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34-466: World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner. The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors and is chosen each year by

68-552: A World Fantasy Award , Special Award - Non-Professional, for book publishing. Donald Wandrei Donald Albert Wandrei (20 April 1908 – 15 October 1987) was an American science fiction , fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei . He had fourteen stories in Weird Tales , another sixteen in Astounding Stories , plus

102-717: A "page-boy" in the Circulation Room of the Saint Paul Public Library , filling reader's requests for books from the storage stacks; this expanded his access to, and reading of, a wide variety of literature. In 1923 and 1924, Wandrei also worked evenings at the Hill Reference Library. He attended the University of Minnesota . While there, he was a student editor and regular columnist on the student newspaper The Minnesota Daily and

136-543: A Lovecraftian collection edited by Robert M. Price, was released in 2012, followed by Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth in 2013, and two more titles announced for 2014. In 1996, with the publication of The Last Pin , by Howard Wandrei , Fedogan & Bremer launched a subsidiary imprint, F & B Mystery. The imprint focuses on mystery and detective fiction. Since title pages list the publisher simply as "F & B Mystery," this has generated some confusion among librarians and bibliographers. In 1998, Fedogan & Bremer won

170-569: A few in other magazines including Esquire . Wandrei was the co-founder (with August Derleth ) of the prestigious fantasy/horror publishing house Arkham House . Wandrei was born in Saint Paul , Minnesota . All of his grandparents were early Minnesota settlers. Donald's father, Albert Christian Wandrei, became chief editor of West Publishing Company, America's leading publisher of law books. Donald grew up in his parents' house at 1152 Portland Ave, St Paul and lived there most of his life save for

204-567: A grand antiquarian tour of Providence and then on to similar tours in Boston , Salem and Marblehead . There was also an excursion to Warren, Rhode Island , later made famous by Wandrei's reminiscences in the Arkham House volume Marginalia (1944) during which Wandrei, Lovecraft and James Ferdinand Morton each sampled twenty-eight different flavors of ice cream at Maxfield's ice-cream parlour. In 1925, Wandrei gave Clark Ashton Smith $ 50 so

238-652: A greatly reduced rate. Some of his stories were adapted for the comic book Weird Science – "Divide and Conquer" (issue 6), based on his "A Scientist Divides" and "Monster From the Fourth Dimension" (issue 7) based on "A Monster From Nowhere". The author note on Wandrei's story collection (his first prose volume), The Eye and the Finger (1944), says: "An inveterate traveler, he has ranged from New York to Hollywood, and from Quebec to New Orleans, with extensions to Panama and Cuba" and also notes that his active hobby

272-430: A long and tedious process of litigation against Arkham House, the publishing company he had helped to found. After August Derleth's death in 1971, Donald Wandrei briefly acted as editorial director, but declined to resume his interest in the firm permanently. 1971 saw a new original tale from Wandrei, "Requiem for Mankind", which appeared in the Arkham House anthology Dark Things . Wandrei came in frequent contact during

306-576: A mysterious Cosmic Dust sweeps through the universe, obliterating the stars. Only Antares , inhabited by a race of viscous Brains, survives – and this last remnant of universal sentience entrusts its fate to the unique, laboratory-created Red Brain in a compelling fable that leaves behind the concerns of human aquarium to revel in the cosmos and the ultimate terror waiting there. Wandrei started writing in 1926 and his writing career took off around 1932. In late 1927 he hitchhiked from Minnesota to Rhode Island to visit H.P. Lovecraft . Lovecraft conducted him on

340-613: A new story by hand. His story "Colossus" was the first "thought variant" story (stories based on some new or not-yet-overworked idea such as other dimensions or the timetravel paradox), and helped revive the fortunes of Astounding under the editorship of his editorial mentor, F. Orlin Tremaine . During the 1930s, Wandrei wrote two more (non-fantastic) novels and several plays, one a collaboration with his brother Howard but none were published although they were submitted to various publishers and agents. At this period Wandrei also broke into

374-667: A stint in the Army and occasional sojourns in New York and Hollywood. Donald loved frequent rambles in the woods along the Minnesota River; it was Wandrei who later taught August Derleth the fine art of morel hunting. Wandrei attended Central High in St Paul from 1921–24, during which he published short compositions in the school newspaper and avidly read the magazine Science and Invention . In 1923, he began work part-time as

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408-547: A unit of General Patton's famous Third Army, took part in the final drive across Germany into Austria – the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns. Post-World War II, Wandrei's fiction output dropped considerably. His time with the army had left him little time to write, and although he worked on several novels and plays, none of these was published. In 1964, Arkham House published Wandrei's third book of poetry, Poems for Midnight . This volume, like his earlier Dark Odyssey ,

442-468: A white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.   *    Winners Fedogan %26 Bremer Fedogan & Bremer is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1985 by Philip Rahman and Dennis Weiler. The name comes from the nicknames of the two founders when they were in college. The first Fedogan and Bremer project

476-463: The 1970s with novelist and poet Richard L. Tierney , a Twin Cities resident for nine years in the 1970s. Though Wandrei had, for reasons unknown, abandoned the writing of poetry around 1934, he wrote four poems in 1977 and 1978 which he circulated amongst friends and colleagues as limited state broadsides. Wandrei circulated iconoclastic letter-essays that denounced many of the organized forces behind

510-916: The 1980s. Philip Rahman approached the Wandrei estate with the hopes of publishing the collection. While no manuscript nor proposed contents could be found, Rahman and Weiler went forward and published a collection using the same title as the unpublished Arkham House collection. Fedogan and Bremer continued to publish the sorts of works that were published by Arkham House in the sixties under August Derleth 's direction. Fedogan & Bremer books were distributed by DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis for many years. They distributed via Arkham House until 2011, when Arkham House temporarily ceased operations. Some Fedogan and Bremer titles have been issued in limited as well as in trade editions. Fedogan and Bremer became inactive from 2006 to 2011 due to personal troubles of

544-469: The Auburn poet could see Sandalwood through the press. Wandrei's first book, begun at age 18 and published when he was but 20, was the poetry volume Ecstasy & Other Poems which was published by W. Paul Cook 's The Recluse Press in 1928. The book's verse shows homage to Clark Ashton Smith and to Smith's poetic mentor George Sterling . Wandrei was active in pulp magazines until the late 1930s. He

578-901: The World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties. The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October. Through 2015, winners were presented with a statuette of H. P. Lovecraft ; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree. During the 50 nomination years, 270 individuals and 3 organizations have been nominated; 60 people and 2 organizations have won, including ties and co-nominees. The organizations that have been nominated are: The British Fantasy Society, with one winning nomination; The Friends of Arthur Machen, with one unsuccessful nomination; and Fedogan & Bremer , with one win out of three nominations. Stuart David Schiff has received

612-609: The crime pulps with stories of his detective I.V. Frost published in such magazines as Clues Detective Stories (Half of these are gathered in Frost (2000)) and others for Black Mask . He also broke into the 'slicks' with stories published in Esquire . Wandrei contributed two stories to the Cthulhu Mythos : " The Fire Vampires " (1933) and "The Tree-Men of M'Bwa" (1933). In 1939, Wandrei and August Derleth later co-founded

646-478: The dormancy of F&B, the edition was held up. It was finally published by Centipede Press in a limited edition of 300 copies in March 2012. The volume includes Wandrei's mainstream novel "Invisible Sun". During 1933, Wandrei lived in a studio apartment in New York that was within easy walking distance of the offices of Street & Smith , who published Astounding Stories , so that Wandrei could easily bring in

680-552: The modern fantasy movement – a movement he, as a founder of Arkham House, was instrumental in setting motion. In 1984, Wandrei was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. However, he refused to accept the award because he felt that the bust representing the award was a demeaning caricature of Lovecraft, whom he had known personally. Wandrei died in St. Paul in 1987. In 1976, Philip Rahman had met Wandrei at

714-536: The most awards at four wins out of six nominations, for his work at Whispers magazine and Whispers Press. R. B. Russell has won four times out of nine nominations, and Rosalie Parker four out of eight, for their work at Tartarus Press . Three other individuals have won twice: Paul C. Allen out of three nominations for Fantasy Newsletter , Richard Chizmar out of seven for Cemetery Dance and Cemetery Dance Publications , and W. Paul Ganley out of ten for Weirdbook and Weirdbook Press. Ganley's ten nominations are

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748-411: The most of anyone, followed by Stephen Jones with nine, winning once, for Fantasy Tales and other work; Scott H. Andrews with one win out of nine nominations for his work at Beneath Ceaseless Skies ; and Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas with one win out of nine nominations for Uncanny Magazine . In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when

782-532: The publisher, but never formally announced their closure. The announced project Dead Titans, Waken! , a variant version of Donald Wandrei 's novel The Web of Easter Island edited for F&B by S.T. Joshi was purchased by Centipede Press and released as a Limited edition only, in 2011. Following the sudden death of Mr. Rahman 7/23/2011, the business reorganized. The press announced plans to resume production, and distribution arrangements are in place to sell their other titles still in print. Worlds of Cthulhu ,

816-453: The publishing house Arkham House to keep Lovecraft's legacy alive, an action for which Wandrei is perhaps better remembered than for his own fiction. Wandrei and Derleth co-edited the omnibus collections The Outsider and Others and Beyond the Wall of Sleep . Much of the editorial work on Lovecraft's Selected Letters series (published by Arkham House in five volumes between 1964 and 1976)

850-408: The work was performed. The table includes the stated reason the individual (or company) was nominated, which may not have been the only fantasy-related non-professional work they did during the previous calendar year. "N/A" in the reason column represents a nomination where no reason was given. Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the individual's name have won the award; those with

884-414: Was a commercial cassette recording of a reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "Fungi From Yuggoth", released in 1987. A remastered CD version was released in the 1990s, and the work has been extensively pirated. Currently, it is not available, but a re-release is planned. Arkham House had announced the forthcoming publication of Colossus by Donald Wandrei as early as 1965. However, it remained unpublished into

918-445: Was a member of the "Lovecraft Circle", as a friend and protégé of H. P. Lovecraft , corresponding with other members of the circle ( Frank Belknap Long , Clark Ashton Smith , etc.). Wandrei personally made the case for Weird Tales to publish Lovecraft's " The Call of Cthulhu " telling Farnsworth Wright that unless he published the tale, Lovecraft would look for other magazines to submit stories to. As an accomplished poet, Wandrei

952-584: Was also associated with the Minnesota Quarterly Magazine , as well as contributing pieces (often unsigned or pseudonymous) to the campus humour magazine Ski-U-Mah , which was edited by classmate Carl Jacobi . At that time he was enormously influenced by a reading of Arthur Machen 's novel The Hill of Dreams . Wandrei graduated in 1928, with a BA in English. At the age of 16, Wandrei completed his short story "The Red Brain", in which

986-414: Was by the author's brother Howard Wandrei, who had died in 1956. In 1967, a new tale, "The Crater", appeared in the Arkham House anthology Travellers by Night . Wandrei occupied his time editing Lovecraft's Selected Letters , whose first two volumes appeared successively in 1965 and 1968. Volume Three followed in 1971, and Volumes 4 and 5 eventually reached print in 1976. In the 1970s Wandrei commenced

1020-561: Was performed by Wandrei. Wandrei's interest in Arkham House centred primarily on seeing the Lovecraft writings into print; it was Derleth who brought a wider program to the press when Wandrei entered the army in 1942. Wandrei wrote some outlines for Gang Busters and other comic books in the 1940s, and also attempted writing song lyrics in Hollywood. After World War II , he continued writing speculative fiction stories, although at

1054-473: Was photography. Furthermore, "he prefers to work at night, and has often written a complete story in a single night. Some of his tales have originated in the form of dreams, of which he says he has a hair-raising variety, and have been written with few changes." Wandrei served almost four years with the U.S. Army in World War II, and as a technical sergeant, Third Battalion, 259th Infantry, 65th Division,

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1088-411: Was rejected successively by three publishers – Harpers, Kendall and John Day – and finally shelved indefinitely by its author. However it was eventually destined to be published in a heavily revised version in 1948 by Arkham House as The Web of Easter Island . The original version was scheduled to be published in the late 1990s by weird fiction specialty publishing house Fedogan and Bremer but due to

1122-762: Was supplemented with four pen-and-ink illustrations by his brother Howard Wandrei. The complete sonnet sequence "Sonnets of the Midnight Hours" is included, along with many other poems dating back as far as 1926 and including several reprints from both his earlier volumes of verse. Some of the early poems were revised radically for their appearance in Poems for Midnight In 1965, Arkham House published Wandrei's second collection of short stories, Strange Harvest , which gathered 17 tales published in Weird Tales , Astounding Stories and Fantasy Magazine. The jacket drawing

1156-507: Was the first to write a series of sonnets for Weird Tales , "Sonnets of the Midnight Hours". Lovecraft liked the idea so much, he embarked on his own series, " Fungi From Yuggoth ". Robert E. Howard also wrote his own series with "Sonnets out of Bedlam". Wandrei's second book and second book of verse) was Dark Odyssey (Webb Publishing Co, 1931) illustrated with five illustrations by his brother Howard Wandrei. Wandrei's only full-length fantastic novel, Dead Titans, Waken! , written in 1932,

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