World Fantasy Awards 1987
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Nashville TN :
Eligibility Year: 1986
Judges: John M. Ford, Paul Hazel, Tappan King, Michael McDowell, Melissa Ann Singer
Eligibility Year: 1986
Judges: John M. Ford, Paul Hazel, Tappan King, Michael McDowell, Melissa Ann Singer
Life Achievement
- Winner: Jack Finney
Novel
- Winner: Perfume, Patrick Süskind (Knopf)
- It, Stephen King (Viking)
- The Pet, Charles L. Grant (Tor)
- Soldier of the Mist, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- Strangers, Dean R. Koontz (Putnam)
- Talking Man, Terry Bisson (Arbor House)
- The Tricksters, Margaret Mahy (Dent)
Novella
- Winner: “Hatrack River”, Orson Scott Card (Asimov's Aug 1986)
- “Chance”, Connie Willis (Asimov's May 1986)
- “The Hellbound Heart”, Clive Barker (Night Visions 3)
- Night Moves, Tim Powers (Axolotl)
- “The Night Seasons”, J. N. Williamson (Night Cry Winter 1986, Spring,Summer,Fall 1987)
Short Story
- Winner: “Red Light”, David J. Schow (Twilight Zone Dec 1986)
- “The Boy Who Plaited Manes”, Nancy Springer (F&SF Oct 1986)
- “The Brains of Rats”, Michael Blumlein (Interzone #16 Summer 1986)
- “The End of the Whole Mess”, Stephen King (Omni Oct 1986)
- “Pain”, Whitley Strieber (Cutting Edge)
- “The Rise and Fall of Father Alex”, Amyas Naegele (F&SF Jan 1986)
- “They're Coming for You”, Les Daniels (Cutting Edge)
- “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back”, Joe R. Lansdale (Nukes: Four Horror Writers on the Ultimate Horror)
Collection/anthology
- Winner: Tales of the Quintana Roo, James Tiptree, Jr. (Arkham House)
- Black Wine, Douglas E. Winter, ed. (Dark Harvest)
- Cutting Edge, Dennis Etchison, ed. (Doubleday)
- Dreams of Dark and Light, Tanith Lee (Arkham House)
- Liavek: The Players of Luck, Will Shetterly & Emma Bull, eds. (Ace)
- Merlin's Booke, Jane Yolen (Ace; SteelDragon)
- Night Visions 3, George R. R. Martin, ed. (Dark Harvest)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Jane Yolen, ed., for Favorite Folktales from Around the World
- Terri Windling, for Ace
- Simon Ounsley & David Pringle, for -
- David G. Hartwell, for Arbor House
- Donald M. Grant, for Donald M. Grant
- Jack Sullivan, for The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner (tie): W. Paul Ganley, for Weirdbook and Weirdbook Press
- Winner (tie): Jeff Conner, for Scream/Press
- Stephen Jones & David Sutton, for Fantasy Tales
- David B. Silva, for The Horror Show
Special Convention Award
- Winner: Andre Norton
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