World Horror Convention

At the Mountains of Madness

32 speakers

83 sessions

Day 1 Thursday 29th March 2012

• 3:00pm Social Networking:

• 3:00pm Religion in Horror

• 4:00pm Poetry of the Weird from the Romantics to Lovecraft.

• 4:00pm Horror Film Festivals.

• 5:00pm A Vampire is NOT your boyfriend

• 5:00pm Book Bombs/Blasts

  presented by Michaelbrent Colling

• 6:00pm Opening Ceremonies

  presented by P.N. Elrod

• 7:00pm Breaking into Comics.

  presented by Scott Allie

• 7:00pm Poetry Readings

• 8:00pm Classic Horror Movies.

• 8:00pm Cutting Block Press/KillerCon party

  presented by R.J. Cavender and Killercon Las Vegas

• 8:00pm Zombiance Concert

• 8:00pm Seance #1

• 9:00pm Buffy and cult TV shows.

  presented by Scott Allie

• 9:00pm Why We Love Lovecraft.

• 10:00pm Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

• 10:00pm Writing a believable ghost story.

  presented by Michaelbrent Colling and Ellen Datlow

Day 2 Friday 30th March 2012

28 sessions presented by 25 speakers

• Horror 10
• Kaffeeklatsch 4
• horror fiction 3
• Fiction 3
• Party 3
• Publishing 2
• Women in Horror 2
• horror writers 2
• Dark Horse Comics 1
• Digital Publishing 1
• Young Adults 1
• horror makeup 1
• Teens 1
• Novels 1
• Humor in Horror 1
• Writing for young adults 1
• makeup 1
• ebooks business models; 1
• Comic Books 1
• Graphic Novels 1

Day 3 Saturday 31st March 2012

24 sessions presented by 18 speakers

• horror fiction 5
• Horror 3
• Kaffeeklatsch 3
• horror writers 2
• Vampires 2
• Comic Books 2
• Publishing 2
• horror writers association 2
• Bram Stoker 2
• Video Games 1
• Joe Lansdale 1
• Paranormal 1
• Art 1
• The business of comic books 1
• Graphic Novels 1
• Dracula 1
• Ustream 1
• Workshops 1
• Editors 1
• Psychology 1

Day 4 Sunday 1st April 2012

• 10:00am The Good, The Bad And The Ugly in Cover Art

  presented by Mike Mignola, P.N. Elrod, Scott Allie, John Picacio and Joe Lansdale

• 10:00am Screenwriting Techniques

• 10:00am WHS Board Meeting

• 11:00am H. P. Lovecraft: The short stories

  presented by Scott Allie

• 11:00am Residual Hauntings Revived: A Look at Haunted Sites

• 12:00pm Scaring 'em Young: MG horror

• 12:00pm Zombies, Vigilantes, and Antiheroes: The Ambiguities of Monstrousness in The Walking Dead

• 1:00pm Collecting Horror

• 1:00pm Writing Groups

• 2:00pm Paranormal Romance

• 2:00pm Classic Horror

  presented by P.N. Elrod, Scott Allie, Robert McCammon and Joe McKinney

• 3:00pm Closing Ceremonies

• 5:00pm Dead Dog Party

• 8:00pm Seance #3

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