{"id":6000,"date":"2012-04-01T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2012-04-01T22:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:01:58","slug":"world-horror-convention-2012-friday-and-saturday-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/01\/world-horror-convention-2012-friday-and-saturday-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"World Horror Convention 2012: Friday and Saturday videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here I had such good intentions!<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/03\/30\/world-horror-convention-2012-friday\/\">what happened on Thursday<\/a>, 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 <em>during<\/em> the con,  which violates Edelman&#8217;s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting.<\/p>\n<p>And now that I&#8217;m home, I see I don&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/wasatchparanormal.com\/\">Wasatch Paranormal Investigators<\/a>, and all the rest of my misadventures. So here are six videos that&#8217;ll have to stand in lieu of a blow-by-blow description of my weekend, because life intervenes.<\/p>\n<p>First, take a tour of Friday&#8217;s night&#8217;s mass signing, at which you&#8217;ll spot every author, editor, artist, etc., in attendance at the con. (Except me, of course, since I&#8217;m wielding the camera.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NLHBVpgQQpI?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then check out Saturday&#8217;s interview of Guest of Honor and HWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Joe Lansdale by the effervescent  Del Howison. Lots of wisdom here!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQeDzyZHhgk?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next, a few snippets from the Bram Stoker Awards banquet, held Saturday night, starting with Toastmaster  Jeff Strand&#8217;s always entertaining opening monologue.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xUbpzH-e14M?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then here come  Joe McKinney and 1979 Clarion pal  Gene O&#8217;Neill presenting the Stoker for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i4sn_aC4w_g?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Richard Matheson won the  Vampire Novel of the Century Award for <em>I Am Legend<\/em>, and though he was unable to attend, he sent this recorded acceptance speech.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vD0PALDIWRU?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9ZWGraN3dY?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And now, after a weekend of very little sleep,  it&#8217;s time to reacquaint myself with my own pillow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here I had such good intentions! 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