Notes

Contents: The witch's headstone / Neil Gaiman -- Holly and iron / Garth Nix -- Color vision / Mary Rosenblum -- The ruby incomparable / Kage Baker -- A fowl tale / Eoin Colfer -- Slipping sideways through eternity / Jane Yolen -- The stranger's hands / Tad Williams -- Naming day / Patricia A. McKillip -- Winter's wife / Elizabeth Hand -- A diorama of the infernal regions, or, The devil's ninth question / Andy Duncan -- Barrens dance / Peter S. Beagle -- Stone man / Nancy Kress -- The Manticore spell / Jeffrey Ford -- Zinder / Tanith Lee -- Billy and the wizard / Terry Bisson -- The magikkers / Terry Dowling -- The magic animal / Gene Wolfe -- Stonefather / Orson Scott Card