And here I had such good intentions!

On Friday morning, I posted what happened on Thursday, my first day at the 2012 World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, but then I got too busy at the con to report on the rest of the con during the con, which violates Edelman’s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting.

And now that I’m home, I see I don’t have the time (and am unlikely to find the time) to tell you the details of my further schmoozing, my trip to a cemetery with Wasatch Paranormal Investigators, and all the rest of my misadventures. So here are six videos that’ll have to stand in lieu of a blow-by-blow description of my weekend, because life intervenes.

First, take a tour of Friday’s night’s mass signing, at which you’ll spot every author, editor, artist, etc., in attendance at the con. (Except me, of course, since I’m wielding the camera.)

Then check out Saturday’s interview of Guest of Honor and HWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Joe Lansdale by the effervescent Del Howison. Lots of wisdom here!

Next, a few snippets from the Bram Stoker Awards banquet, held Saturday night, starting with Toastmaster Jeff Strand’s always entertaining opening monologue.

Then here come Joe McKinney and 1979 Clarion pal Gene O’Neill presenting the Stoker for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.

Richard Matheson won the Vampire Novel of the Century Award for I Am Legend, and though he was unable to attend, he sent this recorded acceptance speech.

And last but not least, here I am with Rocky Wood presenting the Stoker for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, which was won by Alan Moore, whose acceptance speech I read, though not a fraction as well as Moore himself would have done.

And now, after a weekend of very little sleep, it’s time to reacquaint myself with my own pillow …