World Fantasy Awards

2018 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerJade CityFonda LeeJade City is the first novel in an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade....AmazonThe ChangelingVictor LaValleWhen Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled 'Improbabilia'. Now a successful book dealer, Kagwa has a family of his own after meeting and falling in love with Emma, a librarian. The t...Amazon2018 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistKa: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of YmrJohn CrowleyAmazonSpoonbendersDaryl GregoryAmazonThe City of BrassS. A. ChakrabortyAmazonThe Strange Case of the Alchemist's DaughterTheodora GossAmazon

2019 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerWitchmarkC. L. PolkCombining fantasy, mystery, intrigue, and romance, Witchmark is a sensation that has been lauded as one of Publisher's Weekly most anticipated books of Spring 2018. To get you excited for this phenomenal debut novel, Tor.com Publishing is releasing a free ...Amazon2019 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistIn the Night WoodDale BaileyAmazonThe Mere WifeMaria Dahvana HeadleyAmazonThe Poppy WarR. F. KuangAmazonTrail of LightningRebecca RoanhorseAmazon

1986 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerSong of KaliDan SimmonsThe World Fantasy Award winner by the author of the Hyperion Cantos and Carrion Comfort: An American finds himself encircled by horrors in Calcutta. Praised by Dean Koontz as “the best novel in the genre I can remember,” Song of Kali follows an American ma...Amazon1986 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistIllywhackerPeter CareyAmazonThe Damnation GameClive BarkerAmazonThe Dream YearsLisa GoldsteinAmazonThe Vampire LestatAnne RiceAmazonWinterkingPaul HazelAmazon

1976 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerBid Time ReturnRichard Matheson...Amazon1976 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistSalem's LotStephen KingAmazon

1977 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerDoctor RatWilliam KotzwinkleThis World Fantasy Award winner in the vein of Animal Farm delves into a lab worthy of a mad Nazi scientist—but run by a brilliantly sadistic rodent. In the annals of American literature, there has never been a character quite like Doctor Rat, PhD. From on...Amazon1977 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistDark CrusadeKarl Edward WagnerAmazonThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble KnightsJohn SteinbeckAmazonThe Doll Who Ate His MotherRamsey CampbellAmazonThe Dragon and the GeorgeGordon R. DicksonAmazonThe Sailor on the Seas of FateMichael MoorcockAmazon

1978 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerOur Lady of DarknessFritz LeiberIn Conjure Wife, Norman Saylor strains the limits of conjugal love when he learns that his own wife is a practicing sorceress, and in Our Lady of Darkness, horror writer Westen discovers dark forces in San Francisco. Reprint....Amazon1978 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverStephen R. DonaldsonAmazonThe Hour of the Oxrun DeadCharles L. GrantAmazon

1979 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerGlorianaMichael MoorcockAlbion, the kingdom of Queen Gloriana I and her devious and power hungry court are the setting of this award-winning fantasy reimagining of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, through a dark lens....Amazon1979 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistNight's MasterTanith LeeAmazonThe Black CastleLes DanielsAmazonThe Sound of MidnightCharles L. GrantAmazonThe StandStephen KingAmazon

1980 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerWatchtowerElizabeth A. LynnIn a land brought to life by warriors and lovers, war and honor, the legendary tower Tornor Keep is invaded by raiders. No longer the watchtower at the winter end of a summer land, Tornor turns to a young prince with the hopes that he might protect the fut...Amazon1980 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistHarpist in the WindPatricia A. McKillipAmazonThe Dancers of ArunElizabeth A. LynnAmazonThe Dark Bright WaterPatricia WrightsonAmazonThe Last Call of MourningCharles L. GrantAmazonThe PalaceChelsea Quinn YarbroAmazon

1981 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerThe Shadow of the TorturerGene WolfeSeverian 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...Amazon1981 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistAriostoChelsea Quinn YarbroAmazonFirelordParke GodwinAmazonShadowlandPeter StraubAmazonThe MistStephen KingAmazon

1982 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerLittle, BigJohn CrowleyEdgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Ed...Amazon1982 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistThe Claw of the ConciliatorGene WolfeAmazonThe NamelessRamsey CampbellAmazonThe War Hound and the World's PainMichael MoorcockAmazonThe White HotelD. M. ThomasAmazon