Here is a splendid selection of horror and fantasy stories by Ramsey Campbell, Jane Yolen, Nancy Kress, Thomas Disch, Gene Wolfe and many more writers. Recommended reading lists and selected poetry complete the volume.Contents: * Summation 1988: Fantasy b
For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stu
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In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing and then adulthood as vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living in the country. She fell in love with the silence, and in this profound, frank memoir she describes how she explored this new