Probably the two most unlikely crossovers of the year were Star Trek the Next Generation/X-Men: Planet X by Jan Michael Friedman, and the graphic novel Tarzan versus Predator: At the Earth’s Core by Walter Simonson and Lee Weeks, in which Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ape man and the alien hunter from the movies battled it out in Pellucidar.

White Wolf’s The World of Darkness series, based on the role-playing games, continued with To Speak in Lifeless Tongues and To Dream of Dreamers Lost by David Niall Wilson, the second and third volumes respectively in “The Grails Covenant” trilogy, and The War in Heaven by Robert Weinberg, the third and final volume in the “Horizon War” trilogy. The Winnowing and Dark Prophecy by Gherbod Fleming were the final two volumes in the vampiric “Trilogy of the Blood Curse”, Dark Kingdoms by Richard Lee Byers was an omnibus of three novels (two previously unpublished), and The Quintessential World of Darkness edited by Stewart Wieck and Anna Branscome contained three novels (one previously unpublished) by William Bridges, Rick Hautala and Edo van Belkom, along with two original stories by Kevin Andrew Murphy and Jody Lynn Nye.

Ravenloft: Shadowborn by William W. Connors and Carrie A. Bebris, and Ravenloft: I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin by P. N. Elrod were both based on the TSR role-playing vampire game.

Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within by Jane Jensen was the second novel based on the Gothic CD-ROM game, written by the game’s creator.

Jonathan Carroll’s Kissing the Beehive involved a bestselling paperback thriller writer who investigated a decades-old murder of a teenage beauty in his home town and encountered his most devoted fan, who called herself Veronica Lake.