NOVEL

• Blood of the Lamb, Thomas F. Monteleone (Tor)
• Children of the Night, Dan Simmons (Putnam)
• Deathgrip, Brian Hodge (Dell)
• Hideaway, Dean Koontz (Putnam)
• Homecoming, Matthew Costello (Berkley)

FIRST NOVEL

• Sineater, Elizabeth Massie (Pan)
• Beauty, Brian D'Amato (Delacorte)
• The Holy Terror, Wayne Allen Sallee (Mark V. Ziesing)
• Less Than Human, Gary Raisor (Diamond)
• Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite (Delacorte Abyss)

NOVELETTE (tie)

• "Aliens: Tribes", Stephen Bissette (Dark Horse Comics)
• "The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance", Joe R. Lansdale (Dark at Heart)
• "For You, the Living", Wayne Allen Sallee (Roadkill Press)
• "Nothing Will Hurt You", David Morrell (MetaHorror)
• "The Shrine", David Morrell (Dark at Heart)

SHORT STORY

• "This Year's Class Picture", Dan Simmons (Still Dead)
• "Bright Lights, Big Zombie", Douglas E. Winter (Still Dead)
• "Come One, Come All", Gahan Wilson (Still Dead)
• "Did They Get You to Trade?", Karl Edward Wagner (MetaHorror)
• "Farm Wife", Nancy Kilpatrick (Vampire's Crypt #5)

COLLECTION

• Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, Norman Partridge (Roadkill Press)
• Fantastic Tales, I. U. Tarchetti (Mercury House)
• Nightmare Flower, Elizabeth Engstrom (Tor)

NONFICTION BOOK

• Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film, Christopher Golden, ed. (Berkley)
• Dark Visions: Conversations with the Masters of the Horror Film, Stanley Wiater (Avon)
• Men, Women, and Chain Saws, Carol J. Clover (Princeton University Press)
• Scare Tactics, John Russo (Dell)
• Young Adult Horror Fiction, Cosette Kies (Twayne)

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Ray Russell