NOVEL

• The Green Mile, Stephen King (Signet)
• Crota, Owl Goingback (Donald I. Fine)
• Exquisite Corpse, Poppy Z. Brite (Simon & Schuster)
• The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub (Random House)

FIRST NOVEL

• Crota, Owl Goingback (Donald I. Fine)
• Dead Heat, Del Stone, Jr. (Mojo Press)
• Flute Song, Donald Burleson (Black Mesa)
• Horror Show, Greg Kihn (Tor)

NOVELETTE

• "The Red Tower", Thomas Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory)
• "Brimstone and Salt", S. P. Somtow (Dark Destiny III: Children of Dracula)
• "Kilroy Was Here", Jack Cady (F&SF Jul 1996)
• "The Thing from Lover's Lane", Nancy A. Collins (It Came From the Drive-In)

SHORT STORY

• "Metalica", P. D. Cacek (Hot Blood: Fear the Fever)
• "The House of Mourning", Brian Stableford (Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex)
• "Plan 10 from Inner Space", Karl Edward Wagner (It Came From the Drive-In)
• "The Secret Shih-Tan", Graham Masterton (Hot Blood: Fear the Fever)
• "The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman", Robert Devereaux (It Came From the Drive-In)

COLLECTION

• The Nightmare Factory, Thomas Ligotti (Carroll & Graf)
• The Convulsion Factory, Brian Hodge (Silver Salamander Press)
• The Pavilion of Frozen Women, S. P. Somtow (Gollancz)
• Shadow Dreams, Elizabeth Massie (Darkside Press)
• With Wounds Still Wet, Wayne Allen Sallee (Silver Salamander Press)

NONFICTION

• H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, S. T. Joshi (Necronomicon Press)
• Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula, Barbara Belford (Knopf)
• The Great Pulp Heroes, Don Hutchison (Mosaic Press)
• The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide, Stephen Jones (Titan Books)
• V is for Vampire: An A to Z Guide to Everything Undead, David J. Skal (Penguin/Plume)

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Forrest J Ackerman
• Ira Levin