For the first time in its seventeen-year history, THE WORLD HORROR CONVENTION is being held outside the United States.
With a theme exploring "The Diversity of Horror", WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 will take place over MARCH 29-APRIL 1 at the four-star Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre, located in the heart of TORONTO, CANADA.
GUESTS OF HONOUR
MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH is the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US, the international best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy (under the byline "Michael Marshall"), and the International Horror Guild Award-winning collection MORE TOMORROW & OTHER STORIES.
NANCY KILPATRICK is best known for her "The Power of Blood" vampire series (comprising the novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, REBORN, BLOODLOVER and TRANSFORMATION). A winner of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for short fiction, she has also co-edited the horror anthology OUTSIDERS (with Nancy Holder) and compiled THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED.
JOHN PICACIO has created distinctive covers for works by Michael Marshall Smith, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Graham Joyce, Lucius Shepard, Charles De Lint, and many, many others. A winner of the International Horror Guild Award (Best Artist), the Chesley Award (Best Paperback Cover) and the World Fantasy Award (Best Artist).
PETER CROWTHER is an award-winning author, respected anthology editor and prolific publisher. His short fiction has been collected in the British Fantasy Award-winning LONESOME ROADS and he co-wrote the novel ESCARDY GAP (with James Lovegrove). As the driving force behind PS Publishing, he has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Small Press for four consecutive years and the 2004 World Fantasy Award Special Award (Professional).
DON HUTCHISON's non-fiction study THE GREAT PULP HEROES was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, while his six-volume Aurora Award-winning series of the landmark NORTHERN FRIGHTS anthologies gained international recognition and acclaim for Canadian horror and its practitioners. In 1990 he received The Lamont Award "for outstanding effort in keeping alive the memory and spirit of the pulp magazine era".
PETER ATKINS has scripted HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II, the first sequel to Clive Barker's ground-breaking horror film franchise, HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH (1992) and HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE (1996). He is also the creater of the WISHMASTER franchise which he adapted into a stage musical THE DJINN (2001).
WHC 2007 Grand Master Award Winner Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than thirty novels including ACT OF LOVE, THE NIGHTRUNNERS, COLD IN JULY, THE BOTTOMS, THE DRIVE-IN series, and the Hap & Leonard series. Lansdale has also written scripts for comic books and animated television shows, his novella BUBBA HO-TEP was filmed by Don Coscarelli in 2002 and his short story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted for an episode of TV's MASTERS OF HORROR series.
Mistress of Ceremonies SEPHERA GIRON is the author of such novels as HOUSE OF PAIN, THE BIRDS AND THE BEES, BORROWED FLESH and MISTRESS OF THE DARK. A qualified tarot card reader, her book HOUSE MAGIC: THE GOOD WITCH'S GUIDE TO BRINGING GRACE TO YOUR SPACE was published in 2001 under the author's tarot name, "Ariana".
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