E-mail Locus

Eligibility Year: 1996

AUGUST DERLETH AWARD (NOVEL)

The Tooth Fairy, Graham Joyce (Signet UK)

Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra 1995; Orbit)

Excession, Iain M. Banks (Orbit; Bantam Spectra)

The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub (Random House; HarperCollins)

Hogfather, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz)

Sacrament, Clive Barker (HarperCollins)

Scenting Hallowed Blood, Storm Constantine (Signet)

Spares, Michael Marshall Smith (HarperCollins UK; Bantam)

ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION

The Nightmare Factory, Thomas Ligotti (Raven Books; Carroll & Graf)

Blood Waters, Chaz Brenchley (Flambard Press)

Dark Terrors 2, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds. (Gollancz)

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Seven, Stephen Jones, ed. (Raven Books; Carroll & Graf)

The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson (Raven Books; Carroll & Graf)

The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Neil Gaiman & Edward E. Kramer, eds. (HarperPrism; HarperCollins)

SHORT STORY

"Dancing About Architecture", Martin Simpson (The Third Alternative #11 Winter 1996/97)

"The Bull Leapers", Justina Robson (Visionary Tongue #4)

"Citizen Ed", Kim Newman & Eugene Byrne (Interzone #113 Nov 1996)

"Foreign Bodies", Michael Marshall Smith (Lethal Kisses)

"Hell Hath Enlarged Herself", Michael Marshall Smith (Dark Terrors 2)

"The Red Tower", Thomas Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory)

"Scars", Jack Wainer (Grue #18 Sum/Fall 1996)

"Teatro Grottesco", Thomas Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory)

SMALL PRESS PUBLICATION

H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, S. T. Joshi (Necronomicon Press)

Broadsword, Nancy Sparling, ed.

Cemetery Dance, Richard T. Chizmar

Ghosts & Scholars, Rosemary Pardoe

Peeping Tom, Stuart Hughes

The Third Alternative, Andy Cox (Issue 11, Win 1996/97)

Visionary Tongue, Eloise Coquio (Sum 1996)

ARTIST

Jim Burns

Les Edwards

Madeleine Finnegan (for Peeping Tom)

Dave McKean

Jim Pitts

J. K. Potter (for Visionary Tongue)

KARL EDWARD WAGNER AWARD (SPECIAL AWARD)

Jo Fletcher