Horror Writers
Panel
The horror fiction panel will consist of three prominent horror writers from the USA: Ellen Datlow, Lisa Tuttle and Ramsey Campell, who will discuss their work. There will also be a chance to listen to readings from their work. At the end there will be an audience question and answer session.
Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow has been an editor of short science fiction, fantasy, and horror for almost thirty years.
She was co-editor of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for twenty-one years and currently edits The Best Horror of the Year. Her most recent anthologies are Inferno, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft Unbound, Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat stories and The
Datlow is the winner of multiple awards for her editing, including the World Fantasy Award, Locus Award, Hugo Award, International Horror Guild Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre."
She co-hosts the popular Fantastic Fiction at KGB Bar series of readings in
Lisa Tuttle
Lisa Tuttle was born in the United States, but has been resident in Britain for almost thirty years. She began writing while still at school, sold her first stories at university, and won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer of the year in 1974. She is the author of eight novels (most recently the contemporary fantasy The Silver Bough) and around 100 published short stories, in addition to several books for children and non-fiction works including Encyclopedia of Feminism. In 1990, she edited an anthology of (mostly original) literary horror stories by women authors, Skin of the Soul. Most of her books and stories have also been translated into French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Russian, Japanese and other languages. Her short story “Closet Dreams” won the International Horror Guild Award in 2007. She is currently working on a new novel.
photography by Peter Coleborn
The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association and the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, Silent Children, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear and Creatures of the Pool. Forthcoming is The Seven Days of Cain. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead and Just Behind You, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain. His regular columns appear in Prism, All Hallows, Dead Reckonings and Video Watchdog. He is the President of the British Fantasy Society and of the Society of Fantastic Films.
Ramsey Campbell lives on Merseyside with his wife Jenny. His pleasures include classical music, good food and wine, and whatever’s in that pipe. His web site is at www.ramseycampbell.com.