Listed here are the nominations for all categories but that for Lifetime Achievement. The nominees for that award are not released in advance.

Novel
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack [St. Martin's Press]
Shadow of Ashland by Terence M. Green [TOR Books]
The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle [Doubleday]
The 37th Mandala by Marc Laidlaw [St. Martin's Press]
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin [Bantam Spectra]
The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliott [DAW Books]
The Devil's Tower by Mark Sumner [Del Rey Books]

Novella
A City in Winter by Mark Helprin [Viking]
Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast by Suzy McKee Charnas [Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 3/96]
Blood of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin [Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 7/96]
GI Jesus by Susan Palwick [STARLIGHT 1]
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself by Michael Marshall Smith [DARK TERRORS 2]

Short Fiction
Thirteen Phantasms by James P. Blaylock [OMNI ONLINE 10/96]
The Dead Cop by Dennis Etchison [DARK TERRORS 2]
Underbed by Graham Masterton [DARK TERRORS 2]

Anthology
Starlight 1 edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden [TOR Books]
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Ninth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling [St. Martin's Press]
The Shimmering Door edited by Katharine Kerr & Martin H. Greenberg [HarperPrism]
Dark Terrors 2: The Gollancz Book of Horror edited by Stephen Jones & David Sutton [Gollancz]

Collection
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem [Harcourt Brace]
Midnight Promises by Richard Chizmar [Gauntlet Publications]
Conference With the Dead by Terry Lamsley [Ash-Tree Press]
The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti [Robinson; Carroll & Graf]
Bible Stories for Adults by James Morrow [Harcourt Brace]
Bad Intentions by Norman Partridge [Subterranean Press]
The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S. P. Somtow [Gollancz]

Artist
Moebius (Jean Giraud)
Thomas Canty
H. R. Giger
J. K. Potter

Special Award - Professional
Mike Weldon for The Psychotronic Video Guide to Film
Diana Wynne Jones for The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
Stephen Jones for editing and anthologies
David Pringle for contributions to the genre
Kristine Kathryn Rusch for editing (F & SF)

Special Award - Non-Professional
Barbara & Christopher Roden for Ash-Tree Press
Fedogan & Bremer for book publishing
Paula Guran for Dark Echo