1981 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

The Shadow of the Torturer

Gene Wolfe

Severian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman. Her excruciations are delayed for some months and, out of love, Severian h…

Ariosto

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Firelord

Parke Godwin

Shadowland

Peter Straub

The Mist

Stephen King