The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annuals are always a treat; read this one and The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois and you'll have a fairly complete overview of speculative fiction from 1998 as well as hours of great reading.

Contents:

* Summation 1998: Fantasy by Terri Windling
* Summation 1998: Horror by Ellen Datlow
* Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1998 by Edward Bryant
* Comics: 1998 by Seth Johnson
* Obituaries: 1998 by James Frenkel
* Travels with the Snow Queen by Kelly Link
* Running Dogs by Steve Duffy
* Wiglaf (poem) by Marisa de los Santos
* Mrs. Mabb by Susanna Clarke
* Due West by Rick Kennett
* Kokopelli (poem) by Catharine Savage Brosman
* Taking Loup by Bruce Glassco
* The Evil Within by Sara Douglass
* Wile E. Coyote's Lament (poem) by Larry Fontenot
* The Rainmaker by Mary Rosenblum
* A Place to Stay by Michael Marshall Smith
* The Fantasma of Q_______ by Lisa Goldstein
* Hoopa, the White Deer Dance by Ralph Salisbury
* That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French by Stephen King
* The Travails by Karen Joy Fowler
* Suburban Blight by Terry Lamsley
* Inside the Cackle Factory by Dennis Etchison
* The House of the Black Cat by Yumiko Kurahashi
* Every Angel Is Terrifying by John Kessel
* Shoggoth's Old Peculiar by Neil Gaiman
* Great Sedna by Lawrence Osgood
* The Bird Chick by Sylvia Brownrigg
* Psyche by Mark W. Tiedemann
* Mrs. Beast (poem) by Carol Ann Duffy
* Become a Warrior by Jane Yolen
* Blackbirds by Norman Partridge
* Carp Man by Nick DiChario
* The Faerie Cony-catcher by Delia Sherman
* At the River of Crocodiles (poem) by Zan Ross
* Clair de Lune by Steven Millhauser
* The Rose of Paracelsus by Jorge Luis Borges
* Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff by Peter Straub
* Revenge by Michael Blumlein
* The Tall, Upheaving One (poem) by Holly Prado
* Oak Hill by Patricia A. McKillip
* Jackdaw Jack by Christopher Harman
* Dark Moon (poem) by Sarah Corbett
* The Death of the Duke by Ellen Kushner
* Hershel by Judy Budnitz
* By the Time We Get to Uranus by Ray Vukcevich
* The Specialist's Hat by Kelly Link
* Twa Corbies by Charles de Lint
* Jenny Come to Play by Terry Dowling
* Blimunda by Ilan Stavans
* Mrs. Dumpty (poem) by Chana Bloch
* Cold by A.S. Byatt
* Honorable Mentions: 1998