World Fantasy Awards 1986
Winners and nominees of the 1986 World Fantasy Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Song of Kali — Dan Simmons(winner)
- ✦The Vampire Lestat — Anne Rice(nominee)
- ✦The Damnation Game — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦Illywhacker — Peter Carey(nominee)
- ✦Winterking — Paul Hazel (nominee)
- ✦The Dream Years — Lisa Goldstein(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆 Imaginary Lands (winner)
- 🏆Imaginary Lands — Robin McKinley(winner)
- ✦ Night Visions 2 (nominee)
- ✦ Whispers V (nominee)
- ✦ Faery! (nominee)
- ✦Black Venus — Angela Carter(nominee)
- ✦Dragonfield and Other Stories — Jane Yolen(nominee)
- ✦Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. IV-VI — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦Faery! — Terri Windling(nominee)
- ✦Night Visions 2 — Charles L. Grant(nominee)
- ✦Skeleton Crew — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦Whispers V — Stuart David Schiff (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Nadelman's God — T. E. D. Klein(winner)
- ✦The Gorgon Field — Kate Wilhelm (nominee)
- ✦Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro(nominee)
- ✦Dead Image — David Morrell(nominee)
- ✦Flight — Peter Dickinson(nominee)
Best Short Fiction
- 🏆Paper Dragons — James Blaylock(winner)
- ✦Return of the Dust Vampires — Sharon N. Farber (nominee)
- ✦The Jaguar Hunter — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦The Slovo Stove — Avram Davidson (nominee)
World Fantasy Convention Award
- 🏆 Donald A. Wollheim (winner)
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