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CLASSIC FANTASY STORY
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FIRST PLACE: Best Fantasy Story (1920-1960)

J. R. R. Tolkien "The Lay of Leithian"
(The Lays of Beleriand : Middle-Earth)


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SECOND PLACE: Best Fantasy Story (1920-1960)

J. R. R. Tolkien "The Lay of the Children of Hurin"
(The Lays of Beleriand : Middle-Earth)

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THIRD PLACE: Best Fantasy Story (1920-1960)

Robert Arthur "Ghost For a Night" ("The Reluctant Ghost")
Robert Bloch "That Hell-Bound Train"; "The Hungry House"
Arthur J. Burks "Bells of Oceana"
Hanns Heinz Ewers "The Spider"
Richard Matheson "The Distributor"
C. L. Moore "Black God's Kiss"
Rod Serling "Walking Distance"; "Where Is Everybody?"
Clark Ashton Smith "The Abominations of Yondo"
"Quest of the Gazolba"("The Voyage of King Euvoran")


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FOURTH PLACE: Best Fantasy Story (1920-1960)

Robert Arthur "Mr. Jinx"
Charles Beaumont "Free Dirt"
Jerome Bixby "The Battle Of The Bells"; "The Young One"
Robert Bloch "Black Lotus"; "Constant Reader"
"The Opener of the Way"; "The Shambler from the Stars"
"Sweets to the Sweet"; "Tell Your Fortune"; "The Animal Fair"
"Catnip"; "The Weird Taylor"; "The Brood of Bubastis"

Nelson Bond "Pre-Science"; "Saint Mulligan"
Anthony Boucher "Nellthu"
Ray Bradbury "Doodad"; "The October Game"; "The Troll"
Fredric Brown "The Geezenstacks"
Lucy Clifford "The New Mother"
John Collier "Evening Primrose"
Philip K. Dick "The Cookie Lady"; "The King Of The Elves"
Lord Dunsany "The Fortress Unvanquishable Save For Sacnoth"
Jack Finney "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket"
Edmond Hamilton "The Serpent Princess"
Zenna Henderson "The Grunder"
Robert E. Howard "The Frost King's Daughter"
Shirley Jackson "The Beautiful Stranger"
"One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts"; "The Summer People"

Carl Jacobi "The Elcar Special"; "The Face In The Wind"
Nigel Kneale "The Pond"
Henry Kuttner "The Devil We Know"; "The Misguided Halo"
Fritz Leiber "The Automatic Pistol"; "The Power of the Puppets"
"Alice and the Allergy"; "Smoke Ghost"

H. P. Lovecraft "The Rats in the Walls"
"The Strange High House In The Mist"; "What the Moon Brings"

George McDonald "The Day Boy And The Night Girl"
"A Little Daylight"

Kris Neville "The Opal Necklace"
A. Platonov "Stories: Rodina Elektrichestva etc"
Arthur Porges "The Devil and Simon Flagg"
George J. Rowlins "The Thirteenth Boat"
Arthur Sellings "The Outstretched Hand"
Clark Ashton Smith "The Tomb-Spawn"; "The Empire of the Necromancers";
"The Isle of the Torturers"; "Strange Shadows"

Theodore Sturgeon "The Graveyard Reader"; "Hurricane Trio"
"Shottle Bop"; "A Way Home"

Dwight V. Swain "Shayla's Garden"
J. R. R. Tolkien "The Happy Mariners"
Manly Wade Wellman "O Ugly Bird"
Robert Moore Williams "The Reformation of Joseph Reed"
Jack Williamson "Star Bright"
Robert F. Young "Flying Pan"


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