NOVEL

• The Missing, Sarah Langan (Harper)
• The Guardener's Tale, Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot Publishing)
• Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow)
• The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
• The Witch's Trinity, Erika Mailman (Crown)

FIRST NOVEL

• Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow)
• The Hollower, Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)
• I Will Rise, Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
• The Memory Tree, John R. Little (Nocturne Press)

LONG FICTION

• "Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway", Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)
• "Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man", Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
• "An Apiary of White Bees", Lee Thomas (Inferno)
• General Slocum's Gold, Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press)
• "The Tenth Muse", William Browning Spencer (Subterranean #6)

SHORT FICTION

• "The Gentle Brush of Wings", David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)
• "Closet Dreams", Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts #10)
• "The Death Wagon Rolls On By", C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance #57)
• "Letting Go", John Everson (Needles and Sins)
• "The Teacher", Paul G. Tremblay (ChiZine)
• "There's No Light Between Floors", Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld Magazine)

COLLECTION (tie)

• 5 Stories, Peter Straub (Borderlands)
• Proverbs for Monsters, Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press)
• Defining Moments, David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)
• The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
• Old Devil Moon, Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)

ANTHOLOGY

• Five Strokes to Midnight, Gary Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble, eds. (Haunted Pelican Press)
• At Ease with the Dead, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree Press)
• Dark Delicacies 2: Fear, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds. (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
• Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• Midnight Premiere, Tom Piccirilli, ed. (Cemetery Dance Publications)

NONFICTION

• The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre, Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press/Kensington)
• Encyclopedia Horrifica, Joshua Gee (Scholastic)
• The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died, Michael Largo (Harper)
• Storytellers Unplugged, Joe Nassise & David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged)

POETRY (tie)

• Being Full of Light, Insubstantial, Linda Addison (Space and Time)
• Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet, Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)
• Heresy, Charlee Jacob (Necro Publications)
• Ossuary, JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sam's Dot Publishing)
• Phantasmapedia, Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• John Carpenter
• Robert Weinberg