JOE R. LANSDALE
Guest of Honour
JOE R. LANSDALE lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, with his wife, Karen. He is the author of more than thirty novels and twenty short story collections, with over two hundred short stories, articles, essays and stage plays to his credit. Best known for his popular “Hap Collins and Leonard Pine” series of mystery novels and the “Drive-In” horror series, his other novels include Act of Love, Dead in the West, Magic Wagon, The Nightrunners, Tarzan: The Lost Adventure, The Bottoms, Zeppelins West, All the Earth Thrown to the Sky and Edge of Dark Water. Read more…
MURIEL GRAY
Guest of Honour
MURIEL GRAY was born in East Kilbride, Scotland. Playing in a punk band led her to present Channel 4’s seminal 1980s music programme The Tube with Jools Holland and Paula Yates, and a successful presenting career in television and radio followed. Her writing career began in 1995 with the best-selling horror novel The Trickster (shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award), and it was followed by two more, Furnace (1996) and The Ancient (2000), which Stephen King described as “scary and unputdownable”. Read more…
BRENT WEEKS
Guest of Honour
BRENT WEEKS is the author of the New York Times best-selling “The Night Angel Trilogy”, featuring master assassin Durzo Blint, who practices his fatal art in a world of dangerous politics, strange magics and sudden death. The first volume in the series, The Way of Shadows, was published in 2008 and was quickly followed by Shadow’s Edge and Beyond the Shadows later that same year. Perfect Shadow is a prequel novella in the same series, while the first book in Brent’s new “Lightbringer” series, The Black Prism, launched in August 2010. It will be followed by The Blinding Knife, which will be published by Orbit in time for this year’s FantasyCon. Read more…
MARY DANBY
Special Editor Guest
MARY DANBY was the fiction editor at Fontana Books from 1969-72. She edited thirteen volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1970-84), taking over from then-editor Christine Bernard, and twelve volumes of the Armada Ghost Book (1970-82). Mary’s other anthologies include three volumes of Nightmares, two volumes of Frighteners, Realms of Darkness, 65 Great Spine Chillers, 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural and Great Murder Mysteries. Read more…
TIM LEBBON
Master of Ceremonies
TIM LEBBON is a New York Times best-selling horror and fantasy writer from South Wales. He has had more than twenty novels published to date, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories, including numerous appearances in “Year’s Best” anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Recent books include The Secret Journeys of Jack London: The Wild (co-authored with frequent collaborator Christopher Golden) and Echo City. Read more…
ALSO ATTENDING...
Guy Adams
James Barclay
Charles Black
Simon Clark
Peter Crowther
Les Edwards
Simon R. Green
Oliver Johnson
Jasper Kent
Tim Lebbon
Maura McHugh
Mark Morris
Kim Newman
Reggie Oliver
Gillian Redfearn
Mike Shevdon
Simon Kurt Unsworth
Rio Youers |
Allen Ashley
Simon Bestwick
Ramsey Campbell
Gary Couzens
Benoît Domis
Christopher Fowler
Lee Harris
Stephen Jones
Garry Kilworth
Alison Littlewood
Suzanne McLeod
Steve Mosby
Thana Niveau
John L. Probert
David A. Riley
Michael Marshall Smith
Steve Upham
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Ben Baldwin
Anne Billson
Adam Christopher
Quentin S. Crisp
Hal Duncan
Stephen Gallagher
Will Hill
Paul Kane
M.D. Lachlan
James Lovegrove
Gary McMahon
Adam Nevill
Marie O'Regan
Tina Rath
R.B. Russell
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Stephen Volk |
and many others . . .
The British Fantasy Awards will be presented at a glittering Banquet on the Sunday afternoon and, as always, seating will be strictly limited. Please remember that the Banquet sold out last year, so don’t delay to avoid disappointment. Click HERE for more details.
We look forward to seeing you all again in Brighton in September!
