NEWS
BASIL COPPER BOOK LAUNCH
Hosted by the British Fantasy Society and PS Publishing, the bio/bibliography BASIL COPPER: A LIFE IN BOOKS Compiled and Edited by Stephen Jones will be launched on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd at THE UPSTAIRS BAR, YE OLDE COCK TAVERN, 22 FLEET STREET, LONDON EC4Y 1AA from 6:00pm onwards.
Among those signing copies will be BASIL COPPER, editor/co-designer STEPHEN JONES, artists RANDY BROECKER and LES EDWARDS, co-designer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH and publisher PETER CROWTHER. Special Guests (subject to commitment) include legendary anthology editors HUGH LAMB, MICHEL PARRY and DAVID A. SUTTON.
Basil Copper became a full-time writer in 1970. His first story in the horror field, 'The Spider', was published in 1964 in THE FIFTH PAN BOOK OF HORROR STORIES, since when his short fiction has appeared in numerous collections and anthologies, and been extensively adapted for radio and television. Along with two non-fiction studies of the vampire and werewolf legends, his other books include the novels THE GREAT WHITE SPACE, THE CURSE OF THE FLEERS, NECROPOLIS, THE BLACK DEATH and THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF.
Copper has also written more than fifty hardboiled thrillers about Los Angeles private detective Mike Faraday, and has continued the adventures of August Derleth's Sherlock Holmes-like consulting detective Solar Pons in several volumes of short stories and the novel SOLAR PONS VERSUS THE DEVIL'S CLAW.
Concluding three years' extensive research, multiple award-winning editor and writer Stephen Jones was given unprecedented and unrestricted access to the books and papers of renowned British macabre and crime writer Basil Copper.
The result is BASIL COPPER: A LIFE IN BOOKS, a unique and in-depth study of the author and his works. Not only does this volume contain the most comprehensive Working Bibliography ever compiled of Basil Copper's productive output - including Macabre and Supernatural Novels and Collections, the "Solar Pons" series, the "Mike Faraday" series, Short Fiction and Novellas, Media Adaptations, Unpublished Works and much more, enhanced with commentary by the author himself - but it also features several rare and obscure articles covering everything from Arkham House creator August Derleth to a brief history of Count Dracula.
There are also a number of short stories, most of them original to this volume, ranging from his very first published work back in 1938 to a brand-new "Mike Faraday" detective adventure, along with a complete television script based on M.R. James' classic horror story 'Count Magnus'.
With an in-depth look at the author's life and career by acclaimed ghost story editor Richard Dalby, and Basil Copper's inspirational Guest of Honour speech from the 1977 British Fantasy Convention, BASIL COPPER: A LIFE IN BOOKS is illustrated with numerous cover reproductions, artwork and unique personal photographs.
If you cannot make it to the signing, but still want to PRE-PURCHASE a personally-signed copy (or copies) please contact <enquiries@pspublishing.co.uk> for details of how to place your order.
Dealer's enquiries welcome - trade discounts available.
ISBN 978-1-905834-98-3 (Jacketed hardcover) £25.00 / $50.00 (approx.) ISBN 978-1-905834-97-6 (Hardcover) £15.00 / $30.00 (approx.) 280pp
BFS BONUS!!! On the night, a number of specially-priced copies of the PS hardcover anthology DON'T TURN OUT THE LIGHT will be available on a first-come basis. Edited by STEPHEN JONES, this third volume in the acclaimed new "Not at Night" series features work by BASIL COPPER, PAUL McAULEY, MARK SAMUELS, JAY RUSSELL, RANDY BROECKER, LES EDWARDS and many others (including Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles L. Grant and Hugh B. Cave).
HANGING WITH MR. NEIL
No sooner was I back from World Fantasy Convention than Neil Gaiman called.
Left to right: Comics artist John Bolton, Geoff Ryman, Steve, Paul McAuley, Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman
Photo by Mandy Slater
He was in London to promote the release of BEOWULF (which he co-scripted), and decided to celebrate his 47th birthday on November 10th with a private party for friends and colleagues at his hotel. Around sixty people turned up to enjoy the copious champagne and finger-food, and I took the opportunity to present Neil with his recent British Fantasy Award for Best Collection (FRAGILE THINGS).
Neil with his latest British Fantasy Award and Steve
Photo by Mandy Slater
HALLOWE'EN HORRORS!
The celebrate the publication of THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR #18 (Robinson, £7.99)
on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31st 2007 (HALLOWE'EN!)
you are invited to come along from 6:30-8:00 p.m. to:
WATERSTONE'S GOWER STREET
82 Gower Street, London WC1E 6EQ
(Tel: 020 7636 1577)
Nearest tube stations: Euston Square / Goodge Street
To meet critically-acclaimed horror writers CHRISTOPHER FOWLER MARK SAMUELS and MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH who will be reading from their latest work
plus
Editor STEPHEN JONES
who will be hosting a Q&A discussion about modern horror fiction and discussing some favourite authors and their works.
ADMISSION IS *FREE*!
COPIES OF THE BOOK WILL BE ON SALE!
Although I attended the very first British Fantasy Convention in 1975, and have been at almost all the gatherings since then, FantasyCon 2007 was the first time I had ever been a Guest of Honour.
It was a wonderful experience, and I would like to thank the organisers and everyone who attended for the many kindnesses shown to me over the weekend in Nottingham.
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Co-GoHs Steve and Michael Marshall Smith at FantasyCon 2007 Photo (c) Peter Coleborn
What helped make it such fun was that along with multi-million copy selling fantasy author Terry Brooks, my fellow GoH was old friend and collaborator Michael Marshall Smith, while the incomparable Peter Crowther made an exuberant Master of Ceremonies.
For me, things officially kicked off at 7:00pm on the Thursday with a “Welcome to FantasyCon” introduction in the bar, swiftly followed by an oddly low-key “Mass Signing”. Terry Brooks was undoubtedly the star of this event, but some of us signed a fair few books as well. Then it was off to dinner with Val and Les Edwards, Jo Fletcher and Amanda Foubister, followed by drinks in the bar.
Saturday began with me interviewing Ramsey Campbell off camera about literary vampires for a forthcoming Doctor Who DVD, then at mid-day I was on a lively panel about the “Trials and Tribulations of Publishing from an Editorial Perspective”. I was a little unsure about why I was on this item, but thanks to moderator Andrew Porter and fellow panellists Peter Crowther, Jo Fletcher and George Mann we easily filled our forty-five minute slot and could have kept the discussion going for quite a while longer.
David Sutton and Steve at FantasyCon 2007 Photo (c) Peter Coleborn
However, I had to get back to the bar for a pre-publication signing for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eighteen, organised by independent bookseller The Talking Dead (thanks, Bob). As it turned out, they sold all thirty copies they had within six minutes and, for the next hour, myself and contributors Ramsey Campbell, Joel Lane, Mark Morris, Mark Samuels and cover artist Les Edwards signed for a seemingly never-ending line of horror fans.
Following a hurried M&S sandwich (thanks, Mandy) and a few welcome beers, I was back on stage at 4:00pm for a “Conversation” between Mike and myself. We weren’t entirely sure how this would work out, but the audience seemed to enjoy our free-flowing discussion, and Mike and I certainly enjoyed the free-flowing single malt (thanks, Paul) that we consumed during the seemingly all-too-short hour-and-a-half.
After a fabulous Orion Books dinner (thanks, Jo) with many of the usual subjects and old friend Simon R. Green, Mike, Jo and I were back on stage at 9:30pm to host the “Fabulous FantasyCon Raffle”. This year the organisers had allowed two hours and, although I didn’t expect us to need all that time, we had such a wonderful selection of prizes donated that we used our full allotted slot and raised around £1,000 to put some lucky person chosen by the British Fantasy Society through a respected writing workshop programme.
But the evening wasn’t over for Mike and me yet. Next we headed upstairs to a packed Film Show where, for the next hour, we previewed test footage and animated storyboards from MonsterMania! – a cartoon for children that we have scripted. Thankfully, the audience seemed to laugh in all the right places.
It's All Abbout Them: Michael Marshall Smith and Steve after the Raffle at FantasyCon 2007 Photo (c) Les Edwards
Exhausted, we finally made it down to the hotel bar around 1:00am, where some of us stayed up later than others . . .
At least Sunday was a little more relaxing, although a lively and positive BFS AGM took up most of the morning before I headed down to the main suite to help organise and decorate the room for the Awards Banquet.
This year quite a number of people made the effort to dress up for the event, and although the meal was (as usual for these types of things) barely edible, and I don’t remember much about my (hopefully brief) speech, the subsequent Awards Ceremony went like a dream thanks to the hard work of David Sutton, Jen and Pat Barber, and everyone else who put their time and energy into making the afternoon’s festivities so enjoyable.
Once again I lost out on a British Fantasy Award, but Gary Couzens was a deserving winner in my category, and I did get to accept Neil Gaiman’s award for Best Collection.
Steve, Sarah Pinborough and David Sutton at FantasyCon 2007
However, all too soon it was a blur of goodbyes, more drinking in the bar and a late dinner with another group of friends (both old and new).
For me, personally, the weekend could not have gone better (despite still recovering from a broken ankle and having the Largest Kidney Stone in the World). Although I didn’t get to hang out with everyone I wanted to, I did have the opportunity to talk with quite a number of people (including several newcomers to the convention), and I even managed to get around the Dealers’ Room and Art Show at least once.
The final attendance for the convention was apparently around 330, and I hope the BFS can continue to build upon that figure next year when the event once again returns to Nottingham. I’ll be there – albeit in the audience, while some other lucky person has all the fun being a guest!
—Stephen Jones
THEY'RE RUSSIAN TO BUY "VAMPIRES"
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July 2007: Stephen Jones has just had his first Russian translation published. The Azbooka-klassika publishing house in St. Petersburg has issued the revised 2004 edition of the best-selling THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRES as a beautiful 900-page hardcover. The hefty volume includes all thirty-five stories from the original Robinson/Carroll & Graf edition and, for those who are interested in such things, the author names listed on the cover in Cyrillic are (in order) Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee and Christopher Fowler. Many of Steve's previous books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Czechoslovakian and Japanese. |
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR VOLUME EIGHTEEN (28 October 2007)
This latest edition of the world’s longest established Year’s Best Horror anthology series once again features a superior selection of the most impressive stories and novellas by some of the most acclaimed and exciting writers working in the genre today.
As usual, it also contains the most comprehensive overview of the year in horror in all its various incarnations, an impressively researched Necrology, and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated reader and budding writer alike. THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR continues to remain the world’s premier annual anthology of contemporary horror fiction.
In this year’s terror-packed tome you will find the following stories:
“SUMMER” by Al Sarrantonio (Retro Pulp Tales).
“DIGGING DEEP” by Ramsey Campbell (Phobic: Modern Horror Stories).
“THE NIGHT WATCH” by John Gordon (Left in the Dark: The Supernatural Tales of John Gordon).
“THE LUXURY OF HARM” by Christopher Fowler (The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration).
“SENTINELS” by Mark Samuels (Alone on the Darkside: Echoes from the Shadows of Horror).
“THE SAFFRON GATHERERS” by Elizabeth Hand (Saffron & Brimstone: Strange Stories).
“WHAT NATURE ABHORS” by Mark Morris (Night Visions 12).
“THE LAST REEL” by Lynda E. Rucker (Supernatural Tales 10, 2006).
“THE AMERICAN DEAD” Jay Lake (Interzone, Issue #203, April 2006).
“BETWEEN THE COLD MOON AND THE EARTH” by Peter Atkins (At the Sign of the Snowman’s Skull).
“SOB IN THE SILENCE” by Gene Wolfe 2006. (Strange Birds).
“CONTINUITY ERROR” by Nicholas Royle (London: City of Disappearances).
“DR. PRIDA’S DREAM-PLAGUED PATIENT” by Michael Bishop (Aberrant Dreams #7, Spring 2006).
“THE ONES WE LEAVE BEHIND” by Mark Chadbourn (Dark Horizons, Issue No.48, Spring 2006).
“MINE” by Joel Lane (The Lost District and Other Stories).
“OBSEQUY” by David J. Schow (Subterranean, Issue #3).
“THROWN” by Don Tumasonis (New Genre, Issue Four, Winter 2006).
“HOUSES UNDER THE SEA” by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Thrillers 2).
“THEY” by David Morrell (Amazon Shorts, September 2006).
“THE CLOCKWORK HORROR” by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (Evermore).
“MAKING CABINETS” by Richard Christian Matheson (Masques V).
“POL POT’S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER (FANTASY)” by Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction No.655, October/November 2006).
“DEVIL’S SMILE” by Glen Hirshberg (American Morons).
“THE MAN WHO GOT OFF THE GHOST TRAIN” by Kim Newman (The Man from the Diogenes Club).
He only wants to see your VERY BEST work, and no more than two or three submissions per author. Do not presume that he has already seen your story. Send a hardcopy manuscript (half- or double-spaced, no smaller than 12-point) along with a brief covering letter and a contact e-mail address to:
MBO Best New Horror #19
c/o 130 Park View
Wembley
Middx HA9 6JU
England
The deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2008. Please remember that this is a REPRINT HORROR anthology, so please do not waste the editor’s time with any work that does not fit into that category.
Also, if you have published a horror or dark fantasy novel, collection, anthology, reference book, magazine or fanzine in 2007 that you think may be suitable for the editor’s annual overview of the year in horror, please send it to the same address and it will receive a mention if appropriate.
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES SPECIAL MEDIA GUEST OF HONOUR
World Horror Convention 2007 http://www.whc2007.org is pleased to announce that screenwriter/author PETER ATKINS will be the Special Media Guest of Honour at the event in Toronto at the end of March.
Born in Liverpool in 1955, Peter Atkins has lived in Los Angeles since 1992. He has published two novels, MORNINGSTAR and BIG THUNDER, and the short fiction collection WISHMASTER AND OTHER STORIES (1999). Along with fellow horror authors Glen Hirshberg and Dennis Etchison, he co-founded The Rolling Darkness Revue, an annual Halloween reading and music tour of bookstores on the West Coast.
In 1988 he scripted HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II, the first sequel to Clive Barker's ground-breaking horror film franchise, and he continued the exploits of Pinhead and his demonic Cenobites in HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH and HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE. In 1997 he created his own franchise character when he wrote WISHMASTER. So far there have been three movie sequels based on his characters - and Atkins himself revisited the franchise when he adapted the first movie into the stage musical THE DJINN.
Other features he has co-scripted include FIST OF THE NORTH STAR and PRISONERS OF THE SUN, and he has also written for television.
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 TORONTO MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE, located in the heart of Toronto, Canada.
The convention's official airline is AIR CANADA, a Star Alliance Member (www.staralliance.com).
Peter Atkins joins previously-announced Guests of Honour MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy; Montreal-based author NANCY KILPATRICK, whose books include novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED; Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning American illustrator JOHN PICACIO; British writer/editor/publisher PETER CROWTHER and Toronto editor and pulp magazine authority DON HUTCHISON. Canadian writer SEPHERA GIRON, author of such novels as HOUSE OF PAIN and BORROWED FLESH, is Mistress of Ceremonies.
Among those authors and editors also scheduled to attend are MORT CASTLE, GEMMA FILES, JO FLETCHER, STEPHEN JONES, TIM LEBBON, BRIAN LUMLEY, L.H. MAYNARD & M.P.N. SIMS, DAVID MORRELL, MARK MORRIS, PETER STRAUB and F. PAUL WILSON, amongst many others.
The convention already has more British and Canadian attendees than any previous World Horror, making it a truly international event, and PROGRESS REPORT #2 (which will include a Grand Master ballot form for those who have not yet voted via the website) will be mailed to all registered members in the next few weeks.
THE 2007 HWA BRAM STOKER AWARDS PRESENTATION will be held at the convention on the Saturday evening. For details about how to purchase your tickets to this very special event, please consult the HWA or WHC websites.
For more information, please contact
Convention Chairperson:
AMANDA FOUBISTER amanda@whc2007.org
STOKER AWARDS EVENT TO BE HELD AT WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007
The Horror Writers Association joins with the World Horror Convention 2007
LOS ANGELES/TORONTO, OCTOBER 2006. The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce that the 20th Annual Presentation of the BRAM STOKER AWARDS for excellence in horror and fantasy fiction will be presented in conjunction with the World Horror Convention 2007 (WHC) in Toronto, Canada.
The World Horror Convention will run from MARCH 29 TO APRIL 1, 2007, and the Bram Stoker Awards ceremony will take place on the evening SATURDAY, MARCH 31. Popular Canadian horror author SÈPHERA GIRÓN will serve as Mistress of Ceremonies for the event.
Nominees for the 2007 HWA Bram Stoker Awards will be announced early in the new year. The Horror Writers Association also bestows a yearly Lifetime Achievement Award in acknowledgment of superior achievement over a career.
Previous winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award include STEPHEN KING and ANNE RICE. Most recent Lifeteime Achievement Award winner PETER STRAUB attended the 2006 Awards presentation in New York City, and is set to be one of the many horror celebrities also attending the 2007 event.
The Bram Stoker Awards presentation is expected to be one of the highlights of the convention, and will include past Stoker Award winners as award presenters. Tickets for the Awards Banquet are limited to just 240 places and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. They will be available to both HWA members and anyone with a registered membership for World Horror Convention 2007. Any HWA member who only wants to attend the Banquet can do so, although they will not be allowed into any other convention events without a full membership. Information about how tickets may be purchased will soon be appearing on both the HWA (www.horror.org) and WHC (www.whc2007.org) websites.
2007 also marks an important turning point for the World Horror Convention, which is taking place outside of the United States for the first time. The Convention's guests of honour include international best-selling British writer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH (The Straw Men); Canadian novelist NANCY KILPATRICK (The Power of the Blood series); American artist JOHN PICACIO; British publisher, editor and author PETER CROWTHER, and Canadian editor and pulp magazine authority DON HUTCHINSON, with more to be announced.
Other professionals already attending the convention include P.D. CACEK, MORT CASTLE, ELLEN DATLOW, GEMMA FILES, JO FLETCHER, TINA JENS, STEPHEN JONES, KELLY LAYMON, TIM LEBBON, BRIAN LUMLEY, L.H. MAYNARD & M.P.N. SIMS, PAUL MILLER, DAVID MORRELL, MARK MORRIS, LISA MORTON, SARAH PINBOROUGH, TONY RICHARDS and F. PAUL WILSON, amongst many others. The annual WHC Grand Master Award will also be presented at the Award Banquet of the Saturday evening.
THE HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION (HWA) is a worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. HWA was formed in the late 1980s with the help of many of the field's greats, including DEAN KOONTZ, ROBERT MCCAMMON, and JOE R. LANSDALE. Today, with over 600 members around the globe, it is the oldest and most respected professional organization devoted to the genre.
For more information, please contact Lisa Morton at <lisa@lisamorton.com> or Amanda Foubister at <amanda@whc2007.org>
July 2006
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR #18
I am now considering stories and novellas FIRST PUBLISHED between December
2005 and December 2006 for BEST NEW HORROR VOLUME EIGHTEEN. I am also interested in seeing novels, collections, anthologies, magazines, art books and graphic adaptations, which will be mentioned in the comprehensive overview of the year in horror.
Please send all material (no electronic submissions) to:
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #18
c/o 130 Park View
Wembley
Middx HA9 6JU
England
The deadline is February 2007. Include a s.a.e. (plus two International Reply Coupons if outside the UK) or an e-mail address if you require notification of when the book is full.
Thank you for your continued interest and support.
Countess Dracula DVD
Horror experts KIM NEWMAN and STEPHEN JONES teamed up with Hammer Horror star INGRID PITT in London to record a DVD commentary track for Peter Sasdy's 1971 film COUNTESS DRACULA, which starred Pitt as the crazed Countess Elisabeth, who bathed in the blood of young virgins to regain her youth.
Packed with extras, including classic television dramas and archive news clips, COUNTESS DRACULA SPECIAL EDITION will be released by Network in the UK on September 18, priced 14.99 pounds.
For more information contact: <luciano.chelotti@networkdvd.co.uk>
NEWMAN and JONES have also recently recorded critical commentary tracks for the forthcoming DVD releases of James Whale's THE OLD DARK HOUSE (also from Network) and Tod Browing's MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (part of Warner Bros.' MGM Horror Boxed Set).
UPDATES TO WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 WEBSITE
Over the past couple of months, World Horror Convention 2007 has added many new pages to its website <http://www.whc2007.org>.
These updates include:
* An article about zombie movies and a zombie short story by co-Guest of Honour Nancy Kilpatrick.
* A new article about the attraction of Hallowe'en and a dark alien abduction story by Special Publisher Guest of Honour Peter Crowther.
* Voting information with a direct link for the World Horror Convention
2007 Grand Master Award.
* Room rates with a direct link to the Marriott's room reservation site for the convention.
* Latest Membership Rates and a list of current Attending Members (who include P.D. Cacek, Ellen Datlow, Tina L. Jens, Brian Lumley, Paul Miller of Earthling Publications, Lisa Morton, Sarah Pinborough, Brett Savory and many others, including more Canadians than have ever attended a WHC before).
* A report on the hugely successful party and raffle held by World Horror Convention 2007 at this year's WHC in San Francisco.
All these new features join the Advertising Rates, Hotel and Travel information, a contact list for Committee Members, and press release archive, with much more material to be added in the coming months.
Also, Progress Report #1 was launched in May and distributed in the delegate bags to all the members of this year's World Horror Convention.
The advertising deadline for PR#2 is September 1, 2006.
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.
The Guests of Honour include British writer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy; Montreal-based author NANCY KILPATRICK, whose books include novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED; Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning American illustrator JOHN PICACIO; British writer/editor/publisher PETER CROWTHER and Toronto editor and pulp magazine authority DON HUTCHISON. Canadian author SÈPHERA GIRÓN (HOUSE OF PAIN, THE BIRDS AND THE BEES, BORROWED FLESH, etc.) is our Mistress of Ceremonies.
The convention's official airline is AIR CANADA, a Star Alliance Member <www.staralliance.com>
For more information, please contact:
AMANDA FOUBISTER
Chairperson / Hotel Liaison
amanda@whc2007.org
PEOPLE AND PUBLISHING MEDIA
KIM NEWMAN and STEPHEN JONES have recently recorded audio commentaries for upcoming DVDs of Tod Browning's MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935) for the Halloween MGM boxed horror set from Warner Bros., and James Whale's THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) for British distributor Network, for release in August.
May 2006
SIGNING FOR "HORROR: ANOTHER 100 BEST BOOKS" AT DARK DELICACIES
At 6:30 pm on Sunday, May 14th, editors STEPHEN JONES and KIM NEWMAN, along with contributors NANCY HOLDER, NANCY KILPATRICK, ROBERTA LANNES, ADAM SIMON and DAVID J. SKAL will be signing copies of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated guide HORROR: ANOTHER 100 BEST BOOKS (Carroll & Graf, $16.95) at:
Dark Delicacies
4213 West Burbank Blvd.,
Burbank, CA 91505
Tel: 818-556-6660
Copies of the book will not only be signed by other contributors in advance, but a limited number of exclusive bookplates will also be available with books on a first-purchased basis signed by numerous other contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, including RANDY BROECKER, LES EDWARDS, JO FLETCHER, ROZ KAVENEY, PAUL McAULEY, CHINA MIEVILLE, MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, LAURENCE STAIG and many more.
Come along and meet the authors, who will be signing their other books as well, with more surprise guests on the night.
If you can't make the signing, you can reserve your signed copies by calling the store and ordering by credit card. Remember, only a limited number of bookplates are available, and these will be allocated on a first-come basis.
For more information, contact:
DARK DELICACIES
darkdel@darkdel.com
April 2006
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES NEW WEBSITE AND FORTHCOMING PARTY/RAFFLE
World Horror Convention 2007 is delighted to announce that its newly updated and re-designed website is now available at http://www.whc2007.org.
Along with features about all the Guests of Honour announced to date - Michael Marshall Smith, Nancy Kilpatrick, John Picacio, Peter Crowther, Don Hutchison and Sephera Giron - there are also pages on Memberships Rates, the Hotel, Travel Information, Advertising Rates and Committee Members, all profusely illustrated.
Over the coming months, many more pages, articles and interviews will be added to the site, including a direct hotel booking link to the Totonto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre. You can also now join the convention at the special reduced rate of US$85.00 / Cdn$96.00 / 47.00 pounds UK (available until May 20, 2006) via the PayPal buttons at the bottom of every page.
To save yourself money, it is strongly advised that you register as soon as possible. If you are thinking of taking a Dealers' Table, you can still join now and the cost of your membership will be deducted from the final cost of the table.
Please also note that the World Horror Convention 2007 and Chicago's Twilight Tales are co-hosting a cocktails and wine party at this year's World Horror Convention in San Francisco on the evening of Saturday, May 13. Just look for people wearing T-shirts with our logo on, or pick up one of the registration forms that will be available on the night. A copy of Progress Report #1 will also be in each of the delegate bags.
There will also be a fun Raffle held at the party, presented by Stephen Jones and Amanda Foubister, where you could win copies of signed editions by our Guests of Honour, and many other exciting items - from prints and posters to slipcased volumes and collectible books. Raffle tickets will be available for 25 cents each, or five for $1.00. You will receive five tickets for FREE if you purchase a membership at the party!
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.
The convention's official airline is AIR CANADA, a Star Alliance Member <www.staralliance.com>
For more information, please contact:
AMANDA FOUBISTER
Chairperson / Hotel Liaison
amanda@whc2007.org
HAMMER TOP 10s
If you want to find out which Hammer films Stephen Jones, Stephen Gallagher and others included in their Top 10, go to:
http://www.zetaminor.com/dvd/hammer_dvd/hammer_top_10.htm
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES MEMBERSHIP RATES
World Horror Convention 2007 is delighted to confirm below and on the website (http://www.whc2007.org) its Membership Rates for the next year.
To save yourself money, it is strongly advised that you register as soon as possible. If you are thinking of taking a Dealers' Table, you can still join now and the cost of your membership will be deducted from the final cost of the table.
ATTENDING MEMBERSHIP
Until May 20, 2006: US$85.00 / Cdn$96.00 / 47.00 pounds UK
Until Nov 10, 2006: US$100.00 / Cdn$115.00 / 56.00 pounds UK
Until March 1, 2007: US$120.00 / Cdn$137.00 / 67.00 pounds UK
At the door (full weekend): US$150.00 / Cdn$170.00
Daily rates: (To be announced later)
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SUPPORTING MEMBERSHIP
Up until March 1, 2007: US$50.00 / Cdn$60.00 / 30.00 pounds UK (This can be converted to an Attending Membership at any time at the then current rate.)
We also offer a Payment Plan for those who are unable to send their Attending Membership fee in a single transaction. For four months from the date that you register, you can pay off your designated fee in instalments of any amount. There is a handling surcharge of US$5.00 / Cdn$6.00 / 3.00 pounds UK for this option. If you fail to pay off the full amount due on the date prescribed, your Membership fee will automatically rise to the next level indicated. No refunds will be made for partial payments under this scheme.
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Toronto, ON M6R 2M8
CANADA
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We will also be selling memberships at the upcoming EerieCon Eight in Niagara Falls, and at the WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 PARTY at this year's World Horror Convention in San Francisco. Just look for people wearing T-shirts with our logo on or pick up one of the registration forms.
Prices may be subject to change without notice due to currency fluctuations
Please note that the official policy for World Horror Convention is that panel participants do not receive complimentary memberships. All attendees to World Horror Convention 2007 must purchase a membership.
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.
The convention's official airline is AIR CANADA, a Star Alliance Member <www.staralliance.com>
For more information, please contact:
EVELYN BAKER
Memberships / Registration
<registration@whc2007.org>
March 2006
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES
World Horror Convention 2007 http://www.whc2007.org is pleased to announce Canadian author SÈPHERA GIRÓN as its Mistress of Ceremonies.
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", and her darkly erotic novels HOUSE OF PAIN, THE BIRDS AND THE BEES, BORROWED FLESH and MISTRESS OF THE DARK are available from Leisure Books.
Her short fiction has appeared in such anthologies and magazines as SEX MACABRE, ASYLUM 2, QUEER FEAR 2, HOT BLOOD 11: FATAL ATTRACTION, COLOR OF PAIN SHADE OF PLEASURE and CEMETARY DANCE, and she co-scripted the award-winning 1994 movie CREEP with Julian Grant.
SÈPHERA GIRÓN joins the previously-announced Guests of Honour: British writer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy; Montreal-based author NANCY KILPATRICK, whose books include novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED; Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning American illustrator JOHN PICACIO; British writer/editor/publisher PETER CROWTHER and Toronto editor and pulp magazine authority DON HUTCHISON.
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 TORONTO MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE, located in the heart of Toronto, Canada.
The convention's official airline is AIR CANADA, a Star Alliance Member.
PLEASE NOTE: Convention organisers Amanda Foubister, Stephen Jones and Mandy Slater, along with major committee members and announced guests Nancy Kilpatrick, Don Hutchison and Sèphera Girón will be attending AD ASTRA, March 31-April 2 2006, at the Crowne Plaza, Toronto Don Valley, Canada, where memberships to WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 will go on sale for the first time. Membership forms will be available in the delegate bags or look for someone wearing a "WHC2007" T-shirt.
For more information, please contact
Convention Chairperson:
AMANDA FOUBISTER <amanda@whc2007.org>
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 TEAMS UP WITH AIR CANADA
We are delighted to announce that the official airline for World Horror Convention 2007 www.whc2007.org is AIR CANADA. By quoting the convention's unique number at the time of booking with your travel agent or direct with our preferred carrier, you will be offered a discount rate depending on the tariff of your ticket (please note that there is no discount on some fare codes or for bookings made via the Internet). These discounts range from 5% - 15% subject to whether you are travelling within
Canada, from the United States or between International destinations.
Air Canada flies not only flies into Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport from most major cities around the world, but also to/from Ottawa only on weekdays into Toronto's Island Airport. This is the only commercial flight into the City Centre airport.
Air Canada is a Star Alliance Member.
Please note: As from January 1, 2007, all air and sea travel between the United States and Canada will require passports for U.S. and Canadian citizens. This will also apply to land travel the following year.
Guests of Honour at World Horror Convention 2007 include British writer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy; Montreal-based author NANCY KILPATRICK, whose books include novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and THE GOTH BIBLE:
A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED; Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning American illustrator JOHN PICACIO; British writer/editor/publisher PETER CROWTHER and Toronto editor and pulp magazine authority DON HUTCHISON.
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 TORONTO MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE, located in the heart of Toronto, Canada.
For more information, please contact
Convention Chairperson:
AMANDA FOUBISTER <amanda@whc2007.org>
"AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOK COVERS"
Artist LES EDWARDS/"EDWARD MILLER", editor STEPHEN JONES and authors KIM NEWMAN, STEPHEN GALLAGHER and LAURENCE STAIG will be discussing the relationship between fantasy/SF/horror authors and their book covers on a panel on
SATURDAY MARCH 25th
from 7:30 pm
at
Redbridge Museum
Gloucester Room
Central Library, Clements Road
Ilford IG1 1EA
Tel: 0208-708-2317
Entrance fee: 4.50 pounds.
The talk ties in with a display organised by the London Borough of Redbridge at the Central Library entitled SPLIT INFINITIES: THE FANTASY & SCI-FI ARTWORK OF LES EDWARDS/EDWARD MILLER that runs from Monday March 20th to Saturday April 29th, 10:00am-5:00pm (4:00pm on Saturdays).
Many other writers and artists are expected to attend the event.
Stephen Gallagher will also be holding a Scriptwriting for Film & TV discussion and workshop on Saturday 25th, from 2:00-pm-4:00pm. Entrance
fee: 8.00 pounds/6.00 pounds concessions
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Laurence Staig
Arts Development and Events Manager
London Borough of Redbridge
Tel: 0208-708-3532
Fax: 0208-708-3178
February 2006
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES SPECIAL GUESTS OF HONOUR
World Horror Convention 2007 (http://www.whc2007.org) is extremely proud and honoured to announce PETER CROWTHER as Special Publisher Guest of Honour and DON HUTCHISON as Special Editor Guest of Honour.
As an award-winning author, respected anthology editor and prolific publisher, Peter Crowther is one of Britain's hardest-working genre experts. The author of more than 100 published stories and novellas, his work has been collected in such volumes as THE LONGEST SINGLE NOTE (AND OTHER STRANGE COMPOSITIONS), the British Fantasy Award-winning LONESOME ROADS, SONGS OF LEAVING and the forthcoming DARK TIMES. He co-wrote the big dark fantasy novel ESCARDY GAP with James Lovegrove, and DARKNESS, DARKNESS was the first book in the "Forever Twilight" series of short science fiction/horror novels.
His many anthologies include NARROW HOUSES, TOUCH WOOD, BLUE MOON, TOMBS and DANTE'S DISCIPLES (both with Edward E. Kramer), TALES IN TIME, TALES IN SPACE, MOON SHOTS, TAPS AND SIGHS, MARS PROBES, CONSTELLATIONS and
FORBIDDEN PANETS, amongst other titles.
As the tireless driving force behind PS Publishing, he has produced beautiful volumes by such luminaries as Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Lucius Shepard, Michael Moorcock, Stephen Gallagher, Elizabeth Hand, Steve Erikson, Tim Lebbon, Paul McAuley, Lisa Tuttle, Mark Morris, Michael Swanwick and many others, along with the quarterly POSTSCRIPTS magazine.
Since its inception in 1999, PS Publishing has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Small Press for four consecutive years, along with the 2004 World Fantasy Award Special Award (Professional). PS titles have also received more than twenty other awards, including the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the Theodore Sturgeon Award.
Toronto native DON HUTCHISON is recognised one of the leading authorities on pulp fiction and a respected editor of dark fantasy. His non-fiction study THE GREAT PULP HEROES was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and is justly considered a definitive volume on the subject, while his six-volume Aurora Award-winning and World Fantasy Award-nominated series of the landmark NORTHERN FRIGHTS anthologies gained international recognition and acclaim for Canadian horror and its practitioners.
A successful and award-winning film-maker for forty years, Don Hutchison has also edited the pulp fiction anthologies THE SUPER FEDS, IT'S RAINING CORPSES IN CHINATOWN, SCARLET RIDERS: PULP FICTION TALES OF THE MOUNTIES and IT'S RAINING MORE CORPSES IN CHINATOWN, and he is currently editing a new anthology of Canadian speculative fiction.
He has also published numerous magazine articles and book reviews relating to popular fiction in all its forms and, in the mid-1980s, he was the Associate Editor of BORDERLAND, Canada's first professional magazine of horror. In 1990 he received The Lamont Award "for outstanding effort in keeping alive the memory and spirit of the pulp magazine era".
PETER CROWTHER and DON HUTCHISON join the previously-announced Guests of
Honour: British writer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy; Montreal-based author NANCY KILPATRICK, whose books include novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED, and Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning American illustrator JOHN PICACIO.
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 TORONTO MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE, located in the heart of Toronto, Canada.
For more information, please contact
Convention Chairperson:
AMANDA FOUBISTER amanda@whc2007.org
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES HOTEL
World Horror Convention 2007 (http://www.whc2007.org) is delighted to announce that our venue is the TORONTO MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE, located in the heart of Toronto, within easy walking distance of the city's major attractions, including bookstores, the Theatre District, the waterfront, many historical sights and numerous fast-food outlets and fine restaurants. The hotel is also connected by a covered walkway to one of Canada's largest attractions, the EATON CENTRE SHOPPING MALL (http://www.torontoeatoncentre.com/home/index.ch2), a world-class location for those attendees who wish to supplement their weekend of horrors with some heavy-duty gift buying.
Each of the Marriott's 459 guestrooms is equipped with remote control TV, voice mail, high-speed Internet access, coffee maker with complimentary coffee, hairdryer and ironing equipment. You can check out and retrieve account information using your in-room television, which also has Internet access, cable, movies, music and PlayStation games. Despite already conforming to the highest international quality, as you would expect from a Marriott, all the hotel's rooms are currently being upgraded, and this work is due to be completed by the end of 2006.
You can also shake off that early morning hangover by taking a dip in the indoor pool, sauna or hot tub or working out on the fitness equipment in the 24-hour gym on the 18th floor, overlooking the city. And for those busy editors and authors, there is a full Business Centre (open 6:00 am - 11:00
pm) and convenient Concierge level.
We have negotiated a significant reduction in the hotel's room rates for those registered members of World Horror Convention 2007. We will be posting these rates on our website and in the Progress Reports, along with a booking code to quote when making a reservation, following World Horror Convention 2006.
You can take a "Virtual Visit" to the hotel at:
http://www.marriotteatoncentre.ca
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 in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada.
Guests of Honour already announced include British author MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, Canadian writer NANCY KILPATRICK and American illustrator JOHN PICACIO. More guests from both sides of the Atlantic will be revealed in the coming weeks, when advertising and membership rates will also be announced.
For more information, please contact
Convention Chairperson:
AMANDA FOUBISTER <amanda@whc2007.org>
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES SECOND AUTHOR GUEST OF HONOUR
World Horror Convention 2007 (http://www.whc2007.org) is delighted to announce that it has added Canada's "Queen of Vampire Fiction", NANCY KILPATRICK, to its growing Guest of Honour list.
Best known for her generational "The Power of Blood" series (comprising the novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, REBORN, BLOODLOVER and TRANSFORMANTION), vampires form a large part of her repertoire but they are by no means all she writes about, as her recent novels JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and JASON X: TO THE THIRD POWER ably illustrate.
A winner of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for short fiction, she has also recently co-edited the horror anthology OUTSIDERS (with Nancy Holder) and compiled THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED for St. Martin's Press.
As "Amarantha Knight" she has written a number of explicit novels in "THE DARKER PASSIONS series, re-imagining the classics of horror fiction with an erotic twist.
Nancy Kilpatrick joins the previously-announced Guests of Honour: British writer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy, and Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator JOHN PICACIO.
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 in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada.
More guests from both sides of the Atlantic will be revealed in the coming weeks, when advertising and membership rates will also be announced.
For more information, please contact
Convention Chairperson:
AMANDA FOUBISTER <amanda@whc2007.org>
LES EDWARDS
Monday 20 March to Saturday 29 April
Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm
Saturday 10am to 4pm
'Split Infinities: the Fantasy & Sci-Fi artwork of Les Edward/Edward Miller'
This exhibition is a unique chance to see the creative artwork of Les Edwards (also known as 'Edward Miller'). Les, who lives in Ilford, is best known for his illustration of a huge number of book jackets in the Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror genres. He has worked on movie posters, fantasy games and graphic novels and has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Artist.
Redbridge Museum
1st Floor Exhibition Area,
Central Library, Clements Road,
Ilford IG1 1EA
020 8708 2317
Free
Discussion and Workshop with Stephen Gallagher:
Scriptwriting for Film and TV
Saturday 25th March 2pm to 4pm
From Dr Who to Eleventh Hour -- novelist and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher talks and answers questions about the nuts, the bolts and the business of writing for film and television. From miniseries like CHIMERA and OKTOBER to the creation of this year's Patrick Stewart-starring ITV hit, taking along the way three seasons as writer and script consultant on BBC1's BUGS, with episodes of CHILLERS and MURDER ROOMS and the ROSEMARY & THYME feature-length specials, Steve guarantees an insight into the process of thinking, writing and selling.
York Room, Central Library
£8/£6 concessions
Authors and their Book Covers
Saturday 25th March 7.30pm
A unique event which promises to be a fascinating discussion around the relationship between authors and their book covers, featuring Award winning Graphic Artist Les Edwards and three Award winning authors and anthologists. How much say do authors have and how important is a book cover, what is the relationship between cover and content, how does the process work, do covers sell books? Come along and find out.
Les Edwards boasts a thirty year career during which he has worked for all of the major UK publishing houses and for most of those in the US. His work has also encompassed comics, movies, advertising and gaming as well as private commissions (www.lesedwards.com)
He has been a Guest of Honour at a World Science Fiction Convention and has been voted Best Artist by the British Fantasy Society on six occasions and has twice been nominated for a World Fantasy Award.
Some years ago he began painting in a different style, under the pseudonym Edward Miller. (www.edwardmiller.co.uk) This new work also became popular and Les now pursues both careers with equal enthusiasm. With his wife, Val, he has lived in Ilford for the last twenty years.
Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction works include Anno Dracula, Life’s Lottery and The Man From the Diogenes Club under his own name and The Vampire Genevieve and Orgy of the Blood Parasites as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include Nightmare Movies, Horror: 100 Best Books, Millennium Movies and BFI Classics studies of Cat People and Doctor Who. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire. His short story ‘Week Woman’ was adapted for the TV series The Hunger and he has directed and written a tiny short film Missing Girl.
Stephen Jones is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards, as well as being a Hugo Award nominee and a sixteen-times recipient of the British Fantasy Award. One of Britain's most acclaimed anthologists of horror and dark fantasy, he has more than eighty books to his credit. You can visit his web site at www.herebedragons.co.uk/jones
Stephen Gallagher has written several novels and television scripts specialising in contemporary suspense, including for the BBC television series Doctor Who — for which he wrote two serials, Warriors' Gate (1980) and Terminus (1983) — as well as for the series Rosemary and Thyme and Bugs, for two seasons of which he was script consultant along with Brian Clemens. He has developed and written his own science fiction series for ITV, Eleventh Hour, starring Patrick Stewart as a government science investigator and advisor. The four part series broadcasted the first episode on 19 January 2006.
Gloucester Room, Central Library
£4.50
January 2006
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES ARTIST GUEST OF HONOUR
World Horror Convention 2007 (http://www.whc2007.org) is proud to announce Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator JOHN PICACIO as its Artist Guest of Honour.
Since choosing a full-time career as an artist in 2001, John has created covers for works by Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Jeffrey Ford, Graham Joyce, Lucius Shepard, Charles De Lint, Frederik Pohl, Hal Clement, and many, many others. A retrospective of his work, COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO, will be published by MonkeyBrain Books in May 2006.
In 2002, he received the International Horror Guild Award for Best Artist.
In 2005, he was awarded a Chesley Award (for Best Paperback Cover) and was a finalist for the Hugo Award (Best Professional Artist). That same year, he received the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Artist.
John Picacio joins previously-announced Guest of Honour, British writer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy.
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 in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada.
More guests from both sides of the Atlantic will be revealed in the coming months, when advertising and membership rates will also be set.
For more information, please contact
Convention Chairperson:
AMANDA FOUBISTER <amanda@whc2007.org>
December 2005
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007
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 in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada.
"I am absolutely delighted that the 2007 convention has been awarded to Toronto," says Chairperson Amanda Foubister. "Toronto is a major international city - like London, Paris and New York - and holding it here will have all the benefits of those locations. Our programme will be multinational, but we will also bring a uniquely Canadian flavour to the World Horror Convention."
The first Guest of Honour to be announced is British writer Michael Marshall Smith, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy (under the byline "Michael Marshall"). His acclaimed short fiction has been collected in the International Horror Guild Award-winning MORE TOMORROW & OTHER STORIES. "I've always wanted to visit Toronto," says Smith, "and this will be a fantastic opportunity."
More guests from both sides of the Atlantic will be revealed in the coming months, when the membership rates will also be set.
For more information, please contact:
AMANDA FOUBISTER: amanda@mangiacake.com
October 2005
FEDOGAN & BREMER LAUNCHES NEW "INNSMOUTH" ANTHOLOGY
At 10:00 p.m. on Friday, November 4th, 2005 Minneapolis publisher Fedogan & Bremer is launching WEIRD SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH edited by STEPHEN JONES at a party at the World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin.
Written in 1931, H.P. LOVECRAFT's 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' forms a major link in the author's renowned "Cthulhu Mythos", featuring a race of ichthyoid Deep Ones which over the years have inter-bred with humans in strange and terrifying ways.
Following on from his World Fantasy Award-nominated anthology SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH, editor Stephen Jones returns to Lovecraft's decaying Massachusetts seaport as such established writers as RAMSEY CAMPBELL, HUGH B. CAVE, BASIL COPPER, JOHN GLASBY, CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, RICHARD A. LUPOFF, KIM NEWMAN, PAUL McAULEY, MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH and STEVE RASNIC TEM once again relate a fictional history of Innsmouth and its batrachian inhabitants.
The book also includes a discarded draft of Lovecraft's seminal story about that foetid, forsaken New England fishing port, with its sparkling treasure and loathsome denizens, along with a major new Lovecraftian novella by international best-selling author BRIAN LUMLEY, written especially for this volume.
In these stories, as the decades pass, Dagon's scaly spawn continues to spread out from America's east coast to cast its malignant influence over the rest of the world. Meanwhile, mankind finally discovers the true nature of the unspeakable evil that lies hidden beneath the waves out beyond the reef, biding its time until it is ready to rise once again . . .
Featuring a spectacular wraparound dust jacket painting by acclaimed artist BOB EGGLETON, the book is illustrated throughout by RANDY BROECKER, LES EDWARDS and ALLAN SERVOSS.
Editor STEPHEN JONES, author STEVE RASNIC TEM and artists RANDY BROECKER and ALLAN SERVOSS are expected to be at the launch party on November 4th, and will be available to sign pre-ordered copies and books sold on the night.
ISBN: 1-878252-43-7
Trade hardcover: $35.00
Limited slipcased edition (signed by all living contributors): $120.00
ARCANA 35
October 7-9, 2005
Arcana is one of the best-kept secrets in the horror field. Held around late September or early October in St. Paul, Minnesota, this small, inexpensive yet very friendly “Convention of the Dark Fantastic” has been going since the early 1970s, when a group of H.P. Lovecraft/Weird Tales fans started hanging out together at annual gatherings.
Now called Minn-Con, the group started meeting in hotels in 1987, and seven years later changed its name to Arcana. A list of past Guests of Honor reads like a “who’s who” of horror, including such prestigious names as Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Neil Gaiman and Gahan Wilson, amongst others.
Stephen Jones, Dwayne H. Olson and Bob Garcia discuss Print on Demand publishing.
Photo: David Christenson
Which is why I was proud to be invited as Guest of Honor to the 2005 event, held at its long-tern venue, the Holiday Inn Express, Bandana Square. Built on the site of an historic railroad station (and retaining the original tracks running through the lobby), the hotel’s rooms are spacious and comfortable and the building also boasts an indoor swimming pool. On the down side there is no restaurant or bar on site, although the hotel does offer a complimentary continental breakfast.
To offset this drawback, Arcana hosts a fine Hospitality Suite and “Undead Dog Party” that would put bigger conventions to shame. Also, of the Friday evening, local independent publisher Fedogan & Bremer sponsored an excellent publishing party complete with their own bar and exotic cocktails.
The lively and full program included talks and panels on such diverse and engaging subjects as “The State of Horror & Fantasy Fiction Today”, “Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series”, “Clive Barker: Master or Menace?”, “Erotic Horror Fiction”, “It Came from the Slush Pile”, “Kong & Co.: Apes in Fact, Folklore, Fiction and Film”, “In a Dark Room: The Films of Val Lewton”, “Is Print on Demand Ruining the Marketplace”, “The Quiet Virtuoso: Remembering Robert Wise 1914-2005, “Recent Asian Horror Movies” and “It’s Only Worth Money if You Sell it”.
Although I found myself participating in the majority of the back-to-back program items – along with a career interview and autographing session – I still found time to look around the compact dealers’ room where I was tempted by many collectible items, including books, pulps, fanzines, rare film memorabilia and original artwork.
However, like most attendees, I was holding out for the famed “Minn-Con Auction”, held on the Saturday evening. Luckily, as co-auctioneer, I was still allowed to bid, and after an exhausting three-and-a-half hours I came away with many choice items. These included a rare monster board game from the early 1960s, along with various books, DVDs and videos that I managed to pick up for ridiculously low amounts.
Where else could you get a signed and inscribed August Derleth volume, a complete set of Universal Monster fridge magnets or a ceremonial sword for such modest bids? Overall, the auction made an impressive $1,100 from the donated items, which went towards the convention expenses.
Convention chairman Eric M. Heideman and Stephen Jones talk about Val Lewton.
Photo: David Christenson
And if none of the above tempted you, then there was also an extensive movie program that this year was themed around my favorite monster, King Kong, and the films of Val Lewton. This was definitely my kind of convention.
The weekend also gave me the welcome opportunity to socialise with a number of old friends, including artist Andrew Smith, publisher Philip J. Rahman, editor and ace auctioneer Dwayne H. Olson, packager/designer Bob Garcia, bookseller Greg Ketter and keen collectors Scott F. Wyatt and Roger Lasley, while at the same time introducing me to many new faces.
Overall, it was a delightful event, and my only regret is that more people do not know about Arcana and are regular attendees.
Next year’s convention will be held over September 29-October 1 at the same location. Tor Books editor David G. Hartwell is the Guest of Honor (see, I told you they attracted some Big Names). Membership is a ludicrously low $25 through to Labor Day 2006, or just $35 at the door. If you live in or around the Twin Cities, or happen to be in the area at that time, I urge you to go along. You will not be disappointed.
For more information go to: http://pages.prodigy.net/rekal
July 2005
NOW WE ARE SICK: An Anthology of Nasty Verse Edited by NEIL GAIMAN and STEPHEN JONES
World Fantasy Award winners Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones have gathered together a unique collection of funny, frivolous and frightening poems by thirty of the world's best known science fiction, fantasy and horror authors. You are guaranteed to scream with laughter and chuckle in fear as you enter the warped imaginations of these masters of the macabre, for better or verse.
Poems by: Brian Aldiss, Sharon Baker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Simon Ian Childer, Storm Constantine, Galad Elflandsson, Jo Fletcher, John M.
Ford, Stephen Gallagher, David Garnett, John Grant, Colin Greenland, James Herbert, Richard Hill, Diana Wynne Jones, Garry Kilworth, Harry Adam Knight, R.A. Lafferty, Samantha Lee, Alan Moore, Kim Newman, Ian Pemble, Terry Pratchett, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Jody Scott, S.P. Somtow, Alex Stewart, David Sutton and Gene Wolfe.
With artwork by Andrew Smith, Clive Barker and Gahan Wilson.
Available again in a new paperback edition from DreamHaven Books on August 1st, 2005.
ISBN: 1-892058-10-3
$9.99
Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Val Lewton Horror Collection for 4th October 2005. Val Lewton, a famous RKO Radio Pictures producer, redefined the horror genre with low-budget, high-box office films. Now available are nine of these horror classics on DVD in the all new Val Lewton Horror Collection. Exclusive to the collection are a new documentary on the producer and 3 of the 9 films.
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Across 5 discs you will find 9 films, they are: The Cat People, Curse of the Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, Bedlam, The Leopard Man, Ghost Ship and The Seventh Victim. 6 of those films will be available separately on three double-feature releases, with The Cat People/Curse of the Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie/Body Snatcher and Isle of the Dead/Bedlam priced at $19.97 SRP each. |
The complete Val Lewton Horror Collection will retail at $59.92 SRP.
Features include:
Audio Commentaries:
Greg Mank with Simone Simon on Cat People and Curse of the Cat People Kim Newman and Stephen Jones on I Walked With a Zombie Steve Haberman with Robert Wise on The Body Snatcher Tom Weaver on Bedlam Steve Haberman on The Seventh Victim Shadows In The Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy - New Documentary on the producer Theatrical Trailer
On SATURDAY, JULY 9th
The British Fantasy Society will be holding an Awards Showcase evening from 6:30 p.m. onwards at:
The Upstairs Restaurant
The Devereux Pub
Devereux Court, London WC2
(Opposite the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand - extreme eastern end, where it becomes Fleet Street. Nearest tube: Temple)
Those individuals who have been recommended for the 2005 British Fantasy Awards are encouraged to bring their work along to discuss and show it to other attendees. The event is open to anyone who is interested.
A complete list of the recommendations follows. If you have been recommended and wish to attend the event, or want to send material for display (non-returnable) please contact Vicky Cook on: aunico@hotmail.com
Please do not "reply" to this e-mail.
A list of nominees attending the event will be posted online.
Voting forms will be going out with the next BFS mailing, and voting is also possible online. Please see www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk for details. The deadline for voting is 1 August 2005.
2005 British Fantasy Awards Recommendations:
BEST NOVEL
James Barclay, Demonstorm (Gollancz) Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (Voyager) Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Fallen Angel (Telos Publications) K.J. Bishop, The Etched City (Tor UK) Ramsey Campbell, The Overnight (PS Publishing) Mark Chadbourn, The Queen of Sinister (Gollancz) Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury) Sarah Crabtree, Terror from Beyond Middle England (ENC Press) Patricia Elliott, Murkmere ( Hodder Children’s Books) Jasper fforde, Something Rotten (Hodder & Stoughton) Christopher Fowler, The Water Room (Doubleday) Gary Gibson, Angel Stations (Tor UK) Nick Gifford, Flesh and Blood (Puffin) Sam Hayes, Out of Mind (Bluechrome) Andrew Hook, Moon Beaver (ENC Press) Guy Gavriel Kay, The Last Light of the Sun (Simon & Schuster) Stephen King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (Hodder & Stoughton) Stephen King, Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower) (Hodder & Stoughton) Paul McAuley, White Devils (Simon & Schuster) Ian McDonald, River of Gods (Simon & Schuster) Michael Marshall, The Lonely Dead aka The Upright Man (HarperCollins/Jove) Graham Masterton, The Devil in Gray (Leisure) Adam L.G. Nevill, Banquet for the Damned (PS Publishing) James Newman, Midnight Rain (Earthling Publications/Leisure) Lucius Shepard, Trujillo (Trujillo and Other Stories, PS Publishing) Steph Swainston, The Year of Our War (Gollancz) Tad Williams, Shadowmarch (Orbit)
BEST NOVELLA
Claire Bott, Time Hunter: The Clockwork Woman (Telos Publications) Kealan Patrick Burke, The Turtle Boy (Necessary Evil Press) Matt Cardin, The God of Foulness (Delirium Books) Suzy McKee Charnas, “Peregrines” (Scifi.com) Simon Clark, The Dalek Factor (Telos Publications) Michael Cobley, “Travelling in the Dark” (Iron Mosaic, Immanion Press) Paul Finch, “The Blood Month” (Darker Ages, Sarob Press) John B. Ford, The Haunted Ocean (Rainfall Books) Christopher Fowler, Breathe (Telos Publications) John Grant, “Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?” (The Third Alternative #38) Glen Hirshberg, “Safety Clowns” (Acquainted with the Night, Ash-Tree Press) Tim Lebbon, Dead Man’s Hand (Necessary Evil Press) Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, The Ice Maiden (Pendragon Press) Kim Newman, “Soho Golem” (Scifiction, October 2004) Tony Richards, Postcards from Terri (Sarob Press) Jay Russell, Apocalypse Now, Voyager (Earthling Publications) Michael Shea, “The Growlimb” (F & SF, Jan 2004) Lucius Shepard, “Hands Up! Who Wants to Die?” (Night Visions 11, Subterranean Press/Trujillo and Other Stories) John Skipp, “Conscience” (Conscience, Friendly Firewalk Press) Lisa Tuttle, My Death (PS Publishing) Nicholas Waller, “Enta Geweorc” (Interzone #195) Conrad Williams, Game (Earthling Publications) Sean Wright, Twisted Root of Jaarfindor (Crowswing Books)
BEST SHORT STORY
Marion Arnott, “Alsiso” (The Alsiso Project) Paul Blake, “Time Thorn” (Scheherazade #26) Michael Cobley, “The Dance of Shiva” (Iron Mosaic, Immanion Press) Gary Couzens, “Out Stack” (Midnight Street #1) Melanie Fazi, “The Cajun Knot” (The Third Alternative #40) Paul Finch, “My Day Dying” (The Extremist, Pendragon Press) Karen Fishler, “Someone Else” (Interzone #194) Eugie Foster, “Running on Two Legs” (The Third Alternative #40) Susan Fry, “Father Gregori’s Relic” (The Third Alternative #39) Neil Gaiman, “The Problem of Susan” (Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy) Jeff Gardiner, “A Glimpse of the Numinous” (Fusing Horizons #4) Joe Hill, “The Black Phone” (The Third Alternative #39) Joe Hill, “You Will Hear the Locust Sing” (The Third Alternative #37) Andrew Hook, “50 Fountain Street” (Frothing at the Mouth #3) Paul Kane, “Guilty Pleasures” (Demonology: Grammaticus Demonium, Double Dragon Press) Joel Lane, “Facing the Wall” (The Third Alternative #38) Tim Lees, “Relics” (The Third Alternative #37) Graham Masterton, “Edgewise” (Horror Express, Winter 2004) Paul Meloy, “Black Static” (The Third Alternative #40) Steve Mohn, “Song of the Earth” (Interzone #194) Marie O’Regan, “Alsiso” (The Alsiso Project) David Penn, “The Condition” (Midnight Street #2) Heather Richardson, “The Walled-In Room” (Fusing Horizons #3) Adam Roberts, “Roads Were Burning” (Postscripts #1) Iain Rowan, “Lilies” (Postscripts #2) Joanne Shemmans, “Frozen” (Horror Express #3) Vandana Singh, “Thirst” (The Third Alternative #40)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
Kelly Burnell, ed., When Darkness Comes (Crystal Serenades Publications) R. Chetwynd-Hayes & Stephen Jones, eds., Great Ghost Stories (Carroll & Graf/Cemetery Dance) Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds., The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (St Martin’s Press) John B. Ford & Paul Kane, eds., Terror Tales 2 (Rainfall Books) Andrew Hook, ed., The Alsiso Project (Elastic Press) Stephen Jones, ed., The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 15 (Robinson/Carroll & Graf) Stephen Jones, ed., The Mammoth Book of New Terror (Robinson/Carroll &
Graf) Garret Peck & Keith Gouveia, eds., Small Bites (Coscom Entertainment) Barbara & Christopher Roden, eds., Acquainted with the Night (Ash Tree Press) Robert Silverberg, ed., Legends II (HarperCollins) Jeff Vandermeer & Mark Roberts, eds., The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (Tor UK)
BEST COLLECTION
Allen Ashley, Somnambulists (Elastic Press) Michael Cobley, Iron Mosaic (Immanion Press) John Connolly, Nocturnes (Hodder & Stoughton) Quentin S. Crisp, Morbid Tales (Tartarus Press) Paul Finch, Darker Ages (Sarob Press) Stephen Gallagher, Out of His Mind (PS Publishing) Richard Gavin, Charnel Wine (Rainfall Books) M. John Harrison, Things That Never Happen (Gollancz) Brian Howell, The Sound of White Ants (Elastic Press) Rhys Hughes, A New Universal History of Infamy (Ministry of Whimsy/Night Shade Books) Lucius Shepard, Trujillo and Other Stories (PS Publishing) Lucius Shepard, Two Trains Running (Golden Gryphon) Robert Silverberg, Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades (Subterranean
Press) Jeff Vandermeer, Cities of Saints and Madmen (Tor UK)
BEST ARTIST
Lara Bandilla
David Bezzina
Michelle Blessemaille
Randy Broecker
John Coulthart
Bob Covington
Les Edwards (Edward Miller)
Donato Giancola
Gary Gianni
Richard Gray
Dean Harkness
Allen Koszowski
Paul Lowe
David Magitis
Richard Marchand
Carlton Mellick III
Edward Noon
J.K. Potter
Steve Rawlings
Robert Sammelin
Ian Simmons
Jason Van Hollander
Brian Waugh
BEST SMALL PRESS
The Alien Online (ed. Ariel) All Hallows (ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden) Crowswing Books (Sean Wright) Dark Horizons (ed. Debbie Bennett) Delirium Books Earthling Publications Elastic Press Ghost Story Society Here and Now (ed. Jenny Barber) Horror Express (ed. Marc Shemmans) Midnight Street (ed. Trevor Denyer) Night Shade Books Pendragon Press Postscripts (ed. Peter Crowther) PS Publishing Rainfall Books Sarob Press Savoy Press Scheherazade (ed. Elizabeth Counihan) Small Beer Press Tartarus Press Telos Publishing The Third Alternative (ed. Andy Cox)
June 2005
Stephen Jones has delivered THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR VOLUME SIXTEEN to Robinson Publishing (UK) and Carroll & Graf (USA) for publication around Halloween, as usual.
Contributors to this year's volume are: NEIL GAIMAN (two stories), IAIN ROWAN, RAMSEY CAMPBELL, BRIAN KEENE, TINA RATH, LESLIE WHAT, L.H. MAYNARD & M.P.N. SIMS, CHRISTA FAUST, STEPHEN GALLAGHER, TANITH LEE, MICHAEL SHEA, MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, TIM LEBBON, GLEN HIRSHBERG, POPPY Z. BRITE, JAY RUSSELL, KELLY LINK, KIM NEWMAN, DALE BAILEY and LISA TUTTLE
Jones is now considering stories and novellas FIRST PUBLISHED between December 2004 and December 2005 for BEST NEW HORROR VOLUME SEVENTEEN. He is also interested in looking at novels, collections, anthologies, magazines, art books and graphic adaptations, which will be mentioned in the comprehensive overview of the year in horror.
Please send all material (no electronic submissions) to:
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #17
c/o 130 Park View
Wembley
Middx HA9 6JU
England
The deadline is February 2006. Include a s.a.e. (plus two International Reply Coupons if outside the UK) or an e-mail address if you require notification of when the book is full.
Novenber 2004
STEPHEN JONES to be Guest of Honor at ARCANA 35, October 7-9, 2005.
Stephen Jones will be Guest of Honour at the small but perfectly formed Arcana 35, "A Convention of the Dark Fantastic", being held over October 7-9 2005 at the Holiday Inn Express, Bandana Square, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Previous GoHs have included Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell, Gahan Wilson and Tim Powers, and it is hoped that a number of Steve's friends and colleagues will also be able to attend. Rare British editions of a number of Steve's anthologies will be available at the Arcana auction, along with signed copies of "The Mammoth Book of Stephen Jones", a 200-edition tribute produced for Steve's 50th birthday by PS Publishing and featuring exclusive contributions by Stephen King, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman and many, many others.
Membership for the whole weekend is just $25.00 through Labor Day 2005 ($35.00 at the door). Membership can be paid via PayPal to rekal@prodigy.net (please include contact information and mention "Arcana" in the accompanying note).
For further information contact: Arcana 35, PO Box 8036, Lake Street Station, Minneapolis MN 55408, USA or e-mail EHeideman@mplib.org
website: http://pages.prodigy.net/rekal
September/October 2004
THE SISKEL AND EBERT OF EERIENESS ARE BACK!
Following their collaborative commentary on the DVD of David Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE, the Laurel and Hardy of Horror - writers Kim Newman and Stephen Jones - are back with rollicking commentaries on the special "Collectors Editions" of Sanctuary Visual Entertainment's AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION and AMITYVILLE 3-D.
AMITYVILLE II also includes an extended "Lost Souls" scene, cast and crew profiles, five unique lobby cards and a twenty-page booklet telling the true story behind the movie, with real-life crime scene photos and an exclusive foreword by Ric Osuna, author of THE NIGHT THE DEFEOS DIED.
For the first time, Richard Fleischer's AMITYVILLE 3-D is presented on a 2-disc set that includes BOTH the "flat" widescreen version (AMITYVILLE: THE DEMON) and the original 3-D version, complete with two pairs of 3-D glasses! The set also comes with cast and crew profiles, another five unique lobby cards and an exclusive sixteen-page booklet.
But the fun doesn't end there! The Abbott and Costello of Creepiness can also be found on Sanctuary's new "Collectors Edition" of Fleischer's CONAN THE DESTROYER, as Newman and Jones conduct a freewheeling interview/discussion with actress Sarah Douglas, who portrays the scheming Queen Taramis in the film.
The widescreen DVD also comes with a Conan Quiz, cast and crew profiles, an original trailer, five more unique lobby cards and a twenty-page booklet featuring rare and original photos, an essay by Paul M. Sammon, and an exclusive foreword about the life of Conan creator Robert E. Howard by Stephen Jones.
All the Sanctuary discs have no regional restrictions.
And because it's "that" time of year again, Anchor Bay's bumper Boxset of HALLOWEEN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION contains all eight HALLOWEEN films. Newman and Jones, the Travolta and Newton-John of . . . (okay, you get the idea by now), can also be heard on the commentaries for HALLOWEEN II and HALLOWEEN III, and both discs also include detailed production essays written by Jones.
It's just like having Kim Newman and Stephen Jones on the sofa with you, talking all the way through the movie you're trying to watch . . .
All discs are in stores now. Happy Hallowe'en!
For more information:
www.sanctuarygroup.com
www.the-associates.co.uk
HALLOWEEN 2004 SIGNINGS:
STEPHEN JONES will be signing at the following venues on the West Coast:
October 29: World Fantasy Convention, Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe, Arizona. Guests of Honor include Gwyneth Jones and Ellen Datlow.
November 5: NecroComicon, Spooky House Haunted Theme Park, Topanga Canyon Blvd., Los Angeles, California. Stephen Jones and Peter Atkins will be signing THE HELLRAISER CHRONICLES (Titan Books) and other items. Other guests include Julie Adams and Ben Chapman (from THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON), Forrest J Ackerman, Marv Wolfman and Lynn Lowry.
November 6: Dark Delicacies, 4213 West Burbank Blvd., Burbank, California.
Tel: 818-556-6660. 1:00pm onwards. Stephen Jones, F. Paul Wilson, Peter Atkins, Jo Fletcher, Nancy Holder and various other contributors will be signing copies of THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRES, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR #15, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW TERROR (all Carroll & Graf), GREAT GHOST STORIES (Cemetery Dance hc/Carroll & Graf tpb), THE HELLRAISER CHRONICLES (Titan Books) along with other new titles.
November 7: Borderlands Books, San Francisco. Tel: 415-824-8203. Prior to this date, you can pre-order signed or personalized copies of Stephen Jones' new books from the store with a credit card.
August 2004
Stephen Jones has announced that he is now reading for the sixteenth volume of THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR, which will be published as a trade paperback in the UK by Robinson and in the USA by Carroll & Graf in 2005.
This is a REPRINT anthology. He is looking for horror and dark fantasy stories and novellas, either supernatural or psychological, which were FIRST PUBLISHED between December 2003 and December 2004. Electronic publication is acceptable, but all submissions should be either in manuscript (preferably), galley or photocopy format. No e-mail submissions.
Space in the book is obviously limited and the competition is tough, so only the most exemplary fiction will be chosen. Do not send copies of everything you've had published during the year, only what you consider to be your very best work. Even if you think it may have already been seen by the editor, if in doubt send another copy anyway.
Include a brief covering letter with your name and address, giving your personal bio/bibliographical information and details of publication. Also include an e-mail address if you want to be notified when the book is full. All material received will be considered disposable. The deadline for receiving stories is February 1st, 2005. You will be contacted after that date if your story has been accepted. Payment is on publication.
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR also includes an extensive annual overview of the previous year in horror. To be aware of material published (especially from the small press), the editor needs to have seen it. This includes novels, collections, anthologies, poetry, art books, reference works, magazines and chapbooks covering fiction, non-fiction and films. All appropriate titles received will get a mention in the "Introduction", and publishers may also be listed in the book's "Useful Addresses" section.
All material for inclusion should be sent to: "The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #16", c/o 130 Park View, Wembley, Middx HA9 6JU, England. The editor and publishers are not responsible for any material that goes missing.
In case anyone sees the British comic 2000 AD, issue #1404 (25 August, 2004) features the story "Caballistics, Inc.: Creepshow" that includes a spoof (with my permission) entry for THE QUINTERMAN XPERIMENT from my 1999 reference book THE ESSENTIAL MONSTER MOVIE GUIDE.
July 2004
The British Fantasy Society presents
BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS - SHOWCASE
I will be hosting a talk/discussion/Q&A during this event about the worth of awards (and how they are decided) at
THE TAPPIT HEN, 5 William IV Street, London WC2N 4DN (nearest tube: Charing Cross)
on FRIDAY 16th JULY from 6:00 p.m. (talk starts around 7:00 p.m.)
I will also hopefully be speaking with past and present nominees during the evening to get their opinions and insights.
Samples of this year's nominated material will be on show during the evening, along with some of the authors, editors and publishers responsible for it.
This year's awards will be presented at the British Fantasy Convention
(FantasyCon04) in September.
Hope you will be able to make it along . . .
June 2004
STEPHEN JONES has delivered THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR VOLUME FIFTEEN and THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW TERROR to Robinson Publishing in the UK and Carroll & Graf in the USA.
Both volumes will be published towards the end of this year in trade paperback.
The fifteenth volume of the multiple award-winning BEST NEW HORROR series contains more than 200,000 words of short stories, novellas and non-fiction by Ramsey Campbell, John Farris, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Paul McAuley, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Marshall Smith, Gene Wolfe, Simon Clark, Gemma Files, Glen Hirshberg, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Marc Laidlaw, Jay Lake, Tim Lebbon, Steve Rasnic Tem and others.
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW TERROR is a follow-up volume to Jones' 1991 anthology THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF TERROR, and includes classic reprints and new fiction from Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, Graham Masterton, Karl Edward Wagner, F. Paul Wilson and others.
May 2004
THE HELLRAISER CHRONICLES BACK IN PRINT!
After being out of print for nearly a decade, Titan Books has reissued THE HELLRAISER CHRONICLES, edited by Stephen Jones with an Introduction by Clive Barker.
A full-colour look at the first three HELLRAISER movies written by Peter Atkins, Clive Barker and Stephen Jones, with photography by Murray Close, Tom Collins and Keith Payne, the oversized softcover also features an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how the Cenobites were created.
For every HELLRAISER fan it's once again "Time to play!".
THE HELLRAISER CHRONICLES
Edited by Stephen Jones
Titan Books
ISBN 1-85286-423-0
UK: 12.99 pounds
USA: $14.95
Can: $19.95
For more information contact Titan Books. www.titanbooks.com
This Spring, Robinson Publishing (UK) and Carroll & Graf (USA) are reissued THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRES with thirteen additional stories and novellas by Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Nancy Kilpatrick, Michael Marshall Smith, Christopher Fowler, Kim Newman, Paul McAuley and others.
To celebrate the launch of the expanded New Edition, Stephen Jones and numerous contributors (ols and new) signed copies in London and on the West Coast of the USA. More here - THREE WEEKS WITH THE UNDEAD
Thanks to movie memorabilia collector Bob Burns, Stephen Jones fulfilled a life-long dream and got to hold the original 1933 skeletal armature of King Kong at the Ray Harryhausen signing at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California, on April 18th, 2004.
Photo by Mandy
Slater
(Please send a copy or tear-sheet of any magazine this photo appears in to
130 Park View
Wembley
Middx
HA9 6JU
England. Thank you.)
ATTENTION VAMPIRE FANS!
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This
Spring, Robinson Publishing (UK) and Carroll & Graf (USA) are reissuing Along with
revised and updated story introductions, this edition also Robinson -
ISBN 1-84119-926-5 - 7.99 pounds For more information contact: enquiries@constablerobinson.com |
To celebrate the launch of this expanded New Edition, multiple award-winning editor Stephen Jones and numerous contributors (both original and new) to the anthology will be signing copies in London, England, and on the West Coast of the USA during April:
THURSDAY, APRIL 1:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Moot With No Reflection: The Mammoth Book of Vampires Launch:
Templars Restaurant, (above The Devereux Pub),
Devereux Court, London WC2
(Opposite the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand -- extreme eastern end, where
it becomes Fleet Street - between Essex Street and Middle Temple
Lane)
(Nearest tube: Temple)
Contact: Stephen Wilson: steve.sethur@virgin.net
Entrance fee: £2.50 or £1.00 plus the price of the book
Book signing and Q&A with Editor STEPHEN JONES (The Mammoth Book of
Vampire Stories by Women; The Mammoth Book of Dracula; The Illustrated Vampire
Movie
Guide), SYDNEY J. BOUNDS (The Best of Sydney J. Bounds), BASIL COPPER (The
Vampire in Legend, Fact and Art), CHRISTOPHER FOWLER (Roofworld),
TANITH LEE (The Silver Metal Lover), BRIAN LUMLEY (the "Necroscope" series;
A Coven of Vampires), PAUL McAULEY (White Devils), KIM NEWMAN (the "Anno
Dracula" series),
TINA RATH (Conventional Vampires), and cover artist LES EDWARDS (all appearances
subject to commitments).
SATURDAY, APRIL 3:
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Dracula Society AGM
The Victoria Pub
10A Strathearn Place, London W2
(On the corner of Strathearn Place and Sussex Place, near Gloucester Square)
(Nearest tube: Paddington or Lancaster Gate)
Contact: Julia Kruk: juliakruk@hotmail.com
Entrance fee: £2.00
Book signing and Q&A with Editor STEPHEN JONES (The Mammoth Book of
Vampire Stories by Women; The Mammoth Book of Dracula; The Illustrated Vampire
Movie
Guide), SYDNEY J. BOUNDS (The Best of Sydney J. Bounds), CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
(Roofworld), KIM NEWMAN (the "Anno Dracula" series), TINA
RATH (Conventional Vampires), BRIAN STABLEFORD (The Empire of
Fear), and cover artist
LES EDWARDS (all appearances subject to commitments)
TUESDAY, APRIL 6:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110
(between 19th and 20th Streets in the Mission District)
Contact: Alan Beatts/Cary Heater: cheater@borderlands-books.com
or Tel: 415-824 8203
Book signing and Q&A with Editor STEPHEN JONES (The Mammoth Book of
Vampire Stories by Women; The Mammoth Book of Dracula; The Illustrated Vampire
Movie
Guide) and CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO (the "Chronicles of St. Germain" series).
All appearances subject to commitments.
SATURDAY, APRIL 10:
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
World Horror Convention 2004
Publishers Debut Table, Hotel Lobby,
Embassy Suites Phoenix North,
2577 W. Greenway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85023
Contact: Mike Willmoth: whc2004@otsp.com
or Tel: 602-375 1777
Book signing (sponsored by Dark Delicacies) and Happy Hour with Editor Guest
of Honour STEPHEN JONES (The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women;
The Mammoth Book of Dracula; The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide), RAMSEY
CAMPBELL (Told by the Dead), NANCY KILPATRICK (the "Power of the
Blood" series) and possibly others to be announced. All appearances subject to commitments.
Exclusive illustrated
bookplates will be available with each book purchased on a first-come, first-served
basis, signed by (provisionally) Sydney J. Bounds, Randy Broecker, Basil Copper,
Les Edwards, Christopher Fowler, Neil
Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley, Paul McAuley, Kim Newman, Tina Rath, Michael
Marshall Smith, Brian Stableford and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
SATURDAY, APRIL 17:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
Contact: Sue & Del Howison: darkdel@darkdel.com
or Tel: 818-556 6660
Book signing with Editor STEPHEN JONES (The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories
by Women; The Mammoth Book of Dracula; The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide),
NANCY HOLDER ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" novelizations),
RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON (Dystopia), DAVID J. SCHOW (Zombie
Jam) and possibly
others to be announced. All appearances subject to commitments.
Exclusive illustrated bookplates will be available with each book purchased on a first-come, first-served basis, signed by (provisionally) Sydney J. Bounds, Randy Broecker, Ramsey Campbell, Basil Copper, Les Edwards, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley, Paul McAuley, Kim Newman, Tina Rath, Michael Marshall Smith, Brian Stableford and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
December 2003
Stephen Jones is a Guest
of Honour at the 2004 World Horror Convention
April 8 - 11, 2004, Embassy Suites Phoenix North Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona USA.
A
printable application form is located here. Right click to save to your computer.
Agent
Dorothy Lumley and Steve celebrate the latter's 50th
birthday at FantasyCon, Stafford, 2003.
Photo by:Cheryl Morgan
September 2003
14TH
UK PAPERBACK & PULP
BOOKFAIR
Sunday, 19th October 2003
10:00 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m.
THE PARK PLAZA HOTEL
239 Vauxhall Bridge Road
(next to Victoria Station)
London SW1
ADMISSION: 2.50 pounds
Dealer Tables: 45.00 pounds each
Huge number of paperbacks and pulps. Horror, SF, Fantasy, Crime, TV and Film related, Western, Adventure, Vintage, Penguins, Pans, comics, ephemera and guides.
Early afternoon signings (subject to commitment):
Authors:
SYDNEY J. BOUNDS, PAT CADIGAN, SIMON CLARK, ERNEST DUDLEY, SIMON R. GREEN,
STEPHEN GALLAGHER, PHILIP E. HIGH, GRAHAM JOYCE, STEPHEN LAWS, KIM NEWMAN, FREDERICK
NOLAN, MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH and BRIAN STABLEFORD.
Editors/Anthologists/Critics:
MIKE ASHLEY, PHILIP HARBOTTLE, STEVE HOLLAND, STEPHEN JONES, HUGH LAMB and
MICHEL PARRY.
Artists:
LES EDWARDS and SAM PEFFER.
Times to be confirmed.
For more information contact either:
R. Wardzinski Tel: 01202 849 212
e-mail: books@thetalkingdead.fsnet.co.uk
or
M. Flanagan Tel: 01373 865371
e-mail: zardoz@blueyonder.co.uk
| Stephen Jones is holding contributors' copies for the following:
The Estate of H. Warner Munn Anyone knowing the whereabouts of these individuals or their |
Stephen Jones has announced that he is now reading for the fifteenth volume of THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR, which will be published as a trade paperback in the UK by Robinson and in the USA by Carroll & Graf in 2004.
This is a REPRINT anthology. He is looking for horror and dark fantasy stories and novellas, either supernatural or psychological, which were FIRST PUBLISHED between December 2002 and December 2003. Electronic publication is acceptable, but all submissions should be either in manuscript, galley or photocopy format. No e-mail submissions.
Space
in the book is obviously limited and the competition is tough, so only the
most exemplary fiction will be chosen. Do not send multiple submissions, only
what you consider your best work. Even if you think it
may have already been seen by the editor, if in doubt send another copy anyway.
Include a brief covering letter with your name and address, giving your bio/bibliographical information and details of publication. Also include an e-mail address if you want to be notified when the book is full. All material received will be considered disposable. The deadline for receiving stories is February 1st, 2004. You will be contacted after that date if your story has been accepted. Payment is on publication.
THE
MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR also includes an extensive annual overview
of the previous year in horror. To be aware of material published (especially
from the small press), the editor needs to have seen it. This
includes novels, collections, anthologies, poetry, art books, reference works,
magazines and chapbooks covering fiction, non-fiction and films. All appropriate
titles received will get a mention in the "Introduction",
and
publishers may also be listed in the book's "Useful Addresses" section.
All material for inclusion should be sent to: "The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #15", c/o 130 Park View, Wembley, Middx HA9 6JU, England. The editor and publishers are not responsible for any material that goes missing.
THE
MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR VOLUME FOURTEEN is available in bookstores
next month. It includes fiction by Ramsey Campbell, Basil Copper, Stephen
Gallagher, Glen Hirshberg, Brian Hodge, Graham Joyce,
Caitlin Kiernan, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, China Mieville, Kim Newman, Nicholas
Royle, Jay Russell, David J. Schow, Jeff VanderMeer and many others.
July 2003
DARK
TERRORS 6 signing
at Dark Delicacies bookstore, Burbank, California, on June 21st, 2003:
Back
Row (left to right): George Clayton Johnson, Glen Hirshberg, film director
Adam Simon, John Skipp and Peter Atkins.
Front Row: Dennis Etchison and friend, Mick Garris, Nancy Holder, Lisa Morton
and editor Stephen Jones.
Contributors
Mick Garris, Lisa Morton, Glen Hirshberg and editor Stephen Jones.
Photos by Mandy Slater
June 2003
BEST NEW HORROR 14 DELIVERED
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" One of Horror's Best" -- Publishers Weekly Editor
Stephen Jones has delivered the fourteenth volume of the The
world's premier annual horror anthology series continues to receive |
Along
with the editor's 30,000-word annual overview of the genre, an
extensive Necrology by Jones and Kim Newman, and a useful list of contact
addresses, the 225,000 word-showcase devoted exclusively to excellence in
macabre fiction features the following short stories and novellas by
today's finest exponents of horror fiction:
"October in the Chair" by NEIL GAIMAN (from CONJUNCTIONS 39: THE NEW WAVE FABULISTS).
"Details" by CHINA MIÉVILLE (from THE CHILDREN OF CTHULHU: CHILLING NEW TALES INSPIRED BY H.P. LOVECRAFT).
"The Wretched Thicket of Thorn" by DON TUMASONIS (from ALL HALLOWS 29, February 2002).
"The Absolute Last of the Ultra-Spooky, Super-Scary Hallowe'en Horror Nights" by DAVID J. SCHOW (from THE SPOOK, Issue No.6, January 2002).
"Standard Gauge" by
NICHOLAS ROYLE (from THIRTEEN).
"
Little Dead Girl Singing" by STEPHEN GALLAGHER (from WEIRD TALES, Issue #327,
Spring 2002).
"Nesting Instincts" by BRIAN HODGE (from LIES & UGLINESS).
"The Two Sams" by GLEN HIRSHBERG (from DARK TERRORS 6: THE GOLLANCZ BOOK OF HORROR).
"Hides" by JAY RUSSELL (from STRANGER: DARK TALES OF EERIE ENCOUNTERS).
"The Unbeheld" by RAMSEY CAMPBELL (from THE SPOOK, July 2002).
"Ill Met by Daylight" by BASIL COPPER (from COLD HAND ON MY SHOULDER).
"Catskin" by KELLY LINK (from CATSKIN: A SWADDLED ZINE and MCSWEENY'S QUARTERLY, Winter 2002-03).
"20th Century Ghost" by JOE HILL (from HIGH PLAINS LITERARY REVIEW, Vol. XVII, No.1-3, 2002).
"Egyptian Avenue" by KIM NEWMAN (from J.K. POTTER'S EMBRACE THE MUTATION).
"The Boy Behind the Gate" by JAMES VAN PELT (from DARK TERRORS 6: THE GOLLANCZ BOOK OF HORROR).
"Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea" by CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN (from THE CHILDREN OF CTHULHU: CHILLING NEW TALES INSPIRED BY H.P. LOVECRAFT).
"The Coventry Boy" by GRAHAM JOYCE (from THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE, Issue 32, Autumn 2002).
"The Prospect Cards" by DON TUMASONIS (from DARK TERRORS 6: THE GOLLANCZ BOOK OF HORROR).
"The Cage" by JEFF VANDERMEER (from CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN).
"Dr.
Pretorius and the Lost Temple" by
PAUL MCAULEY (from SCIFICTION, September 2002).
May 2003
The 2003 INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD awards recognizing outstanding achievements in the field of horror and dark fantasy from the year 2002 were announced May 23, 2003.
DARK TERRORS 6: THE GOLLANCZ BOOK OF HORROR edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton and published by Victor Gollancz won two awards: "Best Anthology" and "Best Short Form" for 'The Prospect Cards' by Don Tumasonis.
STEPHEN
JONES will be signing copies of DARK TERRORS 6 (Victor Gollancz, import), KEEP
OUT THE NIGHT (PS Publishing, import) and THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF
BEST NEW HORROR #13 (Carroll & Graf) at:
DARK DELICACIES
4213 W. Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505
from 2:00 p.m. on SATURDAY, JUNE 21st.
He will hopefully be joined by local contributors to the above anthologies, including MICK GARRIS, DENNIS ETCHISON, GLEN HIRSHBERG, LISA MORTON and others, plus friends and colleagues.
Steve's signings at Dark Delicacies always turn into a party, so come along and meet one of horror's most acclaimed editors (but don't try to sell him any stories!), get your books signed, and have some fun.
To
pre-order signed copies, call the store on 818-556-6660 or e-mail:darkdel@darkdel.com
March 2003
Stephen
Jones will be attending The 3rd Windy City Pulp & Paperback Convention being held in Chicago over April 4-6, 2003. Situated at The Radisson Lincolnwood,
4500 West Touhy Avenue, Lincolnwood, IL 60123, USA
(Tel: 847-667 1234), the convention foc