Where and When:
World Horror Convention,
Atlanta GA :
March 6, 1999
Eligibility Year:
1998
Long Fiction
- Winner: “Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff”, Peter Straub (Murder for Revenge)
- “As Above, So Below”, Brian Hodge (Falling Idols)
- “Blackburn Bakes Cookies”, Bradley Denton (One Day Closer to Death)
- “The Sweet of Bitter Bark and Burning Clove”, Doris Egan (Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers)
- “What Would You Do For Love?”, John Shirley (Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side)
Graphic Story/illustrated Narrative
- Winner: Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, written by Warren Ellis, art by Darick Robertson (DC Comics)
- Blood for the Muse: Agony, Ecstasy, Tragedy, by Terry M. West, art by Stew Noak, Glenn Chadbourne & Ryan Dunlavey (Blind Wolf Studios)
- Night City #1, written by Mort Castle, art by Don Kramer, Mark Nelson, and Jaewon (Thorby)
- Preacher Ancient History, written by Garth Ennis, art by Richard Case (DC Comics)
Collection
- Winner: Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side, John Shirley (Mark V. Ziesing)
- The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque, Joyce Carol Oates (NAL/Dutton)
- Crypt Orchids, David J. Schow (Subterranean Press)
- Extremities, Kathe Koja (Four Walls Eight Windows)
- Falling Idols, Brian Hodge (Silver Salamander Press)
Anthology
- Winner: Dark Terrors 4, Stephen Jones & David Sutton, eds. (Gollancz)
- The Best of Cemetery Dance, Richard Chizmar, ed. (Cemetery Dance Publications)
- The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams, J. O'Barr & Ed Kramer, eds. (Ballantine Del Rey)
- Imagination Fully Dilated, Alan M. Clark & Elizabeth Engstrom, eds. (Cemetery Dance Publications)
- Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (HarperPrism)
Nonfiction
- Winner: St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, and Gothic Writers, David Pringle, ed. (St. James Press)
- Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, Clive Bloom, ed. (St. Martin's)
- Mondo Macabro: Weird and Wonderful Cinema Around the World, Pete Tombs, et al (St. Martin's)
- Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture, David J. Skal (W.W. Norton)
- A Writer's Tale, Richard Laymon (Deadline Press)
Publication
- Winner: Hellnotes
- Carpe Noctem
- DarkEcho
- Talebones
- The Urbanite
Film
- Winner: Gods and Monsters (Directed by Bill Condon, Screenplay by Bill Condon, Novel by Christopher Bram)
- Apt Pupil (Directed by Bryan Singer, Screenplay by Brandon Boyce, Story Stephen King)
- Dark City (Directed by Alex Proyas, Screenplay by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, Story Alex Proyas)
- Fallen (Directed by Gregory Hoblit, Screenplay by Nicholas Kazan)
- John Carpenter's Vampires (Directed by John Carpenter, Screenplay by Don Jakoby, Novel by John Steakley)
Television Show
- Winner: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Brimstone
- Charmed
- Millennium
- The X-Files