The World Horror Convention

March 2 - 5, 1995 -- Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Hotel Information

The Sheraton Colony Square Hotel

The Sheraton Colony Square Hotel features over 460 spacious guest rooms and 34 distinctively styled standard and deluxe suites. Attached to the hotel is the Colony Square Mall, with 28 retail merchants including an American Express Travel Office, U.S. Post Office, Trust Company Bacnk, and eight different restaurants and bars.

In addition to the Mall, the Colony Square Hotel is within two blocks walking distance of the High Museum of Art, The Atlnat Symphony, the Atlanta Ballet, the 14th Street Playhouse, Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Piedmont Park, the Goethe Institute, and the Dorothy Fuqua Conservatory.

Room Rates

To make your reservation, call 1-800-422-7895 and be sure to specify the convention to receive your room rate discount.

All rooms must be reserved by February 10, 1995 to guarantee convention room rates.

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WHC 1995 Guests of Honor

Author Guests of Honor

Artist Guest of Honor

Special Guest of Honor

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Neil Gaiman

Neil was born November 10, 1960. He worked as a journalist (but not a very good one) for a number of UK periodicals and newspapers, during which time he wrote Ghastly Beyond Belief with Kim Newman -- a book about the worst and most interesting bits of SF, fantasy, and horror books and movies, and Don't Panic, a study of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy phenomenon. In 1987, his first graphic novel, Violent Cases (illustrated by Dave McKean) was published, a meditation on memory, evil, and kids' birthday parties, which won several awards.

In 1988 he gave up journalism and wrote the three-part Black Orchid for DC Comics with art by Dave McKean, and began Sandman, a monthly dark fantasy series from DC, with various artists. Sandman has won many awards including Harveys, Eisners, and Eagles (and Sandman 19, drawn by Charles Vess, won the World Fantasy Award - Best Short Story in 1991). He wrote Signal to Noise (illustrated by Dave McKean), a graphic novella about a dying film director. With Terry Pratchett, Neil co-authored Good Omens, a funny novel about the end of the world and how we're all going to die.

His latest project, Mr. Punch (illustrated by Dave McKean) reveals a narrator's disturbing memories of a childhood haunted by nightmarish puppet shows and violent family secrets. Neil is currently working on a fantasy TV series for the BBC, a really scary little children's book called Coraline, and a Sandman short story collection.

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R.L. Stine

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Robert Lawrence Stine started writing short stories, joke books and little comic books when he was nine. He has been writing ever since. In high school, Bob was a school newspaper features editor, and went on to edit Ohio State University's humor magazine, The Sundial, for three years.

Following a one-year stint as a junior high school teacher, Bob moved to New York City and became editor of Junior Scholastic Magazine, then Scholastic Search. For ten years, he was editor and chief writer of Bananas, a humor magazine for young people. During this time, he also wrote over a dozen funny children's books.

An avid fan of horror comics and scary monster movies, Bob's first young adult horror novel, Blind Date, was published by Scholastic in 1986. He is the author of the best-selling Fear Street and Goosebumps series, writing at the rate of two new novels a month. Although his readers are almost exclusively eight to thirteen-year-olds, Bob's books outsell Stephen King's at the rate of nearly two to one. He has written over 150 books to date, but has yet to write a single word for adults.

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John Farris

John Farris grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from Memphis Central High School, which some say was the basis for his first national bestseller, Harrison High. He went to college in his home state, worked on various newspapers and, yes, got to know Elvis. After the publication of Harrison High, Mr. Farris moved to New York City where he wrote such acclaimed best-selling novels as When Michael Calls and The Captors.

After When Michael Calls was made into the number one TV movie of its time, John became active in the film industry. He wrote, produced, and directed the cult horror classic, Dear Dead Delilah, and wrote both novel and screenplay for The Fury. He has subsequently sold many screenplays and optioned many books. His most recent novel is the New York Times best-selling Sacrifice.

Some of his additional novels include: All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, The Axman Cometh, Catacombs, King Windom, Minotaur, Nightfall, Scare Tactics, Sharp Practice, Shatter, Son of the Endless Night, Wildwood, and Fiends. John has received great critical acclaim over the years and is much admired by other writers and critics. Stephen King has said of his work, "Nobody does it better".

A resident of Atlanta, John was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Fantasy Convention, and we are honored to have him reprise his role at the 1995 World Horror Convention.

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Alan M. Clark

As a teenager, Alan left his birthplace of Nashville, Tennessee to pursue his studies at the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute, where he graduated in 1979. He returned home shortly after that and set up a studio in Nashville, where he met and married his lovely wife Melody.

Alan has become a favorite illustrator for Asimov's, Analog, Cemetery Dance and Roadkill Press. He has been recently featured in The Scream Factory (#14), where a dazzling cross-section of his work is featured along with a riveting interview by Stanley Wiater. His original work presently appears on over 25 book covers, most notably the soon-to-be-released 35th anniversary edition of Robert Bloch's Psycho. Alan's first profession sale as a writer, a short story entitled "Ready or Not," appears in Phobias II forthcoming from Pocket Books. The Pain Doctors, based on a novella by Nashville's Bovine Smoke Society features twelve new illustrations by Alan, and will debut at the 1995 World Horror Convention.

Alan received ASFA's Chesley Award for Best Black and White Interior in 1993. He earned awards at the World Fantasy Convention for Best Horror / Dark Fantasy in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994. In 1994, he also received Best of Show at the World Horror Convention and the World Fantasy Convention award for Best Artist.

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Alice Cooper

Once upon a time there was a young man from Detroit named Vincent Furnier who discovered, via a Ouija board reading (or so one story goes) that his real name was Alice Cooper, and a shock rock legend was born. When the Alice Cooper Band took the stage, rock history was rewritten -- inspired music performed in an orgy of blood, boa constrictors, butchered Barbie dolls, polymorphous-perverse sexuality, and decapitation.

The Cooper creed was to take rock performance to new highs and lows incorporating the shock theatrics of Le Grand Guignol. The moment the late Frank Zappa's Straight Records released the debut album Pretties For You (1969), the face of popular music was forever scarred.

Criss-crossing the country on an endless tour, audiences couldn't resist the freak show featuring its talented lyricist, composer, vocalist, and host. In 1972, the ageless teenage rock-anthem "School's Out" blistered off the album of the same name; 1973's
Billion Dollar Babies spawned the hits "I'm Eighteen," "Under My Wheels," "Elected," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy," to mention only a few. A highlight of his theatrical genius, Alice delivered the horror concept-album Welcome To My Nightmare in 1975, featuring Vincent Price as a special guest.

The Last Temptation, released this summer, marks Alice's silver anniversary in rock. The CD and tape were specially packaged to include the Marvel Music comic of the same name, based on a story concept by Neil Gaiman and Alice Cooper. Master of the macabre, self-confessed horror fan, and a rock legend, the 1994 World Horror Convention is proud to have Alice Cooper as a Guest of Honor.

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Registration Information

As is required by World Horror Convention administration, the convention is limited to 1,000 Attending members. Advance Attending Memberships are $75 to February 28, 1995. At-the-door memberships will be $100.

Supporting Memberships are $25, which entitles you to all convention publications and the right to vote for the Grand Master Awards. Supporting memberships may be converted to Attending memberships (even at-the-door) with an additional payment of $50.00, provided Attending memberships are still available.

We will allow the transfer of Attending memberships if the following conditions are met. First, we must have a signed letter from the current member making this request. Second, the letter must contain the name and address of the person to whom the transfer is being made. Memberships are not refundable.

Simply mail us a copy of this form, or a reasonable facsimile, to the address listed below. (All prices in US dollars; overseas members please send International Postal Money Orders or US-dollar travellers cheques.)

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_____ 4-day Advance Memberships @ $75 till 2/28/95

_____ Supporting Memberships @ $25 (may be converted to Attending Membership for $50 -- even at-the-door)

At-the-door Memberships will be $100

_____ I would like to participate on programming (please include a short bio).

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please use one form per attendee

Mail to: WHC '95, PO Box 148, Clarkston, Georgia 30021-0148

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