DON HUTCHISON is widely acknowledged as a leading authority on the history of the pulp fiction era and
has published over one hundred articles and five books on the subject, including his Bram Stoker
Award-nominated non-fiction study THE GREAT PULP HEROES. World Horror Convention 2007 is
very proud to have him as its Special Editor Guest of Honour.
Canadian by birth, he is a graduate of The New York Institute of Photography and Brooks Institute of
Photography, Santa Barbara, California, where he majored in motion picture production. In a career
spanning forty years, he has worked as cinematographer, editor and director on hundreds of films.
In 1983 he was honoured as a guest director at the Toronto International Film Festival. His films have
garnered several Ohio State Awards, two Canadian "Genie" awards and international awards from such
organisations as the Chicago International Film Festival, the International Film and Television
Festival of New York, and The Association for Media and Technology in Education for Canada.
In addition to a successful film career, his not-so-secret passion has been his life-long affair with
imaginative literature and other entertainments of the dark and fantastic. Over the years, he has
published numerous magazine articles and book reviews relating to popular fiction in all its
forms. In the mid-1980s he served as associate editor for BORDERLAND, Canada's first
semi-professional magazine of horror. A well-known film buff, he contributed a series of articles on
classic fright movies for the magazine. In 1996, he and Peter Halasz researched and
wrote 'Blood on the Snow', a definitive history of Canadian horror fiction
published in THE SCREAM FACTORY #18.
He has served as a judge for The Sunburst Award, The World Fantasy Award, and The Crime Writers
of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award. Don Hutchison lives in his native Toronto with his wife, Jean. He is
currently editing a new anthology of Canadian speculative fiction.
Sèphera Girón and Don Hutchison at the Festival of Fear, September 2006
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PUBLISHED WORKS
Don Hutchison is creator and editor of landmark NORTHERN FRIGHTS anthologies—a sequence of
five volumes and the "Best of" compilation WILD THINGS LIVE HERE, that have won international
recognition and acclaim for Canadian horror and its practitioners. It was a series that RUE MORGUE
magazine described as "a national treasure" and LOCUS called "one of the most distinguished original anthologies around."
A number of the stories formed a NORTHERN FRIGHTS audio book, while still others have been
optioned, adapted and filmed for television and the movies.
He has also edited a number of acclaimed anthologies reprinting classic tales from the pulp magazines. These
have included such titles as THE SUPER FEDS, IT'S RAINING CORPSES IN CHINATOWN,
SCARLET RIDERS and IT'S RAINING MORE CORPSES IN CHINATOWN.
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Mosaic
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Adventure House
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Mosaic
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In 2007, New York's Cardoza Publishing Company will be publishing a new, revised edition
of Don Hutchison's THE GREAT PULP HEROES under the Book Republic Press imprint. The
author has corrected the original text, added a new chapter, and included some of the more
marginal characters that were not mentioned in the earlier volume.
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Cardoza
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AWARDS
Don Hutchison has been a Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award finalist, has
been nominated three times for the World Fantasy Award, and is twice winner of Canada's Aurora
Award. In 1990 he received The Lamont Award "for outstanding effort in keeping alive the memory
and spirit of the pulp magazine era."
