E-mail Locus

Where & When: New York City, Sat 7 Jun 2003
Eligibility Year: 2002

NOVEL

The Night Class, Tom Piccirilli (Leisure)

From a Buick 8, Stephen King (Cemetery Dance; Scribner)

The Hour Before Dark, Douglas Clegg (Leisure)

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)

Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)

FIRST NOVEL

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)

Atmosphere, Michael Laimo (Delirium Books; Leisure)

The Blues Ain't Nothing', Tina Jens (Design Image Group)

The Red Church, Scott Nicholson (Pinnacle)

LONG FICTION (tie)

El Dia de los Muertos, Brian A. Hopkins (Earthling Publications)

"My Work Is Not Yet Done", Thomas Ligotti (My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror)

Cape Wrath, Paul Finch (Telos Publishing)

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

"The Origin", David B. Silva (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)

SHORT FICTION

"The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair", Tom Piccirilli (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)

"Details", China Miéville (Children of Cthulhu)

"Disappearances", Mort Castle (Chizine)

"The Green Man", Christopher Fowler (The Third Alternative)

"The Plague Species", Charlee Jacob (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)

FICTION COLLECTION

One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)

The Collection, Bentley Little (Signet)

Everything's Eventual, Stephen King (Scribner)

Knuckles and Tales, Nancy A. Collins (Cemetery Dance)

Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead, Mort Castle (Prime Books)

ANTHOLOGY

The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, John Pelan, ed. (Roc)

Children of Cthulhu, John Pelan & Benjamin Adams, eds. (Del Rey)

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Thirteen, Stephen Jones, ed. (Carroll & Graf)

Shivers, Richard Chizmar, ed. (Cemetery Dance)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

NONFICTION

Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)

Hellnotes, David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck, eds. (Phantasm Press)

Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene & Kelly Laymon, eds. (JIHad Publications)

Ralan.com, Ralan Conley, ed.

Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition, Richard Bleiler (Scribner)

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE

Nightside (Issues 1-4), Robert Weinberg (Marvel Comics)

Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Issues 1-4), Peter Lenkov (Dark Horse)

Howard the Duck (Issues 1-6), Steve Gerber (Marvel Comics)

SCREENPLAY

Frailty, Brant Hanley (Lion's Gate Films)

Minority Report, Scott Frank & Jon Cohen (based on a story by Philip K. Dick; 20th Century Fox)

The Ring, Ehren Kruger & Scott Frank (based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and on the motion picture by The Spiral Production Group; Dreamworks)

Signs, M. Night Shyamalan (Touchstone Films)

WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

Abarat, Clive Barker (Joanna Cotler Books)

Abu and the 7 Marvels, Richard Matheson & William Stout (Gauntlet Press)

Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural, Nancy Etchemendy (Cricket Books)

POETRY COLLECTION

The Gossamer Eye, Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson (Meisha Merlin)

Guises (poetry section "Night Unmasked"), Charlee Jacob (Delirium Books)

Night Smoke, Bruce Boston & Marge Simon (Miniature Sun Press/Quixsilver Press)

This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding, Tom Piccirilli (Catalyst)

ALTERNATIVE FORMS

"Imagination Box", Steve & Melanie Tem (Lone Wolf Publications) (multimedia CD)

"Buckeye Jim in Egypt", Mort Castle (Lone Wolf Publications) (audio script based on the Mort Castle story)

Flesh & Blood, Jack Fisher, ed. (Flesh & Blood Press)

"The Tree Is My Hat", Larry Santoro (audio script based on the Gene Wolfe story)

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

Night Shade Books, Jason Williams & Jeremy Lassen

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

Stephen King

J. N. Williamson