NOVEL

Winner:

GENERATION LOSS, Elizabeth Hand
(Small Beer Press)

Finalists:

  • Baltimore, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (Bantam Spectra)
  • Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow (William Heinemann Ltd)
  • The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
  • Tokyo Year Zero, David Peace (Knopf)

NOVELLA

Winner:

VACANCY, Lucius Shepard
(Subterranean #7, 2007)

Finalists:

  • 12 Collections, Zoran Živkovic (PS Publishing)
  • Illyria, Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
  • The Mermaids, Robert Edric (PS Publishing)
  • “Procession of the Black Sloth,” Laird Barron (The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Night Shade Books)
  • The Scalding Rooms, Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)

NOVELETTE

Winner:

THE JANUS TREE, Glen Hirshberg
(Inferno, Tor)

Finalists:

  • “The Forest,” Laird Barron (Inferno, Tor)
  • “The Swing,” Don Tumasonis (At Ease with the Dead, Ash-Tree Press)
  • “The Tenth Muse,” William Browning Spencer (Subterranean #6, 2007)
  • “Thumbprint,” Joe Hill (Postscripts #10, March 2007)

SHORT STORY

Winner:

THE MONSTERS OF HEAVEN, Nathan Ballingrud
(Inferno, Tor)

Finalists:

  • “Holiday,” M. Rickert (Subterranean #7, 2007)
  • “A Murder of Crows,” Elizabeth Ziemska (Tin House 31, Spring 2007)
  • “Something in the Mermaid Way,” Carrie Laben (Clarkesworld, March 2007)
  • “The Third Bear,” Jeff VanderMeer (Clarkesworld, April 2007)
  • “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse,” Andy Duncan (Eclipse One, Night Shade Books)

COLLECTION

Winner:

THE IMAGO SEQUENCE AND OTHER STORIES, Laird Barron
(Night Shade Books)

Finalists:

  • The Bone Key, Sarah Monette (Prime Books)
  • The Entire Predicament, Lucy Corin (Tin House)
  • Like You’d Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard (Knopf)
  • Old Devil Moon, Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)

ANTHOLOGY

Winner:

INFERNO, edited by Ellen Datlow
(Tor)

Finalists:

  • At Ease with the Dead, edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
  • Dark Delicacies 2, edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Running Press)
  • Logorrhea, edited by John Klima (Bantam Spectra)
  • Wizards, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (Berkley)