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• xiii • Summation 2004: Fantasy • essay by Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link
• xxxvii • Summation 2004: Horror • essay by Ellen Datlow
• lxxiii • Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2004 • essay by Edward Bryant
• xciii • Comics and Graphic Novels: 2004 • essay by Charles Vess
• ci • Anime and Manga: 2004 • [Anime and Manga reviews for The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror] • essay by Joan D. Vinge
• cxvii • Fantasy and Horror in Music: 2004 • essay by Charles de Lint
• cxxv • Obituaries: 2004 • essay by James R. Frenkel [as by James Frenkel]
• 1 • The Oakthing • (2004) • novelette by Gregory Maguire
• 13 • Horton's Store • (2004) • poem by R. T. Smith
• 15 • Rite of Spring • (2004) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• 21 • A Hazy Shade of Winter • (2004) • short story by Simon Bestwick
• 31 • The Skin of the World • (2004) • short story by Douglas Clegg
• 38 • Zora and the Zombie • (2004) • novelette by Andy Duncan
• 53 • The Changeling • (2001) • poem by Theodora Goss
• 54 • Revenge of the Calico Cat • novelette by Stepan Chapman (variant of The Revenge of the Calico Cat 2004)
• 80 • Frozen Charlottes • (2003) • short story by Lucy Sussex
• 89 • Reports of Certain Events in London • (2004) • novelette by
  China Miéville^?China Mieville
• 103 • House of Ice • (2004) • poem by Jean Esteve
• 104 • Restraint • (2004) • short story by Stephen Gallagher
• 119 • The Baum Plan for Financial Independence • (2004) • short story by John Kessel
• 129 • Dancing on Air • (2004) • short story by Frances Oliver
• 141 • Cold Fires • (2004) • short story by M. Rickert
• 152 • And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead • (2004) • short story by Richard Mueller (variant of Jew if by Sea)
• 164 • A Trick of the Dark • (2004) • short story by Tina Rath
• 171 • The Bad Magician • (2004) • short story by Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
• 185 • Speir-Bhan • (2004) • short story by Tanith Lee
• 203 • Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland • (2002) • short story by John Farris
• 215 • Guts • (2004) • short story by Chuck Palahniuk
• 221 • Water Babies • (2004) • novelette by Simon Brown
• 243 • Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle • (2004) • novella by Peter Straub
• 263 • We Find Things Old • (2004) • short story by Bentley Little
• 272 • Wonderwall • (2004) • short story by Elizabeth Hand
• 284 • Postcretaceous Era • (2004) • short story by D. Ellis Dickerson
• 290 • Watch and Wake • (2004) • short story by M. T. Anderson
• 299 • The Oracle Alone • (2004) • poem by Catherynne M. Valente
• 301 • A Night in the Tropics • (2004) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 313 • Clownette • (2004) • short story by Terry Dowling
• 324 • Stripping • (2004) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 326 • Seven Feet • (2004) • short story by Christopher Fowler
• 337 • Singing My Sister Down • (2004) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• 344 • Bulldozer • (2004) • novelette by Laird Barron
• 366 • These Various Methods of Brightness • (2004) • poem by Anna Ross
• 368 • The Cajun Knot • (2004) • short story by
  Mélanie Fazi^?Melanie Fazi
  (trans. of
  Le nœud cajun^?Le noeud cajun
  2000)
• 379 • Tales from the City of Seams • (2004) • short story by Greg van Eekhout
• 390 • The Specialist • (2004) • short story by Alison Smith
• 402 • Here Is the Church • (2004) • short story by Shelley Jackson
• 409 • The Witch of Truro • (2004) • short story by Alice Hoffman
• 416 • Lapland, or Film Noir • (2004) • short story by Peter Straub
• 422 • What Her Mother Said • (2004) • poem by Theodora Goss
• 424 • The Owl • (2004) • short story by Conrad Williams
• 435 • The Silver Dragon • (2004) • novelette by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• 461 • Honorable Mentions: 2004 • essay by uncredited
• 479 • The People Behind the Book (The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection) • essay by uncredited