NEWS AND NOTES

CONVENTIONS AND LIVE SHOWS

Here's a rundown of personal appearances of horror hosts around this great nation of ours and links to websites for these events:

GHOULARDIFEST October 10 and 11, 1998 at the Berea Fairbrounds in Cleveland Ohio. The King himself, the Ghoul, will be appearing along with Big Chuck and Lil' John plus past and present horror and children hosts. I WILL be at this one!

CHILLER THEATRE TOY, MODEL AND FILM EXPO
(Held at the Meadowlands Hilton Hotel in Secaucus, New Jersey From 30 October to 1 November 1998. Lots of stars from TV and movies but the biggest draw will be the Cool Ghoul himself, Zacherley!)

DRAGON*CON 1998
(A yearly event held in Altanta at the Hyatt Regency. No horror hosts but three of my favorite people will be there: Forrest Ackerman of Famous Monsters of Filmland fame, Author Harlan Ellison and the premier punk band, The Misfits.)

THE MONSTER BASH CON

(If you have info on upcoming shows or personal appearances of horror hosts from your neck of the woods, please email me and I'll slap it up here.)

CURRENT HORROR HOSTS ON THE AIR NOW!!!!!

SVENGOOLIE
Sven is currently on WCIU-TV channel 26 in Chicago every Saturday from 9-11 pm Central Time.

BIG CHUCK AND LIL' JOHN
The longest running local show is seen on WJW-TV channel 8 late Friday evening at 12:30 am Eastern Time. Also, they host Big Chuck and Lil' John's Couch potato theater on Saturdays at 12 noon Eastern Time.

SON OF GHOUL
The Son of Ghoul show is aired on WAOH Channel 29 and WAX Channel 35 as part of Cleveland Akron Television (or CAT for short) on Fridays from 8-10 pm and is repeated on Saturdays from 8-10 pm.

THE GHOUL
The Ghoul is on Fridays at 11:30 pm on WBNX Channel 55.

COUNT COOL RIDER
For those going to Vegas to lose their kid's college fund, why not check out the Count on Gold 33, KFBT. He and the Bat Girls are on every Saturday at 10pm Pacific time.

RAVENA AND ANOK
(See their section in the gallery.) The launch date for both the B-Movie Channel (on cable) and Friday Fright has been set for January 1, 1999. If you have info on hosts that are currently on, email me the skinny and I'll add them to the list. Also, I would like to do trades on those current hosts.

THINGS I'M LOOKING FOR

Here's a brief rundown of materials I'm looking for:

-Any Ghoul material
-Any video of Sir Graves Ghastly
-Any video of Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson's appearance on Joe Bob Briggs's Drive-In Theater on the Movie Channel in the early 1990's
-Current horror hosts
-Past horror hosts
-ANY horror hosts

Please email me and I'll forward my growing list of stuff and goodies that I have now!

Thomas