Superior Achievement in a Novel

• The Fisherman, John Langan;
• Hard Light, Elizabeth Hand;
• Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones;
• Stranded, Bracken MacLeod;
• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay.

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Haven, Tom Deady;
• The Apothecary’s Curse, Barbara Barnett;
• Hollow House, Greg Chapman;
• Mayan Blue, Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason;
• The Eighth, Stephanie M. Wytovich.

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Snowed, Maria Alexander;
• Last Days of Salton Academy, Jennifer Brozek;
• Holding Smoke, Elle Cosimano;
• When They Fade, Jeyn Roberts;
• The Telling, Alexandra Sirowy.

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• The Winter Box, Tim Waggoner;
• The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing;
• That Perilous Stuff, Scott Edelman;
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle;
• The Jupiter Drop, Josh Malerman.

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• The Crawl Space, Joyce Carol Oates;
• Time is a Face on the Water, Michael Bailey;
• A Rift in Reflection, Hal Bodner;
• The Bad Hour, Christopher Golden;
• Arbeit Macht Frei, Lisa Mannetti.

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates;
• Swift to Chase, Laird Barron;
• A Long December, Richard Chizmar;
• Lethal Birds, Gene O’Neill;
• American Nocturne, Hank Schwaeble.

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Borderlands 6, editori Oliva F. Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone;
  
• Chiral Mad 3, editor Michael Bailey;
• The Beauty of Death, editor Alessandro Manzetti;
• Fright Mare – Women Write Horror, editor Billie Sue Mosiman;
• Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, editori Doug Murano & D. Alexander Ward.

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin;
• Haunted, Leo Braudy;
• Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth, Danel P. Olson;
• In the Mountains of Madness, W. Scott Poole;
• Something in the Blood, David J. Skal;
• The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts.

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Brothel, Stephanie M. Wytovich;
• Sacrificial Nights, Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti;
• Corona Obscura, Michael R. Collings;
• Field Guide to the End of the World, Jeannine Hall Gailey;
• Small Spirits, Marge Simon.

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, James Chambers;
• Blood Feud, Cullen Bunn;
• No Mercy: Volume 2, Alex de Campi;
• Outcast: Volume 3: This Little Light, Robert Kirkman;
• The Steam Man, Mark Alan Miller & Joe R. Lansdale;
• Providence: Act 1, Alan Moore.

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• The Witch;
• Penny Dreadful: A Blade of Grass;
• Stranger Things: The Upside Down;
• Stranger Things: The Vanishing of Will Byers;
• 10 Cloverfield Lane.