Year's Best Fantasy and Horror is a reprint anthology

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 published annually by St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press

St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...

. In addition to the short stories, supplemented by a list of honorable mentions, each edition includes a number of retrospective essays by the editors and others.

For most of its run, the series was edited by Terri Windling

Terri Windling

Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award...

 and Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...

, 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 has been taken by the team of Kelly Link

Kelly Link

Kelly Link is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism...

 and Gavin Grant

Gavin Grant

Gavin J. Grant is a science fiction editor and writer. He runs Small Beer Press along with his wife Kelly Link. In addition, he has been the editor of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet since 1996 and, from 2003 to 2008, was co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series along with...

. The cover art for every edition has been done by Thomas Canty.

Volumes

• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection 1987
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection 1988
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection 1989
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection 1990
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection 1991
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection 1992
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection 1993
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection 1994
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection 1995
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection 1996
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection 1997
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection 1998
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection 1999
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection 2000
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection 2001
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2002
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection 2003
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection 2004
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection 2005
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection 2006