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MODERN FANTASY STORY
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FIRST PLACE Best Fantasy Story (1961 to now)

Joseph Brodsky all poems

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SECOND PLACE Best Fantasy Story (1961 to now)

Ron Wolfe "Our Friend Electricity"
Jeff Vandermeer "The Transformation of Martin Lake"

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THIRD PLACE Best Fantasy Story (1961 to now)

James Blaylock "Paper Dragons"; "Small Houses"; "Thirteen Phantasms"
Terry Carr "Stanley Toothbrush" (as Carl Brandon); "They Live On Levels"
Jonathan Carrol "Friend's Best Man"
A. M. Dellamonica "Nevada"
Paul Di Filippo "Mama Told Me Not To Come"
Graham Joyce "The Coventry Boy"
Garry Kilworth "Mirrors"
Bentley Little "The Potato"
Ursula Le Guin "Darkness Box"
Tanith Lee "Bite-Me-Not, Or Fleur De Fiur"; "La Dame"
Lucius Shepard "The Glassblower's Dragon"
Richard Matheson "Duel"
Karl Edward Wagner "Two Suns Setting"

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FOURTH PLACE Best Fantasy Story (1961 to now)

Kim Antieau "Sanctuary"
Clive Barker "The Age Of Desire"; "The Body Politic"
"In The Hills, The Cities"; "The Inhuman Condition"
"The Midnight Meat Train";"On Jerusalem Street";
"Rawhead Rex"; "Revelations"; "Scapegoats";
"The Skins Of The Fathers"; "Son Of Celluloid"
Michael Blumlein "Hymenoptera"; "Keeping House"
J. G. Ballard "The Screen Game" ; "The Singing Statues"
Terry Bisson "Bears Discover Fire"
James Blaylock "Hula Ville"; "In For A Penny"
Robert Bloch "The Funny Farm"; "The Yugoslaves"
Joseph Payne Brennan "The Jugular Man"
Michael Chabon "The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance"
Stepan Chapman "The Comedian"
Pat Cadigan "Dirty Work"
Ramsey Campbell "Above The World"; "Call First"
David Campton "At the Bottom of the Garden"
Jonathan Carrol "The Sadness Of Detail"
Lin Carter "Black Moonlight"
Suzy McKee Charnas "Unicorn Tapestry"
Storm Constantine "My Lady of the Hearth"
Tony Daniel "Sun So Hot I Froze To Death"
Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois "Night Of The Dead"
Thomas M. Disch "Descending"; "The Squirrel Cage"
"The Descent Of The West End"; "Minnesota Gothic"
"Eggs And Chips"; "The Roaches"
M. J. Engh "Moonblood"
Harlan Ellison "Basilisk"; "Bleeding Stones"
"The Deathbird"; "Delusion for a Dragon Slayer"
"Do-It-Yourself"; "Flop Sweat"; "Neon"; "Rock God"
"The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World"
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman"
Dennis Etchinson "Deathtracks"
Sharon Farber "Return of the Dust Vampires"
Alan Dean Foster "The Thunderer"
Neil Gaiman "A Study In Emerald"
M. John Harrison "Empty"
Rick Hautala "Schoolhouse"
Robert Holdstock "The Graveyard Cross"; "High Pressure";
"Scarrowfell"; "The Shapechanger"; "Thorn"; "Time of the Tree"
Russel Kirk "Lex Talionis"
Kathe Koja "At Eventide"
Naomi Kritzer "Comrade Grandmother"
Stephen King "Trucks"; "The Crate"
Nancy Kress "Words Like Pale Stones"
Michael Kube-McDowell "The Gargoyle"; "Slippage"
Tommaso Landolfi "Gogol's Wife"
Joel Lane "The Receivers"
Ursula Le Guin "The Word of Unbinding"
Tanith Lee "Because Our Skins Are Finer"; "Black As Ink"
"The Demoness"; "Elle Est Trois"; "The Gorgon"
"La Reine Blanche"; "Medra"; "Nunc Dimittis"; "Flower Water"
Fritz Leiber "Gonna Roll the Bones"; "The Snowbank Orbit"
Bret Lott "The Train, The Lake, The Bridge"
Ian R. MacLeod "The Giving Mouth"
Sarah Maitland "Why I Became a Plumber"
Richard Christian Matheson "Hiding"
George R. R. Martin "The Pear-Shaped Man"
Thomas Monteleone "Where All The Songs Are Sad"
Tom Piccirilli "Ice On Heated Steel Script"
Stacy Richter "The Cavemen In The Hedges"
Kristine Kathryn Rusch "Phantom"; "Precious Moments"
Eric Schaller "The Five Cigars Of Abu Ali"; "The Assistant to Dr. Jacob"
Michael Shea "The Horror on the No. 33"
Lucius Shepard "Jailwise"; "Senior Volto"
Lewis Shiner "Scales"
Neal Stephenson "Crunch"
Bruce Sterling "Dinner in Audoghast"
Langdon Swanson "Likeness of Julie"
Michael Swanwick "Five British Dinosaurs"
Melanie Tem & Steve Resnick Tem "Mama"; "The Man On The Ceiling"
Steve Resnick Tem "Invisible"
Karl Edward Wagner "Sticks"
Manly Wade Wellman "Goodman's Place"; "Trill Coster's Burden"
Chet Williamson "To Feel Another's Woe"
F. Paul Wilson "The November Game"


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