World Fantasy Awards 1985
Winners and nominees of the 1985 World Fantasy Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Bridge of Birds — Barry Hughart (winner)
- 🏆Mythago Wood — Robert Holdstock(winner)
- ✦Archer's Goon — Diana Wynne Jones(nominee)
- ✦The Talisman — Peter Straub(nominee)
- ✦The Talisman — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Ceremonies — T. E. D. Klein(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. I-III — Clive Barker (winner)
- ✦Masques — David B. Silva (nominee)
- ✦ Night Visions 1 (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Jessica Amanda Salmonson (nominee)
- ✦Masques(nominee)
- ✦Night Visions 1 — Alan Ryan (nominee)
- ✦Masques — William F. Nolan (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Charles Beaumont (nominee)
- ✦The Songbirds of Pain — Garry Kilworth (nominee)
- ✦The Fire When It Comes — Parke Godwin (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Richard Christian Matheson (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Robert Bloch(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Ray Bradbury(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Ardath Mayhar (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Dennis Etchison(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Gahan Wilson (nominee)
- ✦Masques — F. Paul Wilson(nominee)
- ✦Masques — J. N. Williamson (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Joe R. Lansdale(nominee)
- ✦Masques — Mort Castle (nominee)
- ✦Masques — Ray Russell (nominee)
- ✦Viriconium Nights — M. John Harrison (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Unconquered Country — Geoff Ryman(winner)
- ✦In the Sumerian Marshes — Gerald Pearce (nominee)
- ✦The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet — Stephen King(nominee)
Best Short Fiction
- 🏆The Bones Wizard — Alan Ryan (winner)
- 🏆Still Life with Scorpion — Scott Baker (winner)
- ✦Nightcrawlers — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦Bad Medicine — Jack Dann(nominee)
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