The Year's Best Fantasy - First Annual Collection - Ellen Datlow - 1988 - featuring work by Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Moore, Harlan Ellison and George RR Martin

This groundbreaking anthology inaugurates an exciting new annual tradition: a giant collection of the finest fantasy stories published in 1987. Culled from the pages of magazines and original anthologies, this year’s collection features brilliant, gripping tales by these stellar authors:

Ursula K. Le Guin • T. M. Wright • Joe Haldeman • Jonathan Carroll • Gwyneth Jones • Susan Palwick • William F. Nolan • Joan Aiken • Edward Bryant •John Robert Bensink • Steven Brust • Ramsey Campbell • David Schow • Elizabeth S. Helfman • Jane Yolen • Carol Emshwiller • Harlan Ellison • Michael Shea • Charles de Lint • George R. R. Martin • Lucius Shepard • M. John Harrison • Patricia Wrede • John Brunner • Joyce Carol Oates • Kathryn Ptacek • Douglas E. Winter • John Skipp and Craig Spector • Craig Shaw Gardner • Lisa Tuttle • Delia Sherman • Michael McDowell • Natalie Babbitt • Alan Moore

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror was a reprint anthology published annually by St. Martin's Press from 1987 to 2008. In addition to the short stories, supplemented by a list of honorable mentions, each edition included a number of retrospective essays by the editors and others. The first two anthologies were originally published under the name The Year's Best Fantasy before the title was changed beginning with the third book.

For most of its run, the series was edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow, with Windling primarily responsible for the "fantasy" portion of the content and Datlow for the "horror" portion. From the 16th edition (covering works first published in 2003), Windling's role was taken by the team of Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. The cover art for every edition was done by Thomas Canty. In 2009, it was announced that there would be no 2009 edition. Ellen Datlow is now editing The Best Horror of the Year published by Night Shade Books.

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