| | NOVEL |
| 2011 | A Dark Matter, Peter Straub
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| 2010 | Audrey's Door, Sarah Langan
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| 2009 | Duma Key, Stephen King
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| 2008 | The Missing, Sarah Langan
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| 2007 | Lisey's Story, Stephen King
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| 2006 | Dread in the Beast, Charlee Jacob
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| (tie) | Creepers, David Morrell
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| 2005 | In the Night Room, Peter Straub
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| 2004 | lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub
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| 2003 | The Night Class, Tom Piccirilli
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| 2002 | American Gods, Neil Gaiman
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| 2001 | The Traveling Vampire Show, Richard Laymon
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| 2000 | Mr. X, Peter Straub
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| 1999 | Bag of Bones, Stephen King
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| 1998 | Children of the Dusk, Janet Berliner & George Guthridge
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| 1997 | The Green Mile, Stephen King
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| 1996 | Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates
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| 1995 | Dead in the Water, Nancy Holder
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| 1994 | The Throat, Peter Straub
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| 1993 | Blood of the Lamb, Thomas F. Monteleone
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| 1992 | Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon
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| 1991 | Mine, Robert R. McCammon
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| 1990 | Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons
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| 1989 | The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
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| 1988 | Misery, Stephen King
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| (tie) | Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon
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| | FIRST NOVEL |
| 2011 | Black and Orange, Benjamin Kane Ethridge
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| (tie) | Castle of Los Angeles, Lisa Morton
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| 2010 | Damnable, Hank Schwaeble
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| 2009 | The Gentling Box, Lisa Mannetti
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| 2008 | Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill
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| 2007 | Ghost Road Blues, Jonathan Maberry
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| 2006 | Scarecrow Gods, Weston Ochse
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| 2005 | Stained, Lee Thomas
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| (tie) | Covenant, John Everson
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| 2004 | The Rising, Brian Keene
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| 2003 | The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
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| 2002 | Deadliest of the Species, Michael Oliveri
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| 2001 | The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club, Brian A. Hopkins
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| 2000 | Wither, J. G. Passarella
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| 1999 | Dawn Song, Michael Marano
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| 1998 | Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis
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| 1997 | Crota, Owl Goingback
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| 1996 | The Safety of Unknown Cities, Lucy Taylor
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| 1995 | Grave Markings, Michael Arnzen
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| 1994 | The Thread That Binds the Bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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| 1993 | Sineater, Elizabeth Massie
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| 1992 | Prodigal, Melanie Tem
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| (tie) | The Cipher, Kathe Koja
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| 1991 | The Revelation, Bentley Little
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| 1990 | Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy A. Collins
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| 1989 | The Suiting, Kelley Wilde
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| 1988 | The Manse, Lisa W. Cantrell
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| | LONG FICTION/NOVELLA |
| 2011 | Invisible Fences, Norman Prentiss
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| 2010 | The Lucid Dreaming, Lisa Morton
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| 2009 | Miranda, John R. Little
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| 2008 | "Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway", Gary Braunbeck
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| 2007 | Dark Harvest, Norman Partridge
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| 2006 | "Best New Horror", Joe Hill
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| 2005 | "The Turtle Boy", Kealan-Patrick Burke
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| 2004 | "Closing Time", Jack Ketchum
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| 2003 | "My Work Is Not Yet Done", Thomas Ligotti
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| (tie) | El Dia de los Muertos, Brian A. Hopkins
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| 2002 | In These Final Days of Sales, Steve Rasnic Tem
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| 2001 | The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
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| 2000 | "Five Days in April", Brian A. Hopkins
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| (tie) | "Mad Dog Summer", Joe R. Lansdale
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| 1999 | "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff", Peter Straub
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| 1998 | "The Big Blow", Joe R. Lansdale
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| 1994 | "The Night We Buried Road Dog", Jack Cady
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| (tie) | Mefisto in Onyx, Harlan Ellison
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| 1992 | "The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves", David Morrell
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| 1991 | "Stephen", Elizabeth Massie
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| 1990 | "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks", Joe R. Lansdale
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| | NOVELETTE |
| 1997 | "The Red Tower", Thomas Ligotti
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| 1996 | "Lunch at the Gotham Caf‚", Stephen King
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| 1995 | "The Scent Of Vinegar", Robert Bloch
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| 1994 | "Death in Bangkok", Dan Simmons
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| 1993 | "The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance", Joe R. Lansdale
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| (tie) | "Aliens: Tribes", Stephen Bissette
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| 1989 | "Orange Is For Anguish, Blue Is for Insanity", David Morrell
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| 1988 | "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead", Alan Rodgers
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| (tie) | "The Pear-Shaped Man", George R. R. Martin
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| | SHORT FICTION/SHORT STORY |
| 2011 | "The Folding Man", Joe R. Lansdale
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| 2010 | "In the Porches of My Ears", Norman Prentiss
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| 2009 | The Lost, Sarah Langan
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| 2008 | "The Gentle Brush of Wings", David Niall Wilson
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| 2007 | "Tested", Lisa Morton
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| 2006 | We Now Pause for Station Identification, Gary Braunbeck
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| 2005 | "Nimitseahpah", Nancy Etchemendy
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| 2004 | "Duty", Gary A. Braunbeck
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| 2003 | "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair", Tom Piccirilli
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| 2002 | "Reconstructing Amy", Tim Lebbon
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| 2001 | "Gone", Jack Ketchum
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| 2000 | "Aftershock", F. Paul Wilson
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| 1999 | "The Dead Boy at Your Window", Bruce Holland Rogers
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| 1998 | "Rat Food", Edo van Belkom & David Nickle
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| 1997 | "Metalica", P. D. Cacek
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| 1996 | "Chatting with Anubis", Harlan Ellison
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| 1995 | "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain", Nancy Holder
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| (tie) | "The Box", Jack Ketchum
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| 1994 | "I Hear the Mermaids Singing", Nancy Holder
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| 1993 | "This Year's Class Picture", Dan Simmons
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| 1992 | "Lady Madonna", Nancy Holder
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| 1991 | "The Calling", David B. Silva
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| 1990 | "Eat Me", Robert R. McCammon
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| 1989 | "Night They Missed the Horror Show", Joe R. Lansdale
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| 1988 | "The Deep End", Robert R. McCammon
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| | COLLECTION |
| 2011 | Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King
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| 2010 | A Taste of Tenderloin, Gene O'Neill
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| 2009 | Just After Sunset, Stephen King
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| 2008 | 5 Stories, Peter Straub
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| (tie) | Proverbs for Monsters, Michael A. Arnzen
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| 2007 | Destinations Unknown, Gary A. Braunbeck
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| 2006 | 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
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| 2005 | Fearful Symmetries, Thomas F. Monteleone
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| 2004 | Peaceable Kingdom, Jack Ketchum
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| 2003 | One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury
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| 2002 | The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists, Norman Partridge
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| 2001 | Magic Terror: Seven Tales, Peter Straub
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| 2000 | The Nightmare Chronicles, Douglas Clegg
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| 1999 | Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side, John Shirley
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| 1998 | Exorcisms and Ecstasies, Karl Edward Wagner
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| 1997 | The Nightmare Factory, Thomas Ligotti
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| 1996 | The Panic Hand, Jonathan Carroll
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| 1995 | The Early Fears, Robert Bloch
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| 1994 | Alone with the Horrors, Ramsey Campbell
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| 1993 | Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, Norman Partridge
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| 1992 | Prayers to Broken Stones, Dan Simmons
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| 1991 | Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
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| 1990 | Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, Richard Matheson
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| 1989 | Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories, Charles Beaumont, edited by Roger Anker
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| 1988 | The Essential Ellison, Harlan Ellison
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| | ANTHOLOGY |
| 2011 | Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds.
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| 2010 | He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, Christopher Conlon, ed.
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| 2009 | Unspeakable Horror, Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder, eds.
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| 2008 | Five Strokes to Midnight, Gary Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble, eds.
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| 2007 | Mondo Zombie, John Skipp, ed.
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| (tie) | Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale, ed.
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| 2006 | Dark Delicacies, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds.
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| 2005 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.
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| 2004 | Borderlands 5, Elizabeth Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone, eds.
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| 2003 | The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, John Pelan, ed.
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| 2002 | Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth, Brian A. Hopkins, ed.
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| 2001 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.
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| 2000 | 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, Al Sarrantonio, ed.
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| 1999 | Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin
H. Greenberg, eds. |
| | NONFICTION BOOK |
| 2011 | To Each Their Darkness, Gary A. Braunbeck
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| 2010 | Writers Workshop of Horror, Michael Knost
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| 2009 | A Hallowe'en Anthology, Lisa Morton
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| 2008 | The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre, Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer
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| 2007 | Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die, Michael Largo
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| (tie) | Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth, Kim Paffenroth
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| 2006 | Horror: Another 100 Best Books, Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
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| 2005 | Hellnotes, Judi Rohrig
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| 2004 | The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association, Thomas F. Monteleone
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| 2003 | Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies, Ramsey Campbell
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| 2002 | Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene, ed.
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| 2001 | On Writing, Stephen King
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| 2000 | DarkEcho, Paula Guran, ed.
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| 1999 | DarkEcho, Paula Guran, ed.
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| 1998 | Dark Thoughts: On Writing, Stanley Wiater
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| 1997 | H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, S. T. Joshi
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| 1996 | The Supernatural Index, Mike Ashley & William G. Contento
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| 1994 | Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography, Robert Bloch
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| 1993 | Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film, Christopher Golden, ed.
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| 1992 | Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden, Stephen Jones, ed.
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| 1991 | Dark Dreamers: Conversations with the Masters of Horror, Stanley Wiater
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| 1990 | Harlan Ellison's Watching, Harlan Ellison
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| (tie) | Horror: 100 Best Books, Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
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| 1988 | Mary Shelley, Muriel Spark
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| | COMIC BOOK, GRAPHIC NOVEL, OR OTHER ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE |
| 2005 | Heaven's Devils, Jai Nitz
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| 2004 | The Sandman: Endless Nights, Neil Gaiman
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| 2003 | Nightside, Robert Weinberg
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| 2002 | no award
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| 2001 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore
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| 2000 | The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
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| 1999 | no award
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| | SCREENPLAY |
| 2005 | Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
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| (tie) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
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| 2004 | Bubba Ho-Tep, Don Coscarelli
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| 2003 | Frailty, Brant Hanley
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| 2002 | Memento, Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan
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| 2001 | Shadow of the Vampire, Steven Katz
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| 2000 | The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan
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| 1999 | Dark City, Alex Proyas
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| (tie) | Gods and Monsters, Bill Condon
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| | WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS |
| 2005 | Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Clive Barker
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| (tie) | Oddest Yet, Steve Burt
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| 2004 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling
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| 2003 | Coraline, Neil Gaiman
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| 2002 | The Willow Files 2, Yvonne Navarro
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| 2001 | The Power of UN, Nancy Etchemendy
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| 2000 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
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| 1999 | "Bigger Than Death", Nancy Etchemendy
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| | POETRY COLLECTION |
| 2011 | Dark Matters, Bruce Boston
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| 2010 | Chimeric Machines, Lucy A. Snyder
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| 2009 | The Nightmare Collection, Bruce Boston
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| 2008 | Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet, Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon
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| (tie) | Being Full of Light, Insubstantial, Linda Addison
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| 2007 | Shades Fantastic, Bruce Boston
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| 2006 | Freakcidents, Michael Arnzen
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| (tie) | Sineater, Charlee Jacob
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| 2005 | The Women at the Funeral, Corrine de Winter
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| 2004 | Pitchblende, Bruce Boston
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| 2003 | The Gossamer Eye, Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson
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| 2002 | Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes, Linda Addison
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| 2001 | A Student of Hell, Tom Piccirilli
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| | ALTERNATIVE FORMS |
| 2005 | The Devil's Wine, Tom Piccirilli
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| 2004 | The Goreletter, Michael Arnzen
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| 2003 | "Imagination Box", Steve & Melanie Tem
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| 2002 | Dark Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear, Beth Gwinn & Stanley Wiater
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| | OTHER MEDIA |
| 2001 | Chiaroscuro, Patricia Lee Macomber, Steve Eller, Sandra
Kasturi & Brett A. Savory |
| 2000 | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison
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| 1999 | no award
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| 1994 | Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, Joe R. Lansdale
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| | SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD |
| 2007 | PS Publishing
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| 2006 | Necessary Evil Press
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| 2005 | Delirium Books, Shane Ryan Staley
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| 2004 | Earthling Publications, Paul Miller
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| 2003 | Night Shade Books, Jason Williams & Jeremy Lassen
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| 2001 | Subterranean Press, William K. Schafer
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| 2000 | Ash-Tree Press, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden
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| 1999 | Gauntlet Publications, Barry Hoffman
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| 1998 | Cemetery Dance, Richard Chizmar
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| | LIFE ACHIEVEMENT |
| 2011 | Al Feldstein
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| 2011 | Ellen Datlow
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| 2010 | Brian Lumley
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| 2010 | William F. Nolan
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| 2009 | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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| 2009 | F. Paul Wilson
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| 2008 | Robert Weinberg
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| 2008 | John Carpenter
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| 2007 | Thomas Harris
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| 2006 | Peter Straub
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| 2005 | Michael Moorcock
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| 2004 | Martin H. Greenberg
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| 2004 | Anne Rice
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| 2003 | J. N. Williamson
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| 2003 | Stephen King
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| 2002 | John Farris
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| 2001 | Nigel Kneale
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| 2000 | Charles L. Grant
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| 2000 | Edward Gorey
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| 1999 | Roger Corman
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| 1999 | Ramsey Campbell
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| 1998 | Jack Williamson
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| 1998 | William Peter Blatty
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| 1997 | Ira Levin
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| 1997 | Forrest J Ackerman
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| 1996 | Harlan Ellison
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| 1995 | Christopher Lee
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| 1994 | Joyce Carol Oates
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| 1993 | Ray Russell
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| 1992 | Gahan Wilson
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| 1991 | Richard Matheson
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| 1991 | Hugh B. Cave
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| 1989 | Ray Bradbury
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| 1989 | R. Chetwynd-Hayes
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| 1988 | Clifford D. Simak
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| 1988 | Fritz Leiber
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| 1988 | Frank Belknap Long
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| | SPECIAL TRUSTEE AWARD |
| 2004 | Robert Weinberg
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| 1994 | Vincent Price
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| | PRESIDENT'S AWARD |
| 2006 | Lisa Morton
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| 2004 | Lee Thomas
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