Annal:1990 World Fantasy Award for Novel
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Results of the World Fantasy Award in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- World Fantasy Award for Novel
- Fantasy books
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- Speculative Fiction authors.
Madouc: Book 3 of Lyonesse
- 1990 WFA–Novel winner
- Score: 10.4
The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc.
Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with mischief. Vexed, King Casmir and Queen Sollace arrange a contest to marry her off. However, Madouc has other ideas, and leaves with the stableboy “Sir Pom-pom” on a quest to learn the identity of her father, encountering swindlers, faeries, trolls, ogres, a knight in search of his youth, and a relatively pedestrian item known as the Holy…
- 1990 Mythopoeic-Adult winner
- 1990 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.4
On a rainswept night alive with lightning and thunder, a doctor staggers, drunken, through the streets, and slips a wedding ring on the finger of a bewitching statue…
On the morning after his wedding, Dr. Michael Crawford awakens to a bed soaked by carnage… and the impossibly savaged body of his bride. Already marked with guilt for the accidental deaths of his previous wife and his younger brother, Crawford flees England to escape the hangman’s noose. His only hope lies with England’s greatest, and most notorious, poets - Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John…
- 1990 WFA–Novel nominee
- 1989 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 12.4
A horror story written by the author of “For Fear of the Night”, “The Pet”, “The Long Night of the Grave” and “The dark Cry on the Moon”. Hale, psychopath and murderer, has been released from the asylum. Declared sane now, Hale has but one thought in his still-twisted mind: revenge.
- 1989 Stoker–Novel winner
- 1990 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.39
All humans feed on violence. But only those with the Ability have tested the ultimate power. Ordinary vampires possess the body. But only those who use the living can violate the soul. They gather their strength through the years. They plot their unholy games. They war among themselves. And the victor will stand alone against them all without defenses.
