NOVEL

• Bag of Bones, Stephen King (Scribner)
• Darker Angels, S. P. Somtow (Tor)
• Fear Nothing, Dean Koontz (Bantam)
• Fog Heart, Thomas Tessier (St. Martin's)

FIRST NOVEL

• Dawn Song, Michael Marano (Tor)
• Night Prayers, P. D. Cacek (Design Image Group)
• Silk, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• The Symbiotic Fascination, Charlee Jacob (Necro Publications)

LONG FICTION

• "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff", Peter Straub (Murder For Revenge)
• "As Above, So Below", Brian Hodge (Falling Idols)
• "Leavings", P. D. Cacek (Leavings)
• "What Would You Do For Love?", John Shirley (Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side)

SHORT FICTION

• "The Dead Boy at Your Window", Bruce Holland Rogers (The North American Review Nov/Dec 1998)
• "Autopsy Room Four", Stephen King (Robert Bloch's Psychos)
• "Blues-Born", Tina L. Jens (More Monsters from Memphis)
• "The Rug", Edo van Belkom (Robert Bloch's Psychos)

COLLECTION

• Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side, John Shirley (Mark V. Ziesing)
• The Cleft and Other Odd Tales, Gahan Wilson (Tor)
• Leavings, P. D. Cacek (StarsEnd Creations)
• Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman (Avon)

ANTHOLOGY

• Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Barnes & Noble)
• The Best of Cemetery Dance, Richard Chizmar, ed. (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Robert Bloch's Psychos, Robert Bloch, ed. (Pocket)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

NONFICTION

• DarkEcho (Vol. 5 #1-50), Paula Guran, ed.
• Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, Clive Bloom, ed. (St. Martin's)
• The Science of the X-Files, Jeanne Cavelos (Berkeley Boulevard)
• A Writer's Tale, Richard Laymon (Deadline Press)

COMIC BOOK, GRAPHIC NOVEL, OR OTHER ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE

• no award
• The Dreaming: Trial and Error, Len Wein
• Preacher, Garth Ennis
• Sergio Aragones' Dia de les Muertos (Day of the Dead), Sergio Aragones & Mark Evanier
• The Son of Man, Garth Ennis (Hellblazer #129-133)

SCREENPLAY (tie)

• Dark City, Alex Proyas
• Gods and Monsters, Bill Condon
• Fallen, Nicholas Kazen
• Millennium: "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me", Darin Morgan

WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS

• "Bigger Than Death", Nancy Etchemendy (Cricket Mar 1998)
• The Angel Chronicles: A Novelization (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1), Nancy Holder (Pocket Archway)
• The Dollhouse that Time Forgot (Eerie, Indiana #11), Mike Ford (Camelot)
• Hungry Ghosts: A Novelization (The X-Files No. 9), Ellen Steiber (HarperTrophy)

OTHER MEDIA

• no award
• Gothic at Midnight: A Tribute to the Masters of Macabre, Joshua Kane (audio anthology)
• John Carpenter's Vampires (soundtrack)
• The Misfits: American Psycho (music video)
• Universal Horror, Kevin Brownlow (tv documentary)

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Gauntlet Publications, Barry Hoffman

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Ramsey Campbell
• Roger Corman