World Fantasy

The World Fantasy Awards are given annually by the World Fantasy Convention, to acknowledge excellence in fantasy writing.

Lifetime Achievement Awards

World Fantasy
Diana Wynne Jones (winner)
John Crowley (winner)
Carol Emshwiller (winner)
Stephen King (winner)
Gahan Wilson (winner)
Lloyd Alexander (winner)
Forrest J Ackerman (winner)
George Scithers (winner)
Philip José Farmer (winner)
Frank Frazetta (winner)
Marion Zimmer Bradley (winner)
Michael Moorcock (winner)
Hugh B Cave (winner)
Edward L Ferman (winner)
Andre Norton (winner)
Madeleine L'Engle (winner)
Gene Wolfe (winner)
Ursula K Le Guin (winner)
Jack Williamson (winner)
Harlan Ellison (winner)
Ray Russell (winner)
R A Lafferty (winner)
Evangeline Walton (winner)
Everett F Bleiler (winner)
Jack Finney (winner)
Avram Davidson (winner)
Theodore Sturgeon (winner)
L Sprague de Camp (winner)
Richard Matheson (winner)
E Hoffmann Price (winner)
Jack Vance (winner)
Donald Wandrei (winner)
Roald Dahl (winner)
Italo Calvino (winner)
L Sprague de Camp
Andre Norton
Jack Vance
Joseph Payne Brennan
Avram Davidson
L Sprague de Camp
C L Moore (winner)
Andre Norton
Jack Vance
Avram Davidson
L Sprague de Camp
H Warner Munn
Jack Vance
Manly Wade Wellman (winner)
Jorge Luis Borges (winner)
John Collier
L Sprague de Camp
H Warner Munn
John Myers Myers
Manly Wade Wellman
Jorge Luis Borges
John Collier
Roald Dahl
Frank Belknap Long (winner)
Richard Matheson
Manly Wade Wellman
Jorge Luis Borges
Ray Bradbury (winner)
L Sprague de Camp
Frank Belknap Long
H Warner Munn
E Hoffmann Price
Manly Wade Wellman
Ray Bradbury
Fritz Leiber (winner)
Frank Belknap Long
Manly Wade Wellman
Robert Aickman
Robert Bloch (winner)
Frank Belknap Long
Donald Wandrei
Manly Wade Wellman

Best Novel Awards

2018
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
The City of Brass by S A Chakraborty
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Ka by John Crowley
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

2016
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Chimes by Anna Smaill (winner)
The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Savages by K J Parker
Uprooted by Naomi Novik

2015
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (winner)
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
My Real Children by Jo Walton

2014
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street by Richard Bowes
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Land Across by Gene Wolfe
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (winner)

2013
Alif the Unseen by G Willow Wilson (winner)
Crandolin by Anna Tambour
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R Kiernan
The Killing Moon by N K Jemisin
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

2012
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Among Others by Jo Walton
A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin
Osama by Lavie Tidhar (winner)
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman

2011
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N K Jemisin
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (winner)
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

2010
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge
The City & the City by China Miéville (winner)
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
The Red Tree by Caitlín R Kiernan

2009
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (winner)
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (winner)

2008
Fangland by John Marks
The Gospel of the Knife by Will Shetterly
The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith
Territory by Emma Bull
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (winner)

2007
In the Night Garden by Catherynne M Valente
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (winner)

2006
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (winner)
The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Od Magic by Patricia A McKillip
A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
Vellum by Hal Duncan

2005
Iron Council by China Miéville
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (winner)
The Knight by Gene Wolfe
Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
The Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson

2004
The Etched City by K J Bishop
Fudoki by Kij Johnson
The Light Ages by Ian R MacLeod
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (winner)
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer

2003
The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce (winner)
Fitcher's Brides by Gregory Frost
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A McKillip (winner)
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford
The Scar by China Miéville

2002
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Brown Harvest by Jay Russell
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint
The Other Wind by Ursula K Le Guin (winner)
The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll

2001
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Declare by Tim Powers (winner)
Galveston by Sean Stewart (winner)
The Grand Ellipse by Paula Volsky
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

2000
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
The Rainy Season by James P Blaylock
A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Tamsin by Peter S Beagle
Thraxas by Martin Scott (winner)
A Witness to Life by Terence M Green

1999
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich (winner)
The Martyring by Thomas Sullivan
Mockingbird by Sean Stewart
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Someplace to Be Flying by Charles de Lint

1998
American Goliath by Harvey Jacobs
Dry Water by Eric Nylund
The Dumas Club by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Gift by Patrick O'Leary
The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford (winner)
Trader by Charles de Lint

1997
The 37th Mandala by Marc Laidlaw
The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
Devil's Tower by Mark C Sumner
A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (winner)
The Golden Key by Kate Elliott, Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson
Shadow of Ashland by Terence M Green

1996
All the Bells on Earth by James P Blaylock
Expiration Date by Tim Powers
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (winner)
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
Requiem by Graham Joyce
The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

1995
Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop
The Circus of the Earth and the Air by Brooke Stevens
From the Teeth of Angels by Jonathan Carroll
Love and Sleep by John Crowley
Towing Jehovah by James Morrow (winner)
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand

1994
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z Brite
Glimpses by Lewis Shiner (winner)
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S Beagle
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
Skin by Kathe Koja
The Throat by Peter Straub

1993
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Last Call by Tim Powers (winner)
Photographing Fairies by Steve Szilagyi
Was by Geoff Ryman

1992
Bone Dance by Emma Bull
Boy's Life by Robert R McCammon (winner)
Hunting the Ghost Dancer by A A Attanasio
The Little Country by Charles de Lint
Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll
The Paper Grail by James P Blaylock

1991
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow (winner)
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (winner)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

1990
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
In a Dark Dream by Charles L Grant
Madouc by Jack Vance (winner)
The Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers

1989
The Drive-In by Joe R Lansdale
Fade by Robert Cormier
Koko by Peter Straub (winner)
The Last Coin by James P Blaylock
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll

1988
Aegypt by John Crowley
Misery by Stephen King
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Replay by Ken Grimwood (winner)
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Swan Song by Robert R McCammon
Weaveworld by Clive Barker

1987
It by Stephen King
Perfume by Patrick Süskind (winner)
The Pet by Charles L Grant
The Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
Strangers by Dean Koontz
Talking Man by Terry Bisson
The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy

1986
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (winner)
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Winterking by Paul Hazel

1985
Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones
The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (winner)
The Ceremonies by T E D Klein
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (winner)
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

1984
The Armageddon Rag by George R R Martin
The Dragon Waiting by John M Ford (winner)
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
Tea with the Black Dragon by R A MacAvoy
The Wandering Unicorn by Manuel Mujica Láinez

1983
Fevre Dream by George R R Martin
The Nestling by Charles L Grant
Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea (winner)
Phantom by Thomas Tessier

1982
Little, Big by John Crowley (winner)
The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell
The Warhound and the World's Pain by Michael Moorcock
The White Hotel by D M Thomas

1981
Ariosto by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Firelord by Parke Godwin
The Mist by Stephen King
Shadowland by Peter Straub

1980
The Dancers of Arun by Elizabeth A Lynn
The Dark Bright Water by Patricia Wrightson
Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A McKillip
The Last Call of Mourning by Charles L Grant
The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Watchtower by Elizabeth A Lynn (winner)

1979
The Black Castle by Les Daniels
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock (winner)
Night's Master by Tanith Lee
The Sound of Midnight by Charles L Grant
The Stand by Stephen King

1978
The Hour of the Oxrun Dead by Charles L Grant
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson
Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (winner)

1977
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner
Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle (winner)
The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell
The Dragon and the George by Gordon R Dickson
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock

1976
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson (winner)

1975
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKillip (winner)
Merlin's Ring by H Warner Munn
A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson

Best Short Story Awards

1999
The Death of the Duke by Ellen Kushner
Every Angel Is Terrifying by John Kessel
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar [short story] by Neil Gaiman
The Specialist's Hat by Kelly Link (winner)
Travels with the Snow Queen by Kelly Link

1998
Audience by Jack Womack
Dust Motes by Patricia D Cacek (winner)
Fortune and Misfortune by Lisa Goldstein
Get a Grip by Paul Park
The Inner Inner City by Robert Charles Wilson

1997
The Dead Cop by Dennis Etchison
Thirteen Phantasms by James P Blaylock (winner)
Underbed by Graham Masterton

1996
Angel Thing by Petrina Smith
Dragon's Fin Soup [short story] by S P Somtow
The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (winner)
Loop by Douglas E Winter
The Perseids [short story] by Robert Charles Wilson
The Singing Marine by Kit Reed

1995
The Changeling's Tale by Michael Swanwick
The Homecoming by Nicholas Royle
The Man in The Black Suit [short story] by Stephen King (winner)
The Sisterhood of Night by Steven Millhauser
To Receive Is Better by Michael Marshall Smith

1994
Death in Bangkok by Dan Simmons
England Underway by Terry Bisson
The Little Green Ones by Les Daniels
The Lodger [short story] by Fred Chappell (winner)
The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep by Charles de Lint
Some Strange Desire by Ian McDonald
Something Worse by Terry Lamsley
Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman

1993
Alfred by Lisa Goldstein
The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup
Bridges by Charles de Lint
Calcutta, Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z Brite
Graves by Joe Haldeman (winner)
This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons (winner)
The Winterberry by Nick DiChario

1992
The Better Boy by Fred Chappell
The Conjure Man by Charles de Lint
Pity the Monsters by Charles de Lint
The Somewhere Doors by Fred Chappell (winner)

1991
Bears Discover Fire [short story] by Terry Bisson
The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (winner)
Stephen [short story] by Elizabeth Massie

1990
The Edge of the World by Michael Swanwick
The Illusionist by Steven Millhauser (winner)
Mr Fiddlehead by Jonathan Carroll
A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned by Edward Bryant
Varicose Worms by Scott Baker
'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy,' He Said by Chet Williamson

1989
Life of Buddha by Lucius Shepard
Metastasis by Dan Simmons
Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R Lansdale
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station by John M Ford

1988
Angel by Pat Cadigan
Friend's Best Man by Jonathan Carroll (winner)
Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands [short story] by Garry Kilworth
In the House of Gingerbread by Gene Wolfe
Pamela's Get by David J Schow
Splatter: A Cautionary Tale by Douglas E Winter

1987
The Boy Who Plaited Manes by Nancy Springer
The Brains of Rats [short story] by Michael Blumlein
The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King
Pain by Whitley Strieber
Red Light by David J Schow (winner)
The Rise and Fall of Father Alex by Amyas Naegele
They're Coming for You by Les Daniels
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back by Joe R Lansdale

1986
The Jaguar Hunter [short story] by Lucius Shepard
Paper Dragons by James P Blaylock (winner)
Return of the Dust Vampires by Sharon N Farber
The Slovo Stove by Avram Davidson

1985
Bad Medicine [short story] by Jack Dann
The Bones Wizard by Alan Ryan (winner)
Nightcrawlers [short story] by Robert R McCammon
Still Life with Scorpion by Scott Baker (winner)

1984
Elle est Trois (La Mort) by Tanith Lee (winner)
The Hundred-Year Christmas [short story] by David Morrell
Into Whose Hands by Karl Edward Wagner
The Silent Cradle by Leigh Kennedy
Solitario's Eyes by Lucius Shepard
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium [short story] by William F Wu

1983
Deathtracks by Dennis Etchison
Firestorm by Steve Rasnic Tem
The Gorgon [short story] by Tanith Lee (winner)
The Man Who Met Picasso by Michael Swanwick
Petra by Greg Bear

1982
Coin of the Realm by Charles L Grant
The Dark Country [short story] by Dennis Etchison (winner)
Fairy Tale by Jack Dann
The Reach by Stephen King (winner)

1981
Cabin 33 by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Children of the Kingdom by T E D Klein
The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop (winner)
The Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

1980
The Button Molder by Fritz Leiber
Mackintosh Willy by Ramsey Campbell (winner)
Petey by T E D Klein
Saturday's Shadow by William F Nolan
The Woman Who Loved the Moon [short story] by Elizabeth A Lynn

1979
Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose by Charles L Grant
The Magic Goes Away [short story] by Larry Niven
Naples by Avram Davidson
Sleep Well of Nights by Avram Davidson
Within the Walls of Tyre by Michael Bishop

1978
The Bagful of Dreams [short story] by Jack Vance
The Chimney by Ramsey Campbell
Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison
Loveman's Comeback by Ramsey Campbell
Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight by Avram Davidson
When All the Children Call My Name by Charles L Grant

1977
The Companion by Ramsey Campbell
Dark Wings by Fritz Leiber
It Only Comes Out at Night by Dennis Etchison
There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding by Russell Kirk (winner)
Two Suns Setting by Karl Edward Wagner
What Is Life? by Robert Sheckley

1976
The Barrow Troll by David Drake
Belsen Express by Fritz Leiber
Born of the Winds by Brian Lumley
The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign by Manly Wade Wellman

1975
The Events at Poroth Farm by T E D Klein
A Father's Tale by Sterling E Lanier
Pages from a Young Girl's Journal by Robert Aickman (winner)
Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner

Best Novella Awards

2018
The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang
In Calabria by Peter S Beagle
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

2015
The Mothers of Voorhisville by Mary Rickert
We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory and Darryl Gregory (winner)
Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

1999
Cold by Antonia S Byatt
Dragonfly by Ursula K Le Guin
The Hedge Knight [short story] by George R R Martin
Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff by Peter Straub
The Summer Isles [short story] by Ian R MacLeod (winner)

1998
Coppola's Dracula by Kim Newman
The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins by Brian Hodge
The Fall of the Kings [short story] by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
Streetcar Dreams [short story] by Richard Bowes (winner)
The Zombies of Madison County by Douglas E Winter

1997
Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast by Suzy McKee Charnas
Blood of the Dragon by George R R Martin
A City in Winter [short story] by Mark Helprin (winner)
GI Jesus by Susan Palwick
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself by Michael Marshall Smith

1996
Ether, OR by Ursula K Le Guin
Home for Christmas by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom by Jonathan Lethem
More Tomorrow [short story] by Michael Marshall Smith
Radio Waves by Michael Swanwick (winner)
Where They Are Hid [short story] by Tim Powers

1995
Fee by Peter Straub
The God Who Slept with Women by Brian Aldiss
Last Summer at Mars Hill [short story] by Elizabeth Hand (winner)
The Last Time [short story] by Lucius Shepard
Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright... by Kim Newman
A Slow Red Whisper of Sand by Robert Devereaux

1994
Mefisto In Onyx [short story] by Harlan Ellison
The Night We Buried Road Dog [short story] by Jack Cady
Under the Crust [short story] by Terry Lamsley (winner)
Wall, Stone, Craft [short story] by Walter Jon Williams

1993
The Ghost Village by Peter Straub (winner)
Paperjack by Charles de Lint
The Territory by Bradley Denton
Uh-Oh City by Jonathan Carroll
Unmasking [short story] by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

1992
The Gallery of His Dreams [short story] by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Gwydion and the Dragon by C J Cherryh
Our Lady of the Harbour [short story] by Charles de Lint
The Pavilion of Frozen Women [short story] by S P Somtow
The Ragthorn by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth (winner)
To Become a Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer

1991
The Barrens [short story] by F Paul Wilson
Black Cocktail [short story] by Jonathan Carroll
Bones by Pat Murphy (winner)
The Hemingway Hoax [short story] by Joe Haldeman

1990
Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana by Michael Bishop
A Dozen Tough Jobs [short story] by Howard Waldrop
The Father of Stones [short story] by Lucius Shepard
Great Work of Time by John Crowley (winner)
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks by Joe R Lansdale

1989
The Devil's Arithmetic [short story] by Jane Yolen
The Gardener by Sheri S Tepper
The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter [short story] by Lucius Shepard
The Skin Trade by George R R Martin (winner)

1988
Best Friends by Edward Bryant
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)
A Hypothetical Lizard by Alan Moore
Nesting Instinct by Scott Baker
The Pear-Shaped Man [short story] by George R R Martin
Shades by Lucius Shepard

1987
Chance by Connie Willis
Hatrack River [short story] by Orson Scott Card (winner)
The Hellbound Heart [short story] by Clive Barker
Night Moves [short story] by Tim Powers
The Night Seasons [short story] by J N Williamson

1986
Dead Image by David Morrell
Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Flight by Peter Dickinson
The Gorgon Field by Kate Wilhelm
Nadelman's God by T E D Klein (winner)

1985
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet by Stephen King
In the Sumerian Marshes by Gerald Pearce
Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament by Clive Barker
The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard
The Unconquered Country [short story] by Geoff Ryman (winner)

1984
Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson (winner)
The Lurking Duck by Scott Baker
The Monkey's Bride by Michael Bishop
Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee
The Red Hawk [short story] by Elizabeth A Lynn

1983
Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner (winner)
The Breathing Method [short story] by Stephen King
Confess the Seasons by Charles L Grant (winner)
Horrible Imaginings by Fritz Leiber
Night's Swift Dragons by Charles L Grant

1982
Ealdwood [short story] by C J Cherryh
The Fire When It Comes [short story] by Parke Godwin (winner)
Mythago Wood [short story] by Robert Holdstock
The River of Night's Dreaming by Karl Edward Wagner

Best Collection Awards

2006
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
In the Palace of Repose by Holly Phillips
The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (winner)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
To Charles Fort, with Love by Caitlín R Kiernan