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Twilight Fans to Converge in Florida This December
Florida SuperCon presents The Fantasy Twi-Life Tour featuring the stars of Twilight in Fort Lauderdale this December 4 through 6 at The Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel. The Fantasy Twi-Life Tour is a Twilight themed celebrity convention tour that will travel across the U.S. in through next year. Each stop on the Fantasy Twi-Life Tour […]
Haunters: Mark Your Calendars for April
If you are an enthusiast of all things creepy, scary and horrific, then you should mark your calendars for the National Halloween, Horror and Haunted House Convention to take place April 29 through May 2, 2010 in Valley Forge, Pa. Currently, the event is seeking people to come and be vendors, to wear their character […]
3D Haunt in North Georgia
Every Friday and Saturday night this month you can experience the world’s only outdoor 3-D haunt at The Forest of Fear at Voodoo Bayou in Flintstone, Ga. The Voodoo Bayou is a haunt complex located on Blowing Springs Farm in North Georgia and features the Forest of Fear experience, Ghost Ride (a nighttime hayride with […]
Madera County Haunts
Madera County in general and Yosemite National Park were an integral part of my childhood. I learned how to tie my shoes at the park, as well as ride a bike. My family used to spend every summer at Yosemite National Park … so when I received press release from Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau, I […]
Delaware Valley Haunt Celebrates 20 Years of Scary Good Fun
In 1990, Haunted Hayrides of Delaware Valley, Inc. took the Delaware Valley area by storm as the area’s first large production, regionally marketed, outdoor, Halloween Season event. “To get started,” said founder, Tom Yaegel, “we actually purchased a franchise license from Haunted Hayrides, Inc. in Syracuse, New York. We made a land use arrangement with […]
Oldest Meeting Club for Speculative Fiction Celebrates 75 Years of Fandom
Would you believe that on October 27, 1934, a small group of fans of the emerging new genre of science fiction. The club, called the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS), has been the “breeding ground” for some now very well-known SF authors, such as Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, David Gerrold, Ray Harryhausen, […]
Coming Up these Weekends
There are so many things going on, I just can’t do them all justice. So, I thought I’d clean up my email box and give you the basics in this round up post. Genre Happenings for the Oct. 24-25 Weekend Sci-Fi-London: Oktoberfest 2009 Oct. 23 and 24 Because one science fiction festival every spring just […]
SF Literary Con Features Movie Cast
Say What? Yeah, I know that almost sounds like a sacrilegious act — inviting movie stars to a literary convention — but I promise there is at least a tenuous reason for MileHiCon, the largest Science-Fiction Literary Convention in the Rocky Mountain Region, to do such a thing. As it turns out, once upon a […]