World Horror Convention

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{{Infobox Convention

| name = World Horror Convention

| image =

| caption =

| status = Defunct

| genre = Horror

| location = Varies

| country = Varies

| first = 1991

| last = 2016

| organizer = World Horror Society

| filing =

| attendance = 400-500

| website = http://www.worldhorrorconvention.com/

}}

The World Horror Convention was an annual professional gathering of the World Horror Society and other interested parties that ran annually for 26 years, from 1991 through 2016, before being discontinued.

Site selection

The annual World Horror Conventions were held mostly in the United States or Canada, frequently alternating between the east and west sides of North America. In 2010, the convention was held outside North America for the first and only time, in Brighton, England.

The bids from potential committees were presented to the members of the board of directors of the World Horror Society, who then decided where future conventions would be held. Bids were usually made two years before the specific year (e.g., bids for 2001 were considered in 1999). The Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award ceremony was held in conjunction with the convention for many years, but the HWA now stages the ceremony at its own event, the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend. The World Horror Convention Grand Master Award was given most years, until the World Horror Convention was discontinued in favor of the annual Bram Stoker Awards Weekend.

Conventions

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Dates ! Location ! Info {{Convention list \| date = 1991 \| venue = \| location = Nashville, Tennessee \| guests = Writer: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Artist: Jill Bauman. MC: David J. Schow, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Richard Christian Matheson. Grand Master: Robert Bloch. }} {{Convention list \| date = 1992 \| venue = \| location = Nashville, Tennessee \| guests = Writer: Richard Matheson. Artist: Harry O. Morris. Special media guest: Richard Christian Matheson. MC: Brian Lumley. Grand Master: Stephen King. }} {{Convention list \| date = 1993 \| venue = \| location = Stamford, Connecticut \| guests = Writers: Peter Straub, Les Daniels. Artist: Stephen Gervais. Special media guests: Paul Clemens. MC: Stanley Wiater. Grand Master: Richard Matheson. }} {{Convention list \| date = 1994 \| venue = \| location = Phoenix, Arizona \| guests = Writers: Charles L. Grant, Dan Simmons. Artist: Gahan Wilson. MC: Edward Bryant. Grand Master: Anne Rice. }} {{Convention list \| date = 1995 \| venue = \| location = Atlanta \| guests = Writers: John Farris, Neil Gaiman, R. L. Stine. Artist: Alan M. Clark. Media: Alice Cooper. MC: Brian Lumley. Grand Master: Clive Barker. }} {{Convention list \| date = 1996 \| venue = \| location = Eugene, Oregon \| guests = Writers: Clive Barker, Charles de Lint, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Don Maitz, Janny Wurts. Special: Tim Powers, Edward Bryant. Grand Master: Dean Koontz. }} {{Convention list \| date = 1997 \| venue = \| location = Niagara Falls, New York \| guests = Writers: Ramsey Campbell, Poppy Z. Brite, Joe R. Lansdale. Artist: Rick Berry. Media: Gunnar Hansen. Editor: Darrell Schweitzer. MC: Edo van Belkom. Grand Master: Peter Straub. }} {{Convention list \| date = 1998 \| venue = \| location = Phoenix, Arizona \| guests = Writer: Brian Lumley. Artist: Bernie Wrightson. Media: Tom Savini. Publisher: Tom Doherty. MC: John Steakley. Grand Master: Brian Lumley. }} {{Convention list \| date = 1999 \| venue = \| location = Atlanta \| guests = Writers: Michael Bishop, John Shirley. Artist: Lisa Snellings. MC: Neil Gaiman. Grand Master: Ramsey Campbell. }} {{Convention list \| date = 2000 \| venue = \| location = Denver \| guests = Writers: Peter Straub, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, J. Michael Straczynski, Graham Joyce. Artist: Rick Lieder. Editor: Ellen Datlow. MC: Dan Simmons. Grand Master: Harlan Ellison. }} {{Convention list \| date = 2001 \| venue = \| location = Seattle \| guests = In conjunction with the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards Weekend.{{cite web \|url=http://www.stokers2013.org/ \|title=Home \|website=stokers2013.org}} Guest of Honor in Memoriam: Richard Laymon. Writers: Simon Clark, Michael Slade, Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Artist: Charles Vess. Publishers: Barbara Roden, Christopher Roden. Grand Master: Ray Bradbury.{{cite web \|url=http://www.whc2001.org/ \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001204211400/http://www.whc2001.org/ \|archive-date=2000-12-04 \|title=World Horror Convention 2001}} }} {{Convention list \| date = 2002 \| venue = \| location = Chicago \| guests = Writers: Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman. Editor: Melissa Ann Singer. Artist: Randy Broecker. Poetry: Jo Fletcher. Photography: Beth Gwinn. Music: Liz Mandville Greeson. Comics and Young Adult: Jill Thompson. Media: Rich Koz, Patricia Tallman, Robert Z'Dar. Special: Karen E. Taylor, Yvonne Navarro, Brian A. Hopkins. Grand Master: Charles L. Grant. }} {{Convention list \| date = 2003 \| venue = \| location = Kansas City, Missouri \| guests = Writer: Brian A. Hopkins. Publisher: Don D'Auria. Artist: Nick Smith. Special: Forrest J. Ackerman. MC: Laurell K. Hamilton. Grand Master: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. }} {{Convention list \| date = 2004 \| venue = \| location = Phoenix, Arizona \| guests = Writer: Douglas Clegg. Artist: Jeremy Caniglia. Editor: Stephen Jones. Media: Dee Snider. Special: Adam Niswander. Grand Master: Jack Williamson.{{cite web \|url=http://www.whc2004.org/ \|title = 抜け毛はストレスでも多くなる – 薄毛と抜け毛の専門的な治療について}} }} {{Convention list \| date = 2005 \| venue = \| location = New York City \| guests = Writers: Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Tom Piccirilli, Jack Ketchum, Mort Castle, Amber Benson. Filmmaker: Mick Garris. Artist: Allen Koszowski. Editors: Tom, Elizabeth Monteleone. MCs: Stan Wiater, Linda Addison }} {{Convention list \| date = 2006 \| venue = \| location = San Francisco \| guests = Writers: Kim Newman, Koji Suzuki. Toastmaster: Peter Straub. Artist: Brom. Media: Bill Moseley. Editor: John Pelan.{{cite web \|url=http://www.whc2006.org/ \|title = Your blog dedicated to the news}} }} {{Convention list \| date = 2007 \| venue = \| location = Toronto \| guests = Writers: Michael Marshall Smith, Nancy Kilpatrick. Artist: John Picacio. Editors: Peter Crowther, Don Hutchison. Media: Peter Atkins.{{cite web \|url=http://www.whc2007.org/ \|title = 新潟県薬局①｜口コミ・評判・薬剤師求人｜【薬局求人の窓口】}} }} {{Convention list \| date = 2008 \| venue = \| location = Salt Lake City \| guests = Writer: Dennis Etchison. Artist: John Jude Palencar. Toastmaster: Simon Clark. Academic: Michael R. Collings. Special: Jeff Strand, Dave Dinsmore.{{cite web \|url=http://www.whc2008.org/ \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902053816/http://www.whc2008.org/ \|archive-date=2006-09-02 \|title=World Horror Convention 2008 - Salt Lake City Utah}} }} {{Convention list \| date = 2009 \| venue = \| location = Winnipeg \| guests = Writers: Conrad Williams, Edo van Belkom, F. Paul Wilson, Joshua Gee. Artist: Tommy Castillo. Grand Master: Tanith Lee.[http://www.whc2009.org/ WHC 2009 Homepage] }} {{Convention list \| date = 2010 \| venue = \| location = Brighton \| guests = Writers: Tanith Lee, David Case. Editor: Hugh Lamb. Artists: Les Edwards, Dave Carson. Special: James Herbert. MC: Jo Fletcher. Media: Ingrid Pitt. WHS Lifetime Achievement Award: William F. Nolan, Basil Copper. Grand Master: James Herbert.[http://www.whc2010.org/ WHC 2010 Homepage] }} {{Convention list \| date = 2011 \| venue = \| location = Austin, Texas \| guests = Writers: Sarah Langan, Joe Hill. Media: Steve Niles. Editors: Brett Alexander Savory, Sandra Kasturi. Artist: Vincent Chong. Toastmaster: Joe R. Lansdale. Special: Brian Keene, Del Howison. Grand Master: Jack Ketchum. }} {{Convention list \| date = 2012 \| venue = \| location = Salt Lake City \| guests = Writer: Sherrilyn Kenyon. Artist: Mike Mignola. Special: Rocky Wood. HWA guests of honor: Joe R. Lansdale, Karen Lansdale, Robert McCammon. Toastmistress: P. N. Elrod. HWA special guests: Dacre Stoker, Jeff Strand. Grand Master: T. E. D. Klein.[http://www.whc2012.org/ WHC 2012 Homepage] }} {{Convention list \| date = 2013 \| venue = \| location = New Orleans \| guests = In conjunction with the HWA Bram Stoker Awards Weekend.{{cite web \|url=http://www.stokers2013.org/ \|title=Home \|website=stokers2013.org}} Writers: Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jonathan Maberry. Artist: Glenn Chadbourne. Editor: John Joseph Adams. Poet: Bruce Boston. Toastmaster: Jeff Strand. }} {{Convention list \| date = 2014 \| venue = \| location = Portland, Oregon \| guests = Writers: Nancy Holder, Jack Ketchum, Norman Partridge. Artist: Gret Staples. Editor: Paula Guran. Grand Master: Brian Keene. HWA Lifetime Achievement Awards: Stephen Jones, R. L. Stine. Ghost of Honor: Edward Gorey. Special: Victoria Price, John Shirley. Toastmaster: Alan M. Clark. }} {{Convention list \| date = 2015 \| venue = \| location = Atlanta \| guests = Writers: Lisa Tuttle, Christopher Golden, Tom Piccirilli, John Farris, Kami Garcia, Charlaine Harris. Artist: Bob Eggleton. Editor: Chris Ryall. Grand Master: William F. Nolan. Toastmaster: Jonathan Maberry. }} {{Convention list \| date = April 28 - May 1, 2016 \| venue = Provo Marriott Hotel and Convention Center \| location = Provo, Utah \| guests = Writers: Sarah Pinborough, Joe McKinney, Kevin J. Anderson, Darren Shan. Artist: Keith Thompson. Academic: Michael R. Collings. Special: Linda Addison, Jason V. Brock, Sunni Brock, Michaelbrent Collings, Michael Arnzen, Victoria Price, Dan Wells, Carter Reid. Ghost of Honor: Shirley Jackson. }}

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Dates

! Location

! Info

{{Convention list

| date = 1991

| venue =

| location = Nashville, Tennessee

| guests = Writer: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Artist: Jill Bauman. MC: David J. Schow, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Richard Christian Matheson. Grand Master: Robert Bloch.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 1992

| venue =

| location = Nashville, Tennessee

| guests = Writer: Richard Matheson. Artist: Harry O. Morris. Special media guest: Richard Christian Matheson. MC: Brian Lumley. Grand Master: Stephen King.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 1993

| venue =

| location = Stamford, Connecticut

| guests = Writers: Peter Straub, Les Daniels. Artist: Stephen Gervais. Special media guests: Paul Clemens. MC: Stanley Wiater. Grand Master: Richard Matheson.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 1994

| venue =

| location = Phoenix, Arizona

| guests = Writers: Charles L. Grant, Dan Simmons. Artist: Gahan Wilson. MC: Edward Bryant. Grand Master: Anne Rice.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 1995

| venue =

| location = Atlanta

| guests = Writers: John Farris, Neil Gaiman, R. L. Stine. Artist: Alan M. Clark. Media: Alice Cooper. MC: Brian Lumley. Grand Master: Clive Barker.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 1996

| venue =

| location = Eugene, Oregon

| guests = Writers: Clive Barker, Charles de Lint, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Don Maitz, Janny Wurts. Special: Tim Powers, Edward Bryant. Grand Master: Dean Koontz.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 1997

| venue =

| location = Niagara Falls, New York

| guests = Writers: Ramsey Campbell, Poppy Z. Brite, Joe R. Lansdale. Artist: Rick Berry. Media: Gunnar Hansen. Editor: Darrell Schweitzer. MC: Edo van Belkom. Grand Master: Peter Straub.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 1998

| venue =

| location = Phoenix, Arizona

| guests = Writer: Brian Lumley. Artist: Bernie Wrightson. Media: Tom Savini. Publisher: Tom Doherty. MC: John Steakley. Grand Master: Brian Lumley.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 1999

| venue =

| location = Atlanta

| guests = Writers: Michael Bishop, John Shirley. Artist: Lisa Snellings. MC: Neil Gaiman. Grand Master: Ramsey Campbell.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2000

| venue =

| location = Denver

| guests = Writers: Peter Straub, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, J. Michael Straczynski, Graham Joyce. Artist: Rick Lieder. Editor: Ellen Datlow. MC: Dan Simmons. Grand Master: Harlan Ellison.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2001

| venue =

| location = Seattle

| guests = In conjunction with the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards Weekend.{{cite web |url=http://www.stokers2013.org/ |title=Home |website=stokers2013.org}}
Guest of Honor in Memoriam: Richard Laymon. Writers: Simon Clark, Michael Slade, Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Artist: Charles Vess. Publishers: Barbara Roden, Christopher Roden. Grand Master: Ray Bradbury.{{cite web |url=http://www.whc2001.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001204211400/http://www.whc2001.org/ |archive-date=2000-12-04 |title=World Horror Convention 2001}}

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2002

| venue =

| location = Chicago

| guests = Writers: Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman. Editor: Melissa Ann Singer. Artist: Randy Broecker. Poetry: Jo Fletcher. Photography: Beth Gwinn. Music: Liz Mandville Greeson. Comics and Young Adult: Jill Thompson. Media: Rich Koz, Patricia Tallman, Robert Z'Dar. Special: Karen E. Taylor, Yvonne Navarro, Brian A. Hopkins. Grand Master: Charles L. Grant.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2003

| venue =

| location = Kansas City, Missouri

| guests = Writer: Brian A. Hopkins. Publisher: Don D'Auria. Artist: Nick Smith. Special: Forrest J. Ackerman. MC: Laurell K. Hamilton. Grand Master: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2004

| venue =

| location = Phoenix, Arizona

| guests = Writer: Douglas Clegg. Artist: Jeremy Caniglia. Editor: Stephen Jones. Media: Dee Snider. Special: Adam Niswander. Grand Master: Jack Williamson.{{cite web |url=http://www.whc2004.org/ |title = 抜け毛はストレスでも多くなる – 薄毛と抜け毛の専門的な治療について}}

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2005

| venue =

| location = New York City

| guests = Writers: Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Tom Piccirilli, Jack Ketchum, Mort Castle, Amber Benson. Filmmaker: Mick Garris. Artist: Allen Koszowski. Editors: Tom, Elizabeth Monteleone. MCs: Stan Wiater, Linda Addison

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2006

| venue =

| location = San Francisco

| guests = Writers: Kim Newman, Koji Suzuki. Toastmaster: Peter Straub. Artist: Brom. Media: Bill Moseley. Editor: John Pelan.{{cite web |url=http://www.whc2006.org/ |title = Your blog dedicated to the news}}

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2007

| venue =

| location = Toronto

| guests = Writers: Michael Marshall Smith, Nancy Kilpatrick. Artist: John Picacio. Editors: Peter Crowther, Don Hutchison. Media: Peter Atkins.{{cite web |url=http://www.whc2007.org/ |title = 新潟県薬局①｜口コミ・評判・薬剤師求人｜【薬局求人の窓口】}}

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2008

| venue =

| location = Salt Lake City

| guests = Writer: Dennis Etchison. Artist: John Jude Palencar. Toastmaster: Simon Clark. Academic: Michael R. Collings. Special: Jeff Strand, Dave Dinsmore.{{cite web |url=http://www.whc2008.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902053816/http://www.whc2008.org/ |archive-date=2006-09-02 |title=World Horror Convention 2008 - Salt Lake City Utah}}

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2009

| venue =

| location = Winnipeg

| guests = Writers: Conrad Williams, Edo van Belkom, F. Paul Wilson, Joshua Gee. Artist: Tommy Castillo. Grand Master: Tanith Lee.[http://www.whc2009.org/ WHC 2009 Homepage]

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2010

| venue =

| location = Brighton

| guests = Writers: Tanith Lee, David Case. Editor: Hugh Lamb. Artists: Les Edwards, Dave Carson. Special: James Herbert. MC: Jo Fletcher. Media: Ingrid Pitt. WHS Lifetime Achievement Award: William F. Nolan, Basil Copper. Grand Master: James Herbert.[http://www.whc2010.org/ WHC 2010 Homepage]

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2011

| venue =

| location = Austin, Texas

| guests = Writers: Sarah Langan, Joe Hill. Media: Steve Niles. Editors: Brett Alexander Savory, Sandra Kasturi. Artist: Vincent Chong. Toastmaster: Joe R. Lansdale. Special: Brian Keene, Del Howison. Grand Master: Jack Ketchum.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2012

| venue =

| location = Salt Lake City

| guests = Writer: Sherrilyn Kenyon. Artist: Mike Mignola. Special: Rocky Wood. HWA guests of honor: Joe R. Lansdale, Karen Lansdale, Robert McCammon. Toastmistress: P. N. Elrod. HWA special guests: Dacre Stoker, Jeff Strand. Grand Master: T. E. D. Klein.[http://www.whc2012.org/ WHC 2012 Homepage]

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2013

| venue =

| location = New Orleans

| guests = In conjunction with the HWA Bram Stoker Awards Weekend.{{cite web |url=http://www.stokers2013.org/ |title=Home |website=stokers2013.org}} Writers: Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jonathan Maberry. Artist: Glenn Chadbourne. Editor: John Joseph Adams. Poet: Bruce Boston. Toastmaster: Jeff Strand.

}}

{{Convention list

| date = 2014

| venue =

| location = Portland, Oregon

| guests = Writers: Nancy Holder, Jack Ketchum, Norman Partridge. Artist: Gret Staples. Editor: Paula Guran. Grand Master: Brian Keene. HWA Lifetime Achievement Awards: Stephen Jones, R. L. Stine. Ghost of Honor: Edward Gorey. Special: Victoria Price, John Shirley. Toastmaster: Alan M. Clark.