World Fantasy Awards 1988
Winners and nominees of the 1988 World Fantasy Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel
- 🏆Replay — Ken Grimwood(winner)
- ✦Seventh Son — Orson Scott Card(nominee)
- ✦Swan Song — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦Weaveworld — Clive Barker (nominee)
- ✦On Stranger Tides — Tim Powers(nominee)
- ✦Misery — Stephen King(nominee)
- ✦The Solitudes — John Crowley (nominee)
Best Anthology
- 🏆 The Dark Descent (winner)
- 🏆 The Architecture of Fear (winner)
- 🏆The Dark Descent — David G. Hartwell(winner)
- 🏆The Architecture of Fear — Peter D. Pautz (winner)
- 🏆The Architecture of Fear — Kathryn Cramer(winner)
- ✦ Other Edens (nominee)
- ✦ The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV (nominee)
- ✦ Masques II (nominee)
- ✦ In the Field of Fire (nominee)
- ✦ Night Visions 4 (nominee)
- ✦Other Edens — Christopher Evans (nominee)
- ✦Masques II — J. N. Williamson (nominee)
- ✦In the Field of Fire — Jack Dann(nominee)
- ✦The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Other Edens — Robert Holdstock(nominee)
Best Collection
- 🏆The Jaguar Hunter — Lucius Shepard(winner)
- ✦Night's Sorceries — Tanith Lee(nominee)
- ✦Why Not You and I? — Karl Edward Wagner (nominee)
- ✦Polyphemus — Michael Shea (nominee)
- ✦Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death — Ramsey Campbell(nominee)
- ✦ Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight — Ursula K. Le Guin(winner)
- ✦The Pear-Shaped Man — George R. R. Martin(nominee)
- ✦Hypothetical Lizard — Alan Moore(nominee)
- ✦Shades — Lucius Shepard(nominee)
- ✦Best Friends — Robert R. McCammon(nominee)
- ✦Nesting Instinct — Scott Baker (nominee)
- ✦The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead — Alan Rodgers (nominee)
Best Short Fiction
- 🏆Friend's Best Man — Jonathan Carroll(winner)
- ✦Splatter: A Cautionary Tale — Douglas E. Winter (nominee)
- ✦Angel — Pat Cadigan(nominee)
- ✦Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands — Garry Kilworth (nominee)
- ✦In the House of Gingerbread — Gene Wolfe(nominee)
- ✦Pamela's Get — David J. Schow (nominee)
Life Achievement
- 🏆 E. F. Bleiler (winner)
Overall
- 🏆Replay — Ken Grimwood(winner)
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