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2002 World Horror Convention
Raddison Hotel at , Chicago, Illinois, USA

Those who have visited my report on the WHC 1999 know that
I have been to many Conventions in my life.
Yet, up to that time, I felt that the WHC 1999 Convention was the best I had ever experienced.

And now, here we are, in 2002 and I have gone through the 2000, and 2001 conventions as well.

For fans of the genre, the World Horror Convention is the zenith, the high point of any fan's delight in meeting the long admired and respected creators in the field.

"How the mighty have fallen." That quote is by John Pelan and referred to a particular participant in the annual midnight gross-out contest. But it could have easily meant the entire young turks of Horror DOB, 1999. What Richard Laymon called The New Vanguard Of Horror in 2000 was already becoming complacent, overconfident, and totally convinced of their own hype. The hunger was vanishing before the animal was even fed.

But fear not, stalwart fans of horror, for there is always a new generation to weed out the old, and new fast rising talents are moving up to the head of the pack every year. In Chicago it was clear: There is no room for complacency, and there are ever new voices.

 

 

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THE WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2002
Raddison Hotel, CHICAGO, IL. U.S.A.

DAY ONE

Sean and I finally arrived at 3:00am on the second day of the convention. Few people were up and about at that time, so we seized the moment to run around the hotel plastering feoamante.com and horrorfind.com business cards all over the freaking place!

 


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These Photos Supplied by James Futch


FUTCH GOES PARTY PONDERING
Sometimes the choices can be overwhelming.
Do you want to get moderately drunk? Totally shit-faced, or do you feel the need for absolute power-humiliation without peer?

The parties at the WHC can provide!
WHILE ADRIANNE LAY SLEEPING
James Newman entertained his fan club. Con attendee Adrianne McClintock, meanwhile, decided to go to sleep at a HORROR PARTY! While one should always feel safe in slumber in their own room, one should NEVER go to sleep at a party. All SORTS of rotten things can happen at a party, ESPECIALLY a HORROR party.

 


SWEET MARY AND SWEAT FEO
So Mary San Giacomo wanted to have her picture taken with me. Yet I had just got back from dancing (maybe this was day 3? The gross out contest and Goth dance? Dammit Futch! How am I supposed to get all these straight?)

Anyway, Mary apparently was caught off-guard by my wet hug. Funny how people don't mind a wet kiss but cringe at wet hugs!


RYAN'S MISCARRIAGE
Unfortunately, the world isn't ready for a man to be "with child, so Ryan Harding treated us all to a public abortion. (If you can't do it in public, you shouldn't do it at all! -Nero, Caesar of Rome) Which was just as well anyway since, as it turned out, he wasn't carrying a baby at all. Someone had merely lost their arm inside of him. Feeling much relieved of the pressure of carrying the limb through its first trimester, Ryan was still confused over whether it was a boy or girl arm.

 


FIENDS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION
Possibly the very best way to recognize the aliens among us is to notice that they don't quite look like us. Take this motley collection of, Left to Right, John Turi (Medium Rare Books), Mickey Huyck, and Dave Barnett (Necro Press)


KIND HEARTED MIKEY
Mikey Huyck, his heart touched by the fear that Adrianne might be sleeping through a hunger pang, plays the role of a doting "Mother Bird" and prepares to regurgitate a cocktail weenie.

 


SENSE OF HUMOR REQUIRED
For those of you who have husbands, wives, siblings, or even children who go alone to a Horror Convention, just let me say that the parties are all in fun. I can't stress that enough.
I'm having fun, Monica O'Rourke is having fun, and the inflatable doll seems to be enjoying herself as well.
AS SHERI LOOKS ON
Horror folks are filled with the very milk of human kindness. It flows in our veins and clogs our arteries.
Everyone knows me as the soft hearted type, sweet and kind. What most people are particularly impressed with is my giving nature. I am a warm, sharing person.
And sensitive? Why that hard nipple is hurting my arm!

 


KIND HEARTED FEO 2
So when I saw Adrianne sleeping without a teddy bear, I thought to myself, "That's just Wrong!" and gifted her (the noun "gift" often acts as a verb for me).
Now there are those who would scream,
"FEO! That's just REALLY WRONG!" But they are cold, callous types, unwilling to give of themselves. I, on the other hand, was willing to share my inflatable sex doll! I mean, its not like I tea-bagged her or something!


BRIAN AND THE BRITS
Brian Keene, meanwhile, is whooping it up with the Boys Of England in another party in another room, but presumably at the same hotel.
The boys, left to right:
David 'Dai' Price, Darren Floyd (Razor Blade Press), Brian Keene, Matt Cardin (US author), a scowling Mark Samuels and Stuart Young's one quarter face.
Horror fan and editor Christopher Teague (NASTY SNIPS, publisher: Pendragon Press) is at the bottom of the photo wearing a...a...just what the hell IS that around his head?


HAVE A HEADER
Mikey tries to fit Christopher Treagus head (not to be confused with Cristopher Teague, who head is adorned with some goddam thing) in his hand, but since its too big, he'll have to keep looking. James Newman chooses this moment to put his cigarette out on Mikey's brand new vinyl tennis shoe.


MIKEY'S MISCHIEF
Mikey is just no damn good! Spoiling one respectable photo after the next, as you'll see throughout this article. Here Michael ruins a perfectly decent picture of Brett Savory, Tim Lebbon, and Gina Osnovich (SCARS)

See this other photo article on the World Horror Convention 2002:

SEPHERA GIRON
If you have photos online from the WHC 2002, let me know and I'll link you up!
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