Jurors:
- Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ
- Tamsyn Muir
- Madeleine E. Robins
- Richard Thomas
- Ann VanderMeer
Lifetime Achievement
- Clive Barker
- Joyce Carol Oates
Novel
- Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill (Tachyon Publications)
- Once Was Willem by M. R. Carey (Orbit/Orbit UK)
- The Secret Market of the Dead by Giovanni De Feo (Saga Press)
- The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor Books/Tor UK)
- The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy (Tachyon Publications)
Long Fiction
- The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom/Arcadia)
- “The Secret Diary of Mina Harker” by Theodora Goss (Letters from an Imaginary Country)
- “Uncertain Sons” by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories)
- The Death of Mountains by Jordan Kurella (Lethe Press)
- “The Spotter” by Josh Malerman (You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction, Vol. 2)
- Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
- A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Short Fiction
- “The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home” by Renan Bernardo (Reactor, Aug. 27, 2025)
- “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld magazine #223, April 2025)
- “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills (Uncanny magazine #63, March-April 2025)
- “St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls” by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Weird Horror Issue 10, Spring 2025)
- “Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War” by Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny magazine #64, May-June 2025)
Anthology
- Night & Day edited by Ellen Datlow (Saga Press)
- Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology edited by Julie C. Day with Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney (Essential Dreams)
- The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 edited by Michael Kelly (Undertow Press)
- Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Three edited by Stephen Kotowych (Ansible Press)
- Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror edited by Hollie Starling (Chatto & Windus)
Collection
- Letters from an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss (Tachyon Publications)
- Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha (Undertow Publications)
- The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon Publications)
- The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories by Salman Rushdie (Random House/Jonathan Cape)
- Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman (Fairwood Press)
Artist
- Galen Dara
- Kathleen Jennings
- Daniele Serra Rachel Smythe
- Charles Vess
Special Award – Professional
- Clive Bloom, for London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Blumhouse and Dave Schilling, for Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse (Simon & Schuster/Simon Element)
- Jaymee Goh, Jill Roberts, and Jacob Weisman, for Tachyon Publications
- Tim Lucas, for Succubus (Necronomicon) (PS Publishing/Electric Dreamhouse)
- Becky Siegel Spratford, for Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature (Saga Press)
- Richard Wolinsky, for Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends (Tachyon Publications)
Special Award – Non-Professional
- Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine
- Andy Cox, for Remains magazine
- Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press and for the Rainforest Writers Village Retreat
- Elise C. Tobler, for The Deadlands magazine
- Wendy Wagner, for Nightmare magazine
