Dates: October 31-November 3, 2002
Site: Minneapolis Hilton & Towers,
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Theme: Of Gods and Monsters
Guests of Honor: Dennis Etchison, Jonathan Carroll, Kathe Koja, Dave McKean, Stephen Jones
Chair: Greg Ketter
Winners & Nominees
| First Name | Last Name | Year | Category | Title | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forrest J. | Ackerman | 2002 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| George | Scithers | 2002 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Ursula K. | Le Guin | 2002 | Novel | "The Other Wind" | Winner |
| Neil | Gaiman | 2002 | Novel | "American Gods" | Nominee |
| Jay | Russell | 2002 | Novel | "Brown Harvest" | Nominee |
| Lois McMaster | Bujold | 2002 | Novel | "The Curse of Chalion" | Nominee |
| Ray | Bradbury | 2002 | Novel | "From the Dust Returned" | Nominee |
| Charles | de Lint | 2002 | Novel | "The Onion Girl" | Nominee |
| Jonathan | Carroll | 2002 | Novel | "The Wooden Sea" | Nominee |
| S.P. | Somtow | 2002 | Novella | "The Bird Catcher" | Winner |
| Elizabeth | Hand | 2002 | Novella | "Cleopatra Brimstone" | Nominee |
| Lucius | Shepard | 2002 | Novella | "Eternity and Afterward" | Nominee |
| Ursula K. | Le Guin | 2002 | Novella | "The Finder" | Nominee |
| Paul | Di Filippo | 2002 | Novella | "Karuna, Inc." | Nominee |
| Glen | Hirshberg | 2002 | Novella | "Struwwelpeter" | Nominee |
| Albert E. | Cowdrey | 2002 | Short Fiction | "Queen for a Day" | Winner |
| James P. | Blaylock | 2002 | Short Fiction | "His Own Back Yard" | Nominee |
| Jeffrey | Ford | 2002 | Short Fiction | "The Honeyed Knot" | Nominee |
| Jack | O'Connell | 2002 | Short Fiction | "Legerdemain" | Nominee |
| Nalo | Hopkinson | 2002 | Short Fiction | "Something to Hitch Meat To" | Nominee |
| Dennis | Etchison | 2002 | Anthology | "The Museum of Horrors" | Winner |
| Stephen | Jones | 2002 | Anthology | "The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Twelve" | Nominee |
| Stephen | Jones | 2002 | Anthology | "The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women" | Nominee |
| Jerad | Walters | 2002 | Anthology | "Stigmata" | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 2002 | Anthology | "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection" | Nominee |
| Terry | Windling | 2002 | Anthology | "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection" | Nominee |
| Nalo | Hopkinson | 2002 | Collection | "Skin Folk" | Winner |
| William F. | Nolan | 2002 | Collection | "Dark Universe: Stories 1951-2001" | Nominee |
| Harlan | Ellison | 2002 | Collection | "The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective: Revised and Expanded" | Nominee |
| Terry | Dowling | 2002 | Collection | "The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective: Revised and Expanded" | Nominee |
| Richard | Delap | 2002 | Collection | "The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective: Revised and Expanded" | Nominee |
| Gil | Lamont | 2002 | Collection | "The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective: Revised and Expanded" | Nominee |
| Kelly | Link | 2002 | Collection | "Stranger Things Happen" | Nominee |
| Dennis | Etchison | 2002 | Collection | "Talking in the Dark" | Nominee |
| Allen | Koszowski | 2002 | Artist | Winner | |
| Donato | Giancola | 2002 | Artist | Nominee | |
| John Jude | Palencar | 2002 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Douglas | Walters | 2002 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Gahan | Wilson | 2002 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Jo | Fletcher | 2002 | Special - Pro | editing the Fantasy Masterworks series | Winner |
| Stephen | Jones | 2002 | Special - Pro | editing | Winner |
| Randy | Broecker | 2002 | Special - Pro | "Fantasy of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History" | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 2002 | Special - Pro | editing | Nominee |
| Douglas E. | Winter | 2002 | Special - Pro | "Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic" | Nominee |
| Raymond | Russell | 2002 | Special - Non-Pro | Tartarus Press | Winner |
| Rosalie | Parker | 2002 | Special - Non-Pro | Tartarus Press | Nominee |
| Peter | Crowther | 2002 | Special - Non-Pro | PS Publishing | Nominee |
| Paula | Guran | 2002 | Special - Non-Pro | "Horror Garage" | Nominee |
| Jerad | Walters | 2002 | Special - Non-Pro | Cocytus Press | Nominee |
| Michael | Waltz | 2002 | Special - Non-Pro | Sidecar Preservation Society | Nominee |