Senior editor Matthew Cheney has announced the contents for Best American Fantasy 2008, which will be published this autumn by Prime Books. The guest editors for this year’s volume are Ann & Jeff VanderMeer.
Included in this issue:
“Bufo Rex” by Eric Amundsen (originally appeared in Weird Tales)
“The Ruby Incomparable” by Kage Baker (Wizards)
“The Last and Only” by Peter S. Beagle (Eclipse 1)
“Mario’s Three Lives” by Matt Bell (Barrelhouse)
“Interval” by Aimee Bender (Conjunctions)
“Minus, His Heart” by Jedediah Berry (Chicago Review)
“Abroad” by Judy Budnitz (Tin House)
“Chainsaw on Hand” by Deborah Coates (Asimov’s)
“The Drowned Life” by Jeffrey Ford (Eclipse 1)
“The Naming of the Islands” by David Hollander (McSweeney’s)
“Light” by Kelly Link (Tin House)
“The Revisionist” by Miranda Mellis (Harper’s)
“In the Middle of the Woods” by Christian Moody (Cincinnati Review)
“Story with Advice II: Back from the Dead” by Rick Moody (Mississippi Review)
“Ave Maria” by Micaela Morissette (Conjunctions)
“Logorrhea” by Michele Richmond (Logorrhea)
“Memoir of a Deer Woman” by M. Rickert (F&SF)
“The Seven Deadly Hotels” by Bruce Holland Rogers (shortshortshort.com)
“How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth” by Rachel Swirsky (Electric Velocipede)