NOVEL

• In the Night Room, Peter Straub (Random House)
• The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner)
• Deep in the Darkness, Michael Laimo (Leisure/Flesh & Blood Press)
• The Wind Caller, P. D. Cacek (Leisure)

FIRST NOVEL (tie)

• Covenant, John Everson (Delirium Books)
• Stained, Lee Thomas (Wildside Press)
• Black Fire, James Kidman (Leisure)
• Move Under Ground, Nick Mamatas (Night Shade Books)

LONG FICTION

• "The Turtle Boy", Kealan-Patrick Burke (Necessary Evil Press)
• Dead Man's Hand, Tim Lebbon (Necessary Evil Press)
• "Lisey and the Madman", Stephen King (McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories)
• "Northwest Passage", Barbara Roden (Acquainted with the Night)
• "Zora and the Zombie", Andy Duncan (Sci Fiction 4 Feb 2004)

SHORT FICTION

• "Nimitseahpah", Nancy Etchemendy (F&SF Jan 2004)
• "Guts", Chuck Palahniuk (Playboy Mar 2004)
• "Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland", John Farris (Elvisland)
• "Just Out of Reach", Gary Braunbeck (Cemetery Dance #50)
• "A Madness of Starlings", Douglas Clegg (Cemetery Dance #50)
• "Singing My Sister Down", Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)

FICTION COLLECTION

• Fearful Symmetries, Thomas F. Monteleone (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, Michael Arnzen (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Demonized, Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
• Fears Unnamed, Tim Lebbon (Leisure/Borderlands Press)
• The Machinery of Night, Douglas Clegg (Cemetery Dance Publications)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)
• Acquainted with the Night, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree Press)
• The Many Faces of Van Helsing, Jeanne Cavelos, ed. (Ace)
• Quietly Now: A Tribute to Charles L. Grant, Kealan-Patrick Burke, ed. (Borderlands Press)
• Shivers III, Richard Chizmar, ed. (Cemetery Dance Publications)

NONFICTION

• Hellnotes, Judi Rohrig (Wolf Moon Publications)
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, Thomas F. Monteleone (Alpha Books)
• Hanging Out with the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators, Joseph McCabe (Fantagraphic Books)
• Ralan.com, Ralan Conley (RalanConley.com)
• The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus, Bev Vincent (New American Library)

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE

• Heaven's Devils, Jai Nitz (Image Comics)
• Aleister Arcane, Steve Niles (IDW Publishing)
• Graphic Classics: Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Pomplun, ed. (Eureka Productions)
• Lost Loves, James Lowder (Moonstone Monsters: Demons)

SCREENPLAY (tie)

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth (Blue Ruin)
• Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright (Canal/Universal)
• Dawn of the Dead, James Gunn (Strike Entertainment)
• Hellboy, Guillermo Del Toro (Revolution)

WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS (tie)

• Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
• Oddest Yet, Steve Burt (Burt Creations)
• Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa's Twin, Dean Koontz (HarperCollins)
• Witch Season: Fall, Jeff Mariotte (Simon Pulse)

POETRY COLLECTION

• The Women at the Funeral, Corrine de Winter (Space & Time)
• The Desert, Charlee Jacob (Dark Regions Press)
• Men Are From Hell, Women Are From The Galaxy Of Death, Mark McLaughlin (Kelp Queen Press)
• Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife, Tom Piccirilli (Fairwood Press)

ALTERNATIVE FORMS

• The Devil's Wine, Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• ChiZine, Brett Savory (Brett Savory)
• Flesh & Blood (magazine), Jack Fisher (Flesh & Blood Press)
• The Goreletter, Michael Arnzen (gorelets.com)

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Delirium Books, Shane Ryan Staley

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Michael Moorcock