That is why May is when the National Halloween Convention is held. Halloween in all its varied forms and sub genre’s is second only to Christmas in the American imagination, and pocketbook. The convention brings together professional haunters, Amateur home haunters, Halloween decorators, antique collectors, Horror film fans, and history buffs all under the one […]
The World Horror Convention, first instituted in 1991, is finally leaving North America and being held across the pond. This year’s convention will be held March 25-28 at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, Sussex. Horror has often been a reflection of the challenges being faced by authors and society. In fact, Mary Shelley herself […]
Last night I finished watching a movie I Tivo’d from SyFy starring Bruce Campbell … that campy, B-movie star of such hits as Evil Dead and Evil Dead II. Directed by Bruce and featuring Bruce as himself, My Name Is Bruce tells of the plight of a small Oregon town, Gold Lick, that is being […]
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I just found this short post and image gallery of what was planned for the Marvel Comics based theme park in Dubai. As the post states, the park may never come to be … but the concept art is pretty darn cool. Check Out Concept Art From Marvel’s Futuristic Theme Park Then again, maybe it […]
A new science fiction and fantasy literary convention will debut in downtown Toronto Nov. 19-21, 2010, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel. Called SFContario, it already has some spiffy confirmed guests of honour: Michael Swanwick, 1991 Nebula Award winner for best novel: Stations of the Tide Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Editors for Tor Books For […]
GateWorld has reported that Gatecon 2010 will be fan-run convention’s last. “Gatecon has had an incredible run, and the fans, actors, and studios have been amazingly supportive of us,” Richard Pasco, one of Gatecon’s owners, said in a press release, “but we have decided to go out on a high note after our tenth convention,†[…]