Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror

by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), John Robert Bensink (Contributor)

Contents:
Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight? / Ursula K. LeGuin --
A world without toys / T.M. Wright --
DX / Joe Haldeman --
Friend's best man / Jonathan Carroll --
The Snow apples / Gwyneth Jones --
Ever after / Susan Palwick --
My name is Dolly / William F. Nolan --
Author's notes / Edward Bryant --
Lake George in high August / John Robert Bensink --
Csucskari / Steven Brust --
The other side / Ramsey Campbell --
Pamela's get / David J. Schow --
Voices in the wind / Elizabeth S. Helfman --
Once upon a time, she said / Jane Yolen --
The circular library of stones / Carol Emshwiller --
Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison --
Fat face / Michael Shea --
Uncle Dobbin's parrot fair / Charles de Lint.

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories, Fiction, Anthologies

473 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Edited By, and Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.