NOVEL

• Mr. X, Peter Straub (Random House)
• Darker Than Night, Owl Goingback (Signet)
• Hannibal, Thomas Harris (Delacorte)
• Hexes, Tom Piccirilli (Leisure)
• "Low Men in Yellow Coats", Stephen King (Hearts in Atlantis)

FIRST NOVEL

• Wither, J. G. Passarella (Pocket)
• Every Dead Thing, John Connolly (Simon & Schuster)
• King Rat, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Tor)
• Widow's Walk, Steve Beai (Indigo)

LONG FICTION (tie)

• "Five Days in April", Brian A. Hopkins (Chiaroscuro Jul 1999)
• "Mad Dog Summer", Joe R. Lansdale (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
• "Dread in the Beast", Charlee Jacob (Dread in the Beast)
• Right to Life, Jack Ketchum (Cemetery Dance Publications)

SHORT FICTION

• "Aftershock", F. Paul Wilson (Realms of Fantasy Dec 1999)
• "The Entertainment", Ramsey Campbell (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
• "The Grave", P. D. Cacek (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense)
• "Halloween Street", Steve Rasnic Tem (F&SF Jul 1999)

COLLECTION

• The Nightmare Chronicles, Douglas Clegg (Leisure)
• Death Drives a Semi, Edo van Belkom (Quarry Press)
• Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Tom Piccirilli (Terminal Fright Press)
• Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King (Scribner)

ANTHOLOGY

• 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, Al Sarrantonio, ed. (Avon)
• The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique, John Pelan, ed. (ShadowLands Press)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Ten, Stephen Jones, ed. (Carroll & Graf)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

NONFICTION

• DarkEcho, Paula Guran, ed. (all 1999 issues)
• The Essential Monster Movie Guide, Stephen Jones (Titan)
• Hellnotes, David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson (all 1999 issues)
• Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography, Victoria Price (St. Martin's)

COMIC BOOK, GRAPHIC NOVEL, OR OTHER ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE

• The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (DC/Vertigo)
• Faust: Book of M, David Quinn (Avatar Press)
• Hellboy: Box Full of Evil, Mike Mignola (Dark Horse Comics)
• Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1, Joe R. Lansdale (DC/Vertigo)

SCREENPLAY

• The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan
• The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Hush", Joss Whedon
• The Green Mile, Frank Darabont

WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury; Scholastic US)
• Creepy Susie & 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children, Angus Oblong (Ballantine)
• Something Lumber This Way Comes, Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press)

OTHER MEDIA

• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (audio), Harlan Ellison (Dove)
• Conspiracies (audio CD of F. Paul Wilson story) (WyrdSisterS ProductionS/Gauntlet Press)
• Gothic.net, Seth Lindberg (Darren McKeeman)
• Masters of Terror, Andy Fairclough

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Ash-Tree Press, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Edward Gorey
• Charles L. Grant