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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 6, an anthology of fantasy short fiction edited by Lin Carter.

Volume 6 of the The Year's Best Fantasy Stories fantasy anthology series.

• The Year in Fantasy – a foreword by Lin Carter
• Garden of Blood – by Roger Zelazny – first published in Sorcerer's Apprentice (#3, Summer 1979)
• The Character Assassin – by Paul Cook – first published in Other Worlds 1 (Zebra, 1979)
• The Things That Are Gods – by John Brunner – first published in Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine (Fall 1979)
• Zurvan's Saint – by Lin Cater (writing as Grail Undwin)
• Perfidious Amber – by Tanith Lee – first published in Swords Against Darkness V (Zebra, 1979)
• The Mer She – by Fritz Leiber – first published in Heroes and Horrors (Whispers Press, 1978)
• Demon of the Snows – by Lin Carter
• The Pavilion Where All Times Meet – by Jayge Carr – first published in Other Worlds 1 (Zebra, 1979)
• Cryptically Yours... – by Brian Lumley – first published in Escape! (#1, Fall 1977)
• Red As Blood – by Tanith Lee – first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Vol.57, No.1, #338, July 1979)
• Sandmagic – by Orson Scott Card – first published in Swords Against Darkness V (Zebra, 1979)
• The Year's Best Fantasy Books – an afterword by Lin Carter