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1998 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerLight ErrantChaz BrenchleySophisticated urban horror with a surreal edge by the author of Dead of light and Dispossession....Amazon1998 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistMesmerTim LebbonAmazonPolgara the SorceressDavid Eddings & Leigh EddingsAmazonSigns of LifeM. John HarrisonAmazonThe House on Nazareth HillRamsey CampbellAmazon

1997 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerThe Tooth FairyGraham JoyceSeven-year-old Sam Southall loses a tooth and that night he's visited by a sinister, rank, foul-mouthed, mercurial Tooth Fairy, a demonic being that apparently only he can see, but whose malignant influence spills over onto his family and friends.The Tooth...Amazon1997 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistAssassin's ApprenticeRobin HobbAmazonExcessionIain M. BanksAmazonHogfatherTerry PratchettAmazonSacramentClive BarkerAmazonScenting Hallowed BloodStorm ConstantineAmazonSparesMichael Marshall SmithAmazonThe Hellfire ClubPeter StraubAmazon

1996 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerRequiemGraham JoyceTraveling to Jerusalem after the sudden death of his wife, Tom Webster meets a mysterious old woman, whom he comes to believe is the spirit of Mary Magdalene trying to reveal a secret from the past...Amazon1996 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistBlood CrazySimon ClarkAmazonDead of LightChaz BrenchleyAmazonThe Gap Into Madness: Chaos and OrderStephen R. DonaldsonAmazonThe Time ShipsStephen BaxterAmazon

1995 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerOnly ForwardMichael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield. May we introduce you to Stark. Oh, and by the way -- good luck. Stark is the private in...Amazon1995 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistBlood WarsBrian LumleyAmazonNocturneMark ChadbournAmazonPasquale's AngelPaul J. McAuleyAmazonThe QuorumKim NewmanAmazon

1994 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerThe Long LostRamsey CampbellDavid and Joelle's long-lost relative, Gwendolen, helps them recover from a family tragedy, but soon the young couple is caught in a web of evil and dark secrets seemingly spun from Gwendolen's white hair. Reprint....Amazon

1993 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerDark SisterGraham JoyceAlex and Maggie think they live in an ordinary townhouse until they discover a previous occupant's diary--a narrative of Wiccan practice and herb-lore. Compelled to investigate further, Maggie begins to discover strange powers within herself....Amazon

1992 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerOutside the Dog MuseumJonathan CarrollHarry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect---witty and remarkable. He's also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way. But now, newly divorced and having had an inexplicable nervous bre...Amazon1992 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistSummer of NightDan SimmonsAmazonThe Count of ElevenRamsey CampbellAmazon

1991 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerMidnight SunRamsey CampbellFrom Publishers Weekly "Trees grow," wrote the dying Edward Sterling in the frozen earth of the forest in Stargrave, England, that became his burial ground. As his grandson Ben learns, in Campbell's beautifully poetic horror novel, the elder Sterling was a...Amazon

1990 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerCarrion ComfortDan SimmonsCarrion Comfort penetrates the darkest recesses of the 20th century, as one man seeks to justify his belief that a secret society of powerful beings is behind many of the world's most horrific catastrophes. Ranking among the greatest reinventions of the va...Amazon

1989 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerThe InfluenceRamsey CampbellSometimes evil refuses to die. Rowan’s great-aunt Queenie is dead. After all the misery she caused her family while she was alive, most of them are secretly relieved. But Queenie did not want to die, and she will do anything to live again…including possess...Amazon