NOVEL

• lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub (Random House)
• A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli (Night Shade Books)
• The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner)
• The Night Country, Stewart O'Nan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Serenity Falls, James A. Moore (Meisha Merlin)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Rising, Brian Keene (Delirium Books)
• Monstrocity, Jeffrey Thomas (Prime Books)
• Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
• Wolf's Trap, William D. Gagliani (Yard Dog Press)

LONG FICTION

• "Closing Time", Jack Ketchum (Peaceable Kingdom)
• Fuckin' Lie Down Already, Tom Piccirilli (Endeavor Press)
• Louisiana Breakdown, Lucius Shepard (Golden Gryphon)
• The Necromancer, Douglas Clegg (Cemetery Dance)
• Roll Them Bones, David Niall Wilson (Cemetery Dance)

SHORT FICTION

• "Duty", Gary A. Braunbeck (Vivisections)
• "Harvey's Dream", Stephen King (The New Yorker 30 Jun 2003)
• "The Haunting", Joyce Carol Oates (F&SF Apr 2003)
• "The Last Supper", Scott Edelman (The Book of Final Flesh)
• "The Red Bow", George Saunders (Esquire Sep 2003)

FICTION COLLECTION

• Peaceable Kingdom, Jack Ketchum (Subterranean Press)
• Bibliomancy, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
• Fangs and Angel Wings, Karen E. Taylor (Wildside Press)
• Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Volume 1, Gary A. Braunbeck (Earthling Publications)
• Told by the Dead, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)

ANTHOLOGY

• Borderlands 5, Elizabeth Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone, eds. (Borderlands Press)
• The Dark: New Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• Gathering the Bones, Jack Dann, Dennis Etchison & Ramsey Campbell, eds. (HarperCollins Voyager Australia; Tor)
• Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural, Bill Congreve, ed. (Sandglass Enterprises)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, ed. (St. Martin's)

NONFICTION

• The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association, Thomas F. Monteleone (Borderlands Press)
• Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman, Gary Spencer Millidge & Smoky Man, ed. (Abiogenesis Press)
• Fear in a Handful of Dust, Gary A. Braunbeck (Wildside Press)
• Hellnotes, Judi Rohrig, ed. (Wolf Moon)
• Ralan.com, Ralan Conley

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE

• The Sandman: Endless Nights, Neil Gaiman (DC Comics)
• Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce, Tom Pomplun, ed. (Graphic Classics)
• Kolchak: "Devil in the Details", Stefan Petrucha (Moonstone)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II, Alan Moore (America's Best Comics)
• Vampire the Masqerade Giovanni -- The Machiavelli Conundrum, Robert Weinberg (Moonstone/White Wolf)

SCREENPLAY

• Bubba Ho-Tep, Don Coscarelli (Silver Sphere)
• Identity, Michael Cooney (Sony Pictures)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio (Disney)

WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling (Scholastic)
• Even Odder: More Stories To Chill The Heart, Steve Burt (Burt Creations)
• The Oracle, Catherine Fisher (Hodder Children's Books)
• A Stir of Bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking Children's Books)
• The Wolves in the Walls, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

POETRY COLLECTION

• Pitchblende, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press)
• Artist of Antithesis, Marge Simon (Miniature Sun Press)
• Cardinal Sins, Charlee Jacob (Miniature Sun Press)
• Final Girl, Daphne Gottlieb (Soft Skull Press)
• Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems, Michael Arnzen (Fairwood Press)
• Professor LaGungo's Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles, Mark McLaughlin (Flesh & Blood Press)

ALTERNATIVE FORMS

• The Goreletter (www.gorelets.com), Michael Arnzen (e-mail newsletter)
• "From the Files of Matthews Gentech", Bruce Ballon (Silver Age Sentinels) (role-playing game)
• "Ghosts of Albion", Christopher Golden & Amber Benson (BBC Online) (webcast script)
• Horror World, Nanci Kalanta & Ron Dickie (webzine)

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Earthling Publications, Paul Miller

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

• Martin H. Greenberg
• Anne Rice

TRUSTEE AWARD

• Robert Weinberg (overall contribution and many years of service to the HWA)

PRESIDENT'S AWARD

• Lee Thomas (Outstanding Contribution to the genre and to the HWA)