World Horror Conference 2010<\/p>\n
I’ve just about recovered from this marvelous event, held in the UK for the first time in Brighton where the chips are normally good and there is a pier.<\/p>\n
My adventures were mainly concerned with two publications<\/p>\n
John Mains (ed.) \u2013 Back From The Dead: The Legacy Of The Pan Book Of Horror Stories (Noose & Gibbet, March 2010)
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\nLes Edwards
\nShaub Hutson \u2013 Foreword
\nDavid A. Sutton \u2013 The Influence Of The Pans
\nChristopher Fowler \u2013 Locked
\nTony Richards \u2013 Mr. Smythe
\nJohn Burke \u2013 Acute Rehab
\nBasil Copper \u2013 Camera Obscura
\nDavid A. Riley \u2013 The True Spirit
\nJack Wainer \u2013 Angel
\nMyc Harrison \u2013 A Good Offence
\nRoger Clarke \u2013 Gallybagger
\nJohn Ware \u2013 Spinalonga
\nJonathan Cruise \u2013 The Forgotten Island
\nJ. P. Dixon \u2013 Dreaming The Dark
\nSeptimus Dale \u2013 The Little Girl Eater
\nChristina Kiplinger \u2013 Mr. Golden\u2019s Haunt
\nJohn Burke \u2013 The Stare
\nNicholas Royle \u2013 The Children
\nKen Alden \u2013 The Moment Of Death
\nJane Louie \u2013 A Carribean Incident
\nCraig Herbertson \u2013 The Waiting Game
\nFrancis King \u2013 School Crossing
\nHarry E. Turner \u2013 Sounds Familiar
\nConrad Hill \u2013 An Outing With H.
\nJohn Mains \u2013 \u2018Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares\u2019. Herbert Van Thal: A Biography<\/p>\n
and<\/p>\n
Charles Black (ed.) \u2013 The Sixth Black Book Of Horror (Mortbury Press, March 2010)
\n6th Black Book of Horror: artwork; Paul Mudie
\nPaul Mudie
\nJohn Llewellyn Probert \u2013 Six Of The Best
\nSimon Kurt Unsworth \u2013 Traffic Stream
\nSteve Lockley \u2013 Imaginary Friends
\nR. B. Russell \u2013 An Unconventional Exorcism
\nPaul Finch \u2013 The Doom
\nGary Fry \u2013 Keeping It In The Family
\nCraig Herbertson \u2013 Spanish Suite
\nReggie Oliver \u2013 Mr. Pigsny
\nAlex Langley \u2013 The Red Stone
\nStephen Bacon \u2013 Room Above The Shop
\nDavid A. Riley \u2013 Their Cramped Dark World
\nMick Lewis \u2013 Gnomes
\nAnna Taborska \u2013 Bagpuss
\nDavid Williamson \u2013 The Switch
\nMark Samuels \u2013 Keeping Your Mouth Shut<\/p>\n
It was a chance to meet two editors who have revitalized my ailing career as a horror writer: Charles Black who has now published me in five of his critically acclaimed horror series and John Mains, the man who knows more about Pan Horror than Pan Horror.<\/p>\n
The nucleus, I suppose, of the interest began with the Pan horror series which was an immense dark influence on the youth of my day – running to 30 volumes of unadulterated nastiness; a nastiness which beckoned me in Pan 29 where my novella The Heaven Maker (which I state now, contrary to the received view, had nearly no blood and gore in it) was published. It was series that saw stories by the greatest writers and the quickest hacks of weird tales, from Lord Dunsany to John Lennon and many more.<\/p>\n
I am very very grateful to both of these fine editors for recovering my body from the abyss.<\/p>\n
You will gather from the wealth of talent in these two books, launched at the conference, that it was a somewhat humbling experience. One clear highlight was beating my brother at chess for a change, but the other was certainly sitting on a panel with names who chilled the blood of several generations: Christopher Fowler, Tanith Lee, Tony Richards, David A Riley, David A Sutton, Basil Copper, Nicholas Royle and Les Edwards to name but a few. We tried to explain what we had done to the current generation in the way of nightmare and fear. All hosted by the sinister, John Mains.<\/p>\n
At one point John asked the audience who had been turned to horror by the Pan books. Nearly everyone held up their hands. I realized then that we had become an institution -anyone who knows me knows I hate institutions but if I have to belong to one I think I’ll go with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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