1944 Retro Hugo Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Unknown Worlds 4/43)
• Das Glasperlenspiel [The Glass Bead Game], Hermann Hesse (Fretz & Wasmuth)
• Gather, Darkness!, Fritz Leiber, Jr. (Astounding Science-Fiction 5/43-7/43)
• Perelandra, C.S. Lewis (John Lane, The Bodley Head)
• Earth’s Last Citadel, C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner (Argosy 4/43)
• The Weapon Makers, A.E. van Vogt (Astounding Science-Fiction 2/43-4/43)

Best Novella

• WINNER: The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Reynal & Hitchcock)
• “We Print the Truth”, Anthony Boucher (Astounding Science-Fiction 12/43)
• “Attitude”, Hal Clement (Astounding Science-Fiction 9/43)
• “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”, H.P. Lovecraft (Beyond the Wall of Sleep)
• The Magic Bed-Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons, Mary Norton (Hyperion)
• “Clash by Night”, Lawrence O’Donnell (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science-Fiction 3/43)

Best Novelette

• WINNER: “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”, Lewis Padgett (C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science-Fiction 2/43)
• “Citadel of Lost Ships”, Leigh Brackett (Planet Stories 3/43)
• “The Halfling”, Leigh Brackett (Astonishing Stories 2/43)
• “Thieves’ House”, Fritz Leiber, Jr (Unknown Worlds 2/43)
• “The Proud Robot”, Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner) (Astounding Science-Fiction 10/43)
• “Symbiotica”, Eric Frank Russell (Astounding Science-Fiction 10/43)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “King of the Gray Spaces” (AKA “R is for Rocket”), Ray Bradbury (Famous Fantastic Mysteries 12/43)
• “Death Sentence”, Isaac Asimov (Astounding Science Fiction 11/43)
• “Yours Truly – Jack the Ripper”, Robert Bloch (Weird Tales 7/43)
• “Exile”, Edmond Hamilton (Super Science Stories 5/43)
• “Q.U.R.”, H.H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher) (Astounding Science-Fiction 3/43)
• “Doorway into Time”, C.L. Moore (Famous Fantastic Mysteries 9/43)

Best Graphic Story

• WINNER: Wonder Woman #5: “Battle for Womanhood”, William Marsden & Harry G. Peter (DC Comics)
• Plastic Man #1: “The Game of Death”, Jack Cole (Vital Publications)
• Garth, Steve Dowling (Daily Mirror)
• Le Secret de la Licorne [The Secret of the Unicorn], Hergé (Le Soir)
• Buck Rogers: “Martians Invade Jupiter”, Philip Nowlan & Dick Calkins (National Newspaper Service)
• Flash Gordon: “Fiery Desert of Mongo”, Alex Raymond (King Features Syndicate)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• WINNER: Heaven Can Wait
• Batman
• Cabin in the Sky
• A Guy Named Joe
• Münchhausen
• Phantom of the Opera

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• WINNER: Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
• The Ape Man
• Der Fuehrer’s Face
• I Walked with a Zombie
• The Seventh Victim
• Super-Rabbit

Best Professional Editor, Short Form

• WINNER: John W. Campbell
• Oscar J. Friend
• Mary Gnaedinger
• Dorothy McIlwraith
• Raymond A. Palmer
• Donald A. Wollheim

Best Professional Artist

• WINNER: Virgil Finlay
• Hannes Bok
• Margaret Brundage
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• J. Allen St. John
• William Timmins

Best Fanzine

• WINNER: Le Zombie
• Fantasy News [disqualified]
• Futurian War Digest
• Guteto [added to ballot 7/21/2019]
• The Phantagraph
• Voice of the Imagi-Nation
• YHOS

Best Fan Writer

• WINNER: Forrest J Ackerman
• Morojo (Myrtle Douglas)
• Jack Speer
• Wilson “Bob” Tucker
• Art Widner
• Donald A. Wollheim