World Fantasy Awards 1981
Winners and nominees of the 1981 World Fantasy Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆The Shadow of the Torturer — Gene Wolfe(winner)
- ✦Ariosto — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦Firelord — Parke Godwin (nominee)
- ✦Shadowland — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The Mist — Stephen King(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Dark Forces — Kirby McCauley (winner)
- 🏆 Dark Forces (winner)
- ✦ Mummy!: A Chrestomathy of Crypt-ology (nominee)
- ✦ Shadows 3 (nominee)
- ✦ New Terrors (nominee)
- ✦Dragons of Light — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Shatterday — Harlan Ellison(nominee)
- ✦Shadows 3 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦New Terrors — Ramsey Campbell(nominee)
- ✦Mummy!: A Chrestomathy of Crypt-ology — Bill Pronzini(nominee)
Best Short Fiction
- 🏆The Ugly Chickens — Howard Waldrop (winner)
- ✦Cabin 33 — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦Unicorn Tapestry — Suzy McKee Charnas(nominee)
- ✦Children of the Kingdom — T. E. D. Klein(nominee)
World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional
- 🏆Pat Cadigan(winner)
World Fantasy Special Award: Professional
- 🏆 Donald A. Wollheim (winner)
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