With a theme exploring "The Diversity of Horror", WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 will take place over MARCH 29-APRIL 1 at the four-star Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre, located in the heart of TORONTO, CANADA.

GUESTS OF HONOUR MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH is the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the international best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy (under the byline "Michael Marshall"). His acclaimed short fiction has been collected in the International Horror Guild Award-winning MORE TOMORROW & OTHER STORIES. SPECIAL EDITOR GUEST OF HONOUR DON HUTCHISON's non-fiction study THE GREAT PULP HEROES was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, while his six-volume Aurora Award-winning series of the landmark NORTHERN FRIGHTS anthologies gained international recognition and acclaim for Canadian horror and its practitioners. In 1990 he received The Lamont Award "for outstanding effort in keeping alive the memory and spirit of the pulp magazine era".   NANCY KILPATRICK is best known for her "The Power of Blood" vampire series (comprising the novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, REBORN, BLOODLOVER and TRANSFORMATION). A winner of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for short fiction, she has also co-edited the horror anthology OUTSIDERS (with Nancy Holder) and compiled THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED. SPECIAL MEDIA GUEST OF HONOUR PETER ATKINS has scripted HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II, the first sequel to Clive Barker's ground-breaking horror film franchise, and he continued the exploits of Pinhead and his demonic Cenobites in HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH (1992) and HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE (1996). The following year he created his own franchise character when he wrote WISHMASTER. So far there have been three movie sequels based on his characters—and Atkins himself revisited the franchise in an unusual manner when he adapted the first movie into the stage musical THE DJINN (2001), complete with cockney Vaudevillians and Commedia dell'Arte clowns with electric guitars. ARTIST GUEST OF HONOUR JOHN PICACIO has created distinctive covers for works by Michael Marshall Smith, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Graham Joyce, Lucius Shepard, Charles De Lint, and many, many others. A winner of the International Horror Guild Award (Best Artist), the Chesley Award (Best Paperback Cover) and the World Fantasy Award (Best Artist), COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO is a new retrospective collection of his work. WHC 2007 GRAND MASTER WINNER JOE R. LANSDALE is the author of more than thirty novels in all genres, including crime, Western, horror and pulp adventure. The author of ACT OF LOVE, THE NIGHTRUNNERS, COLD IN JULY, THE BOTTOMS and THE DRIVE-IN series, he is also known for his seven novels about two unlikely friends, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who live in a town in East Texas and find themselves solving a variety of often violent or macabre mysteries. The series began with SAVAGE SEASON in 1990 and CAPTAINS OUTRAGEOUS (2001) is the most recent title in the on-going saga. Lansdale has also written scripts for comic books and animated television shows, and his novella BUBBA HO-TEP, about an aged Elvis Presley and black John F. Kennedy battling a soul-sucking mummy, was filmed by Don Coscarelli in 2002. His short story, "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted as the first episode of the first season of TV's MASTERS OF HORROR series. Advertisement Click on Image SPECIAL PUBLISHER GUEST OF HONOUR PETER CROWTHER is an award-winning author, respected anthology editor and prolific publisher. His short fiction has been collected in the British Fantasy Award-winning LONESOME ROADS and he co-wrote the novel ESCARDY GAP (with James Lovegrove). As the driving force behind PS Publishing, he has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Small Press for four consecutive years and the 2004 World Fantasy Award Special Award (Professional). SPECIAL HWA GUEST GAHAN WILSON is a previous winner of the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Best known for his macabre cartoons in PLAYBOY and THE NEW YORKER, his work has been collected in GAHAN WILSON'S GRAVESIDE MANNER, THE MAN IN THE CANNIBAL POT, I PAINT WHAT I SEE, IS NOTHING SACRED?, . . . AND THEN WE'LL GET HIM, THE WEIRD WORLD OF GAHAN WILSON, GAHAN WILSON'S CRACKED COSMOS, STILL WEIRD, EVEN WEIRDER, GAHAN WILSON'S GRAVEDIGGER'S PARTY, GAHAN WILSON'S MONSTER PARTY and THE BEST OF GAHAN WILSON. He has also written a number of short stories for magazines and anthologies, some of which were collected in THE CLEFT AND OTHER ODD TALES. Wilson has also published a number of children's books, written two unusual mystery novels (EDDY DECO'S LAST CAPER and EVERYBODY'S FAVOURITE DUCK), and edited the anthologies FIRST WORLD FANTASY AWARDS and GAHAN WILSON'S FAVORITE TALES OF HORROR. MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES SÈPHERA GIRÓN is the author of such novels as HOUSE OF PAIN, THE BIRDS AND THE BEES, BORROWED FLESH and MISTRESS OF THE DARK. A qualified tarot card reader, her book HOUSE MAGIC: THE GOOD WITCH'S GUIDE TO BRINGING GRACE TO YOUR SPACE was published in 2001 under the author's tarot name, "Ariana". Among those authors, editors and publishers also scheduled to attend are GARY BRAUNBECK, RAMSEY CAMPBELL, MORT CASTLE, ELLEN DATLOW, SCOTT EDELMAN, LES EDWARDS, STEVEN ERIKSON, GEMMA FILES, TINA JENS, STEPHEN JONES, BRIAN KEENE, ALLEN KOSZOWSKI, MICHAEL LAIMO, ROBERTA LANNES, TIM LEBBON, BRIAN LUMLEY, L.H. MAYNARD & M.P.N. SIMS, PAUL MILLER, DAVID MORRELL, MARK MORRIS, YVONNE NAVARRO, SARAH PINBOROUGH, TONY RICHARDS, ROBERT J. SAWYER and F. PAUL WILSON, amongst many others. Clicking on the logo at the top of any page will automatically return you to this page.