The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection Book

Acknowledgments Summation 2004: Fantasy, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant Summation 2004: Horror, Ellen Datlow Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2004, Edward Bryant Comics and Graphic Novels: 2004, Charles Vess Anime and Manga: 2004, Joan D. Vinge Fantasy and Horror in Music: 2004, Charles de Lint Obituaries: 2004, James Frenkel

"The Oakthing," Gregory Maguire

"Horton's Store," R.T. Smith

"Rite of Spring," Margo Lanagan

"Zora and the Zombie," Andy Duncan

"The Changeling," Theodora Goss

"Revenge of the Calico Cat," Stepan Chapman

"Frozen Charlottes," Lucy Sussex

"Reports of Certain Events in London," China Miéville

"House of Ice," Jean Esteve

"Restraint," Stephen Gallagher

"The Baum Plan for Financial Independence," John Kessel

"Dancing on Air," Frances Oliver

"Cold Fires," M. Rickert

"And the Sear Shall Give Up Its Dead," Richard Mueller

"A Trick of the Dark," Tina Rath

"The Bad Magician," Philip Raines and Harvey Wells

"Speir-Bhan," Tanith Lee

"Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland," John Farris

"Guts," Chuck Palahniuk

"Water Babies," Simon Brown

"Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle," Peter Straub

"We Find Things Old," Bentley Little

"Wonderwall," Elizabeth Hand

"Postcretaceous Era," D. Ellis Dickerson

"Watch and Wake," M.T. Anderson

"The Oracle Alone," Catherynne M. Valente

"A Night in the Tropics," Jeffrey Ford

"Clownette," Terry Dowling

"Stripping," Joyce Carol Oates

"Seven Feet," Christopher Fowler

"Singing My Sister Down," Margo Lanagan

"Bulldozer," Laird Barron

"These Various Methods of Brightness," Anna Ross

"The Cajun Knot," Mélanie Fazi

"Tales from the City of Seams," Greg van Eekhout

"The Specialist," Alison Smith

"Here is the Church," Shelley Jackson

"The Witch of Truro," Alice Hoffman

"Lapland, or Film Noir," Peter Straub

"What Her Mother Said," Theodora Goss

"The Owl," Conrad Williams

"The Silver Dragon," Elizabeth A. Lynn

Honorable Mentions: 2004