World Fantasy Awards 1988
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Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
London UK :
Eligibility Year: 1987
Judges: Mike Ashley, Scott Baker, Robert S. Hadji, Maxim Jakubowski, Donald A. Wollheim
Eligibility Year: 1987
Judges: Mike Ashley, Scott Baker, Robert S. Hadji, Maxim Jakubowski, Donald A. Wollheim
Life Achievement
- Winner: Everett F. Bleiler
Novel
- Winner: Replay, Ken Grimwood (Arbor House)
- Ægypt, John Crowley (Bantam Spectra)
- Misery, Stephen King (Viking)
- On Stranger Tides, Tim Powers (Ace)
- Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card (Tor)
- Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon (Pocket)
- Weaveworld, Clive Barker (Simon & Schuster/Poseidon; Collins)
Novella
- Winner: “Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences; F&SF Nov 1987)
- “Best Friends”, Robert R. McCammon (Night Visions 4)
- “The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead”, Alan Rodgers (Masques II)
- “A Hypothetical Lizard”, Alan Moore (Liavek: Wizard's Row)
- “Nesting Instinct”, Scott Baker (The Architecture of Fear)
- “The Pear-Shaped Man”, George R. R. Martin (Omni Oct 1987)
- “Shades”, Lucius Shepard (In the Field of Fire)
Short Story
- Winner: “Friend's Best Man”, Jonathan Carroll (F&SF Jan 1987)
- “Angel”, Pat Cadigan (Asimov's May 1987)
- “Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands”, Garry Kilworth (Other Edens)
- “In the House of Gingerbread”, Gene Wolfe (The Architecture of Fear)
- “Pamela's Get”, David J. Schow (Twilight Zone Aug 1987)
- “Splatter: A Cautionary Tale”, Douglas E. Winter (Masques II)
Anthology
- Winner (tie): The Architecture of Fear, Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz, eds. (Arbor House)
- Winner (tie): The Dark Descent, David G. Hartwell, ed. (Tor)
- In the Field of Fire, Jeanne Van Buren Dann & Jack Dann, eds. (Tor)
- Masques II, J. N. Williamson, ed. (Maclay & Associates)
- Night Visions 4, Anonymous, ed. (Dark Harvest)
- Other Edens, Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock, eds. (Unwin)
- The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV, Karl Edward Wagner, ed. (DAW)
Collection
- Winner: The Jaguar Hunter, Lucius Shepard (Arkham House)
- Night's Sorceries, Tanith Lee (DAW)
- Polyphemus, Michael Shea (Arkham House)
- Scared Stiff, Tales of Sex and Death, Ramsey Campbell (Scream/Press)
- Why Not You and I?, Karl Edward Wagner (Tor; Dark Harvest)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: David G. Hartwell, for Arbor House; Tor; anthologies
- Dean R. Koontz, for service to the field
- Terri Windling, for Ace; Armadillo
- Shawna McCarthy, for Bantam Spectra
- Tappan King, for Twilight Zone
- Gardner Dozois, for Asimov's, anthologies
- George Scithers, for Weird Tales
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner (tie): Robert Garcia & Nancy Garcia, for American Fantasy
- Winner (tie): David B. Silva, for The Horror Show
- Stephen Jones & David Sutton, for Fantasy Tales
- Paul Mikol & Scot Stadalsky, for Dark Harvest
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