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THE HOTEL main lobby, and an attached night-club, Bar Rogue, will be used as both a convention suite and as a venue for sponsored parties. SITUATED NEAR THE MARINA on Old For those who want more luxurious accom- Steine Road, the Royal Albion Hotel stands modation or are attending on a limited budget, directly opposite Brighton’s iconic Palace Pier there are plenty of alternatives in the immediate with its bright arcades, funfair and ghost train, surrounding. and overlooking the English Channel. offers These range from luxury boutique hotels like economical accommodation in architectural The Grand, The Metropole and the Hotel du surroundings that are redolent of the Regency Vin, to simple Bed & Breakfast services. The and Edwardian eras. Thistle, Holiday Inn and the Radisson Blu GUESTS OF HONOUR The has put a Hotel hotels are only a few minutes’ walk away. block on most of the 185 rooms in this historic and ideally-situated hotel. The £79 per night , DAVID CASE room rate per night includes a buffet breakfast BRIGHTON and all taxes. Author Guests of Honour There is an on-site dining room, Jenny’s BRIGHTON IS FILLED with restaurants, wine Restaurant, which serves traditional English bars and pubs catering for every taste and budg- , DAVE CARSON dishes, while the modern Pavilion Bar features et, so there is no problem eating out every night: views of Brighton’s Victorian Promenade and a selection of a few great restaurants is available Artist Guests of Honour offers light snacks and a wide selection of drinks on the convention website. Theatres, cinemas, at very reasonable prices. The Lanes shopping district and the Sea Life Elevator, Internet access, currency exchange, Centre are also all within easy walking distance. HUGH LAMB room service and a 24-hour front desk are all A few minutes from the hotel is The Royal available. All major credit cards are accepted. Pavilion, the spectacular Indo-Saracenic styled Editor Guest of Honour seaside home of the extravagant Prince Regent, George IV (1762-1830), where he entertained JO FLETCHER the rich and the powerful on an opulent and lavish scale. Originally constructed in 1787, the Mistress of Ceremonies present Indian structure was redesigned by John Nash and rebuilt between 1815-22. In the grounds of the Royal Pavilion is The JAMES HERBERT Brighton Museum. It houses an eclectic mix of items, from Art Deco pottery and furniture to Special Guest of Honour Brighton fashions from the past century, and is free to enter. With direct train links to Gatwick The World Horror Convention will use all International Airport (16 minutes) and London of the hotel’s seven meeting rooms and will have (1 hour), Brighton is the ideal location to hold its own private bar area situated at the hub of a British World Horror Convention. the downstairs conference room layout. Coaches from London (with fares often The Lounge, with its panoramic window starting around £1.00 [$1.50] for a single jour- views of the seafront and the illuminated Palace ney) arrive immediately outside the back of the Pier will be the location of a candelabra-lit Royal Albion Hotel. Banquet on the Saturday night. The There are also a number of secure off-street Registration Desks will be situated in the hotel’s car parks in the vicinity of the hotel. TANITH LEE 1976), she quit her day job to become a full-time DAVID CASE JAMES HERBERT freelance writer. Since then her work has Author Guest of Honour appeared all over the world in numerous edi- Author Guest of Honour Special Guest of Honour tions and translations. Tanith Lee has written around ninety books TANITH LEE was born in North London in and approaching 300 short stories. Some of her DAVID CASE was JAMES HERBERT created the modern mass- 1947. Because her parents were professional best-known titles include Drinking Sapphire born in upstate New market horror genre with the publication of his dancers (ballroom, Latin American) and had to Wine, Night’s Master, Death’s Master, The Silver York in 1937. first ground-breaking novel, The Rats, in 1974 live where the work was, she attended a number Metal Lover, Red as Blood or Tales from the Sisters Since the early (for the record, ’s Carrie was pub- of truly terrible schools, and didn’t learn to Grimmer, The Gorgon & Other Beastly Tales, The 1960s he has lived in lished a few months later). Since then he has read—she is also dyslectic—until she was almost Dragon Hoard, Dark Dance, Faces Under Water, London, as well as reigned as Britain’s undisputed #1 author of eight-years-old. She finally mastered her reading White as Snow, Metallic Love and the substantial spending time in chiller fiction, with more than 20 novels to his only because her father taught her. This opened House collection Dreams of Dark and Greece and Spain. credit—which have sold more than fifty million the world of books to her, and by the age of nine Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee. His acclaimed col- copies world-wide. she was writing. She writes in many styles and across numer- lection The : Three Jim was born on April 8, 1943, in the East After much better education at a ous genres, including horror, sci- Tales of Horror first End of London, the son of street traders. His grammar school, Tanith went on to ence fiction, , historical, appeared in 1969, family lived at the back of Petticoat Lane in work in a library. This was followed detective, contemporary-psychologi- and included the clas- Whitechapel—once the stalking ground of Jack by various other jobs—shop assis- cal, children’s and young adult. Her sic werewolf novella the Ripper. Age ten, he passed the 11+ exam tant, waitress, clerk—plus a year at preoccupation, though, is always of the title. It was followed by the books and won a scholarship to St. Aloysius Grammar art college when she was in her mid- people. Fengriffen: A Chilling Tale, Wolf Tracks and The School in Highgate. At sixteen he went to the twenties. Her first professional sale Four of her radio plays have Third Grave, the latter appearing from Arkham famous Hornsey College of Art, where he stud- was "Eustace", a ninety-word been broadcast by the BBC, and her House in 1981. ied graphic design. This led to him joining a vignette that appeared in The Ninth stories are regularly read on Radio More recently, a collection entitled Brotherly leading London advertising agency, where he Pan Book of Horror Stories (1968), 7. She also scripted two episodes Love and Other Tales of Faith and Knowledge was worked his way up to the position of Group edited by Herbert van Thal. (“Sarcophagus” and “Sand”) of the published by Pumpkin Books with dust-jacket Head/Associate Director. In 1971, Macmillan published cult 1980s BBC-TV series Blakes 7, artwork by Les Edwards, and a new collection is Feeling there was The Dragon Hoard, a children’s and her story “” was currently forthcoming from PS Publishing. more he could do, at novel, followed by the picture book adapted for the cable TV anthology A regular contributor to the legendary Pan the age of 28 he start- Animal Castle and Princess Hynchatti & Some series The Hunger in 1999, directed by Russell Book of Horror Stories during the 1970s and early ed secretly writing a Other Surprises, a short story collection (both Mulcahy. ’80s, his powerful novella “Pelican Cay” novel. Ten months 1972). A and Guardian Children’s in Dark Terrors 5 was nominated for a World later he had complet- After receiving numerous rejections from Fiction Award nominee, Tanith has won the Fantasy Award in 2001. ed The Rats—inspired British publishers for her adult fantasy novel ’s Award, Outside the horror genre, Case has written by his childhood The Birthgrave, she wrote a letter of inquiry to two World Fantasy Awards, and two Spanish more than three hundred books under at least upbringing and de- DAW Books, the American publishing firm Gilgames Awards. She has been a Guest of seventeen , ranging from porn to picting a London founded by legendary fan and Honour at a number of conventions, including Westerns. overrun by mon- editor Donald A. Wollheim. Boskone XVIII in Boston in 1981, and the 1984 His first Western, Plumb Drillin’, was original- strous, flesh-eating DAW published The Birthgrave in 1975, in Ottawa. ly set to be a movie starring the late Steve rats of unknown ori- beginning a relationship that lasted fourteen In 1992 Tanith married the writer-artist-pho- McQueen. gin. He submitted the years and saw the publication of nearly thirty tographer John Kaiine, her companion since Two of his horror stories, “Fengriffen” and manuscript to six publishers on the same day. novels and collections. Following the publica- 1987. They live on the Sussex Weald, near the the werewolf “The Hunter”, were filmed Within three weeks he had received three tion of her second and third books from DAW, sea, in a house full of books and plants, with as —And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) and replies. Two publishers turned the novel down, Don’t Bite The Sun and The Storm Lord (both two black-and-white overlords called cats. Scream of the Wolf (1974), respectively. while the other enthusiastically accepted it. New English Library published The Rats in and Haunted have all been made into movies, GRAND MASTER 1974 with a first printing of 100,000 paperback the latter starring Aidan Quinn, Kate copies. Within weeks that first printing was Beckinsale and Sir John Gielgud. completely sold out. The book has never been One of the world’s most popular novelists, AWARD out of print since, and Jim has steadily built up with books translated into more than thirty-five a list of best-selling titles that includes The Fog, languages, including Russian and Chinese, EACH YEAR, the registered members of the The Survivor, Fluke, The Spear, Lair, The Dark, The James Herbert’s work remains widely imitated current World Horror Convention get to vote Jonah, , Domain, , The Magic Cottage, and hugely influential. on the Grand Master Award, to be presented to Sepulchre, Creed, Portent, ’48, Others, Once, In his 1992 Introduction to the bio-bibliog- an individual who has made a significant contri- Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall raphy James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, Stephen bution to the horror genre. (which has recently been optioned by the BBC). King wondered “with real excitement” what The recipient must be living at the time of Illustrated by Ian Miller, The City is a graph- James Herbert might be up to in the year 2010. voting and have had a career in horror—either in ic novel in The Rats sequence set a post-holo- Well, now we know—he’ll be at World Horror literature, art, film, theatre, or any mix of these. caust future, while James Herbert’s Dark Places: Convention in Brighton! Only one person can receive the Grand Locations and Legends is a collaboration with Master Award each year and each individual can photographer Paul Barkshire. Please note that James Herbert’s participation at the win only once. The winner of the 2010 award His next novel is Ash, the third in the trilogy convention will be limited due to other commitments. will be invited to attend the convention. featuring psychic investigator David Ash, which However, he will appear on programming and will PAST GRAND MASTER AWARD RECIPIENTS: began with Haunted and The Ghosts of Sleath. have his own, exclusive, signing session on the The Rats (aka Deadly Eyes), The Survivor, Fluke Saturday. (1991) Stephen King (1992) (1993) (1994) (1995) Dean R. Koontz (1996) (1997) (1998) (1999) (2000) (2001) Charles L. Grant (2002) (2003) (2004) F. Paul Wilson (2005) Ray Garton (2006) Joe R. Lansdale (2007) Robert McCammon (2008) Tanith Lee (2009)

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