World Fantasy Awards 1985
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Where and When:
World Fantasy Convention,
Tucson AZ :
November 3, 1985
Eligibility Year: 1984
Judges: Suzy McKee Charnas, Jo Fletcher, George R. R. Martin, Baird Searles, Terri Windling
Eligibility Year: 1984
Judges: Suzy McKee Charnas, Jo Fletcher, George R. R. Martin, Baird Searles, Terri Windling
Life Achievement
- Winner: Theodore Sturgeon
Novel
- Winner (tie): Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart (St. Martin's)
- Winner (tie): Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock (Gollancz)
- Archer's Goon, Diana Wynne Jones (Methuen)
- The Ceremonies, T. E. D. Klein (Viking)
- The Talisman, Stephen King & Peter Straub (Viking)
Novella
- Winner: “The Unconquered Country”, Geoff Ryman (Interzone #7 Spring 1984)
- “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet”, Stephen King (F&SF Jun 1984)
- “In the Sumerian Marshes”, Gerald Pearce (Amazing Stories Sep 1984)
- “Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament”, Clive Barker (Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vol. II)
- “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule”, Lucius Shepard (F&SF Dec 1984)
Short Story
- Winner (tie): “The Bones Wizard”, Alan Ryan (Whispers #21/22 Dec 1984)
- Winner (tie): “Still Life with Scorpion”, Scott Baker (Asimov's May 1984)
- “Bad Medicine”, Jack Dann (Asimov's Oct 1984)
- “Nightcrawlers”, Robert R. McCammon (Masques)
Collection/anthology
- Winner: Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. I-III, Clive Barker (Sphere)
- The Fire When It Comes, Parke Godwin (Doubleday)
- Masques, J. N. Williamson, ed. (Maclay & Associates)
- Night Visions 1, Alan Ryan, ed. (Dark Harvest)
- The Songbirds of Pain, Garry Kilworth (Gollancz)
- Viriconium Nights, M. John Harrison (Ace)
Artist
Special Award, Professional
- Winner: Chris Van Allsburg, for The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
- T. E. D. Klein, for Twilight Zone
- Pat LoBrutto, for Doubleday
- Shawna McCarthy, for Asimov's
- Tim Underwood & Chuck Miller, for Underwood-Miller
- Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski, for Fantasists on Fantasy
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Stuart David Schiff, for Whispers and Whispers Press
- Jeff Conner, for Scream/Press
- W. Paul Ganley, for Weirdbook and Weirdbook Press
- Paul Mikol & Scot Stadalsky, for Dark Harvest
Special Convention Award
- Winner: Evangeline Walton
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