The 10th volume of this excellent annual anthology series not only collects 39 stories and 4 poems in these overlapping genres, but reports on the year's best in books, movies, and other media.

Contents:

* Summation 1996: Fantasy by Terri Windling
* Summation 1996: Horror by Ellen Datlow
* Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1996 by Edward Bryant
* Comics 1996 by Seth Johnson
* Obituaries by James Frenkel
* The Last Rainbow by Parke Godwin
* Lily's Whisper by Jay Russell
* The Reason For Not Going to the Ball by Tanith Lee
* Among the Handlers by Michael Bishop
* The Phantom Church by Ana Blandiana
* The Snow Pavilion by Angela Carter
* Birthdream (poem) by Laurie Kutchins
* Disillusion by Edward Bryant
* Diana of the Hundred Breasts by Robert Silverberg
* La Llorona by Yxta Maya Murray
* Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti
* The Secret Shih Tan by Graham Masterton
* In the Matter of the Ukdena by Bruce Holland Rogers
* O, Rare and Most Exquisite by Douglas Clegg
* Never Seen by Waking Eyes by Stephen Dedman
* Walking the Dog by Terry Lamsley
* The Goatboy and the Giant by Garry Kilworth
* Gourd (poem) by Olive Senior
* The Phoenix by Isobelle Carmody
* Caribe Magico by Gabriel García Márquez
* The Witch's Heart by Delia Sherman
* Plumas by Patricia Preciado Martín
* Crow Girls by Charles de Lint
* Rapunzel's Exile by Lisa Russ Spaar
* The Witches of Junket by Patricia A. McKillip
* The Cruel Countess by Chris Bell
* Little Beauty's Wedding by Chang Hwang
* Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) (poem) by Neil Gaiman
* Angel by Philip Graham
* Elk Man (poem) by Amy Breau
* Beckoning Nightframe by Terry Dowling
* The Dead Cop by Dennis Etchison
* Ursus Trian, Later by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
* JFK Secretely Attends Jackie Auction by Robert Olen Butler
* ...Warmer by A.R. Morlan
* Not Waving by Michael Marshall Smith
* The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
* Wilderness by Ron Hansen
* Oshkiwiinag: Heartlines on the Trickster Express by Gerald Vizenor
* Persephone Sets the Record Straight by Shara McCallum
* Cruel Sisters by Patricia C. Wrede
* The House of Seven Angels by Jane Yolen
* Radio Waves by Michael Swanwick
* Honorable Mentions: 1996