World Horror Convention 2010 is pleased to announce that our first Artist Guest of Honour is acclaimed book and magazine illustrator LES EDWARDS (aka "Edward Miller").
For more than thirty-five years, Les has produced the covers for countless books in all genres on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. 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 (including Clive Barker's NIGHTBREED, Stephen King's GRAVEYARD SHIFT and John Carpenter's THE THING).
With early work including book covers for CHRISTOPHER LEE'S CHAMBER OF HORRORS; R. Chetwynd-Hayes' THE FONTANA BOOK OF GREAT GHOST STORIES; Mary Danby's THE FONTANA BOOK OF GREAT HORROR STORIES; Michel Parry's REIGN OF TERROR and MAYFLOWER BOOK OF BLACK MAGIC STORIES series; Peter Haining's WEIRD TALES; Hugh Lamb's THE STAR BOOK OF HORROR; August Derleth's WHEN EVIL WAKES; Carl Jabobi's REVELATIONS IN BLACK; Guy N. Smith's ENTOMBED, THE FIEND and MANIA; Graham Masterton's THE DEVIL'S OF D-DAY and DJINN; John Burke's THE DEVIL'S FOOTSTEPS; Stephen King's THE DEAD ZONE; Mark Ronson's GHOUL and Robert Black's film tie-in LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF, along with many others, Les has gone on to become a stalwart of the UK illustration scene, acknowledged for both his versatility and his professionalism.
More recently, he has illustrated two graphic novels based on stories by Clive Barker, SON OF CELLULOID and RAWHEAD REX; been the regular cover artist for Karl Edward Wagner's THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES and Stephen Jones' THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR, and his black and white work has graced the best-selling Gollancz editions of THE COMPLETE CHRONICLES OF CONAN by Robert E. Howard and NECRONOMICON by H.P. Lovecraft, with another bumper Howard volume, CONAN'S BRETHREN, due later this year.
In 1995 Les was Artist Guest of Honour at the World Science Fiction Convention. He has been voted Best Artist by the British Fantasy Society on seven occasions, and has been nominated in that category every year since 1994. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist five times (his alter-ego, Edward Miller, won the award in 2008). He has also been nominated for five Chesley Awards.
For more information about LES EDWARDS, who joins Author Guests of Honour TANITH LEE and DAVID CASE as part of our exciting line-up of Guests of Honour, please go to the convention website.
Other writers, artists, editors and publishers already registered as attending World Horror Convention 2010 include: Pat Cadigan, Ramsey Campbell, Centipede Press (USA), Peter Crowther, Ellen Datlow, Christopher Fowler, Garry Fry, Simon R. Green, John Jarrold, Jemma Press (Greece), Stephen Jones, Allen Koszowski, Tim Lebbon, Brian Lumley, L.H. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims, Gary McMahon, Farah Mendlesohn, Mortbury Press (UK), Mark Morris, Lisa Morton, Yvonne Navarro, NewCon Press (UK), Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, Weston Ochse, OXY Publishing (Greece), Sarah Pinborough, David Pirie, John L. Probert, PS Publishing (UK), Tony Richards, David A. Riley, Screaming Dreams (UK), Robert Shearman, Michael Marshall Smith, Snowbooks (UK), Alexandra Sokoloff, Tartarus Press (UK), Telos Publishing (UK), Lisa Tuttle, Stephen Volk, Conrad Williams, and F. Paul Wilson, amongst many others.
Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, The World Horror Convention will be held over March 25-28, 2010, in the historic Regency seaside city of Brighton, on the picturesque south coast of England. This is the first time that the event will have been held off the North American continent.
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The theme is "Brighton Shock!—A Celebration of the European Horror Tradition from Victorian Times to the Present Day", and the convention will host numerous panels, talks, presentations, readings, workshops and displays devoted to horror, macabre, mystery and thriller fiction and art in all its varied and fearsome forms.
The venue will be the historic Royal Albion Hotel, which dates back more than 180 years and stands directly opposite Brighton's iconic Palace Pier and a stone's throw from the beach. There are plenty of alternative hotels and Bed & Breakfasts in the immediate surroundings, catering for all budgets, and Brighton is filled with restaurants, wine bars and clubs.
Antiquarian shopping precinct The Lanes, the Sea Life Centre and the
world-famous Royal Pavilion are also within easy walking distance.
Brighton has direct transport links from Gatwick International Airport and the centre of London, and is easily accessible for overseas visitors, especially those from mainland Europe. And if you want to extend your stay, then Britain's annual National Science Fiction Convention, Odyssey 2010, is being organised near to Heathrow airport the following weekend. Come for World Horror and stay for Eastercon!
The World Horror Convention's prestigious Grand Master Award will also be presented at a sit-down Banquet during the weekend. Past recipients have included Stephen King, Dean R. Koontz, Anne Rice, Ray Bradbury, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Brian Lumley and Ramsey Campbell.
All information about the convention, hotel and location is available on our website www.whc2010.org,
including an easy to use PayPal Registration Form (which will automatically convert your payment at the current exchange
rate). Or you can print off the form and send it with a cheque (sterling
only) to: World Horror Convention, PO Box 64317, London NW6 9LL, England.
With numerous writers, artists, editors, publishers and booksellers expected to attend from all
over the world, this is the one event that the dedicated horror fan, professional, collector
or dealer cannot afford to miss!
Wish you were here? . . . Well, now you can be.
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION.
MARCH 25-28, 2010.
BRIGHTON, ENGLAND.
www.whc2010.org
(13 March 2009)