Site: Hyatt Regency Hotel
City: Schaumburg, Illinois
Theme: An H. P. Lovecraft Centenary Celebration
Guests of Honor: F. Paul Wilson, L. Sprague de Camp, David B. Mattingly,Susan Allison
Special Guests: Robert Bloch, Julius Schwartz
Toastmaster: Raymond E. Feist
Chair: Robert Weinberg
Winners & Nominees
| First Name | Last Name | Year | Category | Title | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R.A. | Lafferty | 1990 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Jack | Vance | 1990 | Novel | "Lyonesse: Madouc" | Winner |
| Jonathan | Carroll | 1990 | Novel | "A Child Across the Sky" | Nominee |
| Charles L. | Grant | 1990 | Novel | "In a Dark Dream" | Nominee |
| Tim | Powers | 1990 | Novel | "The Stress of Her Regard" | Nominee |
| Dan | Simmons | 1990 | Novel | "Carrion Comfort" | Nominee |
| Gene | Wolfe | 1990 | Novel | "Soldier of Arete" | Nominee |
| John | Crowley | 1990 | Novella | "Great Work of Time" | Winner |
| Michael | Bishop | 1990 | Novella | "Apartheid Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana" | Nominee |
| Joe R. | Lansdale | 1990 | Novella | "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks" | Nominee |
| Lucius | Shepard | 1990 | Novella | "The Father of Stones" | Nominee |
| Howard | Waldrop | 1990 | Novella | "A Dozen Tough Jobs" | Nominee |
| Steven | Millhauser | 1990 | Short Fiction | "The Illusionist" | Winner |
| Scott | Baker | 1990 | Short Fiction | "Varicose Worms" | Nominee |
| Edward | Bryant | 1990 | Short Fiction | "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" | Nominee |
| Jonathan | Carroll | 1990 | Short Fiction | "Mr. Fiddlehead" | Nominee |
| Michael | Swanwick | 1990 | Short Fiction | "The Edge of the World" | Nominee |
| Chet | Williamson | 1990 | Short Fiction | "Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'N Purty... He Said" | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 1990 | Anthology | "The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection" | Winner |
| Terri | Windling | 1990 | Anthology | "The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection" | Winner |
| Ellen | Datlow | 1990 | Anthology | "Blood is Not Enough" | Nominee |
| Joe R. | Lansdale | 1990 | Anthology | "Razored Saddles" | Nominee |
| Pat | LoBrutto | 1990 | Anthology | "Razored Saddles" | Nominee |
| John | Skipp | 1990 | Anthology | "Book of the Dead" | Nominee |
| Craig | Spector | 1990 | Anthology | "Book of the Dead" | Nominee |
| Richard | Matheson | 1990 | Collection | "Richard Matheson: Collected Stories" | Winner |
| John | Crowley | 1990 | Collection | "Novelty" | Nominee |
| Harlan | Ellison | 1990 | Collection | "Harlan Ellison's Watching" | Nominee |
| Joe R. | Lansdale | 1990 | Collection | "By Bizarre Hands" | Nominee |
| Robert R. | McCammon | 1990 | Collection | "Blue World and Other Stories" | Nominee |
| Thomas | Canty | 1990 | Artist | Winner | |
| James | Christensen | 1990 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Don | Maitz | 1990 | Artist | Nominee | |
| J.K. | Potter | 1990 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Mark V. | Ziesing | 1990 | Special - Pro | Ziesing Books | Winner |
| Paul | Mikol | 1990 | Special - Pro | Dark Harvest | Nominee |
| Scot | Stadalsky | 1990 | Special - Pro | Dark Harvest | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 1990 | Special - Pro | book editing | Nominee |
| Tim | Underwood | 1990 | Special - Pro | Underwood-Miller | Nominee |
| Chuck | Miller | 1990 | Special - Pro | Underwood-Miller | Nominee |
| Peggy | Nadramia | 1990 | Special - Non-Pro | "Grue" | Winner |
| Richard | Chizmar | 1990 | Special - Non-Pro | "Cemetery Dance" | Nominee |
| Joe | Stefko | 1990 | Special - Non-Pro | Charnel House | Nominee |
| Tracy | Cocoman | 1990 | Special - Non-Pro | Charnel House | Nominee |
| David B. | Silva | 1990 | Special - Non-Pro | "The Horror Show" | Nominee |