NOVEL

• Children of the Dusk, Janet Berliner & George Guthridge (White Wolf)
• The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns (Metropolitan)
• Earthquake Weather, Tim Powers (Legend; Tor)
• My Soul to Keep, Tananarive Due (HarperCollins)

FIRST NOVEL

• Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• The Art of Arrow Cutting, Stephen Dedman (Tor)
• Drawn to the Grave, Mary Ann Mitchell (Leisure)
• Hungry Eyes, Barry Hoffman (Gauntlet Press)
• The Inquisitor, Mary Murrey (Lapwing Books)

LONG FICTION/NOVELETTE

• "The Big Blow", Joe R. Lansdale (Revelations)
• "Coppola's Dracula", Kim Newman (The Mammoth Book of Dracula)
• "Everything's Eventual", Stephen King (F&SF Oct/Nov 1997)
• "The Word", Ramsey Campbell (Revelations)
• "The Zombies of Madison County", Douglas E. Winter (Dark of the Night)

SHORT STORY

• "Rat Food", Edo van Belkom & David Nickle (On Spec Spring 1997)
• "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes", Douglas Clegg (Palace Corbie 7)
• "Madame Babylon", Brian Hodge (Hot Blood: Crimes of Passion)
• "A Plague on Both Your Houses", Scott Edelman (Best New Horror 8)

COLLECTION

• Exorcisms and Ecstasies, Karl Edward Wagner (Fedogan & Bremer)
• Painted in Blood, Lucy Taylor (Silver Salamander Press)
• Things Left Behind, Gary A. Braunbeck (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• The Throne of Bones, Brian McNaughton (Terminal Fright Press)

NONFICTION

• Dark Thoughts: On Writing, Stanley Wiater (Underwood Books)
• Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror, Stephen Jones (HarperPrism)
• Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography, Katherine Ramsland (HarperPrism)
• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, eds. (Orbit; St. Martin's)
• The Hammer Story, Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes (Titan Books)
• Video Watchdog, Tim Lucas, ed.

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Cemetery Dance, Richard Chizmar

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• William Peter Blatty
• Jack Williamson