The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women

The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women

Author	edited by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones
Cover artist	Leonora Carrington
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, horror
Publisher	Arbor House
Publication date	1995
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	xiv, 560 pp
ISBN	0-670-85907-9
OCLC	34886274

The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women is a reprint anthology of stories edited by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones. It was published by Viking Press in May 1995. The anthology contains a wide number of stories by female authors throughout the 20th century, beginning with "The Demon Lover" (1941), and the stories are arranged chronologically. The anthology itself won the 1996 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.

Sources and Acknowledgements (The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women), by uncredited
Introduction (The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women), by Joanna Russ
Editors' Note (The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women), by Richard Glyn Jones and A. Susan Williams
"The Demon Lover", by Elizabeth Bowen
"The Tooth", by Shirley Jackson
"The Lake of the Gone Forever", by Leigh Brackett
"The Old Man", by Daphne du Maurier
"My Flannel Knickers", by Leonora Carrington
"The Anything Box", by Zenna Henderson
"Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse", by Muriel Spark
"A Bright Green Field", by Anna Kavan
"The Ship Who Sang", by Anne McCaffrey
"Marmalade Wine", by Joan Aiken
"The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", by Hilary Bailey
"Cynosure", by Kit Reed
"The Wall", by Josephine Saxton
"The Foot", by Christine Brooke-Rose
"Baby, You Were Great", by Kate Wilhelm
"The Second Inquisition", by Joanna Russ
"Murder, 1986", by P. D. James
"The Milk of Paradise", by James Tiptree, Jr.
"When it Happens", by Margaret Atwood
"Angel, All Innocence", by Fay Weldon
"Night-Side", by Joyce Carol Oates
"Fireflood", by Vonda N. McIntyre
"Wives", by Lisa Tuttle
"Red as Blood", by Tanith Lee
"Sur", by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Peter and the Wolf", by Angela Carter
"The Pits Beneath the World", by Mary Gentle
"Two Sheep", by Janet Frame
"Relics", by Zoe Fairbairns
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night", by Octavia E. Butler
"(Learning About) Machine Sex", by Candas Jane Dorsey
"Prodigal Pudding", by Suniti Namjoshi
"Boobs", by Suzy McKee Charnas
"If the Word Was to the Wise", by Carol Emshwiller
"Trial by Teaspoon", by Lynda Rajan
"In the Green Shade of a Bee-Loud Glade", by L. A. Hall
"Death in the Egg", by Ann Oakley
"Kay and Phil", by Lucy Sussex
"Notes on the Authors (The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women), by uncredited

Reprints

Penguin Books, August 1996.

References

"The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1996 World Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2013-09-20.

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1988–2000	The Architecture of Fear by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (1988) The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1989) The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1990) Best New Horror by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (1991) The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1992) MetaHorror by Dennis Etchison (1993) Full Spectrum 4 by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell (1994) Little Deaths by Ellen Datlow (1995) The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (1996) Starlight 1 by Patrick Nielsen Hayden (1997) Bending the Landscape: Fantasy by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (1998) Dreaming Down-Under by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (1999) Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)
2001–present	Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Thomas (2001) The Museum of Horrors by Dennis Etchison (2002) The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2003) Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker (2004) Acquainted with the Night by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden (2005) The Fair Folk by Marvin Kaye (2006) Salon Fantastique by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2007) Inferno by Ellen Datlow (2008) Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia (2009) American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now by Peter Straub (2010) My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer (2011) The Weird by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2012) Exotic Gothic 4 by Danel Olson (2013) Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (2014) Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (2015) She Walks in Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (2016) Dreaming in the Dark by Jack Dann (2017) The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (2018) Worlds Seen in Passing by Irene Gallo (2019) New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (2020) The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2021) The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2022)

World Fantasy Award—Anthology

1988–2000

The Architecture of Fear by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1990)
Best New Horror by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1992)
MetaHorror by Dennis Etchison (1993)
Full Spectrum 4 by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell (1994)
Little Deaths by Ellen Datlow (1995)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (1996)
Starlight 1 by Patrick Nielsen Hayden (1997)
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (1998)
Dreaming Down-Under by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (1999)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000)

2001–present

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Thomas (2001)
The Museum of Horrors by Dennis Etchison (2002)
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2003)
Strange Tales by Rosalie Parker (2004)
Acquainted with the Night by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden (2005)
The Fair Folk by Marvin Kaye (2006)
Salon Fantastique by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2007)
Inferno by Ellen Datlow (2008)
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia (2009)
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now by Peter Straub (2010)
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer (2011)
The Weird by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2012)
Exotic Gothic 4 by Danel Olson (2013)
Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (2014)
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (2015)
She Walks in Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (2016)
Dreaming in the Dark by Jack Dann (2017)
The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (2018)
Worlds Seen in Passing by Irene Gallo (2019)
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (2020)
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (2021)
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2022)

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