Annal:1986 World Fantasy Award for Novel
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Results of the World Fantasy Award in the year 1986. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- World Fantasy Award for Novel
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- 1986 WFA–Novel winner
- Score: 10.36
Think you know true fear? You don’t.
Think you’ve read the most chilling book? Not even close.
Think you can’t be shocked? Good luck!
Maybe you’re ready for the most truly frightening reading experience of your life, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel that’s been terrifying readers for over a decade.
What begins as an exploration of an exotic and forbidding world turns into a harrowing descent of steadily mounting terror when an American writer travels into the dark underworld of the cult of Kali.
- 1986 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.36
A reclusive millionaire makes a deal with the devil. Just another horror tale? Don’t bet on it.
It’s from Clive Barker.
- 1986 WFA–Novel nominee
- 1985 Booker shortlist
- Score: 12.36
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey’s uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character—especially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts.
Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere.
Winterking: Book 3 of the Finnbranch trilogy
- 1986 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.36
Written in a style both lyric and evocative, this novel brings full cycle the myth begun in the first two volumes of Hazel’s Finnbranch trilogy.
The Vampire Lestat: Book 2 of the Vampire Chronicles
- 1986 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.36
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice’s best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.
