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.