NOVEL

• The Night Class, Tom Piccirilli (Leisure)
• From a Buick 8, Stephen King (Cemetery Dance; Scribner)
• The Hour Before Dark, Douglas Clegg (Leisure)
• The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
• Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
• Atmosphere, Michael Laimo (Delirium Books; Leisure)
• The Blues Ain't Nothing', Tina Jens (Design Image Group)
• The Red Church, Scott Nicholson (Pinnacle)

LONG FICTION (tie)

• El Dia de los Muertos, Brian A. Hopkins (Earthling Publications)
• "My Work Is Not Yet Done", Thomas Ligotti (My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror)
• Cape Wrath, Paul Finch (Telos Publishing)
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• "The Origin", David B. Silva (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)

SHORT FICTION

• "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair", Tom Piccirilli (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)
• "Details", China Miéville (Children of Cthulhu)
• "Disappearances", Mort Castle (Chizine)
• "The Green Man", Christopher Fowler (The Third Alternative #31)
• "The Plague Species", Charlee Jacob (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)

FICTION COLLECTION

• One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)
• The Collection, Bentley Little (Signet)
• Everything's Eventual, Stephen King (Scribner)
• Knuckles and Tales, Nancy A. Collins (Cemetery Dance)
• Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead, Mort Castle (Prime Books)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, John Pelan, ed. (Roc)
• Children of Cthulhu, John Pelan & Benjamin Adams, eds. (Del Rey)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Thirteen, Stephen Jones, ed. (Carroll & Graf)
• Shivers, Richard Chizmar, ed. (Cemetery Dance)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

NONFICTION

• Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)
• Hellnotes, David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck, eds. (Phantasm Press)
• Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene & Kelly Laymon, eds. (JIHad Publications)
• Ralan.com, Ralan Conley, ed.
• Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition, Richard Bleiler (Scribner)

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE

• Nightside (Issues 1-4), Robert Weinberg (Marvel Comics)
• Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Issues 1-4), Peter Lenkov (Dark Horse)
• Howard the Duck (Issues 1-6), Steve Gerber (Marvel Comics)

SCREENPLAY

• Frailty, Brant Hanley (Lion's Gate Films)
• Minority Report, Scott Frank & Jon Cohen (based on a story by Philip K. Dick; 20th Century Fox)
• The Ring, Ehren Kruger & Scott Frank (based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and on the motion picture by The Spiral Production Group; Dreamworks)
• Signs, M. Night Shyamalan (Touchstone Films)

WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS

• Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• Abarat, Clive Barker (Joanna Cotler Books)
• Abu and the 7 Marvels, Richard Matheson & William Stout (Gauntlet Press)
• Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural, Nancy Etchemendy (Cricket Books)

POETRY COLLECTION

• The Gossamer Eye, Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson (Meisha Merlin)
• Guises (poetry section "Night Unmasked"), Charlee Jacob (Delirium Books)
• Night Smoke, Bruce Boston & Marge Simon (Miniature Sun Press/Quixsilver Press)
• This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding, Tom Piccirilli (Catalyst)

ALTERNATIVE FORMS

• "Imagination Box", Steve & Melanie Tem (Lone Wolf Publications) (multimedia CD)
• "Buckeye Jim in Egypt", Mort Castle (Lone Wolf Publications) (audio script based on the Mort Castle story)
• Flesh & Blood, Jack Fisher, ed. (Flesh & Blood Press)
• "The Tree Is My Hat", Larry Santoro (audio script based on the Gene Wolfe story)

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Night Shade Books, Jason Williams & Jeremy Lassen

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Stephen King
• J. N. Williamson

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