Comments: The 1991 World Fantasy Awards were the home of some small controversy when Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess won the Best Short Story Award for A Midsummer Night's Dream. The problem was not that the story wasn't good enough to win, but rather that it had been published in graphic form, as part of the Sandman comic book series. I've always found these kinds of controversies to be silly - if the writing is good enough, and the work otherwise meets all of the requirements of the category, why does it matter if it was published in a "traditional" format or as a graphic novel? This sort of complaint seems almost petty to me. If great fantasy fiction is being produced, then it should be recognized regardless of the details regarding its publication.
Best Novel
(tie) Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
(tie) Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Other Nominees:
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Best Novella
Bones by Pat Murphy
Other Nominees:
The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson
Black Cocktail by Jonathan Carroll
The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
Best Short Fiction
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
Other Nominees:
Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti
Stephen by Elizabeth Massie
Best Anthology
Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell
Other Nominees:
Alien Sex edited by Ellen Datlow
Borderlands edited by Thomas F. Monteleone
Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror edited by David Sutton and Stephen Jones
Walls of Fear edited by Kathryn Cramer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Best Collection
The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller
Other Nominees:
The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
The Leiber Chronicles by Fritz Leiber
Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
Lifetime Achievement
Ray Russell
Other Nominees:
None
Best Artist
Dave McKean
Other Nominees:
Janet Aulisio
David Bergen
Brian Froud
Don Maitz
J.K. Potter
Special Award, Professional
Arnie Fenner
Other Nominees:
Ellen Datlow
S.T. Joshi
Paul Mikol and Scot Stadalsky
David Pringle
Special Award, Non-Professional
Richard T. Chizmar
Other Nominees:
Barry Hoffman
Marc Michaud
Steve Pasechnick
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Go to subsequent year's nominees: 1992
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