Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

  • 1987: The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
  • 1988: Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
    • The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
    • Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath
    • The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison
    • Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
    • Scare Tactics by John Farris
  • 1989: '\'Richard Matheson: Collected Stories'' by Richard Matheson
    • Blue World by [[Robert R. McCammonn]
    • ''By Bizarre Hands' by Joe R. Lansdale
    • Patterns by Pat Cadigan
    • Soft and Others by F. Paul Wilson
  • 1990: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
    • Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
    • Prayers To Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
    • The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
  • 1991: Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
    • Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell
    • Sex Punks & Savage Sagas by Richard Stuphin
    • Naken Flesh of Feeling by J.N. Williamson
  • 1992: Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
    • Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom
    • Fantastic Tales by I.U. Tarchetti
  • 1993: Alone With The Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
    • Close to the Bone by Lucy Taylor
    • A Good and Secret Place by Richard Laymon
    • Lovedeath by Dan Simmons
    • Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
  • 1994: The Early Fears by Robert Bloch
    • Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale
    • The Flesh Artist by Lucy Taylor
    • Born Bad by Andrew Vachss
  • 1995: The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll
    • Cages by Ed Gorman
    • The Black Carousel by Charles Grant
    • Strange Highways by Dean Koontz
  • 1996: The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti
    • The Convulsion Factory by Brian Hodge
    • Shadow Dreams by Elizabeth Massie
    • With Wounds Still Wet by Wayne Allen Sallee
    • The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S.P. Somtow
  • 1997: Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner, ed. Stephen Jones
    • Things Left Behind by Gary A. Braunbeck
    • The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
    • Painted in Blood by Lucy Taylor
  • 1998: Black Butterflies by John Shirley
    • Leavings by P.D. Cacek
    • Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
    • The Cleft and Other Odd Tales by Gahan Wilson
  • 1999: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg
    • Death Drives a Semi by Edo van Belkom
    • Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
    • Deep into that Darkness Peering by Tom Piccirilli
  • 2000: Magic Terror by Peter Straub
    • Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold by Charlee Jacob
    • Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales by Bruce Holland Rogers
    • City Fishing by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • 2001: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge
    • The Dark Fantastic by Ed Gorman
    • As the Sun Goes Down by Tim Lebbon
    • The Whisperer and Other Voices by Brian Lumley
  • 2002: One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury
    • Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead by Mort Castle
    • Knucles and Tales by Nancy A. Collins
    • Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
    • The Collection by Bentley Little

See also