1981 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

Lord Valentine’s Castle

Robert Silverberg

Traces the adventures of Valentine and the band of jugglers that he travels with across the magical planet of Majipoor….

“The Mist”

Stephen King

After Dark

Manly Wade Wellman

Ariosto

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Changeling

Roger Zelazny

Kill the Dead

Tanith Lee

Sabella

Tanith Lee

Shadowland

Peter Straub

Split Infinity

Piers Anthony

The Beginning Place

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Northern Girl

Elizabeth A. Lynn

The Shadow of the Torturer

Gene Wolfe

The Vampire Tapestry

Suzy McKee Charnas

The Wounded Land

Stephen R. Donaldson

Thorn

Fred Saberhagen