NOVEL

• Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons (Dark Harvest)
• Geek Love, Katherine Dunn (Knopf)
• In a Dark Dream, Charles L. Grant (Tor)
• Midnight, Dean R. Koontz (Putnam)
• The Wolf's Hour, Robert R. McCammon (Pocket)

FIRST NOVEL

• Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy A. Collins (NAL Onyx)
• The Dwelling, Tom Elliot (St. Martin's)
• Goat Dance, Douglas Clegg (Pocket)
• Laying the Music to Rest, Dean Wesley Smith (Popular Library Questar)
• The Lilith Factor, Jean Paiva (NAL Onyx)

NOVELLA/NOVELETTE

• "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks", Joe R. Lansdale (Book of the Dead)
• "At First Just Ghostly", Karl Edward Wagner (Weird Tales Fall 1989)
• "The Confessions of St. James", Chet Williamson (Night Visions 7)
• "Phantom", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (F&SF Jun 1989)

SHORT STORY

• "Eat Me", Robert R. McCammon (Book of the Dead)
• "Bodies and Heads", Steve Rasnic Tem (Book of the Dead)
• "Each Night, Each Year", Kathryn Ptacek (Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Horror)
• "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned", Edward Bryant (Book of the Dead)
• "Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purty...He Said.", Chet Williamson (Razored Saddles)

COLLECTION

• Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, Richard Matheson (Scream/Press)
• Blue World and Other Stories, Robert R. McCammon (Grafton; Pocket)
• By Bizarre Hands, Joe R. Lansdale (Mark V. Ziesing)
• Patterns, Pat Cadigan (Ursus)
• Soft and Others, F. Paul Wilson (Tor)

NONFICTION BOOK (tie)

• Harlan Ellison's Watching, Harlan Ellison (Underwood-Miller)
• Horror: 100 Best Books, Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (Xanadu; Carroll & Graf)
• American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners, Norine Dresser (Norton)
• H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Cannon (Twayne)
• Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and Film, Leonard Wolf (Facts on File)