NOVEL

• The Traveling Vampire Show, Richard Laymon (Cemetery Dance Publications; Headline)
• The Deceased, Tom Piccirilli (Leisure)
• The Indifference of Heaven, Gary A. Braunbeck (Obsidian)
• The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club, Brian A. Hopkins (Yard Dog Press)
• Silent Children, Ramsey Campbell (Tor/Forge)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club, Brian A. Hopkins (Yard Dog Press)
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski (Pantheon)
• Nailed by the Heart, Simon Clark (Leisure)
• Run, Douglas E. Winter (Knopf)

LONG FICTION

• The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (American Fantasy Press)
• "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him", Lawrence P. Santoro (Cthulhu and the Coeds, or Kids and Squids)
• "In Shock", Joyce Carol Oates (F&SF Jun 2000)
• Riding the Bullet, Stephen King (Scribner/Philtrum Press)

SHORT FICTION

• "Gone", Jack Ketchum (October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween)
• Dead Cat Bounce, Gerard Daniel Houarner (Space & Time)
• "Fallen Angel", Robert J. Sawyer (Strange Attraction)
• "Mexican Moon", Karen E. Taylor (Daughter of Dangerous Dames)

FICTION COLLECTION

• Magic Terror: Seven Tales, Peter Straub (Random House)
• City Fishing, Steve Rasnic Tem (Silver Salamander Press)
• Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold, Charlee Jacob (Delirium Books)
• Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales, Bruce Holland Rogers (Wildside Press)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)
• Bad News, Richard Laymon, ed. (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Brainbox: The Real Horror, Steve Eller, ed. (Dreams Unlimited)
• Extremes: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth, Brian A. Hopkins, ed. (Lone Wolf Publications)

NONFICTION

• On Writing, Stephen King (Scribner)
• At the Foot of the Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub, Bill Sheehan (Subterranean Press)
• Hellnotes, David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
• Horror of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History, Robert Weinberg (Collectors Press)

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore (America's Best Comics)
• Cable (79-84), Robert Weinberg (Marvel Comics)
• "Red Romance", Joe R. Lansdale (Flinch #11; Vertigo)
• "Spuds", Bernie Wrightson (The Night Terrors)

SCREENPLAY

• Shadow of the Vampire, Steven Katz (Lions Gate Films)
• The Cell, Mark Protosevich (New Line Cinema)
• Pitch Black, David Twohy, Ken Wheat & Jim Wheat (USA Films)
• Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky & Hubert Selby, Jr. (Artisan Entertainment)
• Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan (Buena Vista Pictures)

WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS

• The Power of UN, Nancy Etchemendy (Cricket Books)
• Be Afraid!, Edo van Belkom, ed. (Tundra Books)
• The Christmas Thingy, F. Paul Wilson (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling (Scholastic)

POETRY COLLECTION

• A Student of Hell, Tom Piccirilli (Skull Job Productions)
• Burial Plot, Sandy DeLuca (Thievin' Kitty Publications)
• The Complete Accursed Wives, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press/Talisman)
• Paratabloids, Michael Arnzen (Ozark Triangle Press)

OTHER MEDIA

• Chiaroscuro, Patricia Lee Macomber, Steve Eller, Sandra Kasturi & Brett A. Savory
• "Back to the Black Lagoon", David J. Skal (Creature from the Black Lagoon) (DVD, Universal)
• Gothic.net, Mehitobel Wilson (Darren McKeeman)
• Twilight Tales Reading Series (http://www.twilighttales.com/), Tina L. Jens & Andrea Dubnick, producers

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Subterranean Press, William K. Schafer

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Nigel Kneale