1986 World Fantasy Awards

Where & When: World Fantasy Convention, Providence RI

Eligibility Year: 1985

Judges: Robert A. Collins, Ellen Datlow, Charles de Lint, Dean Koontz,

Patricia A. McKillip

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Avram Davidson

NOVEL

Song of Kali, Dan Simmons (Bluejay)

The Damnation Game, Clive Barker (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

The Dream Years, Lisa Goldstein (Bantam Spectra)

Illywhacker, Peter Carey (Harper & Row)

The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice (Knopf)

Winterking, Paul Hazel (Atlantic Monthly Press)

NOVELLA

"Nadelman's God", T.E.D. Klein (Dark Gods*)

"Dead Image", David Morrell (Night Visions 2*)

"Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?", Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Shadows 8*)

"Flight", Peter Dickinson (Imaginary Lands*)

"The Gorgon Field", Kate Wilhelm (Asimov's Aug 1985)

SHORT STORY

"Paper Dragons", James P. Blaylock (Imaginary Lands*)

"The Jaguar Hunter", Lucius Shepard (F&SF May 1985)

"Return of the Dust Vampires", Sharon N. Farber (Whispers V*)

"The Slovo Stove", Avram Davidson (Universe 15*)

COLLECTION/ANTHOLOGY

Imaginary Lands, Robin McKinley, ed. (Ace)

Black Venus, Angela Carter (Chatto & Windus/Hogarth)

Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. IV-VI, Clive Barker (Sphere)

Dragonfield and Other Stories, Jane Yolen (Ace)

Faery!, Terri Windling, ed. (Ace)

Night Visions 2, Charles L. Grant, ed. (Dark Harvest)

Skeleton Crew, Stephen King (Putnam)

Whispers V, Stuart David Schiff, ed. (Doubleday)

ARTIST

Thomas Canty

Jeff Jones

Alan Lee

J.K. Potter

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Pat LoBrutto (for Doubleday)

Donald M. Grant (for Donald M. Grant, publisher)

Terri Windling (for editing)

Thomas Canty & Phil Hale (for A Monster at Christmas)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

Douglas E. Winter (for reviewing)

Jeff Conner (for Scream/Press)

W. Paul Ganley (for Weirdbook and Weirdbook Press)

Paul Mikol & Scot Stadalsky (for Dark Harvest)

David B. Silva (for The Horror Show)

SPECIAL CONVENTION AWARD

Donald A. Wollheim