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• 1 • Introduction (Year's Best Fantasy 8) • essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• 3 • Paper Cuts Scissors • (2007) • novelette by Holly Black
• 18 • A Portrait in Ivory • [The Elric Saga] • (2007) • short story by Michael Moorcock
• 26 • The Witch's Headstone • juvenile • [Bod Owens] • (2007) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 47 • The Ruby Incomparable • [Anvil of the World Universe] • (2007) • short story by Kage Baker
• 61 • And Such Small Deer • (2007) • novelette by Chris Roberson
• 78 • Unpossible • (2007) • short story by Daryl Gregory
• 87 • Winter's Wife • (2007) • novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• 117 • The King of the Djinn • (2008) • short story by David Ackert and Benjamin Rosenbaum
• 124 • Stilled Life • (2007) • novelette by Pat Cadigan
• 148 • Poison • [Lerici] • (2007) • short story by Bruce McAllister
• 160 • Who Slays the Gyant, Wounds the Beast • [Swords of Albion] • (2007) • novelette by Mark Chadbourn
• 178 • Under the Bottom of the Lake • (2007) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 187 • A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question • [Pearleen Sunday] • (2007) • novelette by Andy Duncan
• 215 • Don't Ask • (2007) • short story by M. Rickert
• 223 • The Stranger's Hands • (2007) • short story by Tad Williams
• 240 • Soul Case • (2007) • short story by Nalo Hopkinson
• 244 • Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again • [Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz] • (2007) • novelette by Garth Nix
• 269 • Debatable Lands • (2007) • short story by Liz Williams
• 281 • The Forest • (2007) • novelette by Laird Barron
• 308 • The Great White Bed • (2007) • short story by Don Webb
• 316 • Dance of Shadows • [Falco] • (2007) • novelette by Fred Chappell
• 343 • Grander Than the Sea • [Marla Mason • 1.5] • (2007) • novelette by Tim Pratt [as by T. A. Pratt]
• 362 • Princess Lucinda and the Hound of the Moon • (2007) • short story by Theodora Goss