NOVEL (tie)

• Creepers, David Morrell (CDS)
• Dread in the Beast, Charlee Jacob (Necro)
• Keepers, Gary Braunbeck (Leisure)
• November Mourns, Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)

FIRST NOVEL

• Scarecrow Gods, Weston Ochse (Delirium Books)
• The Hides, Kealan-Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance)
• Siren Promised, Alan M. Clark & Jeremy Robert Johnson (Bloodletting Press)

LONG FICTION

• "Best New Horror", Joe Hill (Postscripts #3)
• In the Midnight Museum, Gary Braunbeck (Necessary Evil Press)
• "Some Zombie Contingency Plans", Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners)
• "The Things They Left Behind", Stephen King (Transgressions)

SHORT FICTION

• We Now Pause for Station Identification, Gary Braunbeck (Endeavour Press)
• "As Others See Us", Mort Castle (World Horror Convention 2005 Program Book)
• "Haeckel's Tale", Clive Barker (Dark Delicacies)
• "Invisible", Steve Rasnic Tem (Sci Fiction 2 Mar 2005)
• "Times of Atonement", Yvonne Navarro (Taverns of the Dead)

FICTION COLLECTION

• 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
• Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
• Looking for Jake, China Miéville (Del Rey)
• Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)

ANTHOLOGY

• Dark Delicacies, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds. (Carroll & Graf)
• Corpse Blossoms, Julie & RJ Sevin, eds (Creeping Hemlock Press)
• Outsiders, Nancy Holder & Nancy Kilpatrick, eds. (Roc)
• Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, Stephen Jones, ed. (Fedogan & Bremer)

NONFICTION

• Horror: Another 100 Best Books, Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (Carroll & Graf)
• The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (Morrow)
• Morbid Curiosity #9, Loren Rhoades (Automatism Press)
• More Giants of the Genre, Michael McCarty (Wildside Press)
• Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rhonda Wilcox (I.B. Tauris)

POETRY COLLECTION (tie)

• Freakcidents, Michael Arnzen (Shocklines Press)
• Sineater, Charlee Jacob (Cyberpulp)
• Seasons: A Series of Poems Based on the Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Shields (Foothills Publishing)
• The Shadow City, Gary W. Crawford (Naked Snake Press)

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

• Necessary Evil Press

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Peter Straub

RICHARD LAYMON (PRESIDENT'S AWARD)

• Lisa Morton