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	— life achievement —
2024	Mort Castle
2024	Cassandra Peterson
2024	Steve Rasnic Tem
2023	Elizabeth Massie
2023	John Saul
2023	Nuzo Onoh
2022	Koji Suzuki
2022	Jo Fletcher
2022	Nancy Holder
2021	Carol J. Clover
2021	Marge Simon
2021	Jewelle Gomez
2019	Graham Masterton
2018	Linda Addison
2017	Dennis Etchison
2017	Thomas F. Monteleone
2016	Alan Moore
2016	George A. Romero
2015	Jack Ketchum
2015	Tanith Lee
2014	Stephen Jones
2014	R. L. Stine
2013	Clive Barker
2013	Robert McCammon
2012	Joe R. Lansdale
2012	Rick Hautala
2011	Ellen Datlow
2011	Al Feldstein
2010	Brian Lumley
2010	William F. Nolan
2009	F. Paul Wilson
2009	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
2008	Robert Weinberg
2008	John Carpenter
2007	Thomas Harris
2006	Peter Straub
2005	Michael Moorcock
2004	Anne Rice
2004	Martin H. Greenberg
2003	Stephen King
2003	J. N. Williamson
2002	John Farris
2001	Nigel Kneale
2000	Edward Gorey
2000	Charles L. Grant
1999	Roger Corman
1999	Ramsey Campbell
1998	William Peter Blatty
1998	Jack Williamson
1997	Ira Levin
1997	Forrest J Ackerman
1996	Harlan Ellison
1995	Christopher Lee
1994	Joyce Carol Oates
1993	Ray Russell
1992	Gahan Wilson
1991	Hugh B. Cave
1991	Richard Matheson
1989	R. Chetwynd-Hayes
1989	Ray Bradbury
1988	Frank Belknap Long
1988	Clifford D. Simak
1988	Fritz Leiber
	— novel —
2024	The Reformatory, Tananarive Due
2023	The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias
2022	My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
2021	The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
2020	Coyote Rage, Owl Goingback
2019	The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay
2018	Ararat, Christopher Golden
2017	The Fisherman, John Langan
2016	A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay
2015	Blood Kin, Steve Rasnic Tem
2014	Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
2013	The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan
2012	Flesh Eaters, Joe McKinney
2011	A Dark Matter, Peter Straub
2010	Audrey's Door, Sarah Langan
2009	Duma Key, Stephen King
2008	The Missing, Sarah Langan
2007	Lisey's Story, Stephen King
2006	(tie) Creepers, David Morrell
2006	(tie) Dread in the Beast, Charlee Jacob
2005	In the Night Room, Peter Straub
2004	lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub
2003	The Night Class, Tom Piccirilli
2002	American Gods, Neil Gaiman
2001	The Traveling Vampire Show, Richard Laymon
2000	Mr. X, Peter Straub
1999	Bag of Bones, Stephen King
1998	Children of the Dusk, Janet Berliner & George Guthridge
1997	The Green Mile, Stephen King
1996	Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates
1995	Dead in the Water, Nancy Holder
1994	The Throat, Peter Straub
1993	Blood of the Lamb, Thomas F. Monteleone
1992	Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon
1991	Mine, Robert R. McCammon
1990	Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons
1989	The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
1988	(tie) Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon
1988	(tie) Misery, Stephen King
	— first novel —
2024	The Daughters of Block Island, Christa Carmen
2023	Beulah, Christi Nogle
2022	Queen of Teeth, Hailey Piper
2021	The Fourth Whore, EV Knight
2020	The Bone Weaver's Orchard, Sarah Read
2019	The Rust Maidens, Gwendolyn Kiste
2018	Cold Cuts, Robert Payne Cabeen
2017	Haven, Tom Deady
2016	Mr. Suicide, Nicole Cushing
2015	Mr. Wicker, Maria Alexander
2014	The Evolutionist, Rena Mason
2013	Life Rage, L. L. Soares
2012	Isis Unbound, Allyson Bird
2011	(tie) Castle of Los Angeles, Lisa Morton
2011	(tie) Black and Orange, Benjamin Kane Ethridge
2010	Damnable, Hank Schwaeble
2009	The Gentling Box, Lisa Mannetti
2008	Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill
2007	Ghost Road Blues, Jonathan Maberry
2006	Scarecrow Gods, Weston Ochse
2005	(tie) Stained, Lee Thomas
2005	(tie) Covenant, John Everson
2004	The Rising, Brian Keene
2003	The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
2002	Deadliest of the Species, Michael Oliveri
2001	The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club, Brian A. Hopkins
2000	Wither, J. G. Passarella
1999	Dawn Song, Michael Marano
1998	Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis
1997	Crota, Owl Goingback
1996	The Safety of Unknown Cities, Lucy Taylor
1995	Grave Markings, Michael Arnzen
1994	The Thread That Binds the Bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
1993	Sineater, Elizabeth Massie
1992	(tie) Prodigal, Melanie Tem
1992	(tie) The Cipher, Kathe Koja
1991	The Revelation, Bentley Little
1990	Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy A. Collins
1989	The Suiting, Kelley Wilde
1988	The Manse, Lisa W. Cantrell
	— young-adult novel —
2024	She Is a Haunting, Trang Thanh Tran
2023	The Triangle, Robert P. Ottone
2022	The River Has Teeth, Erica Waters
2021	Clown in a Cornfield, Adam Cesare
2020	Oware Mosaic, Nzondi
2019	The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, Kiersten White
2018	The Last Harvest, Kim Liggett
2017	Snowed, Maria Alexander
2016	Devil's Pocket, John Dixon
2015	Phoenix Island, John Dixon
2014	Dog Days, Joe McKinney
2013	Flesh & Bone, Jonathan Maberry
2012	(tie) Dust & Decay, Jonathan Maberry
2012	(tie) The Screaming Season, Nancy Holder
	— middle grade novel —
2024	The Nighthouse Keeper, Lora Senf
2023	They Stole Our Hearts, Daniel Kraus
	— long fiction/novella —
2024	Linghun, Ai Jiang
2023	The Wehrwolf, Alma Katsu
2022	“Twentieth Anniversary Screening”, Jeff Strand
2021	Night of the Mannequins, Stephen Graham Jones
2020	“Up from Slavery”, Victor LaValle
2019	“The Devil's Throat”, Rena Mason
2018	Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones
2017	The Winter Box, Tim Waggoner
2016	“Little Dead Red”, Mercedes M. Yardley
2015	“Fishing for Dinosaurs”, Joe R. Lansdale
2014	“The Great Pity”, Gary Braunbeck
2013	The Blue Heron, Gene O'Neill
2012	“The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine”, Peter Straub
2011	Invisible Fences, Norman Prentiss
2010	The Lucid Dreaming, Lisa Morton
2009	Miranda, John R. Little
2008	“Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway”, Gary Braunbeck
2007	Dark Harvest, Norman Partridge
2006	“Best New Horror”, Joe Hill
2005	“The Turtle Boy”, Kealan-Patrick Burke
2004	“Closing Time”, Jack Ketchum
2003	(tie) El Dia de los Muertos, Brian A. Hopkins
2003	(tie) “My Work Is Not Yet Done”, Thomas Ligotti
2002	In These Final Days of Sales, Steve Rasnic Tem
2001	The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
2000	(tie) “Five Days in April”, Brian A. Hopkins
2000	(tie) “Mad Dog Summer”, Joe R. Lansdale
1999	“Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff”, Peter Straub
1998	“The Big Blow”, Joe R. Lansdale
1994	(tie) “The Night We Buried Road Dog”, Jack Cady
1994	(tie) Mefisto in Onyx, Harlan Ellison
1992	“The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves”, David Morrell
1991	“Stephen”, Elizabeth Massie
1990	“On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks”, Joe R. Lansdale
	— novelette —
1997	“The Red Tower”, Thomas Ligotti
1996	“Lunch at the Gotham Café”, Stephen King
1995	“The Scent Of Vinegar”, Robert Bloch
1994	“Death in Bangkok”, Dan Simmons
1993	(tie) “The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance”, Joe R. Lansdale
1993	(tie) “Aliens: Tribes”, Stephen Bissette
1989	“Orange Is For Anguish, Blue Is for Insanity”, David Morrell
1988	(tie) “The Pear-Shaped Man”, George R. R. Martin
1988	(tie) “The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead”, Alan Rodgers
	— short fiction/short story —
2024	“Quondam”, Cindy O'Quinn
2023	“Fracture”, Mercedes M. Yardley
2022	“Permanent Damage”, Lee Murray
2021	“One Last Transformation”, Josh Malerman
2020	“The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary)”, Gwendolyn Kiste
2019	“Mutter”, Jess Landry
2018	“Apocalypse Then”, Lisa Mannetti
2017	“The Crawl Space”, Joyce Carol Oates
2016	“Happy Joe's Rest Stop”, John Palisano
2015	(tie) “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family”, Usman T. Malik
2015	(tie) “Ruminations”, Rena Mason
2014	“Night Train to Paris”, David Gerrold
2013	“Magdala Amygdala”, Lucy A. Snyder
2012	“Herman Wouk Is Still Alive”, Stephen King
2011	“The Folding Man”, Joe R. Lansdale
2010	“In the Porches of My Ears”, Norman Prentiss
2009	The Lost, Sarah Langan
2008	“The Gentle Brush of Wings”, David Niall Wilson
2007	“Tested”, Lisa Morton
2006	We Now Pause for Station Identification, Gary Braunbeck
2005	“Nimitseahpah”, Nancy Etchemendy
2004	“Duty”, Gary A. Braunbeck
2003	“The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair”, Tom Piccirilli
2002	“Reconstructing Amy”, Tim Lebbon
2001	“Gone”, Jack Ketchum
2000	“Aftershock”, F. Paul Wilson
1999	“The Dead Boy at Your Window”, Bruce Holland Rogers
1998	“Rat Food”, Edo van Belkom & David Nickle
1997	“Metalica”, P. D. Cacek
1996	“Chatting with Anubis”, Harlan Ellison
1995	(tie) “Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”, Nancy Holder
1995	(tie) “The Box”, Jack Ketchum
1994	“I Hear the Mermaids Singing”, Nancy Holder
1993	“This Year's Class Picture”, Dan Simmons
1992	“Lady Madonna”, Nancy Holder
1991	“The Calling”, David B. Silva
1990	“Eat Me”, Robert R. McCammon
1989	“Night They Missed the Horror Show”, Joe R. Lansdale
1988	“The Deep End”, Robert R. McCammon
	— collection —
2024	Blood from the Air, Gemma Files
2023	Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw
2022	In That Endlessness, Our End, Gemma Files
2021	Grotesque: Monster Stories, Lee Murray
2020	Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay
2019	That Which Grows Wild, Eric J. Guignard
2018	Strange Weather, Joe Hill
2017	The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates
2016	While the Black Stars Burn, Lucy A. Snyder
2015	Soft Apocalypses, Lucy A. Snyder
2014	The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories, Laird Barron
2013	(tie) New Moon on the Water, Mort Castle
2013	(tie) Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories, Joyce Carol Oates
2012	The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Joyce Carol Oates
2011	Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King
2010	A Taste of Tenderloin, Gene O'Neill
2009	Just After Sunset, Stephen King
2008	(tie) 5 Stories, Peter Straub
2008	(tie) Proverbs for Monsters, Michael A. Arnzen
2007	Destinations Unknown, Gary A. Braunbeck
2006	20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
2005	Fearful Symmetries, Thomas F. Monteleone
2004	Peaceable Kingdom, Jack Ketchum
2003	One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury
2002	The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists, Norman Partridge
2001	Magic Terror: Seven Tales, Peter Straub
2000	The Nightmare Chronicles, Douglas Clegg
1999	Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side, John Shirley
1998	Exorcisms and Ecstasies, Karl Edward Wagner
1997	The Nightmare Factory, Thomas Ligotti
1996	The Panic Hand, Jonathan Carroll
1995	The Early Fears, Robert Bloch
1994	Alone with the Horrors, Ramsey Campbell
1993	Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, Norman Partridge
1992	Prayers to Broken Stones, Dan Simmons
1991	Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
1990	Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, Richard Matheson
1989	Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories, Charles Beaumont, edited by Roger Anker
1988	The Essential Ellison, Harlan Ellison
	— anthology —
2024	Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds.
2023	Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed.
2022	When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed.
2021	Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Geneve Flynn & Lee Murray, eds.
2020	Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed.
2019	The Devil and the Deep, Ellen Datlow, ed.
2018	Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, Doug Murano, ed.
2017	Borderlands 6, Oliva F. Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone, eds.
2016	The Library of the Dead, Michael Bailey, ed.
2015	Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed.
2014	After Death..., Eric J. Guignard, ed.
2013	Shadow Show, Mort Castle & Sam Weller, eds.
2012	Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed, John Skipp, ed.
2011	Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds.
2010	He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, Christopher Conlon, ed.
2009	Unspeakable Horror, Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder, eds.
2008	Five Strokes to Midnight, Gary Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble, eds.
2007	(tie) Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale, ed.
2007	(tie) Mondo Zombie, John Skipp, ed.
2006	Dark Delicacies, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds.
2005	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.
2004	Borderlands 5, Elizabeth Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone, eds.
2003	The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, John Pelan, ed.
2002	Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth, Brian A. Hopkins, ed.
2001	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.
2000	999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, Al Sarrantonio, ed.
1999	Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, eds.
	— long non-fiction —
2024	101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, Sadie Hartmann
	— nonfiction book —
2023	Writing in the Dark: The Workbook, Tim Waggoner
2022	Writers Workshop of Horror 2, Michael Knost
2021	Writing in the Dark, Tim Waggoner
2020	Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson
2019	It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life, Joe Mynhardt & Eugene Johnson
2018	Paperbacks from Hell, Grady Hendrix
2017	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin
2016	The Art of Horror, Stephen Jones
2015	Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide, Lucy A. Snyder
2014	Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction, William F. Nolan
2013	Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween, Lisa Morton
2012	Stephen King: A Literary Companion, Rocky Wood
2011	To Each Their Darkness, Gary A. Braunbeck
2010	Writers Workshop of Horror, Michael Knost
2009	A Hallowe'en Anthology, Lisa Morton
2008	The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre, Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer
2007	(tie) Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die, Michael Largo
2007	(tie) Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth, Kim Paffenroth
2006	Horror: Another 100 Best Books, Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
2005	Hellnotes, Judi Rohrig
2004	The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association, Thomas F. Monteleone
2003	Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies, Ramsey Campbell
2002	Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene, ed.
2001	On Writing, Stephen King
2000	DarkEcho, Paula Guran, ed.
1999	DarkEcho Vol. 5 #1-50, Paula Guran, ed.
1998	Dark Thoughts: On Writing, Stanley Wiater
1997	H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, S. T. Joshi
1996	The Supernatural Index, Mike Ashley & William G. Contento
1994	Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography, Robert Bloch
1993	Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film, Christopher Golden, ed.
1992	Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden, Stephen Jones, ed.
1991	Dark Dreamers: Conversations with the Masters of Horror, Stanley Wiater
1990	(tie) Harlan Ellison's Watching, Harlan Ellison
1990	(tie) Horror: 100 Best Books, Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
1988	Mary Shelley, Muriel Spark
	— short non-fiction —
2024	“Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia”, Nadia Bulkin
	— short nonfiction —
2023	“I Don't Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)”, Lee Murray
2022	“Horror Writers: Architects of Hope”, Angela Yuriko Smith
2021	“Speaking of Horror”, Tim Waggoner
2020	“Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman”, Gwendolyn Kiste
	— comic book, graphic novel, or other illustrated narrative —
2024	Carmilla: The First Vampire, Amy Chu, art by Soo Lee
2023	Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary, James Aquilone, ed.
2022	The Inhabitant of the Lake, Alessandro Manzetti & Stefano Cardoselli
2021	Mary Shelley Presents, Nancy Holder, Chiara Di Francia & Amelia Woo
2020	Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples, Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran
2019	Victor LaValle's Destroyer, Victor LaValle, Dietrich Smith & Joana Lafuente
2018	Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Damian Duffy & Octavia E. Butler
2017	Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, James Chambers
2016	Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller & Mort Castle, eds.
2015	Bad Blood, Jonathan Maberry & Tyler Crook
2014	Alabaster: Wolves, Caitlín R. Kiernan
2013	Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times, Rocky Wood & Lisa Morton
2012	Neonomicon, Alan Moore
2005	Heaven's Devils, Jai Nitz
2004	The Sandman: Endless Nights, Neil Gaiman
2003	Nightside Issues 1-4, Robert Weinberg
2002	no award
2001	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore
2000	The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
1999	no award
	— screenplay —
2024	Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki
2023	(tie) The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill
2023	(tie) Stranger Things: “s4e1: Chapter One: The Hellfire Club”, The Duffer Brothers
2022	Midnight Mass: “s1e6: Book VI: Acts of the Apostles”, Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan & Jeff Howard
2021	The Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell
2020	Us, Jordan Peele
2019	The Haunting of Hill House: “The Bent-Neck Lady”, Meredith Averill
2018	Get Out, Jordan Peele
2017	The Witch, Robert Eggers
2016	It Follows, David Robert Mitchell
2015	The Babadook, Jennifer Kent
2014	The Walking Dead: “Welcome to the Tombs”, Glen Mazzara
2013	The Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard
2012	American Horror Story: “Afterbirth”, Jessica Sharzer
2005	(tie) Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
2005	(tie) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
2004	Bubba Ho-Tep, Don Coscarelli
2003	Frailty, Brant Hanley
2002	Memento, Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan
2001	Shadow of the Vampire, Steven Katz
2000	The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan
1999	(tie) Gods and Monsters, Bill Condon
1999	(tie) Dark City, Alex Proyas
	— work for younger readers —
2005	(tie) Oddest Yet, Steve Burt
2005	(tie) Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Clive Barker
2004	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling
2003	Coraline, Neil Gaiman
2002	The Willow Files 2, Yvonne Navarro
2001	The Power of UN, Nancy Etchemendy
2000	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
1999	“Bigger Than Death”, Nancy Etchemendy
	— poetry collection —
2024	On the Subject of Blackberries, Stephanie M. Wytovich
2023	Crime Scene, Cynthia Pelayo
2022	Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn
2021	A Collection of Dreamscapes, Christina Sng
2020	The Place of Broken Things, Linda D. Addison & Alessandro Manzetti
2019	The Devil's Dreamland, Sara Tantlinger
2018	A Collection of Nightmares, Christina Sng
2017	Brothel, Stephanie M. Wytovich
2016	Eden Underground, Alessandro Manzetti
2015	Forgiving Judas, Tom Piccirilli
2014	Four Elements, Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob & Linda Addison
2013	Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls, Marge Simon
2012	How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend, Linda Addison
2011	Dark Matters, Bruce Boston
2010	Chimeric Machines, Lucy A. Snyder
2009	The Nightmare Collection, Bruce Boston
2008	(tie) Being Full of Light, Insubstantial, Linda Addison
2008	(tie) Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet, Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon
2007	Shades Fantastic, Bruce Boston
2006	(tie) Freakcidents, Michael Arnzen
2006	(tie) Sineater, Charlee Jacob
2005	The Women at the Funeral, Corrine De Winter
2004	Pitchblende, Bruce Boston
2003	The Gossamer Eye, Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson
2002	Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes, Linda Addison
2001	A Student of Hell, Tom Piccirilli
	— alternative forms —
2005	The Devil's Wine, Tom Piccirilli
2004	The Goreletter (http://www.gorelets.com), Michael Arnzen
2003	“Imagination Box”, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
2002	Dark Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear, Beth Gwinn & Stanley Wiater
	— other media —
2001	Chiaroscuro, Patricia Lee Macomber, Steve Eller, Sandra Kasturi & Brett A. Savory
2000	I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (audio), Harlan Ellison
1999	no award
1994	Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, Joe R. Lansdale
	— specialty press award —
2016	Borderlands Press
2015	ChiZine Publications
2014	Gray Friar Press
2013	Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press
2007	PS Publishing
2006	Necessary Evil Press
2005	Delirium Books, Shane Ryan Staley
2004	Earthling Publications, Paul Miller
2003	Night Shade Books, Jason Williams & Jeremy Lassen
2001	Subterranean Press, William K. Schafer
2000	Ash-Tree Press, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden
1999	Gauntlet Publications, Barry Hoffman
1998	Cemetery Dance, Richard Chizmar
	— special trustee award —
2004	Robert Weinberg
1994	Vincent Price
	— president's award —
2016	Patrick Freivald & Andrew Wolter
2015	Tom Calen, Brock Cooper & Doug Murano
2014	J. G. Faherty
2013	James Chambers
2006	Lisa Morton
2004	Lee Thomas
	— Silver Hammer Award —
2016	Michael Knost
2015	Rena Mason
2014	Norman Rubenstein
2013	Charles Day, for outstanding service to HWA
	— Mentor Award —
2016	Tim Waggoner
2015	Kathryn Ptacek