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New column, The Cauldron, at the Fearzone. Part 1 of a series on monsters: Dragons.

Texas Frightmare Weekend Report



Steven Wedel and Lee Thomas signing books, me being interviewed for Fearzone by Gabrielle Faust.  Me and Steven Wedel. HWA workin' it.

Friday, Day 1:

The website said that the dealer's room opened at 11 am. So we got there at 10 am. Then we found out, that the dealer's room actually opened at 6 pm, 5 pm for those that paid for early admission. So, we went to eat and dropped by Grapevine Mills Mall so I could get some jeans that stayed on my body. The ones I had, decided that whenever I bent over, they wanted to come off....not very practical. So, got some jeans really quick. Then we swung by a restaurant on the way back to the hotel and snapped photos of the Zombie Walk that would soon be headed back to the hotel.


Zombie walk preparations.

Zombies in the hotel.


We got back to the hotel, got some coffee and wandered to our tables. As well as inviting the lot of us as guests, TFW also gave us 3 big tables to hawk our wares from.


That's us: Christopher Fulbright, moi, Steve Wedel and Lee Thomas preparing for the onslaught of horror fans with money.
I sold 4 books in the first 20 min...that's pretty good. The copies of Frontier Cthuhlu flew off the table.

Day 2, Saturday. When things get much busier:

Well, now that we knew when the dealer's room opened, we got to sleep in an extra hour. Whoo hoo! Which means we got up at, I think, 7:30 am, lol. We drove by and picked up some breakfast burritos at Sonic, and got some gas. Drove to the dealer's room, where Chris only got to stay for about an hour, before having to head back to his Saturday class, then turn around and come back to the hotel [hour each way].

Me, behind the table...Chris had control of the camera for the most part. [Leg cam] lol. We did get a couple really good shots together though. I can't remember who we asked to take the shot, Steve or Lee.

Teh Hotness looking all hot and stuff. I told him that my usual plan, whenever I need to look for him in a crowd, I look for the dude all dressed in black...the usual plan failed to work at this convention. Everyone was dressed in black. So, this time, I had to look for the only dude with no tats. Speaking of which, this tat was awesome!

Silverscreen monsters!                      Vampire baby with blood-filled bottle & Vampire Mama


Steve Wedel, Lee Thomas, and Joe Mckinney.                          Me

The costumes and hair styles and tats were amazing. I've never seen so many tattoos. Or black leather. Of which I was guilty myself on 2 out of the 3 days. Probably, if I had to guess, a couple thousand cows bit it to clothe the horror fans in the dealer's room alone. lol.

Lee lookin' hot and a cool mohawk dude.                                       Me and the demon baby doll. Awesome!

Well, we were headed to meet Bill Lindblad [Alienmotive], Jen Oresol, and Tom Monteleone along with Lee and John at Razoo's in Richardson. We ended up having to wait and Lee and John had prior plans back in Dallas so they had to scoot. We ended up having a very yummy dinner...although half way through I started zombing out because I was off my usual medication schedule and basically started feeling really bad. One funny Monteleone moment however: The drinks at the bar were outrageously expensive. Tom came over and said that his butt hurt. Clueless that I am sometimes, I wondered out loud if he had been sitting all day. He said, "No. The drinks are expensive. They bent me over and did their business." OMG. I laughed so hard. He never fails to make me laugh!

We were going to go to the ConDFW parties, where Bill, Jen and Tom had come from, but as I was feeling really bad, we went home instead.

Day 3, Sunday:
We continued to sell a lot of books. Our book piles got smaller. As far as book selling went this was a great convention. The good folks also had a panel for us, but by the time it rolled around we were down to just me and Christopher and Steve in attendance. Still, we had a great turn out and some really good questions were answered by the 3 of us.


Monster head from the crate in Creepshow. Chris meets George Romero. The highlight of his weekend! We gave George a copy of Then Comes the Child. I hope he likes it!


Vampire baby                                      Dude getting interviewed in front of Scream TV set


Lee Thomas; me being interviewed by Gabrielle Faust                                   Elvira and some attendees


Another cool mohawk                                                                      Elvira impersonator: Kitty Korvette

Overall, Texas Frightmare Weekend was cool. Of course, it's taken me an entire week to recover. Very exhausting. But fun!

Christopher has other photos over at his Livejournal: wordgrinder.