1990 Awards and Nominees for Works Published in 1989 ( denotes superior achievement) |
| Novel |
| Geek Love by Katherine Dunn |
| In A Dark Dream by Charles L. Grant |
| Midnight by Dean R. Koontz |
| The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon |
| Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons |
| First Novel |
| Goat Dance by Douglas Clegg |
| Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins |
| The Dwelling by Tom Elliott |
| The Lilith Factor by Jean Paiva |
| Laying the Music to Rest by Dean Wesley Smith |
| Long Fiction |
| "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" by Joe R. Lansdale |
| "Phantom" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| "At First Just Ghostly" by Karl Edward Wagner |
| "The Confessions of St. James" by Chet Williamson |
| Short Fiction |
| "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" by Edward Bryant |
| "Eat Me" by Robert R. McCammon |
| "Each Night, Each Year" by Kathryn Ptacek |
| "Bodies and Heads" by Steve Rasnic Tem |
| "Yore Skin's Jes' So Soft 'n Purdy,' He Said" by Chet Williamson |
| Fiction Collection |
| Patterns by Pat Cadigan |
| by Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale |
| Collected Stories by Richard Matheson |
| Blue World by Robert R. McCammon |
| Soft and Others by F. Paul Wilson |
| Nonfiction |
| H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon |
| American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners by Norine Dresser |
| Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison (Tie) |
| Horror: 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (Tie) |
| Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and Film by Leonard Wolf |
| Lifetime Achievement |
| Robert Bloch |
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| 1989 Awards and Nominees for Works Published in 1988 ( denotes superior achievement) |
| Novel |
| The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris |
| The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale |
| Flesh by Richard Laymon |
| Stinger by Robert R. McCammon |
| Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice |
| Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson |
| First Novel |
| Resurrection, Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson |
| Fear Book by John L. byrne |
| Deliver Us from Evil by Alan Lee Harris |
| Cities of the Dead by Michael Paine |
| Demon Night by J. Michael Straczynski |
| The Suiting by Kelley Wilde |
| Long Fiction |
| "The Function of Dream Sleep" by Harlan Ellison |
| "Horrorshow" by John Farris |
| "The Night Flier" by Stephen King |
| "The Skin Trade" by George R.R. Martin |
| "Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity" by David Morrell |
| "The Juniper Tree" by Peter Straub |
| Short Fiction |
| "The Thing at the Top of the Stairs" by Ray Bradbury |
| "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" by Harlan Ellison |
| "The Night They Missed the Horror Show" by Joe R. Lansdale |
| "Nobody Lives There Now" by Carol Orlock |
| "Jack's Decline" by Lucius Shepard |
| "The Music of the Dark Time" by Chet Williamson |
| Fiction Collection |
| Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont |
| The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury |
| Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison |
| The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison |
| Scare Tactics by John Farris |
| Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath |
| Lifetime Achievement |
| Ray Bradbury |
| Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes |
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| 1988 Awards and Nominees for Works Published in 1987 ( denotes superior achievement) |
| Novel |
| Live Girls by Ray Garton |
| Misery by Stephen King (Tie) |
| Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon (Tie) |
| Unassigned Territory by Kem Nunn |
| Ash Wednesday by Chet Williamson |
| First Novel |
| The Damnation Game by Clive Barker |
| The Manse by Lisa Cantrell |
| Slob by Rex Miller |
| The Harvest Bride by Tony Richards |
| Excavation by Steve Rasnic Tem |
| Long Fiction |
| "The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R.R. Martin (Tie) |
| "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead" by Alan Rodgers (Tie) |
| "Pamela's Get" by David J. Schow |
| "Resurrec Tech" by S.P. Somtow |
| Short Fiction |
| "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll |
| "This Old Man" by Charles L. Grant |
| "The Deep End" by Robert R. McCammon |
| "Dat-Tay-Vao" by F. Paul Wilson |
| "Traps" by F. Paul Wilson |
| Fiction Collection |
| Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch |
| Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell |
| The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison |
| Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner |
| All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past by Howard Waldrop |
| Nonfiction |
| Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs |
| The Zombies that Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A. Gagne |
| Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark |
| Lifetime Achievement |
| Fritz Leiber |
| Frank Belknap Long |
| Clifford D. Simak |
