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Eligibility Year: 1989

NOVEL

Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons (Dark Harvest)

Geek Love, Katherine Dunn (Knopf)

In a Dark Dream, Charles L. Grant (Tor)

Midnight, Dean R. Koontz (Putnam)

The Wolf's Hour, Robert R. McCammon (Pocket)

FIRST NOVEL

Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy A. Collins (NAL Onyx)

The Dwelling, Tom Elliot (St. Martin's)

Goat Dance, Douglas Clegg (Pocket)

Laying the Music to Rest, Dean Wesley Smith (Popular Library Questar)

The Lilith Factor, Jean Paiva (NAL Onyx)

NOVELLA/NOVELETTE

"On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks", Joe R. Lansdale (Book of the Dead)

"At First Just Ghostly", Karl Edward Wagner (Weird Tales Fall 1989)

"The Confessions of St. James", Chet Williamson (Night Visions 7)

"Phantom", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (F&SF Jun 1989)

SHORT STORY

"Eat Me", Robert R. McCammon (Book of the Dead)

"Bodies and Heads", Steve Rasnic Tem (Book of the Dead)

"Each Night, Each Year", Kathryn Ptacek (Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Horror)

"A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned", Edward Bryant (Book of the Dead)

"Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purty...He Said.", Chet Williamson (Razored Saddles)

COLLECTION

Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, Richard Matheson (Scream/Press)

Blue World and Other Stories, Robert R. McCammon (Grafton; Pocket)

By Bizarre Hands, Joe R. Lansdale (Mark V. Ziesing)

Patterns, Pat Cadigan (Ursus)

Soft and Others, F. Paul Wilson (Tor)

NONFICTION BOOK (tie)

Harlan Ellison's Watching, Harlan Ellison (Underwood-Miller)

Horror: 100 Best Books, Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (Xanadu 1988; Carroll & Graf)

American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners, Norine Dresser (Norton)

H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Cannon (Twayne)

Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and Film, Leonard Wolf (Facts on File)