[presented in 2004]
Novel
Winner: lost boy lost girl by Peter
Straub
Nominees:
- The Dark
Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
- Serenity
Falls by James A. Moore
- The Night
Country by Stewart O'Nan
- A Choir of
Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
First Novel
Winner: The Rising
by Brian Keene
Nominees:
- Wolf's Trap
by William D. Gagliani
- Monstrocity
by Jeffrey Thomas
- Veniss
Underground by Jeff Vandermeer
Long Fiction
Winner: "Closing Time" by Jack Ketchum, in: Peaceable Kingdom
Nominees:
- The
Necromancer: being the diary of Justin Gravesend on the year of his
rebirth, and his forced initiation into the Chymera magick, including
his early visionaries by Douglas Clegg
- Fuckin' Lie
Down Already by Tom Piccirilli
- Louisiana
Breakdown by Lucius Shepard
- Roll Them
Bones by David Niall Wilson
Short Fiction
Winner: "Duty" by Gary A. Braunbeck. Available at: http://www.garybraunbeck.com/html/duty.html
Nominees:
- "The Last Supper" by Scott Edelman, in The Book of Final Flesh,
James Lowder, ed. Also available at: http://www.scottedelman.com/LastSupper.pdf
- "Harvey's Dream" by Stephen King, in The Year's Best Fantasy &
Horror : Seventeenth Annual Collection
- "The Haunting" by Joyce Carol Oates, in The Mammoth Book of Best New
Horror Volume Fifteen
- "The Red Bow" by George Saunders, in The Year's Best Fantasy &
Horror : Seventeenth Annual Collection
Fiction Collection
Winner: Peaceable
Kingdom by Jack Ketchum
Nominees:
- Graveyard
People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1 by Gary A.
Braunbeck
- Told by the
Dead by Ramsey Campbell
- Bibliomancy
by Elizabeth Hand
- Fangs and
Angel Wings by Karen Taylor
Anthology
Winner: Borderlands 5
edited by Elizabeth and Thomas Monteleone
Nominees:
- Southern
Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural edited by Bill
Congreve
- Gathering
The Bones edited by Jack Dann, Ramsey Campbell and Dennis
Etchison
- The Dark
edited by Ellen Datlow
- The Year's
Best Fantasy & Horror: 16th Annual Collection edited by
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Nonfiction
Winner: The Mothers
and Fathers Italian Association by Thomas F. Monteleone
Nominees:
- Fear in a
Handful of Dust: horror as a way of life by Gary A. Braunbeck
- Ralan.com
edited by Ralan Conley
- Alan Moore:
Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman, edited by Gary Spencer
Millidge and Smoky Man
- Hellnotes
edited by Judi Rohrig
Illustrated Narrative
Winner: The Sandman:
Endless Nights (collection) by Neil Gaiman
Nominees:
- The League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two by Alan Moore
- Kolchak:
"Devil in the Details" by Stefan Petrucha
- Graphic
Classics: Ambrose Bierce edited by Tom Pomplun
- Vampire the
Masqerade Giovanni -- The Machiavelli Conundrum by Robert
Weinberg
Work for Young Readers
Winner: Harry Potter
and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Nominees:
- Even Odder:
More Stories To Chill The Heart by Steve Burt
- The Oracle
by Catherine Fisher
- The Wolves
in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
- A Stir of
Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Poetry Collection
Winner: Pitchblende
by Bruce Boston
Nominees:
- Gorelets:
Unpleasant Poems by Michael Arnzen
- Final Girl
by Daphne Gottlieb
- Cardinal
Sins by Charlee Jacob
- Professor
LaGungo's Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles by
Mark McLaughlin
- Artist of
Antithesis by Marge Simon
[presented in 2003]
Novel
Winner: The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
Nominees:
- The Hour Before Dark by Douglas Clegg
- From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
- Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
First Novel
Winner: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Nominees:
- The Blues Ain't Nothin' by Tina Jens
- Atmosphere by Michael Laimo
- The Red Church by Scott Nicholson
Long Fiction
Winners: El Dia De Los Muertos by Brian A. Hopkins and
"My Work Is Not Yet Done" by Thomas Ligotti, in My Work Is Not Yet Done : three
tales of corporate horror
Nominees:
- Cape Wrath by Paul Finch
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- "The Origin" by David B. Silva, in The Darker Side : Generations of
Horror
Short Fiction
Winner: "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair" by Tom
Piccirilli, in The Darker
Side : Generations of Horror
Nominees:
- "Disappearances" by Mort Castle (Chizine)
- "The Green Man" by Christopher Fowler (The Third
Alternative)
- "The Plague Species" by Charlee Jacob, in The Darker Side : Generations of
Horror
- "Details" by China Miéville, in Children of Cthulhu
Fiction Collection
Winner: One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury
Nominees:
- Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead
by
Mort Castle
- Knuckles and Tales by Nancy A. Collins
- Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
- The Collection by Bentley Little
Anthology
Winner: The Darker Side edited by John Pelan
Nominees:
- Shivers edited by Richard Chizmar
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fifteenth
Annual
Collection
edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume 13
edited by Stephen
Jones
- Children of Cthulhu edited by John Pelan and
Benjamin Adams
Nonfiction
Winner: Ramsey Campbell, Probably by Ramsey Campbell
Nominees:
- Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary
Fantasy
and Horror by
Richard Bleiler
- Ralan.com edited by Ralan Conley
- Jobs in Hell edited by Brian Keene and Kelly
Laymon
- Hellnotes edited by David B. Silva, Paul F.
Olson, and Garrett Peck
Illustrated Narrative
Winner: Nightside (Issues 1-4) by Robert Weinberg
Nominees:
- Howard the Duck (Issues 1-6) by Steve Gerber
- Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Issues
1-4) by
Peter Lenkov
Work for Young Readers
Winner: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Nominees:
- Abarat by Clive Barker
- Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural
by
Nancy Etchemendy
- Abu and the Seven Marvels by Richard
Matheson
and William Stout
Poetry Collection
Winner: The Gossamer Eye by Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves,
and David Niall Wilson
Nominees:
- Night Smoke by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon
- Guises (Poetry Section "Night Unmasked") by
Charlee Jacob
- This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding
by
Tom Piccirilli
[presented in 2002]
Novel
Winner: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Nominees:
- From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
- The Lost by Jack Ketchum
- Black House by Stephen King & Peter
Straub
First Novel
Winner: Deadliest of the Species by Michael Oliveri
Nominees:
- Phantom Feast by Diana Barron
- Skating on the Edge by d.g.k. goldberg
- Riverwatch by Joe Nassise
Long Fiction
Winner: In These Final Days of Sales by Steve Rasnic Tem
Nominees:
- "From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet" by Harlan
Ellison
- "Demolition" by Nancy Etchemendy
- "Earthworm Gods" by Brian Keene
- Northern Gothic by Nick Mamatas
Short Fiction
Winner: "Reconstructing Amy" by Tim Lebbon
Nominees:
- "I Am Your Need" by Mort Castle
- "The Haunt" by Jack Ketchum
- "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" by David B.
Silva
Fiction Collection
Winner: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman
Partridge
Nominees:
- The Dark Fantastic by Ed Gorman
- As the Sun Goes Down by Tim Lebbon
- The Whisperer and Other Voices by Brian
Lumley
Anthology
Winner: Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the
Earth edited by Brian A. Hopkins
Nominees:
- Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween
Novellas
edited by Richard
Chizmar
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourteenth
Annual
Collection
edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
- The Best of Horrorfind edited by Brian Keene
Nonfiction
Winner: Jobs in Hell edited by Brian Keene
Nominees:
- If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie
Actor
by Bruce Campbell
- Personal Demons edited by Brian A. Hopkins
&
Garrett Peck
- Hellnotes by David B. Silva & Paul F.
Olson
Illustrated Narrative
Winner: no winner
Nominees:
- "Freezes Over" (Hellblazer 158-161) by Brian
Azzarello
- "The First Adventures of Miss Catterina Poe" (The
Dreaming 56)
by
Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave by Jeff
Mariotte
- "Quiver" (Green Arrow 1-10) by Kevin Smith
- Weird Western Tales by Various Authors
Work for Young Readers
Winner: The Willow Files 2 by Yvonne Navarro
Nominee:
- Prowlers by Christopher Golden
Poetry Collection
Winner: Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes by
Linda
Addison
Nominees:
- White Space by Bruce Boston
- What the Cacodaemon Whispered by Chad Hensley
- Taunting the Minotaur by Charlee Jacob
[presented in 2001]
Novel
Winner: The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
Nominees:
- The Indifference of Heaven by Gary A. Braunbeck
- Silent Children by Ramsey Campbell
- The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club by Brian A.
Hopkins
- The Deceased by Tom Piccirilli
First Novel
Winner: The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club by Brian
A. Hopkins
Nominees:
- Nailed by the Heart by Simon Clark
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Run by Douglas E. Winter
Long Fiction
Winner: The Man on the Ceiling by Melanie and Steve
Rasnic
Tem
Nominees:
- Riding the Bullet by Stephen King
- "In Shock" by Joyce Carol Oates
- "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him" by
Lawrence P. Santoro
Short Fiction
Winner: "Gone" by Jack Ketchum
Nominees:
- Dead Cat Bounce by Gerard Daniel Houarner
- "Fallen Angel" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Mexican Moon" by Karen E. Taylor
Fiction Collection
Winner: Magic Terror by Peter Straub
Nominees:
- Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold by
Charlee Jacob
- Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales by
Bruce
Holland Rogers
- City Fishing by Steve Rasnic Tem
Anthology
Winner: The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th Annual
Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Nominees:
- Brainbox: The Real Horror edited by Steve
Eller
- Extremes: Fantasy & Horror from the Ends of
the
Earth edited
by Brian A. Hopkins
- Bad News edited by Richard Laymon
Nonfiction
Winner: On Writing by Stephen King
Nominees:
- Hellnotes by David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson
- At the Foot of the Story Tree by Bill Sheehan
- Horror of the 20th Century by Robert Weinberg
Illustrated Narrative
Winner: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
(miniseries)
by Alan Moore
Nominees:
- "Red Romance" (Flinch 11) by Joe R. Lansdale
- Cable 79-84 by Robert Weinberg
- "Spuds" (Night Terrors #1) by Bernie Wrightson
Work for Young Readers
Winner: The Power of Un by Nancy Etchemendy
Nominees:
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K.
Rowling
- Be Afraid! edited by Edo van Belkom
- The Christmas Thingy by F. Paul Wilson
Poetry Collection
Winner: A Student of Hell by Tom Piccirilli
Nominees:
- Paratabloids by Michael A. Arnzen
- The Complete Accursed Wives by Bruce Boston
- Burial Plot in Sagittarius by Sandy DeLuca
[presented in 2000]
Novel
Winner: Mr. X by Peter Straub
Nominees:
- Darker than Night by Owl Goingback
- Hannibal by Thomas Harris
- Low Men in Yellow Coats by Stephen King
- Hexes by Tom Piccirilli
First Novel
Winner: Wither by J.G. Passarella
Nominees:
- Widow's Walk by Steve Beai
- Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
- King Rat by China Miéville
Long Fiction
Winners: "Five Days in April" by Brian A. Hopkins and "Mad Dog
Summer" by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominees:
- "Dread in the Beast" by Charlee Jacob
- Right to Life by Jack Ketchum
Short Fiction
Winner: "Aftershock" by F. Paul Wilson
Nominees:
- "The Grave" by P.D. Cacek
- "The Entertainment" by Ramsey Campbell
- "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem
Fiction Collection
Winner: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg
Nominees:
- Death Drives a Semi by Edo van Belkom
- Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
- Deep into that Darkness Peering by Tom
Piccirilli
Anthology
Winner: 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense edited
by Al Sarrantonio
Nominees:
- The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Twelfth
Annual
Collection
edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10
edited by
Stephen Jones
- The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique
edited
by John Pelan
Nonfiction
Winner: DarkEcho edited by Paula Guran
Nominees:
- The Essential Monster Movie Guide by Stephen
Jones
- Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography by
Victoria Price
- Hellnotes edited by David B. Silva &
Paul F.
Olson
Illustrated Narrative
Winner: Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
Nominees:
- Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1 by Joe R. Lansdale
- Hellboy: Box Full of Evil by Mike Mignola
- Faust: Book of M by David Quinn
Work for Young Readers
Winner: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by
J.K. Rowling
Nominees:
- Something Lumber This Way Comes by Joe R.
Lansdale
- Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for
Troubled
Children by
Angus Oblong
[presented in 1999]
Novel
Winner: Bag of Bones, by Stephen King
Nominees:
- Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
- Darker Angels by S.P. Somtow
- Fog Heart by Thomas Tessier
First Novel
Winner: Dawn Song by Michael Marano
Nominees:
- Night Prayers by P.D. Cacek
- This Symbiotic Fascination by Charlee Jacob
- Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Long Fiction
Winner: "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" by Peter Straub
Nominees:
- "Leavings" by P.D. Cacek
- "As Above, So Below" by Brian Hodge
- "What Would You Do for Love?" by John Shirley
Short Fiction
Winner: "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
Nominees:
- "Blues-Born" by Tina L. Jens
- "Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King
- "The Rug" by Edo van Belkom
Fiction Collection
Winner: Black Butterflies by John Shirley
Nominees:
- Leavings by P.D. Cacek
- Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
- The Cleft and Other Odd Tales by Gahan Wilson
Anthology
Winner: Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories by Stefan
Dziemianowicz,
ed., Martin H. Greenberg, ed. & Robert Weinberg, ed.
Nominees:
- Robert Bloch's Psychos by Robert Bloch, ed.
- Best of Cemetery Dance by Richard Chizmar,
ed.
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (11th Annual
Collection) by Ellen
Datlow, ed. & Terri Windling, ed.
Nonfiction
Winner: DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5, #1-50 by Paula
Guran,
ed.
Nominees:
- Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King
and
Beyond by Clive
Bloom, ed.
- The Science of the X-Files by Jeanne Cavelos
- A Writer's Tale by Richard Laymon
Illustrated Narrative
Winner: no winner
Nominees:
- Sergio Aragones' Dia de las Muertos (Day of the
Dead)
by Sergio
Aragones & Mark Evanier
- Preacher by Garth Ennis
- The Son of Man (Hellblazer #129 -- 133) by
Garth
Ennis
- The Dreaming: Trial and Error by Len Wein
Work for Young Readers
Winner: "Bigger than Death" by Nancy Etchemendy
Nominees:
- The Dollhouse that Time Forgot (Eerie
Indiana
#11) by Mike Ford
- The Angel Chronicles: A Novelization (Buffy
the
Vampire Slayer Vol.
1) by Nancy Holder
- Hungry Ghosts: A Novelization (The X-Files
No.
9) by Ellen Steiber
[presented in 1998]
Novel
Winner: Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner &
George
Guthridge
Nominees:
- The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
- My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
- Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers
First Novel
Winner: Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Nominees:
- The Art of Arrow Cutting by Stephen Dedman
- Hungry Eyes by Barry Hoffman
- Drawn to the Grave by Mary Ann Mitchell
- The Inquisitor by Mary Murrey
Long Fiction
Winner: "The Big Blow" by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominees:
- "The Word" by Ramsey Campbell
- "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King
- "Coppola's Dracula" by Kim Newman
- "The Zombies of Madison County" by Douglas E. Winter
Short Fiction
Winner: "Rat Food" by Edo van Belkom & David Nickle
Nominees:
- "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" by Douglas Clegg
- "A Plague on Both Your Houses" by Scott Edelman
- "Madame Babylon" by Brian Hodge
Fiction Collection
Winner: Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner
Nominees:
- Things Left Behind by Gary A. Braunbeck
- The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
- Painted in Blood by Lucy Taylor
Nonfiction
Winner: Dark Thoughts: On Writing by Stanley Wiater
Nominees:
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute
&
John Grant
- The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn & Alan
Barnes
- Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror by Stephen Jones
- Video Watchdog by Tim Lucas, ed.
- Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography by
Katherine
Ramsland
[presented in 1997]
Novel
Winner: The Green Mile by Stephen King
Nominees:
- Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
- Crota by Owl Goingback
- The Hellfire Club by Peter Straub
First Novel
Winner: Crota by Owl Goingback
Nominees:
- Flute Song by Donald Burleson
- Horror Show by Greg Kihn
- Dead Heat by Del Stone
Long Fiction
Winner: "The Red Tower" by Thomas Ligotti
Nominees:
- "Kilroy Was Here" by Jack Cady
- "The Thing from Lover's Lane" by Nancy Collins
- "Brimstone and Salt" by S.P. Somtow
Short Fiction
Winner: "Metalica" by P.D. Cacek
Nominees:
- "The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge
Woman" by Robert
Devereaux
- "The Secret Shih Tan" by Graham Masterton
- "The House of Mourning" by Brian Stableford
- "Plan 10 from Inner Space" by Karl Edward Wagner
Fiction Collection
Winner: The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti
Nominees:
- The Convulsion Factory by Brian Hodge
- Shadow Dreams by Elizabeth Massie
- With Wounds Still Wet by Wayne Allen Sallee
- The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S.P. Somtow
Nonfiction
Winner: H.P. Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi
Nominees:
- Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula
by Barbara Belford
- The Great Pulp Heroes by Don Hutchison
- The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide by
Stephen
Jones
- V is for Vampire, by David Skal
[presented in 1996]
Novel
Winner: Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Nominees:
- Widow by Billie Sue Mosiman
- Deadrush by Yvonne Navarro
- Bone Music by Alan Rodgers
First Novel
Winner: The Safety of Unknown Cities by Lucy Taylor
Nominees:
- Diary of a Vampire by Gary Bowen
- The Between by Tananarive Due
- Madeleine's Ghost by Robert Girardi
- Wyrm Wolf by Edo van Belkom
Long Fiction
Winner: "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" by Stephen King
Nominees:
- "Baby Girl Diamond" by Adam-Troy Castro
- "Looking for Mr Flip" by Thomas F. Monteleone
- "Lover Doll" by Wayne Allen Sallee
Short Fiction
Winner: "Chatting With Anubis" by Harlan Ellison
Nominees:
- "Becky Lives" by Harry Crews
- "The Bungalow House" by Thomas Ligotti
- "The Death of the Novel" by William Browning Spencer
Fiction Collection
Winner: The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll
Nominees:
- Cages by Ed Gorman
- The Black Carousel by Charles Grant
Nonfiction
Winner: The Supernatural Index by Michael Ashley &
William Contento
Nominees:
- Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller
by Janet Leigh
& Christopher Nickens
- An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of
the
Occult and Supernatural
by James Randi
- Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies
1956-1984 by Cathal
Tohill & Pete Tombs
[presented in 1995]
Novel
Winner: Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
Nominees:
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- From the Teeth of Angels by Jonathan Carroll
- Insomnia by Stephen King
- The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
First Novel
Winner: Grave Markings by Michael A. Arnzen
Nominees:
- The Black Mariah by Jay Bonansinga
- Deadweight by Robert Devereaux
- Near Death by Nancy Kilpatrick
Long Fiction
Winner: "The Scent of Vinegar," by Robert Bloch
Nominees:
- "Sometimes in the Rain" by Charles L. Grant
- "The Alchemy of the Throat" by Brian Hodge
- "Bubba Ho-Tep" by Joe R. Lansdale
- "The Siren of Swan Quarter" by William Trotter
Short Fiction
Winners: "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" by Nancy Holder and "The
Box" by Jack Ketchum
Nominees:
- "Mr. Torso" by Edward Lee
- "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" by Lucy Taylor
Fiction Collection
Winner: The Early Fears by Robert Bloch
Nominees:
- Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale
- The Flesh Artist by Lucy Taylor
- Born Bad by Andrew Vachss
[presented in 1994]
Novel
Winner: The Throat by Peter Straub
Nominees:
- Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
- Blackburn by Bradley Denton
- Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
- The Summoning by Bentley Little
First Novel
Winner: The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki
Hoffman
Nominees:
- Afterage by Yvonne Navarro
- Created By by Richard Christian Matheson
- Suckers by Anne Billson
- Wet Work by Philip Nutman
Novella
Winners: "Mefisto in Onyx" by Harlan Ellison and "The Night We
Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady
Nominees:
- "Caroline and Caleb" by Richard Gilliam
- "Flashback" by Dan Simmons
Novelet
Winner: "Death in Bangkok" by Dan Simmons
Nominees:
- "Colour" by Michael Moorcock
- "Darker Angels" by S.P. Somtow
- "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis
Short Fiction
Winner: "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" by Nancy Holder
Nominees:
- "Death Fiend Guerrillas" by William S. Burroughs
- "Distances" by Sherman Alexie
- "The Dog Park" by Dennis Etchison
- "Pain Grin" by Wayne Allen Sallee
Fiction Collection
Winner: Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
Nominees:
- Close to the Bone by Lucy Taylor
- A Good and Secret Place by Richard Laymon
- Lovedeath by Dan Simmons
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
Nonfiction
Winner: Once Around the Bloch by Robert Bloch
Nominees:
- The Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley
Harrison
& Michael Barrett
- The Monster Show by David J. Skal
[presented in 1993]
Novel
Winner: Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone
Nominees:
- Homecoming by Matthew Costello
- Deathgrip by Brian Hodge
- Hideaway by Dean R. Koontz
- Children of the Night by Dan Simmons
First Novel
Winner: Sineater by Elizabeth Massie
Nominees:
- Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
- Beauty by Brian D'Amato
- Less Than Human by Gary Raisor
- The Holy Terror by Wayne Allen Sallee
Long Fiction
Winners: "Aliens: Tribes" by Stephen Bissette and "The Events
Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance" by Joe R.
Lansdale
Nominees:
- "Nothing Will Hurt You"" by David Morrell
- "The Shrine" by David Morrell
- "For You, the Living" by Wayne Allen Sallee
Short Fiction
Winner: "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons
Nominees:
- "Farm Wife" by Nancy Kilpatrick
- "Did They Get You to Trade?" by Karl Edward Wagner
- "Come One, Come All" by Gahan Wilson
- "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" by Douglas E. Winter
Fiction Collection
Winner: Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
Nominees:
- Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom
- Fantastic Tales by I.U. Tarchetti
- Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
Nonfiction
Winner: Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film by Christopher
Golden
Nominees:
- Young Adult Horror Fiction by Cosette Kies
- Scare Tactics by John Russo
- Dark Visions by Stanley Wiater
[presented in 1992]
Novel
Winner: Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:
- The M.D. by Thomas M. Disch
- Needful Things by Stephen King
- Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by Stephen
King
- Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
First Novel
Winners: The Cipher by Kathe Koja and Prodigal
by Melanie Tem
Nominees:
- Winter Scream by Chris Curry & L. Dean
James
- Wilderness by Dennis Danvers
- Unearthed by Ashley McConnell
Long Fiction
Winner: "The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves" by David Morrell
Nominees:
- "Fetish" by Edward Bryant
- "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint
- "Advocates" by Suzy McKee Charnas & Chelsea Quinn
Yarbro
- "Magpie" by Stephen Gallagher
Short Fiction
Winner: "Lady Madonna" by Nancy Holder
Nominees:
- "The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire" by Poppy Z.
Brite
- "Love Doll: A Fable" by Joe R. Lansdale
- "The Braille Encyclopaedia," by Grant Morrison
- "Wolf Winter" by Maxine O'Callaghan
- "Richard's Head" by Al Sarrantonio
Fiction Collection
Winner: Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
Nominees:
- Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell
- Sex Punks and Savage Sagas by Richard
Sutphen
- Naked Flesh of Feeling, by J.N. Williamson
Nonfiction
Winner: Clive Barker's Shadows of Eden by Stephen Jones
Nominees:
- Vampires Among Us by Rosemary Ellen
Guillen
- Prism of Night: A Biography of Anne Rice by
Katherine Ramsland
- The Shape Under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen
King
Encyclopedia
by Stephen J. Spignesi
[presented in 1991]
Novel
Winner: Mine by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:
- Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale
- Funland by Richard Laymon
- Reign by Chet Williamson
First Novel
Winner: The Revelation by Bentley Little
Nominees:
- Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale
- Dark Father by Tom Piccirilli
- Blood of the Children by Alan Rodgers
Long Fiction
Winner: "Stephen" by Elizabeth Massie
Nominees:
- "Bestseller" by Michael Blumlein
- "The Langoliers" by Stephen King
- "Entropy's Bed at Midnight" by Dan Simmons
- "Pelts" by F. Paul Wilson
Short Fiction
Winner: "The Calling" by David B. Silva
Nominees:
- "The Loneliest Number" by Edward Bryant
- "Back Windows" by Steve Rasnic Tem
- "But You'll Never Follow Me" by Karl Edward
Wagner
- "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" by Chet Williamson
Fiction Collection
Winner: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
Nominees:
- The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
- Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
- Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
Nonfiction
Winner: Dark Dreamers by Stanley Wiater
Nominees:
- Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide by Neil
Barron
- Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In by Joe Bob
Briggs
- The Weird Tale by S.T. Joshi
- Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal
[presented in 1990]
Novel
Winner: Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
Nominees:
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- In A Dark Dream by Charles L. Grant
- Midnight by Dean R. Koontz
- The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
First Novel
Winner: Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
Nominees:
- Goat Dance by Douglas Clegg
- The Dwelling by Tom Elliott
- The Lilith Factor by Jean Paiva
- Laying the Music to Rest by Dean Wesley Smith
Long Fiction
Winner: "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks"
by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominees:
- "Phantom" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "At First Just Ghostly" by Karl Edward Wagner
- "The Confessions of St. James" by Chet Williamson
Short Fiction
Winner: "Eat Me" by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:
- "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" by
Edward Bryant
- "Each Night, Each Year" by Kathryn Ptacek
- "Bodies and Heads" by Steve Rasnic Tem
- "Yore Skin's Jes' So Soft 'n Purdy,' He Said" by Chet
Williamson
Fiction Collection
Winner: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson
Nominees:
- Patterns by Pat Cadigan
- By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale
- Blue World by Robert R. McCammon
- Soft and Others by F. Paul Wilson
Nonfiction
Winners: Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison,
and Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones & Kim
Newman
Nominees:
- H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon
- American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners
by Norine Dresser
- Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and
Film
by Leonard
Wolf
[presented in 1989]
Novel
Winner: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Nominees:
- The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale
- Flesh by Richard Laymon
- Stinger by Robert R. McCammon
- Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
- Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson
First Novel
Winner: The Suiting by Kelley Wilde
Nominees:
- Resurrection, Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson
- Fear Book by John L. Byrne
- Deliver Us from Evil by Alan Lee Harris
- Cities of the Dead by Michael Paine
- Demon Night by J. Michael Straczynski
Long Fiction
Winner: "Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity" by David
Morrell
Nominees:
- "The Function of Dream Sleep" by Harlan Ellison
- "Horrorshow" by John Farris
- "The Night Flier" by Stephen King
- "The Skin Trade" by George R.R. Martin
- "The Juniper Tree" by Peter Straub
Short Fiction
Winner: "The Night They Missed the Horror Show" by Joe R.
Lansdale
Nominees:
- "The Thing at the Top of the Stairs" by Ray
Bradbury
- "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" by
Harlan Ellison
- "Nobody Lives There Now" by Carol Orlock
- "Jack's Decline" by Lucius Shepard
- "The Music of the Dark Time" by Chet Williamson
Fiction Collection
Winner: Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles
Beaumont
Nominees:
- The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
- Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
- The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison
- Scare Tactics by John Farris
- Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick
McGrath
[presented in 1988]
Novel
Winners: Misery by Stephen King and Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:
- Live Girls by Ray Garton
- Unassigned Territory by Kem Nunn
- Ash Wednesday by Chet Williamson
First Novel
Winner: The Manse by Lisa Cantrell
Nominees:
- The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
- Slob by Rex Miller
- The Harvest Bride by Tony Richards
- Excavation by Steve Rasnic Tem
Long Fiction
Winners: "The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R.R. Martin and "The
Boy Who Came Back from the Dead" by Alan Rodgers
Nominees:
- "Pamela's Get" by David J. Schow
- "Resurrec Tech" by S.P. Somtow
Short Fiction
Winner: "The Deep End" by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:
- "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll
- "This Old Man" by Charles L. Grant
- "Dat-Tay-Vao" by F. Paul Wilson
- "Traps" by F. Paul Wilson
Fiction Collection
Winner: The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
Nominees:
- Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch
- Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell
- Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward
Wagner
- All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past
by
Howard Waldrop
Nonfiction
Winner: Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark
Nominees:
- Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In by Joe Bob
Briggs
- The Zombies that Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A.
Gagne
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