HallowCon Programming

Meet and Greet our Guests
Hosted by Christina and Scott Barber
Join our Guests Friday evening at 8:00pm for an informal social in Main Programming (Conference Room).
Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Christina Barber - Come to the Dark Side!
Darker fiction, television shows and movies have been sprouting up everywhere lately. Why? A look into the darker side of fiction and television with discussion about why society has become obsessed with the darker, grittier side. Come over to the dark side. . .

      Pirates in Science-Fiction  Hosted by Ernie Saylor, Rob
Shelsky and Gerald W. Page
 It only stands to reason that as mankind's longing for new shores ventured space ward, writers at the forefront of imaginative fiction would draw upon those villains of the high seas, the pirates as apt adversaries for tomorrow's hero's and explorers. Join this discussion to include the likes of Robur the Conqueror, "Blackie" Duquesne, Captain Nemo, The Red Peri, Sky Haussmann and others for a fun look at those black-hearted plunderers of cosmic infamy.

Leave Them on the Edge
With Joe Dickerson, Jana Oliver, Christina Barber,
and Lawrence Barker
With the ever growing popularity of wondrously chilling tales
(Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft, etc.) it comes as no surprise that many
aspiring writers like to take a ride on the dark side.  Come hear from
published writers and editors about what it takes to craft stories that
leave the readers hanging on the edge of their seats.

Gerald Page - Corsairs of the Cosmic Legion
Mr. Page will be doing a reading from his story "Corsairs of the Cosmic Legion," published in "Planetary Stories #6", which dealt with space pirates. The story was actually a homage to Murphy Anderson's Star Pirate feature in Planet Comics back in the 40s. Two of the Characters are based on friends of Mr. Page who live in Chattanooga.

Lawrence Barker - Folkloric vampires: or
You (Probably) Don't Know Jack about the Undead

A vampire is a tall, thin, sexy, immortal, fanged aristocrat who can transform into a bat or wolf and who dies the final death if staked through the heart or exposed to the sun ... right? Except that all of this is either from a filmmaker or writer. The vampires that people once (or maybe still?) believed in are very, very different -- and vary dramatically in time and place. Come and hear about some genuinely gruesome blood (and other things) suckers. This is your opportunity to discuss how much Hollywood departs from myth (a lot) and how they got it right (a little).

Jana Oliver and Tyra Mitchell - The High “C’s” of Pirating
What technology giveth, pirates taketh away. Today’s Long John Silver or Dread Pirate Roberts are more likely the boys next door, armed with a mouse and a high speed Internet connection. Join us for a lively discussion about techno-piracy and what it really means to the artist who created the work.

Tyra Mitchell - Future Sight: Divination for Dummies
From the Oracle of Delphi to Tarot cards, divination takes many forms. Join Tyra as she delivers an overview of fortunetelling techniques. She predicts this discussion will leave you enlightened, refreshed and in tune with your inner self. Well, two out of three ain’t bad.

HORROR IN SCIENCE FICTION!

BLOOD, GUTS, SLASHERS, SUSPENSE, AND GORE

LET'S DISCUSS ALL THIS AND MORE! True horror -- what does it take to write the real stuff? Have you ever wanted to be like Stephen King or one of the other great horror/sci-fi writers? Do you know what the elements of true horror are and how to use them? And even if you do, do you know how to incorporate them successfully into a sci-fi work, to keep your stories frightening and yet believable? Join ROB SHELSKY, author and host of the HORROR IN SCIENCE FICTION panel, along with his special guests, ERNIE SAYLOR, an editor of Aberrant Dreams Magazine, and GERALD W. PAGE, renowned editor, and longtime successful author of Lovecraftian science fiction. Get your questions answered by those in the know. Learn how to be a horror science fiction writer from those who have done it! Find out from an editor's point of view what's needed to get a sci-fi horror story published.

IF YOU DON'T COME AND JOIN US, YOU'LL BE MAKING A "HORRIBLE" MISTAKE!!

Walter and Rhonda Rice - Dispatching Creatures of the Night
How do you kill something that is already dead? A comprehensive and historical way of dealing with the paranormal (ghosts, spirits, and daemons), to the creatures of both myth and legend (Vampires, werewolves and zombies), fictionally, historically and scientifically. Our Dynamic Duo of Destruction will also deal with actual modern accounts as well as some personal experience. With some fun mixed in, as well.

Julia Morgan-Scott - You Know You're a Goth if.....
Join Julia as she puts a twist on being Goth.

Mark Fults, Mark Helwig and Julia Morgan-Scott - Creating Art on Demand:
Our Guest Artists will be doing an indepth panel on how to create drawings on demand. See just what it takes to create an image from someone else's nightmares.

Mark Helwig and Julia Morgan-Scott - Pirates in Art:
An interesting panel on pirate art--looking at the various artists from Howard Pyle and Dean Cornwell to current masters like Don Maitz. Mark and Julia will also discuss some of their own works on Pirates. If you remember, Julia did the "Were-Pirate", complete with were-parrot, graphic for our HallowCon '05 t-shirt, and Mark is responsible for our "Pirates of the Undead" shirt, this year.

S.E.P.S. - South Eastern Paranormal Society
-will be giving a lecture on paranormal activity in the Chattanooga area. SEPS is made up of Paul Cagle, Lena McHone, Many McHone, Zach (Yeti) Leamon and Lee Brown with various other members filling in when needed. SEPS has investigated many places with reported paranormal activity such as Corpse Wood manner and the famous haunted room 311 of the Read House.

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