer in New York; and, in particular, to our packager Jim Frenkel and his assistant Nevenah Smith; our St. Martin’s editor Gordon Van Gelder; our cover artist Tom Canty; U. of A. intern and 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 Rettenmund, 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 1992.

(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; $50.00 for a one-year, first-class subscription 112 issues], $38.00 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