Locus Awards of FANTASY NOVEL 1981
- Lord Valentine's Castle, Robert Silverberg (Harper & Row)
- The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe (Simon & Schuster)
- The Wounded Land, Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Changeling, Roger Zelazny (Ace)
- The Northern Girl, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Berkley Putnam)
- Split Infinity, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey)
- The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper & Row)
- The Vampire Tapestry, Suzy McKee Charnas (Simon & Schuster)
- Shadowland, Peter Straub (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan)
- "The Mist", Stephen King (Dark Forces)
- Ariosto, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Pocket)
- Kill the Dead, Tanith Lee (DAW)
- Thorn, Fred Saberhagen (Ace)
- Sabella, Tanith Lee (DAW)
- After Dark, Manly Wade Wellman (Doubleday)
- A Storm of Wings, M. John Harrison (Doubleday)
- The Orphan, Robert Stallman (Pocket)
- Duncton Wood, William Horwood (McGraw-Hill)
- All Darkness Met, Glen Cook (Berkley)
- *Firelord, Parke Godwin (Doubleday)
- *Necropolis, Basil Copper (Arkham House)
- Master of the Five Magics, Lyndon Hardy (Ballantine Del Rey)
