NOVEL

• Mine, Robert R. McCammon (Pocket)
• Funland, Richard Laymon (Onyx)
• Reign, Chet Williamson (Dark Harvest)
• Savage Season, Joe R. Lansdale (Mark V. Ziesing; Bantam)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Revelation, Bentley Little (St. Martin's)
• Blood of the Children, Alan Rodgers (Bantam)
• Dark Father, Tom Piccirilli (Pocket)
• Nightblood, T. Chris Martindale (Warner)

NOVELLA/NOVELETTE

• "Stephen", Elizabeth Massie (Borderlands)
• "Bestseller", Michael Blumlein (F&SF Jan 1990)
• Entropy's Bed at Midnight, Dan Simmons (Lord John Press)
• "The Langoliers", Stephen King (Four Past Midnight)
• "Pelts", F. Paul Wilson (Footsteps Press)

SHORT STORY

• "The Calling", David B. Silva (Borderlands)
• "Back Windows", Steve Rasnic Tem (Gauntlet)
• "But You'll Never Follow Me", Karl Edward Wagner (Borderlands)
• "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher", Chet Williamson (Lovecraft's Legacy)
• "The Loneliest Number", Edward Bryant (Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Seven: Spring 1990)

COLLECTION

• Four Past Midnight, Stephen King (Viking)
• The Brains of Rats, Michael Blumlein (Scream/Press)
• Houses Without Doors, Peter Straub (Dutton)
• Prayers to Broken Stones, Dan Simmons (Dark Harvest)

NONFICTION BOOK

• Dark Dreamers: Conversations with the Masters of Horror, Stanley Wiater (Underwood-Miller; Avon)
• Hollywood Gothic, David J. Skal (Norton)
• Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide, Neil Barron, ed. (Garland)
• Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In, Joe Bob Briggs (Delacorte)
• The Weird Tale, S. T. Joshi (University of Texas Press)

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Hugh B. Cave
• Richard Matheson