The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Ten, Stephen Jones, ed. (Carroll & Graf)
Northern Frights 5, Don Hutchison, ed. (Mosaic Press)
White of the Moon: New Tales of Madness and Dread, Stephen Jones, ed. (Pumpkin Books)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)
Nonfiction
Winner:Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet, Neil Barron, ed. (Scarecrow Press)
A Cthulhu Mythos: Bibliography & Concordance, Chris Jarocha-Ernst (Armitage House)
Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin, Richard Davenport-Hines (North Point; Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Sixty Years of Arkham House, S. T. Joshi (Arkham House)
Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography, Victoria Price (St. Martin's)