• Robert McCammon received the 2008 Grand Master Award from the World Horror Convention on March 29, 2008.

• The Queen of Bedlam has been nominated for the 2008 Thriller Award in the Best Paperback Original category The Thriller Awards are given out by the International Thriller Writers. The awards will be presented on July 12, 2008.

• 2004 Alabama Library Association's Alabama Author Award for Speaks the Nightbird.

• Independent Publisher Book Award for 2003 in the "Historical/Military Fiction" category with Speaks the Nightbird.

• Finalist for the historical fiction book of the year (2002) from ForeWord Magazine.

• Speaks the Nightbird was awarded the 2003 Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award (the SESFA) for Best Novel of 2002.

• Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2001-2002 Nominee for Boy's Life

1987

• Novel: Swan Song (Winner) (tie with Stephen King's Misery)
• Short story: "The Deep End" (Winner)

• Novel: Stinger (Nominated)

• Novel: The Wolf's Hour (Nominated)
• Short story: "Eat Me" (Winner)
• Collections: Blue World (Nominated)

• Novel: MINE (Winner)

• Novel: Boy's Life (Winner)

1985

• Best Short Story: "Nightcrawlers" (Nominated)

• Best Novel: Swan Song (Nominated)
• Best Novella: "Best Friends" (Nominated)

• Best Collection: Blue World (Nominated)

• Best Novel: Boy's Life (Winner)

• 1985 Alabama Library Association's Alabama Author Award for Usher's Passing.

• Locus magazine conducts a reader's poll every year. The following McCammon novels have been nominated in the Locus Poll Awards:
  • 1988 - Swan Song (#15 Best Fantasy Novel)
  • 1989 - Stinger (#5 Best Horror Novel)
  • 1990 - The Wolf's Hour (#6 Best Horror Novel)
  • 1990 - Blue World (#16 Best Collection)
  • 1992 - Boy's Life (#11 Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel)

• 1992 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Award, domaine étranger (best foreign novel) for L'heure du loup (The Wolf's Hour). The Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire is the historical and most important science-fiction and fantasy literary prize in France.