http://www.whc2010.org/index.html WHC2010 News! en info@whc2010.org Copyright 2009 WHC2010 2008-10-30T16:04:00+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:10:58 +0000 info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-04-13T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/news-pr26.html World Horror Convention 2010 was a huge success, and we hope you all had an enjoyable time. For some final updates, clarifications, e-mail comments and Peter Coleborn's wonderful photographs of the event, we have posted a number of post-convention pages at: www.whc2010.org/photos01.html. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-03-07T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/news-pr25.html With the convention just over two weeks away now, we thought we'd give you a few more updates on a number of topics including the transfer of memberships, hotel room cancellations, Programming Grids, availability of seats for the Kaffeeklatsches, the Creative Writing Workshops and early registration. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-02-27T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/prog-grid01.html We have posted a PDF file containing details of the confirmed Panels and their participants, author Readings and Interviews, along with details of where special events such as "Pitch Black", the "Mass Autographing" and the "Bram Stoker Awards" are taking place. Updated information will be available in your delegate pack, which you collect from Registration when you arrive (remember to bring acceptable ID). ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-02-07T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/news-pr24.html Additional to the information in Progress Report #3 (being mailed to all registered members this week), we have details on getting to Brighton from an airport, the tickets for the BRAM STOKER AWARDS, the writing workshops and the KAFFEEKLATSCHES enrolment. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-02-01T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/ Memberships to the convention are SOLD OUT. There may be a few transferable memberships available at various prices. Please contact info@whc2010.org for more information or to be put on a waiting list. Please note: There will be no day or supporting memberships, nor any press passes available. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-01-20T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/membership01.html More names have been added to the list of Attending Members of World Horror Convention 2010. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-01-29T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/kaffee01.html Ever wanted to spend an hour over a cup of coffee with your favourite author or editor? Well, now you can! World Horror Convention 2010 is presenting a series of informal Kaffeeklatsches with some of the biggest names in the genre. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-01-24T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh01.html We are delighted to announce that World Horror Convention 2010 has added two more Guests: Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner BRIAN LUMLEY, and HWA Special Guest DENNIS ETCHISON (standing in for other LAA Winner William F. Nolan, who is unfortunately unable to attend the event due to a prior commitment). ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-01-24T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/pitchblack01.html It is common at the World Horror Convention to have Pitch Sessions, usually involving two or three editors or agents. In keeping with our avowed intent to run a groundbreaking professional event, World Horror Convention 2010 in Brighton is doing things a bit differently. Welcome to PITCH BLACK. For the first time at such an event, authors and anthology editors will have the opportunity to come together with the international publishing industry and literary agents to sell and buy genre book rights in both the English language and translation. ]]> hotels@whc2010.org Site News 2010-01-22T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/rooms-ramada01.html There are still plenty of rooms left in our overflow hotel the Ramada Brighton, but please be aware that you only have until 6:00pm (UK time) on SUNDAY JANUARY 24 to submit your hotel booking form. After that deadline the convention loses its special discount rate and the cost of a room will revert to the full price tariff again. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2010-01-14T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/workshop-pmcauley01.html Regrettably, Mort Castle has had to withdraw from World Horror Convention 2010 and sends his sincere apologies to everyone who signed up for his Creative Writing Workshops. However, we are delighted to announce that acclaimed British author Paul McAuley has agreed to take over the Creative Writing Workshops on the Friday and Saturday afternoons. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-12-23T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/how2join01.html The membership rate will rise to £100 at midnight (UK time) on January 31, 2010. There will not be any at-the-door or day memberships available. ]]> info@whc2010.org Programme News 2009-12-14T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/artshow01.html The World Horror Convention 2010 Art Show will be situated in the Britannia Room on the lower level of the Royal Albion Hotel. As a curtain-raiser to the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet, on the Saturday there will be an Art Show Reception from 5:00 until 6:30 p.m., where attendees are encouraged to come along for drinks and meet the artists and view their work. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-12-02T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/gmvote01.html This is a reminder that voting for the World Horror Convention's own GRAND MASTER AWARD closes on DECEMBER 31, 2009. Each year, registered members of the current World Horror Convention can vote for the prestigious Grand Master Award, which will be presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the horror genre in their lifetime. ]]> info@whc2010.org Programme News 2009-11-24T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/prog-mrjames01.html As one of the many special events we will be presenting at World Horror Convention 2010, we are delighted to announce a presentation on the Friday evening of 'A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS' BY M.R. JAMES, performed by Robert Lloyd Parry who has been performing a trilogy of one-man shows based on M.R. James' ghost stories around the the UK, USA and Ireland since 2006. ]]> advertising@whc2010.org Site News 2009-10-20T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/ad-rates-pr01.html We are pleased to let you know that Progress Report #2 will be mailed to all registered members of the convention in November. The 20-page booklet not only includes updated information about Hotel Bookings, Flying to Brighton, Programming, Book Launches, the Reading Café, the Creative Writing Workshops, the Dealers' Room, the HWA Bram Stoker Awards Banquet, news about our exciting "Pitch Black" genre Rights Fair and much more, but it also contains details of our very competitive Advertising Rates for Progress Report #3, the hardcover Souvenir Book and the Pocket Programme. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-10-01T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/how2join01.html As of October 1, 2009, a full ATTENDING MEMBERSHIP is £75 sterling (overseas rates will automatically be converted at the current exchange rate via PayPal), which entitles you to all convention publications and entry into any event hosted by the convention over the weekend. ]]> stokerawards@whc2010.org Site News 2009-09-25T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/banquet-tickets01.html We are delighted to announce that the 2010 Bram Stoker Awards Banquet will be held at the famous Palm Court fish-and-chip restaurant situated right at the heart of the historic Brighton Pier itself, with magnificent views of the coastline and out to sea. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-08-19T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/workshop-mcastle01.html World Horror Convention 2010 is proud to announce that Mort Castle will once again be teaching a Creative Writing Workshop at the event. A writer for over four decades, and a writing teacher for almost as many years, Castle developed and edited Writing Horror for the HWA in 1997 and the expanded and revised edition, On Writing Horror, published in 2006 by Writer's Digest. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-08-19T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/workshop-nkilpatrick01.html The biggest problem with writing vampire fiction is that it's all been done before! But has it? Exclusive to World Horror Convention 2010 is a four-hour writing workshop held by award-winning author Nancy Kilpatrick over the Friday and Saturday afternoons that focuses exclusively on how to write blood-or-other-sucker fiction that has not been done before. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-08-19T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/workshop-jfletcher01.html Want to know how to get your manuscript published? How advances and royalties work? What being edited involves? What to do to sell translation rights? Well now here is your chance to learn from one of the top editors in the genre. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-08-06T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/prog-ghostwalk01.html For those attendees who are looking for something a little bit different or are interested in exploring the darker history of Brighton, then we have arranged an exclusive GHOST WALK OF THE LANES--Brighton's Most Haunted Quarter--on the THURSDAY and SUNDAY evenings of the convention. Conducted by actor and storyteller Rob Marks in the guise of Silas the Ghost Hunter, splendiferously attired in full Victorian costume, THE GHOST WALK OF THE LANES is more of a street theatre event than a mere guided walk. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-08-14T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh-ingridpitt01.html INGRID PITT is best known to horror film fans as Hammer Film's "Queen of Horror". Her roles in Sound of Horror (aka El sonido la muerte, 1964), The Omegans (1968), The Vampire Lovers (1970), Countess Dracula (1970), The House That Dripped Blood (1970, in an episode based on Robert Bloch's story 'The Cloak'), The Wicker Man (1973), Artemis 81 (1981), Clive Barker's Underworld (aka Transmutations, 1985), Green Fingers (2000), The Asylum (2000, opposite her daughter Steffanie, who plays the lead), Minotaur (2006), Hammer's Beyond the Rave (2008), Sea of Dust (2009) and the 'Vampirology' episode on the Urban Gothic TV series, have established her as an icon in the horror film genre. Her latest credit is a new version of Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart (2009), which marks the last screen appearance of Robert ('Count Yorga') Quarry. ]]> dealers@whc2010.org Site News 2009-08-03T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/bookroom01.html Applications for Dealers' Tables at World Horror Convention 2010 are now being accepted. Because space is limited, WHC 2010 is using a "juried" system for assigning tables in the Dealers' Room, with special emphasis on genre booksellers (preferably used and collectible) and quality specialty and independent presses, and applications will be judged accordingly and dealers will be notified in due course. ]]> hotels@whc2010.org Site News 2009-04-24T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/rooms01.html The World Horror Convention 2010 is being hosted in the historic seaside city of Brighton, East Sussex, on the picturesque south coast of England. A popular year-round destination for holidaymakers and sightseers from all over the world, we have negotiated exclusive rates with three local hotels that we believe offer remarkable value for money and should appeal to all types of budgets. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-06-14T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/banquet01.html The World Horror Convention 2010 and The Horror Writers Association are proud to announce that, for the first time in their twenty-three year history, the HWA's prestigious annual Bram Stoker Awards for excellence in horror and fantasy fiction will be presented outside North America at the convention in Brighton, England. The Bram Stoker Awards ceremony will take place at a gala Banquet on the evening of Saturday, March 27. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-05-01T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/gmvote01.html Each year, the registered members of the current World Horror Convention get to vote on the Grand Master Award, to be presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the horror genre. The recipient must be living at the time of voting and have had a career in horror—either in literature, art, film, theatre, or any mix of these. Only one person can receive the Grand Master Award each year and each individual can win only once. The winner of the 2010 award will be invited to attend the convention. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-04-07T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/pastwhc01.html World Horror Conventions are held each year at sites selected by a bidding process. The purpose of WHC is to provide an event that is conducive to education, networking and conducting business for horror professionals and enthusiasts. Since 1991, WHC has been held in a variety of places with a plethora of guests. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-05-01T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh-jamesherbert01.html JAMES HERBERT created the modern mass-market horror genre with the publication of his first ground-breaking novel, The Rats, in 1974 (for the record, Stephen King's Carrie was published a few months later). Since then he has reigned as Britain's undisputed #1 author of chiller fiction, with more than 20 novels to his credit—which have sold more than fifty million copies world-wide. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-04-17T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh-jofletcher01.html JO FLETCHER was born in 1958 in West London. An editor, writer, poet and journalist, she has been published widely throughout the world. Her work has appeared in, amongst other titles, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, Now We Are Sick, The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers' Dreams, Dark of the Night, White of the Moon, Freaks Geeks and Sideshow Floozies, Cthulhu and the CoEds, Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury and Daughter of Dangerous Dames. As "Featured Poet" she contributed a Zodiac cycle to The Urbanite magazine. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-03-20T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh-davecarson01.html DAVE CARSON was born in Northern Ireland in 1955. He first discovered the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft when he came across 'The Lurking Fear' in a 1960s issue of The Magazine of Horror. He was hooked for life and has since become one of the genre's most acclaimed and respected illustrators of the author's work. It was probably in the pages of that same digest magazine that he first saw the artwork of Virgil Finlay and his personal favourite, Lee Brown Coye. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-04-06T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh-hughlamb01.html HUGH LAMB was born in 1946 in Sutton, Surrey. One of Britain's most acclaimed anthologists of ghosts and gaslight terrors, he is renowned for unearthing many obscure tales by Victorian and Edwardian writers, including a lost M.R. James story for his 1975 compilation The Thrill of Horror: 22 Terrifying Tales. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-03-13T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh-lesedwards01.html LES EDWARDS was born in 1949 in Walthamstow, East London. He began his illustration career immediately on leaving the notorious Hornsey College of Art in 1972. In the years that followed he became a stalwart of the UK illustration scene, acknowledged for both his versatility and his professionalism. He has worked for all the major UK publishing houses and for many in the US, and his work has also encompassed advertising, gaming, record and CD covers, and movie posters. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-03-06T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh-davidcase01.html DAVID CASE was born in upstate New York in 1937. Since the early 1960s he has lived in London, as well as spending time in Greece and Spain. His acclaimed collection The Cell: Three Tales of Horror appeared in 1969, and included the classic werewolf novella of the title. It was followed by the books Fengriffen: A Chilling Tale, Wolf Tracks and The Third Grave, the latter appearing from Arkham House in 1981. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-02-20T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/goh-tanithlee01.html TANITH LEE was born in North London in 1947. Because her parents were professional dancers (ballroom, Latin American) and had to live where the work was, she attended a number of truly terrible schools, and didn't learn to read—she is also dyslectic—until she was almost eight-years-old. She finally mastered her reading only because her father taught her. This opened the world of books to her, and by the age of nine she was writing. ]]> advertising@whc2010.org Site News 2009-03-14T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/ad-rates-pr01.html World Horror Convention 2010 is now accepting advertising to be placed in the upcoming Progress Reports and on the Website. Payment required with advertisement. Progress Reports 1-3 will be distributed to all members of the WHC 2010. ]]> readings@whc2010.org Site News 2009-02-13T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/prog-readingcafe01.html World Horror Convention 2010 is delighted to announce that we will be reviving our popular Reading Café—which was such a success at the 2007 event in Toronto—to complement our regular Programming Schedule. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2009-02-07T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/hotel-parking01.html Because it is situated on the seafront, The Royal Albion Hotel does not have car-parking facilities, although there is a short-term pay-and-display parking area just outside the main entrance for loading and unloading. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2008-11-29T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/prog-suggestions01.html With programming beginning at Noon on the Thursday and continuing right through until the Sunday afternoon, we will be looking to fill nearly sixty slots with interesting, informative and entertaining panels, talks and interviews (not to mention more than seventy author reading and poetry events). ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2008-11-29T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/hotel-facilities.html To help you evaluate the suitability of the convention hotel for your needs, we have compiled the following information. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2008-11-29T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/how2join01.html A full ATTENDING MEMBERSHIP is currently £60 sterling (overseas rates will automatically be converted at the current exchange rate via PayPal), which entitles you to all convention publications and entry into any event hosted by the convention over the weekend. ]]> info@whc2010.org Site News 2008-10-30T16:04:00+00:00 http://www.whc2010.org/news.html If you'd like to keep up-to-date with all the breaking news relating to the 2010 World Horror Convention, just subscribe to the RSS feed on this page... ]]>