Got a nice package in the mail, the other day. Year’s Best Fantasy 9, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, is being published by TOR.com, and and you can get it at their online store (and probobably elsewhere as well).

Nice cover, eh?

The table of contents starts with Elizabeth Bear’s Hugo-winning story and goes on to include some other great stories — some of which are available online:

1. Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear
2. “The Rabbi’s Hobby” by Peter Beagle
3. “Running the Snake” by Kage Baker
4. “The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” by Daryl Gregory
5. “Reader’s Guide” by Lisa Goldstein
6. “The Salting and Canning of Benevolence D.” by Al Michaud
7. “Araminta, or, the Wreck of the Amphidrake” by Naomi Novik
8. “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica” by Catherynne M. Valente
9. “From the Clay of His Heart” by John Brown
10. “If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes
11. “26 Monkeys and the Abyss” by Kij Johnson
12. “Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita” by Debra Doyle & James MacDonald
13. “Film-Makers of Mars” by Geoff Ryman
14. “Childrun” by Marc Laidlaw
15. “Queen of the Sunlit Shore” by Liz Williams
16. “Lady Witherspoon’s Solution” by James Morrow
17. “Dearest Cecily” by Kristine Dikeman
18. “Ringing the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta” by Randy McCharles
19. “Caverns of Mystery” by Kage Baker
20. “Skin Deep” by Richard Parks
21. “King Pelles the Sure” by Peter Beagle
22. “A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead” by Richard Harland
23. “Avast, Abaft!” by Howard Waldrop
24. “Gift from a Spring” by Delia Sherman
25. “The First Editions” by James Stoddard
26. “The Olverung” by Stephen Woodworth
27. “Daltharee” by Jeffrey Ford
28. “The Forest” by Kim Wilkins