NOVEL (tie)

• Misery, Stephen King (Viking)
• Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon (Pocket)
• Ash Wednesday, Chet Williamson (Tor)
• Live Girls, Ray Garton (Pocket)
• Unassigned Territory, Ken Nunn (Delacorte)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Manse, Lisa W. Cantrell (Tor)
• The Damnation Game, Clive Barker (Ace/Putnam)
• Excavation, Steve Rasnic Tem (Avon)
• The Harvest Bride, Tony Richards (Tor)
• Slob, Rex Miller (Signet)

NOVELETTE (tie)

• "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead", Alan Rodgers (Masques II)
• "The Pear-Shaped Man", George R. R. Martin (Omni Oct 1987)
• "Pamela's Get", David J. Schow (Twilight Zone Aug 1987)
• "Resurrec Tech", S. P. Somtow (Night Cry Spring 1987)

SHORT STORY

• "The Deep End", Robert R. McCammon (Night Visions 4)
• "Dat-Tay-Vao", F. Paul Wilson (Amazing Stories Mar 1987)
• "Friend's Best Man", Jonathan Carroll (F&SF Jan 1987)
• "This Old Man", Charles L. Grant (Night Cry Spring 1987)
• "Traps", F. Paul Wilson (Night Cry Summer 1987)

COLLECTION

• The Essential Ellison, Harlan Ellison (Nemo Press)
• All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Howard Waldrop (Ursus)
• Midnight Pleasures, Robert Bloch (Doubleday)
• Scared Stiff, Tales of Sex and Death, Ramsey Campbell (Scream/Press)
• Why Not You and I?, Karl Edward Wagner (Tor)

NONFICTION BOOK

• Mary Shelley, Muriel Spark (Dutton)
• Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In, Joe Bob Briggs (Doubleday)
• The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh, Paul A. Gagne (Dodd, Mead)

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Fritz Leiber
• Frank Belknap Long
• Clifford D. Simak