Eligibility Year:
1998
Long Fiction
- Winner: “Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff”, Peter Straub (Murder For Revenge)
- “As Above, So Below”, Brian Hodge (Falling Idols)
- “Leavings”, P. D. Cacek (Leavings)
- “What Would You Do For Love?”, John Shirley (Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side)
Nonfiction
- Winner: DarkEcho Vol. 5 #1-50, Paula Guran, ed.
- Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, Clive Bloom, ed. (St. Martin's)
- The Science of the X-Files, Jeanne Cavelos (Berkeley Boulevard)
- A Writer's Tale, Richard Laymon (Deadline Press)
Comic Book, Graphic Novel, Or Other Illustrated Narrative
Work For Younger Readers
- Winner: “Bigger Than Death”, Nancy Etchemendy (Cricket Mar 1998)
- The Angel Chronicles: A Novelization (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1), Nancy Holder (Pocket Archway)
- The Dollhouse that Time Forgot (Eerie, Indiana #11), Mike Ford (Camelot)
- Hungry Ghosts: A Novelization (The X-Files No. 9), Ellen Steiber (HarperTrophy)
Other Media
- Winner: no award
- Gothic at Midnight: A Tribute to the Masters of Macabre, Joshua Kane (audio anthology)
- John Carpenter's Vampires (soundtrack)
- The Misfits: American Psycho (music video)
- Universal Horror, Kevin Brownlow (tv documentary)