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• xii • Summation 1990: Fantasy • essay by Terri Windling
• xxiii • Summation 1990: Horror • essay by Ellen Datlow
• xlv • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1990 • essay by Edward Bryant
• lii • Obituaries (The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection) • essay by uncredited
• 1 • Freewheeling • [Newford] • (1990) • short story by Charles de Lint
• 16 • Coming Home • (1990) • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 24 • The Sweeper • (1990) • short story by George Szanto
• 38 • Ladies and Gentlemen • (1990) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 45 • Freaktent • (1990) • short story by Nancy A. Collins
• 55 • Missolonghi 1824 • (1990) • short story by John Crowley
• 64 • The Last Feast of Harlequin • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1990) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 92 • Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light • (1991) • poem by David Memmott
• 95 • Harvest • (1990) • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 105 • Fantasy in the Real World • (1990) • essay by Susan Cooper
• 116 • The Dream • (1990) • short story by Dyan Sheldon
• 123 • Moths • (1990) • short story by John Brunner
• 136 • Frozen Charlottes • (1990) • poem by Susan Prospere
• 139 • Little Nightmares, Little Dreams • (1990) • short story by Rachel Simon
• 148 • Timekeeper • (1990) • novelette by John Morressy
• 165 • Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble • (1990) • poem by Ellen Kushner
• 168 • Death of a Right Fielder • (1990) • short story by Stuart Dybek
• 172 • Not from Around Here • (1990) • novelette by David J. Schow
• 198 • Lieserl • (1990) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 205 • The Last Game • (1990) • short story by Sharon M. Hall
• 220 • Offerings • (1990) • short story by Susan Palwick
• 233 • The Muses of Rooms • (1990) • poem by Vern Rutsala
• 236 • A Touch of the Old Lilith • (1990) • novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 250 • The Calling • (1990) • short story by David B. Silva
• 261 • TV People • (1990) • short story by
  村上春樹^?Haruki Murakami
  (trans. of
  TVピープル^?TV Pīpuru
  1989) [as by Haruki Murakami]
• 276 • In the Trees • (1990) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 282 • Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts • (1990) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• 290 • Green • (1990) • novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• 310 • Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks • (1990) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• 318 • The Panic Hand • (1990) • short story by Jonathan Carroll
• 326 • Bestseller • (1989) • novelette by Michael Blumlein
• 351 • Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride • (1990) • short story by Delia Sherman
• 357 • Out of Sight, Out of Mind • (1990) • short story by Jack Womack
• 368 • Midwife to the Fairies • (1990) • short story by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
• 376 • The Phone Woman • (1991) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 387 • Ladder • (1990) • short story by T. E. D. Klein
• 397 • Alice, Falling • (1990) • short story by Steven Millhauser
• 409 • Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost • (1987) • short story by Angela Carter
• 416 • Face to Face • (1990) • short story by Adrian Cole
• 428 • The Dog's Tale • (1990) • short fiction by
  Karel Čapek^?Karel Capek
  Karel Chapek
  (trans. of Psí pohádka 1932)
• 435 • Stephen • (1990) • novelette by Elizabeth Massie
• 454 • A Short Guide to the City • (1990) • short story by Peter Straub
• 463 • The Story of Little Briar-Rose, a Scholarly Study • (1988) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 469 • The First Time • (1990) • short story by K. W. Jeter
• 481 • Coyote v. Acme • (1990) • short story by Ian Frazier
• 486 • Arousal • (1990) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• 491 • The Waiting Wolf • (1990) • poem by Gwen Strauss
• 494 • The Beast • (1990) • poem by Gwen Strauss
• 496 • Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague • (1990) • short story by Michael Bishop
• 510 • Two Words • (1991) • short story by Isabel Allende (trans. of Dos palabras 1989)
• 517 • The All-Consuming • (1990) • novelette by Robert Frazier and Lucius Shepard
• 536 • The Sadness of Detail • (1989) • short story by Jonathan Carroll
• 545 • Honorable Mentions: 1990 • essay by uncredited