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• xiii • Summation 1988: Fantasy • essay by Terri Windling
• xxv • Summation 1988: Horror • essay by Ellen Datlow
• xlvi • 1988: Horror and Fantasy on the Screen • essay by Edward Bryant
• liii • Obituaries (The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection) • essay by James R. Frenkel [as by James Frenkel]
• 1 • Death Is Different • (1988) • short story by Lisa Goldstein
• 16 • The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) • (1988) • novelette by Gene Wolfe
• 38 • It Was the Heat • (1988) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 53 • The Cutter • (1988) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 66 • The Freezer Jesus • (1988) • short fiction by John DuFresne
• 70 • Voices of the Kill • (1988) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 86 • Secretly • (1988) • poem by Ruth Roston
• 89 • The Devil's Rose • (1988) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 110 • Wempires • (1988) • short story by Daniel M. Pinkwater [as by Daniel Pinkwater]
• 114 • Scatter My Ashes • (1988) • short story by Greg Egan
• 125 • Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh • (1988) • novelette by Ian McDonald
• 149 • Shoo Fly • (1988) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 164 • The Thing Itself • (1988) • short story by Michael Blumlein
• 178 • The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow • (1988) • short story by Charles de Lint
• 192 • Roman Games • (1988) • short story by Anne Gay
• 200 • The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn • [Enchanted Forest] • (1988) • short story by Patricia C. Wrede
• 211 • The Book and Its Contents • (1988) • short story by Robert Kelly
• 224 • The Great God Pan • (1988) • novelette by M. John Harrison
• 245 • Lost Bodies • (1988) • short story by Ian Watson
• 257 • Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds • (1988) • short story by Dan Simmons
• 264 • Preflash • (1988) • short story by John M. Ford
• 283 • Life of Buddha • (1988) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 301 • Appointment with Eddie • (1988) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• 315 • Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods • (1988) • short story by William Kotzwinkle
• 323 • Spillage • (1988) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 334 • Snowman • (1988) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 343 • The Scar • (1987) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 351 • Laiken Langstrand • (1988) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• 364 • The Last Poem About the Snow Queen • (1988) • poem by Sandra M. Gilbert
• 367 • Pinocchio • (1988) • poem by Sandra M. Gilbert
• 369 • Game in the Pope's Head • (1988) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 376 • Playing the Game • (1988) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 388 • Faces • [The Secret History of the World] • (1988) • novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• 412 • Snowfall • (1988) • short story by Jessie Thompson
• 417 • Seal-Self • (1987) • short story by Sara Maitland
• 427 • No Hearts, No Flowers • (1988) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 437 • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns • (1988) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 445 • The Darling • (1988) • short story by Scott Bradfield
• 462 • Night They Missed the Horror Show • (1988) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 477 • Your Story • (1988) • short story by Rick DeMarinis
• 488 • Winter Solstice, Camelot Station • (1988) • poem by John M. Ford
• 494 • The Boy Who Hooked the Sun • (1985) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 498 • Clem's Dream • (1985) • short story by Joan Aiken
• 505 • Love in Vain • (1988) • novelette by Lewis Shiner
• 524 • In the Darkened Hours • (1988) • poem by Robert Frazier
• 528 • A Golden Net for Silver Fishes • (1988) • short story by Ru Emerson
• 537 • Dancing Among Ghosts • (1988) • novella by Jim Aikin
• 575 • Honorable Mentions: 1988 • essay by uncredited