Winners and nominees

• 1998: "Bigger than Death" by Nancy Etchemendy
  Nancy Etchemendy
  Nancy Elise Howell Etchemendy is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her novels, short fiction, and poetry have appeared regularly since 1980, both in the United States and abroad...
  
  
  • The Dollhouse that Time Forgot by Mike Ford
    Mike Ford
    Mike Ford is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and a former member of Toronto band Moxy Früvous.-Solo career:In 2004 he released Stars Shone on Toronto, his first solo album. Canada Needs You, his second solo album, was released in 2005...
    
    
  • The Angel Chronicles by Nancy Holder
    Nancy Holder
    Nancy Holder is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction and fantasy shows, including Angel and Smallville.Holder is a four-time winner...
    
    
  • Hungry Ghosts by Ellen Steiber
    Ellen Steiber
    Ellen Steiber is an American novelist and author of books for young readers, including some based on single episodes of The X-Files and Full House series.- Background :...
    
    
• 1999: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 8 July 1999. The novel won the 1999 Whitbread Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was short-listed for other...
  
  by J.K. Rowling
  • Something Lumber This Way Comes by Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
    
    
  • Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children by Angus Oblong
    Angus Oblong
    Angus Oblong is the pen name of an American writer and illustrator best known as the author of Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children and the 2001 television series it spawned, The Oblongs...
    
    
• 2000: The Power of Un by Nancy Etchemendy
  Nancy Etchemendy
  Nancy Elise Howell Etchemendy is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her novels, short fiction, and poetry have appeared regularly since 1980, both in the United States and abroad...
  
  
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on 8 July 2000.The novel won a Hugo Award in 2001, the only Harry Potter novel to do so...
    
    by J.K. Rowling
  • Be Afraid! edited by Edo van Belkom
    Edo van Belkom
    Edo van Belkom is a Canadian author of horror fiction.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the author of the novels Wyrm Wolf, Teeth, Martyrs, Scream Queen, Army of the Dead, and Wolf Pack, and the Dragonlance setting novel Lord Soth , amongst others...
    
    
  • The Christmas Trilogy by F. Paul Wilson
    F. Paul Wilson
    Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...
    
    
• 2001: The Willo Files 2 by Yvonne Navarro
  Yvonne Navarro
  Yvonne Navarro is an American author who has published over twenty books. Of those twenty, the titles AfterAge, deadrush, Final Impact, Red Shadows, DeadTimes, That's Not My Name and Mirror Me were solo novels, or fiction created solely by her...
  
  
  • Prowlers by Christopher Golden
    Christopher Golden
    Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
    
    
• 2002: Coraline
  Coraline
  Coraline is a horror/fantasy novella by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers...
  
  by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
  
  • Abarat
    Abarat
    Abarat is a fantasy novel written and illustrated by Clive Barker, the first in Barker's The Books of Abarat series. It is aimed primarily at young adults. The eponymous Abarat is a fictional archipelago which is the setting for the majority of the story.The title image contains an ambigram. The...
    
    by Clive Barker
    Clive Barker
    Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
    
    
  • Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural by Nancy Etchemendy
    Nancy Etchemendy
    Nancy Elise Howell Etchemendy is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her novels, short fiction, and poetry have appeared regularly since 1980, both in the United States and abroad...
    
    
  • Abu and the 7 Marvels by Richard Matheson
    Richard Matheson
    Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...
    
     and William Stout
    William Stout
    William Stout is an American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art. His paintings have been shown in over seventy exhibitions, including twelve one-man shows. He has worked on over thirty feature films, doing everything from storyboard art to production design...
    
    
• 2003: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, and was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada...
  
  by J. K. Rowling
  J. K. Rowling
  Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...
  
  
  • Even Odder: More Stories To Chill The Heart by Steve Burt
  • The Oracle by Catherine Fisher
    Catherine Fisher
    Catherine Fisher is an author, broadcaster and adjudicator who lives in Newport. Her former jobs include working as a primary school teacher and archaeologist. She also taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan....
    
    
  • The Wolves in the Walls
    The Wolves in the Walls
    The Wolves in the Walls is a book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, published in 2003 in the United States by HarperCollins, and in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury. The book was highly praised on release, winning three awards for that year...
    
    by Neil Gaiman
    Neil Gaiman
    Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
    
     and Dave McKean
    Dave McKean
    David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....
    
    
  • A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
    Nina Kiriki Hoffman
    Nina Kiriki Hoffman is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.-Profile:Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in 1983...
    
    
• 2004: Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
  Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
  Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War is the second book in a series of five by author Clive Barker, called The Books of Abarat. This volume contains the adventures of Candy Quackenbush an ordinary girl from Minnesota, in the strange fantasy world of Abarat...
  
  by Clive Barker
  Clive Barker
  Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
  
  
• 2004: Oddest Yet by Steve Burt (tie)
  • Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa's Twin by Dean Koontz
    Dean Koontz
    Dean Ray Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with...
    
    
  • Fall (Witch Season series) by Jeff Mariotte
    Jeff Mariotte
    Jeff Mariotte is an author who currently lives in Arizona with his wife, author Maryelizabeth Hart, and family. As well as his own original work, he is best known for writing novels and comic books based on licensed properties.-Biography:...