AUGUST DERLETH AWARD (NOVEL)

• The Tooth Fairy, Graham Joyce (Signet UK)
• Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra; Orbit)
• Excession, Iain M. Banks (Orbit; Bantam Spectra)
• The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub (Random House; HarperCollins)
• Hogfather, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz)
• Sacrament, Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
• Scenting Hallowed Blood, Storm Constantine (Signet)
• Spares, Michael Marshall Smith (HarperCollins UK; Bantam)

ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION

• The Nightmare Factory, Thomas Ligotti (Raven Books; Carroll & Graf)
• Blood Waters, Chaz Brenchley (Flambard Press)
• Dark Terrors 2, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds. (Gollancz)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Seven, Stephen Jones, ed. (Raven Books; Carroll & Graf)
• The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson (Raven Books; Carroll & Graf)
• The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Neil Gaiman & Edward E. Kramer, eds. (HarperPrism; HarperCollins)

SHORT STORY

• "Dancing About Architecture", Martin Simpson (The Third Alternative #11 Winter 1996/97)
• "The Bull Leapers", Justina Robson (Visionary Tongue #4)
• "Citizen Ed", Kim Newman & Eugene Byrne (Interzone #113 Nov 1996)
• "Foreign Bodies", Michael Marshall Smith (Lethal Kisses)
• "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself", Michael Marshall Smith (Dark Terrors 2)
• "The Red Tower", Thomas Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory)
• "Scars", Jack Wainer (Grue #18 Sum/Fall 1996)
• "Teatro Grottesco", Thomas Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory)

SMALL PRESS PUBLICATION

• H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, S. T. Joshi (Necronomicon Press)
• Broadsword, Nancy Sparling, ed.
• Cemetery Dance, Richard T. Chizmar
• Ghosts & Scholars, Rosemary Pardoe
• Peeping Tom, Stuart Hughes
• The Third Alternative, Andy Cox (Issue 11, Win 1996/97)
• Visionary Tongue, Eloise Coquio (Sum 1996)

ARTIST

• Jim Burns
• Les Edwards
• Madeleine Finnegan (for Peeping Tom)
• Dave McKean
• Jim Pitts
• J. K. Potter (for Visionary Tongue)

KARL EDWARD WAGNER AWARD (SPECIAL AWARD)

• Jo Fletcher