WORLD FANTASY AWARDS - 1978 FINALISTS Judges: Charles N. Brown Carl Jacobi Stephen King T.E.D. Klein Karl Edward Wagner Judges' decisions will be announced at the Fourth Annual World Fantasy Convention, October 13-15, 1978, Sheraton Hotel, Fort Worth, TX. ,************************************************************************* Best Novel: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (3 vols.), by Stephen Donaldson (Holt, Rinehart, Winston) The Hour of the Oxrun Dead, by Charles L. Grant (Doubleday) Our Lady of Darkness, by Fritz Leiber (Berkley/Putnam) Best Short The Chimney, by Ramsey Campbell (WHISPERS, Doubleday, ed. Stuart D. Schiff) Fiction: Loveman'.s Comeback, by Ramsey Campbell (MORE DEVIL'S KISSES, Corgi, M. Parry) Manatee Gal, Ain't Ya Cornin' Out Tonight, Avram Davidson (F&SF, April 78) Jefty is Five, Harlan Ellison (F&SF, July 78) When All The Children Call My Name, Charles L. Grant (YEAR'S BEST HORROR, Daw, ed. G.W. Page) Bagful of Dreams, Jack Vance (FLASHING SWORDS #4, Dell, ed. Lin Carter) Best Collection Cold Chills, Robert Bloch (Doubleday) Antholgy Murgunstrumm and Others, Hugh B. Cave (Carcosa) Swords and Ice Magic, Fritz Leiber Year's Best Horror Stories #5, (DAW, ed. Gerald W. Page) Whispers (Doubleday, Stuart David Schiff, ed.) Best Artist: Lee Brown Coye Steven Fabian Tim Kirk Michael Whelan Special Award: Pro E.F. Bleiler Ballantine Books (Judy-Lynn and Lester del Rey) Edward L. Ferman Donald A. Wollheim Special Award: Non-Pro Jonathan Bacon W. Paul Ganley Gary Hoppenstand Stephen Jones Harry Morris Robert Weinberg LIFE ACHIEVEMENT: Jorge Luis Borges Frank Belknap Long John Collier Richard Matheson Roald Dahl Manly Wade Wellman ***************************************************************************************** .