First Novel

• Midnight Rooms - Donyae Coles
• Hollow Girls - Jessica Drake-Thomas
• This Wretched Valley - Jenny Kiefer
• The Eyes Are the Best Part - Monika Kim
• Bless Your Heart - Lindy Ryan
  
  

Novel

• House of Bone and Ruin - Gabino Iglesias
• I Was a Teenage Slasher - Stephen Graham Jones
• The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste
• Incidents Around the House - Josh Malerman
• Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

YA Novel

• Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo - Adam Cesare
• A Place for Vanishing - Ann Fraistat
• Come Out, Come Out - Natalie C. Parker
• The Losting Fountain - Lora Senf
• The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington