World Fantasy Awards 1986
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Providence RI :
Eligibility Year: 1985
Judges: Robert A. Collins, Ellen Datlow, Charles de Lint, Dean Koontz, Patricia A. McKillip
Eligibility Year: 1985
Judges: Robert A. Collins, Ellen Datlow, Charles de Lint, Dean Koontz, Patricia A. McKillip
Life Achievement
- Winner: Avram Davidson
Novel
- Winner: 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
- Winner: “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
- Winner: “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
- Winner: 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
- Winner: Jeff Jones
- Winner: Thomas Canty
- J. K. Potter
- Alan Lee
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Pat LoBrutto, for Doubleday
- Terri Windling, for editing
- Donald M. Grant, for Donald M. Grant, publisher
- Thomas Canty & Phil Hale, for A Monster at Christmas
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Douglas E. Winter, for reviewing
- David B. Silva, for The Horror Show
- Paul Mikol & Scot Stadalsky, for Dark Harvest
- Jeff Conner, for Scream/Press
- W. Paul Ganley, for Weirdbook and Weirdbook Press
Special Convention Award
- Winner: Donald A. Wollheim
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