LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Madeleine L'Engle

NOVEL

• Godmother Night, Rachel Pollack (St. Martin's)
• The 37th Mandala, Marc Laidlaw (St. Martin's)
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain, William Kotzwinkle (Doubleday)
• Devil's Tower, Mark Sumner (Ballantine Del Rey)
• A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra)
• The Golden Key, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliott (DAW)
• Shadow of Ashland, Terence M. Green (Tor/Forge)

NOVELLA

• A City in Winter, Mark Helprin (Viking Ariel)
• "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast", Suzy McKee Charnas (Asimov's Mar 1996)
• "Blood of the Dragon", George R. R. Martin (Asimov's Jul 1996)
• "GI Jesus", Susan Palwick (Starlight 1)
• "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself", Michael Marshall Smith (Dark Terrors 2)

SHORT FICTION

• "Thirteen Phantasms", James P. Blaylock (Omni Online Oct 1996)
• "The Dead Cop", Dennis Etchison (Dark Terrors 2)
• "Underbed", Graham Masterton (Dark Terrors 2)

ANTHOLOGY

• Starlight 1, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, ed. (Tor)
• Dark Terrors 2, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds. (Gollancz)
• The Shimmering Door, Katharine Kerr & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (HarperPrism)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

COLLECTION

• The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, Jonathan Lethem (Harcourt Brace)
• Bad Intentions, Norman Partridge (Subterranean Press)
• Bible Stories for Adults, James Morrow (Harcourt Brace)
• Conference with the Dead, Terry Lamsley (Ash-Tree Press)
• Midnight Promises, Richard T. Chizmar (Gauntlet Publications)
• The Nightmare Factory, Thomas Ligotti (Raven Books; Carroll & Graf)
• The Pavilion of Frozen Women, S. P. Somtow (Gollancz)

ARTIST

• Moebius (Jean Girard)
• Thomas Canty
• H. R. Giger
• J. K. Potter

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

• Michael J. Weldon (for The Psychotronic Video Guide)
• Stephen Jones (for editing and anthologies)
• David Pringle (for contributions to the genre)
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch (for editing F&SF)
• Diana Wynne Jones (for The Tough Guide to Fantasyland)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden (for Ash-Tree Press)
• Fedogan & Bremer (for book publishing)
• Paula Guran (for DarkEcho)

SPECIAL CONVENTION AWARD

• Hugh B. Cave