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[[FantasyCon 2018]] ||October 19-21, 2018 || The Queen Hotel, Chester || [[Adrian Tchaikovsky]], [[Claire North]], [[Farah Mendlesohn]] | [[FantasyCon 2018]] ||October 19-21, 2018 || The Queen Hotel, Chester || [[Adrian Tchaikovsky]], [[Claire North]], [[Farah Mendlesohn]] | ||
[[FantasyCon 2019]] ||October 18-20, 2019 ||Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel, Glasgow || [[Una McCormack]], [[Jen Williams]], Paul Trembley | [[FantasyCon 2019]] ||October 18-20, 2019 ||Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel, Glasgow || [[Una McCormack]], [[Jen Williams]], Paul Trembley | ||
− | [[FantasyCon 2020]] || | + | <s>[[FantasyCon 2020]]</s> || <s>September 25-27, 2020</s> || Resource for London, Holloway Road, London|| [[Liz Williams]] |
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A convention (also sometimes called the British Fantasy Convention) run by the British Fantasy Society since 1975 which is usually devoted to horror or dark fantasy.
Convention | Dates | Location | GoHs |
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Fantasycon 1975 | February 22, 1975 | Imperial Centre Hotel, Birmingham, UK | |
Fantasycon II | February 28-29, 1976 | Imperial Centre Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Robert Aikman |
Fantasycon 3 | February 26-27, 1977 | Imperial Centre Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Basil Copper |
Fantasycon 1978 | February 24-26, 1978 | Imperial Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Stephen King |
Fantasycon 5 | February 23-25, 1979 | De Vere Hotel, Coventry, UK | Karl Edward Wagner |
Fantasycon VI | October 3-5, 1980 | Imperial Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Ramsey Campbell, Jim Fitzpatrick |
Fantasycon 1981 | July 10-12, 1981 | Centre Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Peter Tremayne, Alan Hunter |
Mythcon 1982 | July 2-4, 1982 | Grand Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Tanith Lee, Eddie Jones |
Fantasycon VIII | October 14-16, 1983 | Imperial Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg |
Fantasycon IX | September 14-16, 1984 | Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee |
Fantasycon X | September 6-8, 1985 | Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Robert Holdstock, Diana Wynne Jones |
Fantasycon XI | September 26-28, 1986 | Midland Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Dennis Etchison, Jody Scott |
Fantasycon XII | September 4-6, 1987 | Midland Hotel, Birmingham, UK | M. John Harrison, George R. R. Martin, J. K. Potter |
Fantasycon XIII (also 14th World Fantasy Convention) | October 28-30, 1988 | Ramada Inn, London, England | James Herbert, Diana Wynne Jones, Michael Foreman |
Fantasycon XIV | October 6-8, 1989 | Midland Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Thomas F. Monteleone, Stephen Laws |
Fantasycon XV | September 14-16, 1990 | Midland Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Joe Lansdale, Stephen Gallagher |
Fantasycon XVI | November 15-17, 1991 | Ramada Inn West London | Dan Simmons, Jonathan Carroll |
Fantasycon XVII | October 2-4, 1992 | Midland Hotel, Birmingham, UK | David Schow, Lisa Tuttle and R. Chetwynd-Hayes |
Fantasycon XVIII | October 1-3, 1993 | Midland Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Peter James, Les Edwards |
Fantasycon XIX | September 30 - October 2, 1994 | Midland Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Katherine Kurtz, Brian Lumley |
Fantasycon 1995 was cancelled due to a "lack of organizers," but regulars gathered instead at the Welcome to My Nightmare Convention in Swansea on Halloween weekend. | |||
Fantasycon XX | October 4-6, 1996 | International Hotel, Docklands, London | Christopher Fowler, Tom Holt |
Fantasycon XXI (also 1997 World Fantasy Convention) | October 30 - November 2, 1997 | International Hotel, Docklands, London | Iain Sinclair, Joan Aiken, Bob Eggleton, Hugh Cave, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Doug Bradley, Rob Holdstock |
Fantasycon XXII | September 11-13, 1998 | Posthouse Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Freda Warrington, Jane Yolen |
Fantasycon 23 | September 17-19, 1999 | Britannia Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Louise Cooper, Raymond E. Feist, Graham Masterton, Robert Rankin, Mike Tucker |
Fantasycon XXIV | September 8-10, 2000 | Britannia Hotel, Birmingham, UK | Storm Constantine, Stephen Lawhead, Doug Bradley, Stan Nicholls |
Fantasycon XXV | September 23, 2001 | Champagne Charlie's, London | Hugh Lamb, Simon Clark |
Fantasycon XXVI | September 21, 2002 | Champagne Charlie's or Tappit Hen, London | Graham Joyce |
FantasyCon XXVII | November 21-23, 2003 | Tillington Hall Hotel, Stafford | Christopher Fowler, Catherine Fisher |
FantasyCon XXVIII | September 24-26, 2004 | Quality Hotel, Bentley, Wadsall | Robert Holdstock, Muriel Gray |
FantasyCon 2005 | September 30 - October 2, 2005 | Quality Hotel, Bentley, Wadsall | Mark Chadbourn, Simon Clark, Steven Erikson |
FantasyCon 2006 | September 22-24, 2006 | Britannia Hotel, Nottingham | Neil Gaiman, Juliet E. McKenna, Ramsey Campbell, Raymond E. Feist, Clive Barker |
FantasyCon 2007 | September 21-23, 2007 | Britannia Hotel, Nottingham | Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, Terry Brooks |
FantasyCon 2008 | September 19-21, 2008 | Britannia Hotel, Nottingham | Christopher Golden, James Barclay, Dave McKean |
FantasyCon 2009 | September 18-20, 2009 | Britannia Hotel, Nottingham | Gail Z. Martin, Brian Clemens, Jasper Fforde |
FantasyCon 2010 | September 17-19, 2010 | Britannia Hotel, Nottingham | Lisa Tuttle, Bryan Talbot, Garry Kilworth |
FantasyCon 2011 | September 30 - October 2, 2011 | Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton | Gwyneth Jones, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Peter Atkins, Joe Abercrombie |
FantasyCon 2012 | September 27-30, 2012 | Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton | Joe R. Lansdale, Muriel Gray, Brent Weeks, Mary Danby, Mark Gatiss, Robin Hardy |
FantasyCon 2013 (also World Fantasy Convention 2013) | October 31 - November 3, 2013 | Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton | Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Joanne Harris, Joe Hill, Alan Lee |
FantasyCon 2014 | September 5-7, 2014 | Royal York Hotel, York | Kate Elliott, Larry Rostant, Charlaine Harris, Toby Whithouse |
FantasyCon 2015 | October 23-25, 2015 | East Midlands Conference Centre & Orchard Hotel, Nottingham | John Connolly, Jo Fletcher, Brandon Sanderson |
FantasyCon 2016 | September 23-25, 2016 | Grand Hotel, St Nicholas Cliff, Scarborough | Elizabeth Bear, Frances Hardinge, Adam Nevill, Scott Lynch, James Smythe |
FantasyCon 2017 | September 29 - October 1, 2017 | The Bull Hotel Peterborough | Nancy Kilpatrick, Pat Cadigan, Ben Aaronovitch |
FantasyCon 2018 | October 19-21, 2018 | The Queen Hotel, Chester | Adrian Tchaikovsky, Claire North, Farah Mendlesohn |
FantasyCon 2019 | October 18-20, 2019 | Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel, Glasgow | Una McCormack, Jen Williams, Paul Trembley |
Resource for London, Holloway Road, London | Liz Williams |
Convention | |
Website | 1975— |
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