World Horror Convention 2007 is extremely proud and honoured to announce PETER CROWTHER as Special
Publisher Guest of Honour and DON HUTCHISON as Special Editor Guest of Honour.
As an award-winning author, respected anthology editor and prolific publisher, Peter Crowther is one of
Britain's hardest-working genre experts. The author of more than 100 published stories and novellas, his
work has been collected in such volumes as THE LONGEST SINGLE NOTE (AND OTHER STRANGE COMPOSITIONS),
the British Fantasy Award-winning LONESOME ROADS, SONGS OF LEAVING and the forthcoming
DARK TIMES. He co-wrote the big dark fantasy novel ESCARDY GAP with James Lovegrove, and
DARKNESS, DARKNESS was the first book in the "Forever Twilight" series of short science fiction/horror novels.
His many anthologies include NARROW HOUSES, TOUCH WOOD, BLUE MOON, TOMBS and
DANTE'S DISCIPLES (both with Edward E. Kramer), TALES IN TIME, TALES IN SPACE, MOON SHOTS,
TAPS AND SIGHS, MARS PROBES, CONSTELLATIONS and
FORBIDDEN PANETS, amongst other titles.
As the tireless driving force behind PS Publishing, he has produced beautiful volumes by such luminaries as
Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Lucius Shepard, Michael Moorcock, Stephen Gallagher, Elizabeth Hand, Steve Erikson,
Tim Lebbon, Paul McAuley, Lisa Tuttle, Mark Morris, Michael Swanwick and many others, along with
the quarterly POSTSCRIPTS magazine.
Since its inception in 1999, PS Publishing has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Small Press for four
consecutive years, along with the 2004 World Fantasy Award Special Award (Professional). PS titles have also
received more than twenty other awards, including the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild
Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the Theodore Sturgeon Award.
Toronto native DON HUTCHISON is recognised one of the leading authorities on pulp fiction and a respected
editor of dark fantasy. His non-fiction study THE GREAT PULP HEROES was nominated for the Bram Stoker
Award and is justly considered a definitive volume on the subject, while his six-volume Aurora Award-winning and
World Fantasy Award-nominated series of the landmark NORTHERN FRIGHTS anthologies gained international
recognition and acclaim for Canadian horror and its practitioners.
A successful and award-winning film-maker for forty years, Don Hutchison has also edited the pulp fiction
anthologies THE SUPER FEDS, IT'S RAINING CORPSES IN CHINATOWN, SCARLET RIDERS: PULP
FICTION TALES OF THE MOUNTIES and IT'S RAINING MORE CORPSES IN CHINATOWN, and he is
currently editing a new anthology of Canadian speculative fiction.
He has also published numerous magazine articles and book reviews relating to popular fiction in all its
forms and, in the mid-1980s, he was the Associate Editor of BORDERLAND, Canada's first professional
magazine of horror. In 1990 he received The Lamont Award "for outstanding effort in keeping alive the
memory and spirit of the pulp magazine era".
PETER CROWTHER and DON HUTCHISON join 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; Montreal-based author NANCY KILPATRICK, whose books include novels NEAR DEATH,
CHILD OF THE NIGHT, JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR
THE DARKLY INCLINED, and Chesley Award and World Fantasy Award-winning American 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 at the TORONTO MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE, located in the heart of Toronto, Canada.
