The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Fifth Annual Collection
- Автор: Датлоу Эллен, Виндлинг Терри
- Год: 1992
- Язык: английский
- Год: St.Martin’s Press
- Жанр: Ужасы
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The prolific Joyce Carol Oates’s new collection, Heat (Dutton) is a dark one, with some stories more overt in their horror than others.
Waking Nightmares, Ramsey Campbell’s newest collection (Tor), covers the years 1974 to 1989 and includes material taken for The Years Best Fantasy and Horror series.
Carol Emshwiller’s World Fantasy Award-winning collection The Start of the End of It All (Mercury House). Emshwiller has crossed between the mainstream and fantasy fields for many years and is finally receiving the recognition her writing deserves. A different version of this collection was published in the UK by the Women’s Press with very little distribution. Terrific weird stuff.
The Copper Peacock and other stories by Ruth Rendell (Mysterious Press) shows off the talent of this British master of psychological suspense with nine stories; one especially chilling story, “Mother’s Help,” is an original.
Author’s Choice Monthly: #17, Alan Brennert’s Ma Qui and Other Phantoms; #18, Joe R. Lansdale’s Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy; #22, Charles de Lint’s Hedgework and Guessery; #24, J. N. Williamson’s The Naked Flesh of Feeling (Pulphouse).
And collections not seen: Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales by Brian Jacques— YA (Hutchinson-UK); The Dark Entry and Other Tales by Kelvin I. Jones (Sir Hugo Books-UK); On Meeting Witches at Wells by Judith Gorog—YA (Putnam/ Philomel); Tales, Weird and Whimsical by T. M. Lally (Merlin-UK); The Best Supernatural Stories of John Buchan by John Buchan (Robert Hale-UK); The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman (Mandarin); The Mary Shelley Reader includes two novels, seven stories, essays, reviews and letters; The Frankenstein text is the rare 1818 first edition, not the heavily revised 1831 which is the source of most reprints (Oxford University Press); Ravenscarne and Other Ghost Stories by Mary Williams (Piatkus-UK); The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (Michael Jo-seph-UK).
In contrast to the anthology market, the professional magazine market languished. Small-press horror magazines proliferate, but there continue to be very few professional magazine markets for horror. The following is a sampling of the best professional, semiprofessional and small-press magazines:
Weird Tales usually looks good; the spring issue illustrated by Gahan Wilson was particularly interesting. Good stories and poetry by Jessica Amanda Sal-monson, Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner, Ramsey Campbell, Juleen Bran-tingham, William F. Nolan, Jason van Hollander and Thomas Ligotti. The editors are George H. Scithers and Darrell Schweitzer.
Iniquities, while nicely designed, is still not on a regular schedule and is still inconsistent in its fiction choices. The editorials are a bit too informal for a slick magazine; however, Iniquities always has interesting art, including pieces by J. K.
Potter, Alan Clark and Allen K. in recent issues. And there were good stories by Ramsey Campbell, Elizabeth Massie, Steve Rasnic Tem, Wayne Allen Sallee and H. Andrew Lynch and Nina Kiriki Hoffman. The editors are Buddy Martinez and J. F. Gonzales.
The now-defunct Fear Magazine published good horror stories by Mike O’Driscoll, John Pritchard, Jeff Vandermeer, Rick Cadger, David Duggins, Huw Collingbourne, Malcolm Twigg, Robert Neilson and Andrew J. Wilson.
Fantasy Tales, as far as I can tell, only came out with one issue, in the spring. The cover by J. K. Potter was striking, but the fiction was disappointing, despite stories by Thomas Ligotti, Neil Gaiman and William F. Nolan (all three reprints). The editors are Stephen Jones and David Sutton.
Pulphouse, the Weekly Magazine quickly became simply Pulphouse the Magazine. Unfortunately it hasn’t yet found its feet, although there was a wise change in cover design after a few issues that used authors’ photographs. So far the fiction has been inconsistent in quality, but there was some good horror by Mark Budz, Patricia B. Cirone, David J. Schow, Bradley Denton and Steve Perry. The editor is Dean Wesley Smith.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which had a change of editors in March, published excellent horror stories by Wendy Counsil, Kathe Koja, Michael Lee, Bradley Denton, Elizabeth Engstrom, Terry Bisson, Sally Caves, David Hoing, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Lois Tilton, Lynn S. Hightower, Esther Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Sheri S. Tepper, Mike Resnick, Henry Slesar and Marc Laidlaw. The editor was Ed Ferman and is now Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine published notable horror by Ian R. MacLeod, Kathleen J. Alcala, Pat Murphy, Jonathan Lethem, Don Webb, Keith Roberts, Alexander Jablokov, Lawrence Person, Greg Egan, Walter Jon Williams, Leonard Carpenter, Richard Paul Russo, Connie Willis, S. N. Dyer, Paul Wit-cover, Peni R. Griffin and Tanith Lee. The editor is Gardner Dozois.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine published horrific stories by Marion M. Markham, Robert William Klein, John Paxton Sheriff, Gloria Erickson, Peter Sellers, K. D. Wentworth, James S. Dorr, Tony Richards, Simon P. McCaffery and William Beechcroff. The editor is Cathleen Jordan.
Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine published horrific fiction by Virginia Layef-sky, Sharon Pisacreta, Richard Patrick Gibbons, Joe Gores, Henry Slesar, Clark Howard, Peter Lovesey and James Powell. For many years the editor was Eleanor Sullivan. She died of cancer in 1991. The new editor is Janet Hutchings.
Omni published horrific material by Jack Cady, Robert Frazier, J. G. Ballard, Barry N. Malzberg, Michael Bishop and J. R. Dunn. Fiction editor is myself (Ellen Datlow).
Interzone published horror by Chris Beckett, Sylvia M. Siddall, Greg Egan, Garry Kilworth, Diane Mapes, Nicola Griffith, Martha A. Hood, Frances Amery, David Langford, Ian R. MacLeod and Alan Heaven. The editor is David Pringle.
New Mystery is a slick new magazine that published its first two issues in 1991. Despite the self-congratulatory tone of the first issue, the fiction is quite impressive with excellent new stories from the likes of Lawrence Block, Ruth Rendell, Steve Rasnic Tem, Atoda Takashi, Ardath Mayhar, James S. Dorr, Shizuko Natsuki and Leslie Alan Horvitz. There’s a freshness to the stories that the old warhorses Hitchcock and Ellery Queen often lack. It should give the two pulps a run for their money. The editor is Charles Raisch.
And the following is a sampling of the best small-press magazines specializing in horror:
Noctulpa became a digest-sized annual and this seems to have been the right decision. Noctulpa #5, called Guignoir and Other Furies is impressive, with all the fiction worth reading and effective illustrations by Peter H. Gilmore throughout. Look for stories by Lucy Taylor, Norman Partridge, Nancy Holder, Tia Travis and Scott H. Urban. The magazine is edited by George Hatch.