Jurors
Not listed
J. F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award
Joe R. Lansdale & Lucy Taylor
Best Novel
| Winner | Title | Author(s) | Benjamin | Aron Beauregard & Shane McKenzie |
| This Wretched Valley | Jenny Kiefer | |
| American Rapture | C. J. Leede | |
| The Home | Judith Sonnet (disqualified due to being a 2025 release) | |
| The Old Lady | Kristopher Triana |
Best Novella
| Winner | Title | Author(s) | A Life of Crime | Aron Beauregard |
| Master of Bodies | Robert Essig | |
| Living Death Race: Beauty & the Brains | John Everson | |
| Nipping Them In the Bud | Edward Lee | |
| For The Better | Daniel J. Volpe |
Best Short Story
| Winner | Title | Author(s) | The Old College (Fear of Clowns) |
Aron Beauregard |
| Genital Grinder 2.5 (Y’all Ain’t Right) |
Ryan Harding | |
| Together Forever (The Obituaries #6: Red Romance) |
C.V. Hunt | |
| Fulfillment (Where Devils Dance) |
Sidney Shiv | |
| Baby, I’d Die 4 U (The Obituaries #6: Red Romance) |
Kristopher Triana |
Best Collection
| Winner | Title | Author(s) | This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances | Eric LaRocca |
| Gold and Gore | Candace Nola | |
| Every Night In The Bone Orchard | Judith Sonnet | |
| Sucking Chest Wound and Other Horrors | Daniel J. Volpe | |
| Wrecks & Violets | Mehitobel Wilson |
Best Anthology
| Winner | Title | Editor(s) | Dethfest Confessions: The Devil’s Playlist | Mark Tullius & Lyndsey Smith |
| The Obituaries #6: Red Romance | Aron Beauregard, Daniel J. Volpe, Kristopher Triana, C.V. Hunt | |
| Shocking Sojourns | Sidney Shiv | |
| Splatology 2.0 | Sidney Shiv & Chisto Healy | |
| Y’all Ain’t Right | K Trap Jones |