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2000 World Horror Convention
Adams Mark Hotel,
Denver, Colorado, USA
Those who have visited my report
on the WHC 1999 know that
I have been to many Conventions
in my life.
From Food
Service Conventions to the
Lumbermen's Association Convention.
World Science Fiction Conventions, Fantasy, Star
Trek, and
Comic Book Conventions like Creationcon.
Computer Hardware and Software, Gun Shows,
and
Spelunking Conventions. I've been to Adult
Entertainment Conventions,
and Wine and Spirits Liquor Convention.
But the World
Horror Convention 1999 held at the North Central Marriot Hotel in
Atlanta, Georgia was THE absolute BEST convention that I had EVER attended in my life!
So the question this year (2000) was, could the World Horror Convention
in Denver, Colorado hold up?
At the 1999 convention, there was a new loose knit and freewheeling group of friends that were
intent on meeting each other. We called ourselves the Horrornet Cabal, deriving our name from the
popular horrorsite created by Matt Schwartz. The rules of membership
were as lax as the rest of the gang - if you had ever chatted in the horrornet chat room,
you were part of the Cabal. The chat room doesn't always talk about Horror, there is the fighting,
flaming, serious chat and even romance same as you will find in other chats. The difference with us is:
our love of the genre (Yes, Genre! We are not a ghetto of literature, we are the DRIVING FORCE
behind great literature! Shelly and Poe, James and Lovecraft: all were dismissed in their day by the
self-sniffing cognoscenti of Ivy league campus scholars. Only after these ant-bed minds fell to the
perpetual harvester were the giants of literature, Horror Writers all, accepted by the vanguards of the
new breed. Pardon my romantic notions, I'm a kook, but that doesn't mean that what I state is untrue.
Still, for well over a century, the best sellers in fiction literature remain among the works of
Shelly and Stoker and Poe.
Even Shakespeare wrote nary a play that did not have its witches and ghosts.
So there we were, unknown to each other by face, known only by name or the aliases we
used in the Horrornet chat. Yet we met, laughed, and discovered each other while having the time of
our lives. The World Horror Convention became a Christmas for adults!
For more on that, read the article on the WHC 1999.
This time we are talking about the WHC 2000.
You can find other WHC 2000 pics at Regina Mitchell's MediaNoche.
At the 1999 WHC, many of us only brought our own cameras and no one had really dedicated
themselves to documenting the con on film except for one person who, at that time, was unknown
to many of us. That was Barret McGiveny. The camera folk that were there, in a simple home "fun"
photo capacity, were fellow Cabal member James Futch, and myself. Thus, the pics were mainly of me
in poses with friends and new acquaintances. This year, James and I planned to seriously capture the
con beyond just my smiling puss. James became a whirling madman with his new digital camera and
the photos here accurately capture the mood of WHC as a whole. The following article is nearly
as true as anything else you are likely to read about WHC 2000.
Are you in these photos and have
your own website?
Write me and let me know. I'll use your name for a link to your page.
Most asked Question: Why
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and chop them up so that they will load faster?
Answer: The main reason these pictures are here is so the folks
featured in them can save a decent quality image for themselves.
Just point your mouse over the image and right click. From the menu box
that appears, choose Save Image and double
click.
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THE WORLD HORROR
CONVENTION 2000 I drove my
car from Houston, Texas to Denver, Colorado all alone. In the last year, many states had passed laws that doubled the fines of any driver
Driving up from Houston through At one point, in the slow rolling swells of endless farmland, I zipped right by a It seemed to take forever to get to Colorado, and when I finally did, it took forever to get to Denver. Now on the map, Denver is a relatively short shot from the Colorado / Kansas border. Ah, but you see, Colorado has its OWN construction going onand I found myself driving toward the Mile High city at a slug crawl of 40 miles per hour for most of the way. In my heart I knew, I would not return home this way. Finally I reached Denver. After some minor driving around and asking a few questions, I found the massive structure known as The Adams Mark Hotel. Here there be conventioneers! |
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| These Photos Supplied by James Futch | ||
 Richard Laymon's prose is not for the faint of heart or stomach, especially on vibrating or bumpy plane rides. |
 Let Horrornet Cabal Photographer, James Futch's, experience be a lesson for us all. |
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 With a mad reputation that often gets me in trouble, |
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THE FESTIVITIES BEGIN! |
HE SPEAKS! |
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 HE'S STILL SPEAKING!! |
 ELLEN SPEAKS |
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THAT'S A WRAP! |
 RARGH! |
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DAY 1 See these other photo articles on the World Horror Convention 2000:
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