Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.
- 1998: "Bigger than Death" by Nancy Etchemendy
- The Dollhouse that Time Forgot by Mike Ford
- The Angel Chronicles by Nancy Holder
- Hungry Ghosts by Ellen Steiber
- 1999: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Something Lumber This Way Comes by Joe R. Lansdale
- Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children by Angus Oblong
- 2000: The Power of Un by Nancy Etchemendy
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Be Afraid! edited by Edo van Belkom
- The Christmas Trilogy by F. Paul Wilson
- 2001: The Willo Files 2 by Yvonne Navarro
- Prowlers by Christopher Golden
- 2002: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Abarat by Clive Barker
- Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural by Nancy Etchemendy
- Abu and the 7 Marvels by Richard Matheson & William Stout
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