World Fantasy Convention/1980s
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| Convention | |
|---|---|
| Name: | World Fantasy Convention |
| Dates: | 1975-ongoing |
| Frequency: | Yearly around Halloween |
| Location: | Varies |
| Type: | fan run |
| Focus: | Fantasy |
| Organization: | World Fantasy Board |
| Founder: | T.E.D. Klein, Kirby McCauley and several others [1]. |
| Founding Date: | 1975 |
| URL: | http://www.worldfantasy.org/ |
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1980
Theme: Edgar Allen Poe
- Guest of Honor: Jack Vance
- Guest Artist: Boris Vallejo
- Toastmaster: Robert Bloch
- Chairman: Chuck Miller, Tim Underwood
1981
Theme: Mark Twain, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith
- Guests of Honor: Alan Garner (did not appear for personal reason), Peter S. Beagle
- Guest Artist: Brian Froud
- Toastmaster: Karl Edward Wagner
- Chairmen: Jack Rems, Jeff Frane
1982
Theme: Mark Twain
- Guests of Honor: Peter Straub, Joseph Payne Brennan
- Guest Artist: Don Maitz
- Toastmaster: Charles L. Grant
- Chairmen: Norman L. Hood, Harold Kinney
1983
Theme: Sixty Years of Weird Tales
- Guests of Honor: Gene Wolfe, Manly Wade Wellman
- Guest Artist: Rowena Morrill
- Toastmaster: Robert Bloch
- Chairman: Robert Weinberg
1984
Theme: Fantasy, An International Genre
- Guests of Honor: Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen
- Guest Artist: Jeffrey Jones
- Toastmaster: Spider Robinson
- Chairmen: John Bell, Rodger Turner
1985
Theme: Fantasy Writers of the Southwest
- Guest of Honor: Stephen R. Donaldson
- Special Guest: Evangeline Walton
- Guest Artist: Victoria Poyser
- Toastperson: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- Chairman: Randal Rau
1986
Theme: From “New Writers” to “Old Masters”
- Guests of Honor: Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant
- Guest Artist: J. K. Potter
- Toastmaster: Douglas E. Winter
- Chairman: Robert Plante
1987
Theme: A Southern Fantasy
- Guest of Honor: Piers Anthony
- Guest Artist: Frank Kelly Freas
- Special Guest: Andre Norton, Karl Edward Wagner, Ron & Val Lakey Lindahn
- Toastmaster: Charles L. Grant
- Chairman: Maurine Dorris
1988
Theme: Gaslight & Ghosts
- Guest of Honor: James Herbert
- Special Guest: Diana Wynne Jones
- Artist Guest: Michael Foreman
- Master of Ceremonies: Clive Barker
- Chairpersons: Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher
1989
Theme: Roots of Fantasy: Myth, Folklore & Archetype
- Honored Guests: Ursula K. LeGuin, Avram Davidson, S. P. Somtow, Robert R. McCammon, Yoshitaka Amano
- Toastmaster: Ginjer Buchanan
- Chairman: Robert J. Doyle
References
- ^ "World Fantasy Convention" - Wikipedia