World Horror Convention 2007 is delighted to announce that it has added Canada's "Queen of Vampire Fiction", NANCY KILPATRICK,
to its growing Guest of Honour list.
Best known for her generational "The Power of Blood" series (comprising the novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT,
REBORN, BLOODLOVER and TRANSFORMATION), vampires form a large part of her repertoire but they are by no means
all she writes about, as her recent novels JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and JASON X: TO THE THIRD POWER ably illustrate.
A winner of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for short fiction, she has also recently co-edited the horror anthology OUTSIDERS (with
Nancy Holder) and compiled THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED for St. Martin's Press.
As "Amarantha Knight" she has written a number of explicit novels in THE DARKER PASSIONS series, re-imagining the
classics of horror fiction with an erotic twist.
Nancy Kilpatrick joins the previously-announced Guests of Honour: British writer MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple
award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN
trilogy, and Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator JOHN PICACIO.
For the first time in its seventeen-year history, The World Horror Convention is being held outside the United States. With
a theme exploring "The Diversity of Horror", World Horror Convention 2007 will take place over March 29-April 1 in the heart
of downtown Toronto, Canada.
More guests from both sides of the Atlantic will be revealed in the coming weeks, when advertising and membership rates will
also be announced.
