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• xi • Summation 1997: Fantasy • essay by Terri Windling
• xlvi • Summation 1997: Horror • essay by Ellen Datlow
• lxxxvii • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1997 • essay by Edward Bryant
• civ • Comics: 1997 • essay by Seth Johnson
• cviii • Obituaries: 1997 • essay by James R. Frenkel [as by James Frenkel]
• 1 • The Tale of the Skin • (1997) • short story by Emma Donoghue
• 8 • Beauty and the Beast • (1997) • poem by Jaimes Alsop
• 10 • Gulliver at Home • (1997) • novelette by John Kessel
• 20 • It Had to Be You • (1997) • novelette by Nancy Pickard
• 39 • The Skull of Charlotte Corday • (1995) • short story by Leslie Dick
• 58 • I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes • (1997) • short story by Douglas Clegg
• 72 • Coffee Jerk at the Gates of Hell • (1997) • poem by Christopher Jones
• 74 • Riding the Black • (1997) • novelette by Charles L. Grant [as by Charles Grant]
• 94 • In the Fields • (1997) • short story by Christopher Harman
• 101 • Mbo • (1997) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• 117 • Winner Take All • (1997) • short story by Jeffrey Shaffer
• 120 • Safe • (1997) • novella by Gary A. Braunbeck
• 149 • El Castillo de la Perseverancia • (1995) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 169 • The Sin-Eater's Tale • (1997) • short story by Brennen Wysong
• 179 • A Visit • (1997) • short story by Steven Millhauser
• 188 • A Globe of Glass • (1997) • short story by Sonia Gernes
• 193 • The Fall of the Kings • [The World of Riverside] • (1997) • novelette by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
• 215 • Coyote and the White Folks • (1997) • poem by Bill Lewis
• 216 • Sheela Na Gig • (1997) • poem by Bill Lewis
• 218 • The Flounder's Kiss • (1997) • short story by Michael Cadnum
• 222 • Residuals • (1997) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman
• 239 • The Psychomantium • (1997) • short story by Molly Brown
• 251 • In the Black Mill • (1997) • short story by Michael Chabon
• 267 • Dust Motes • (1997) • short story by P. D. Cacek
• 278 • La Muerte • (1997) • poem by Pat Mora
• 281 • Spanky's Back in Town • [Spanky] • (1997) • novelette by Christopher Fowler
• 295 • Marriage • (1997) • poem by Denise Duhamel
• 297 • Kingyo no fun • (1997) • novelette by Nicholas Royle
• 311 • Bucket of Blood • (1997) • short story by Norman Partridge
• 323 • Mermaid • (1997) • poem by A. Alvarez
• 325 • Estate • (1997) • short story by
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• 335 • The Sin of Elijah • (1997) • short story by Steve Stern
• 352 • Driving Blind • [Green Town] • (1997) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
• 363 • The Sky-Blue Ball • (1997) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 367 • The Black Fairy's Curse • (1997) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 371 • The Last Song of Sirit Byar • [World of The Innkeeper's Song] • (1996) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• 397 • Marina's Fragrance • (1997) • short story by Mayra Santos-Febres
• 402 • Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings • (1996) • poem by Emily Warn
• 404 • Rabbit Hole • (1997) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 408 • Wild Horses • [Newford] • (1997) • novelette by Charles de Lint
• 425 • Princess • (1997) • poem by Matthew Sweeney
• 427 • Audience • (1997) • short story by Jack Womack
• 436 • Merlin • (1997) • short story by Robert Clinton
• 438 • The Crawl • (1997) • novelette by Stephen Laws
• 459 • The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden • (1997) • short story by Katherine Vaz
• 474 • Dharma • (1994) • novelette by Vikram Chandra
• 491 • Honorable Mentions: 1997 • essay by uncredited