{"id":2773,"date":"2011-05-05T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2011-05-05T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:37:00","slug":"my-world-horror-con-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/05\/my-world-horror-con-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"My World Horror Con Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already told you about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/04\/28\/why-doesnt-cthulhu-want-me-to-get-to-this-years-world-horror-con\/\">my trip from Hell<\/a> to get to Dulles Airport last Thursday morning, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/05\/03\/before-world-horror-a-high-school-reunion\/\">where I stopped<\/a> In Austin on the way to the World Horror Con hotel that afternoon. But what about the rest of Thursday?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the first thing I did was take a long, hot shower to make up for the icy sponge bath I&#8217;d had to suffer that morning due to our thunderstorm-induced power outage. Then I headed down to the lobby in search of trouble, which I found in the form of dastardly duo Eunice Magill and Scott Browne, who kidnapped me for a massive  dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedardooraustin.com\/\"> The Cedar Door<\/a> with Weston Ochse, Yvonne Navarro, Rain Graves,  John Tomaszewski, Bradley and Sue Sinor, Chris Marrs and others, after which we headed to the Congress Avenue Bridge to wait for nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>To wait for bats!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Yvonne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Yvonne-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Yvonne\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Yvonne-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Yvonne-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Yvonne.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wait was fun (see how Yvonne and I are smiling?), but unfortunately, the bats only come out at night, which means &#8230; the bats only come out in the dark.  I couldn&#8217;t see them very well, so they didn&#8217;t look like much more than a swarm of gnats to me. Then it was back to the hotel, just in time to catch Norman Prentiss reading his short story  &#8220;The Man Who Could Not Be Bothered To Die&#8221; from  <em>Blood Lite 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And now you can see it, too. It&#8217;s a fun one!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X27q09PXn74\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then it was party time, where I chatted with Joe Lansdale (whose short story &#8220;Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches,&#8221; I published in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/editing\/last-wave\/\"> <em>Last Wave<\/em><\/a> 25 years ago way back in 1986) and Steve Niles (whom I&#8217;d never met before, but whose Guest of Honor interview I&#8217;d be conducting two days later).  I only partied for an hour or two, because the lack of sleep the night before and the tense trip getting to Austin had left me exhausted, so I headed off to crash at around 12:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>But as you&#8217;ll see when I fill you in on Friday, I wouldn&#8217;t end up  sleeping for long &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already told you about my trip from Hell to get to Dulles Airport last Thursday morning, and where I stopped In Austin on the way to the World Horror Con hotel that afternoon. But what about the rest of Thursday? 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