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The World Fantasy Awards are given annually by the World Fantasy Convention, to acknowledge excellence in fantasy writing.
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Lifetime Achievement Awards
2007
Betty Ballantine (winner)
Diana Wynne Jones (winner)
Diana Wynne Jones
 
2006
Stephen Fabian
John Crowley (winner)
John Crowley
 
2005
Tom Doherty (winner)
Carol Emshwiller (winner)
Carol Emshwiller
 
Stephen KingGahan Wilson
 
2003
Donald M Grant (winner)
Lloyd Alexander (winner)
Lloyd Alexander
 
 
Philip Jose Farmer
 
Michael MoorcockMarion Zimmer Bradley
 
Hugh B Cave
 
Andre Norton
 
Madeleine L'Engle
 
Gene Wolfe
 
Ursula K Le Guin
 
Jack Williamson
 
Harlan Ellison
 
1992
Edd Cartier (winner)
 
 
R A Lafferty
 
 
 
Jack Finney
 
Avram Davidson
 
Theodore Sturgeon
 
L Sprague de CampDonald WandreiJack VanceE Hoffmann Price
Richard Matheson
 
Roald Dahl
 
Jack VanceAndre NortonL Sprague de CampItalo Calvino
 
Jack VanceAndre NortonL Sprague de CampAvram Davidson
C L Moore
 
L Sprague de CampAvram DavidsonJack VanceManly Wade Wellman
 
Manly Wade WellmanL Sprague de CampJorge Luis Borges
 
Manly Wade WellmanRichard MathesonRoald DahlJorge Luis Borges
Frank Belknap Long
 
Manly Wade WellmanE Hoffmann PriceFrank Belknap LongL Sprague de Camp
Jorge Luis BorgesRay Bradbury
 
Ray BradburyFrank Belknap LongManly Wade WellmanFritz Leiber
 
Manly Wade WellmanDonald WandreiFrank Belknap LongRobert Aickman
Robert Bloch
 
Best Novel Awards
The Privilege of the SwordLisey's StoryThe Lies of Locke LamoraIn the Night Garden
Soldier of Sidon
 
Od MagicLunar ParkA Princess of RoumaniaVellum
The Limits of EnchantmentKafka on the Shore
 
Iron CouncilThe Runes of the EarthPerfect CircleThe Knight
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
 
The Etched CityFudokiThe Light AgesVeniss Underground
Tooth and Claw
 
Fitcher's BridesThe ScarThe Portrait of Mrs. CharbuqueThe Facts of Life
Ombria in Shadow
 
Brown HarvestAmerican GodsFrom the Dust Returned: A Family RemembranceThe Wooden Sea
The Onion GirlThe Curse of ChalionThe Other Wind
 
The Amber SpyglassLord of EmperorsPerdido Street StationThe Grand Ellipse
DeclareGalveston
 
Gardens of the MoonA Red Heart of MemoriesTamsinThe Rainy Season
A Witness to LifeThraxas
 
Sailing to SarantiumThe MartyringMockingbirdSomeplace to Be Flying
The Antelope Wife
 
The GiftAmerican GoliathThe Dumas ClubDry Water
TraderThe Physiognomy
 
Devil's TowerThe Golden KeyThe Bear Went Over the MountainShadow of Ashland
The 37th MandalaA Game of ThronesGodmother Night
 
RequiemExpiration DateAll the Bells on EarthThe Silent Strength of Stones
Red Earth and Pouring RainThe Prestige
 
Brittle InningsThe Circus of the Earth and the AirFrom the Teeth of AngelsLove and Sleep
Waking the MoonTowing Jehovah
 
SkinThe Iron Dragon's DaughterThe ThroatThe Innkeeper's Song
Drawing BloodGlimpses
 
Photographing FairiesBriar RoseWasAnno Dracula
Last Call
 
Hunting the Ghost DancerBone DanceThe Little CountryThe Paper Grail
Outside the Dog MuseumBoy's Life
 
Good OmensMary ReillyTiganaOnly Begotten Daughter
Thomas the Rhymer
 
The Stress of Her RegardThe Soldier of AreteA Child Across the SkyCarrion Comfort
In a Dark DreamMadouc
 
The Drive-InFadeSleeping in FlameThe Last Coin
The Silence of the LambsKoko
 
Seventh SonAegyptMiserySwan Song
On Stranger TidesWeaveworldReplay
 
The PetStrangersItThe Tricksters
Talking ManThe Soldier of the MistPerfume: The Story of a Murderer
 
WinterkingThe Vampire LestatThe Damnation GameThe Dream Years
IllywhackerSong of Kali
 
The TalismanThe CeremoniesArcher's GoonMythago Wood
The Bridge of Birds
 
Tea with the Black DragonSuldrun's GardenThe Wandering UnicornPet Sematary
The Armageddon RagThe Dragon Waiting
 
The NestlingFevre DreamPhantomNifft the Lean
 
The White HotelThe Warhound and the World's PainThe NamelessLittle, Big
 
ShadowlandFirelordAriosto: Ariosto Furioso, A Romance for an Alternate RenaissanceThe Mist
 
The Dark Bright WaterThe Dancers of ArunHarpist in the WindThe Palace
The Last Call of MourningWatchtower
 
The Sound of MidnightThe Black CastleThe StandNight's Master
Gloriana
 
Lord Foul's BaneThe Hour of the Oxrun DeadOur Lady of Darkness
 
The Dragon and the GeorgeThe Doll Who Ate His MotherDark CrusadeThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
The Sailor on the Seas of FateDoctor Rat
 
Salem's LotSomewhere in Time
 
A Midsummer TempestMerlin's RingThe Forgotten Beasts of Eld
 
Best Collection Awards
20th Century GhostsTo Charles Fort, with LoveMagic for BeginnersIn the Palace of Repose
The Keyhole Opera
 
Songs of LeavingHeat of Fusion: And Other StoriesStable Strategies and OthersBreathmoss and Other Exhalations
TrujilloBlack Juice
 
More Tomorrow: And Other StoriesThe Two Sams: Ghost StoriesBibliomancy
 
The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for GrownupsFigures in Rain: Weird And Ghostly TalesWaifs and StraysCity of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant: And Other Stories
 
Stranger Things HappenThe Essential Ellison: A 50 Year RetrospectiveWilliam F. Nolan's Dark Universe: Stories 1951-2001, the Very Best from a Master of SuspenseSkin Folk
 
Travel ArrangementsThe Perseids: And Other StoriesBlackwater DaysMagic Terror
Perpetuity Blues: And Other StoriesBeluthahatchie: And Other Stories
 
Deep into that Darkness PeeringHearts in AtlantisNecromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny StoriesReave the Just: And Other Tales
 
The Night We Buried Road DogManitou Man: The World of Graham MastertonLast Summer at Mars HillThe Cleft and Other Odd Tales
Black Glass
 
Fractal PaisleysGiant BonesA Geography of Unknown LandsThe Throne of Bones
 
Conference with the DeadBible Stories for AdultsThe Pavilion of Frozen WomenThe Nightmare Factory
Midnight Promises
 
The Ivory and the HornDeath Stalks the NightSeven Tales and a Fable
 
Travellers In MagicThe Early Fears
 
Under the Crust: Supernatural Tales of BuxtonTransients: And Other Disquieting StoriesHogfoot Right and Bird-HandsDreams Underfoot
Antiquities: Seven StoriesAngels and Visitations: A MiscellanyAlone with the Horrors
 
Lord Kelvin's MachineMeeting in InfinityBear's Fantasies: Six stories in old paradigmsMr Fox and Other Feral Tales
 
Lafferty In OrbitThe Bone ForestThe Ends of the Earth: Fourteen StoriesMore Shapes Than One
Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories
 
The Brains of RatsPrayers to Broken StonesThe Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz LeiberHouses without Doors
 
By Bizarre HandsBlue WorldRichard Matheson: Collected Stories
 
Charles Beaumont Selected StoriesStoreys from the Old HotelAngry Candy
 
Why Not You and I?Scared StiffPolyphemusThe Jaguar Hunter
 
Tales of the Quintana RooDreams of Dark and LightMerlin's Booke
 
Skeleton CrewDragonfield: And Other StoriesBooks of Blood Volume 4Black Venus
 
Viriconium NightsThe Songbirds of PainThe Fire When It ComesBooks of Blood Volume 1
 
High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories
 
Different SeasonsThe Dark Country
 
Tales from the Nightside
 
Shatterday
 
Night WindsNight ShiftHeroes and HorrorsThe Redward Edward Papers
 
Cold ChillsMurgunstrumm and Others
 
Long After MidnightThe Height of the ScreamCinnabar
 
The Early LongDeathbird StoriesThe Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy
 
From Evil's PillowWorse Things Waiting
 
Best Novella Awards
1999
Cold by Antonia S Byatt
The Hedge Knight [short story] by George R R Martin
Dragonfly by Ursula K Le Guin
Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff by Peter Straub
The Summer Isles [short story] by Ian R MacLeod (winner)
 
1998
The Zombies of Madison County by Douglas E Winter
The Fall of the Kings [short story] by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins by Brian Hodge
Coppola's Dracula by Kim Newman
Streetcar Dreams [short story] by Richard Bowes (winner)
 
1997
Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast by Suzy McKee Charnas
GI Jesus by Susan Palwick
Blood of the Dragon by George R R Martin
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself by Michael Marshall Smith
A City in Winter [short story] by Mark Helprin (winner)
 
1996
Where They Are Hid [short story] by Tim Powers
More Tomorrow [short story] by Michael Marshall Smith
The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom by Jonathan Lethem
Home for Christmas by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Ether, OR by Ursula K Le Guin
Radio Waves by Michael Swanwick (winner)
 
1995
A Slow Red Whisper of Sand by Robert Devereaux
Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright... by Kim Newman
The Last Time [short story] by Lucius Shepard
The God Who Slept with Women by Brian Aldiss
Fee by Peter Straub
Last Summer at Mars Hill [short story] by Elizabeth Hand (winner)
 
1994
Wall, Stone, Craft [short story] by Walter Jon Williams
The Night We Buried Road Dog [short story] by Jack Cady
Mefisto In Onyx [short story] by Harlan Ellison
Under the Crust [short story] by Terry Lamsley (winner)
 
1993
Unmasking [short story] by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Uh-Oh City by Jonathan Carroll
The Territory by Bradley Denton
Paperjack by Charles de Lint
The Ghost Village by Peter Straub (winner)
 
1992
To Become a Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer
The Pavilion of Frozen Women [short story] by S P Somtow
Our Lady of the Harbour [short story] by Charles de Lint
Gwydion and the Dragon by C J Cherryh
The Gallery of His Dreams [short story] by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Ragthorn by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth (winner)
 
1991
The Hemingway Hoax [short story] by Joe Haldeman
Black Cocktail [short story] by Jonathan Carroll
The Barrens [short story] by F Paul Wilson
Bones by Pat Murphy (winner)
 
1990
A Dozen Tough Jobs [short story] by Howard Waldrop
Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks by Joe R Lansdale
The Father of Stones [short story] by Lucius Shepard
Great Work of Time by John Crowley (winner)
 
1989
The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter [short story] by Lucius Shepard
The Gardener by Sheri S Tepper
The Devil's Arithmetic [short story] by Jane Yolen
The Skin Trade by George R R Martin (winner)
 
1988
Best Friends by Edward Bryant
Shades by Lucius Shepard
The Pear-Shaped Man [short story] by George R R Martin
Nesting Instinct by Scott Baker
A Hypothetical Lizard by Alan Moore
The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead by Alan Rodgers
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K Le Guin (winner)
 
1987
The Night Seasons [short story] by J N Williamson
Night Moves [short story] by Tim Powers
The Hellbound Heart [short story] by Clive Barker
Chance by Connie Willis
Hatrack River [short story] by Orson Scott Card (winner)
 
1986
Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm
Flight by Peter Dickinson
Dead Image by David Morrell
Nadelman's God by T E D Klein (winner)
 
1985
The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard
Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament by Clive Barker
In the Sumerian Marshes by Gerald Pearce
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet by Stephen King
The Unconquered Country [short story] by Geoff Ryman (winner)
 
1984
The Lurking Duck by Scott Baker
The Red Hawk [short story] by Elizabeth A Lynn
Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee
The Monkey's Bride by Michael Bishop
Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson (winner)
 
1983
Night's Swift Dragons by Charles L Grant
Horrible Imaginings by Fritz Leiber
The Breathing Method [short story] by Stephen King
Confess the Seasons by Charles L Grant (winner)
Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner (winner)
 
1982
The River of Night's Dreaming by Karl Edward Wagner
Mythago Wood [short story] by Robert Holdstock
Ealdwood [short story] by C J Cherryh
The Fire When It Comes [short story] by Parke Godwin (winner)
 
Best Short Story Awards
1999
Travels with the Snow Queen by Kelly Link
The Death of the Duke by Ellen Kushner
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar [short story] by Neil Gaiman
Every Angel Is Terrifying by John Kessel
The Specialist's Hat by Kelly Link (winner)
 
1998
Audience by Jack Womack
The Inner Inner City by Robert Charles Wilson
Get a Grip by Paul Park
Fortune and Misfortune by Lisa Goldstein
Dust Motes by Patricia D Cacek (winner)
 
1997
Underbed by Graham Masterton
The Dead Cop by Dennis Etchison
Thirteen Phantasms by James P Blaylock (winner)
 
1996
Dragon's Fin Soup [short story] by S P Somtow
Angel Thing by Petrina Smith
Loop by Douglas E Winter
The Singing Marine by Kit Reed
The Perseids [short story] by Robert Charles Wilson
The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (winner)
 
1995
To Receive Is Better by Michael Marshall Smith
The Sisterhood of Night by Steven Millhauser
The Homecoming by Nicholas Royle
The Changeling's Tale by Michael Swanwick
The Man in The Black Suit [short story] by Stephen King (winner)
 
1994
Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman
Something Worse by Terry Lamsley
Some Strange Desire by Ian McDonald
The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep by Charles de Lint
The Little Green Ones by Les Daniels
England Underway by Terry Bisson
Death in Bangkok by Dan Simmons
The Lodger [short story] by Fred Chappell (winner)
 
1993
The Winterberry by Nick DiChario
Calcutta, Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z Brite
Bridges by Charles de Lint
The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
Alfred by Lisa Goldstein
Graves by Joe Haldeman (winner)
This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons (winner)
 
1992
Pity the Monsters by Charles de Lint
The Conjure Man by Charles de Lint
The Better Boy by Fred Chappell
The Somewhere Doors by Fred Chappell (winner)
 
1991
Stephen [short story] by Elizabeth Massie
The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti
Bears Discover Fire [short story] by Terry Bisson
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (winner)
 
1990
'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy,' He Said by Chet Williamson
Varicose Worms by Scott Baker
A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned by Edward Bryant
Mr Fiddlehead by Jonathan Carroll
The Edge of the World by Michael Swanwick
The Illusionist by Steven Millhauser (winner)
 
1989
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station by John M Ford
Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R Lansdale
Metastasis by Dan Simmons
Life of Buddha by Lucius Shepard
 
1988
Splatter: A Cautionary Tale by Douglas E Winter
Pamela's Get by David J Schow
In the House of Gingerbread by Gene Wolfe
Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands [short story] by Garry Kilworth
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Friend's Best Man by Jonathan Carroll (winner)
 
1987
The Boy Who Plaited Manes by Nancy Springer
Pain by Whitley Strieber
The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King
The Brains of Rats [short story] by Michael Blumlein
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back by Joe R Lansdale
They're Coming for You by Les Daniels
The Rise and Fall of Father Alex by Amyas Naegele
Red Light by David J Schow (winner)
 
1986
The Slovo Stove by Avram Davidson
Return of the Dust Vampires by Sharon N Farber
The Jaguar Hunter [short story] by Lucius Shepard
Paper Dragons by James P Blaylock (winner)
 
1985
Bad Medicine [short story] by Jack Dann
Nightcrawlers [short story] by Robert R McCammon
Still Life with Scorpion by Scott Baker (winner)
The Bones Wizard by Alan Ryan (winner)
 
1984
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium [short story] by William F Wu
Solitario's Eyes by Lucius Shepard
The Silent Cradle by Leigh Kennedy
Into Whose Hands by Karl Edward Wagner
The Hundred-Year Christmas [short story] by David Morrell
Elle est Trois (La Mort) by Tanith Lee (winner)
 
1983
The Man Who Met Picasso by Michael Swanwick
Firestorm by Steve Rasnic Tem
Deathtracks by Dennis Etchison
Petra by Greg Bear
The Gorgon [short story] by Tanith Lee (winner)
 
1982
Fairy Tale by Jack Dann
Coin of the Realm by Charles L Grant
The Reach by Stephen King (winner)
The Dark Country [short story] by Dennis Etchison (winner)
 
1981
Children of the Kingdom by T E D Klein
Cabin 33 by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop (winner)
 
1980
Saturday's Shadow by William F Nolan
Petey by T E D Klein
The Button Molder by Fritz Leiber
The Woman Who Loved the Moon [short story] by Elizabeth A Lynn
Mackintosh Willy by Ramsey Campbell (winner)
 
1979
Within the Walls of Tyre by Michael Bishop
The Magic Goes Away [short story] by Larry Niven
Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose by Charles L Grant
Sleep Well of Nights by Avram Davidson
Naples by Avram Davidson
 
1978
When All the Children Call My Name by Charles L Grant
Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight by Avram Davidson
Loveman's Comeback by Ramsey Campbell
Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison
The Bagful of Dreams [short story] by Jack Vance
The Chimney by Ramsey Campbell
 
1977
Dark Wings by Fritz Leiber
The Companion by Ramsey Campbell
What Is Life? by Robert Sheckley
Two Suns Setting by Karl Edward Wagner
It Only Comes Out at Night by Dennis Etchison
There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding by Russell Kirk (winner)
 
1976
The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign by Manly Wade Wellman
Born of the Winds by Brian Lumley
The Barrow Troll by David Drake
Belsen Express by Fritz Leiber
 
1975
Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner
A Father's Tale by Sterling E Lanier
The Events at Poroth Farm by T E D Klein
Pages from a Young Girl's Journal by Robert Aickman (winner)
 



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