ChillerCon UK 2022
Once upon a time, the HWA announced that Stokercon would be held in the UK for the first time ever. Cue much delight and cheering on this side of the pond and a scrambling for tickets during 2019. Information filtered through about attendees, a number of our US cousins would be here, and all was right with the world – until it wasn’t. Covid reared its ugly head and the event started its first of a number of reschedulings until it could no longer be Stokercon and transformed into Chillercon UK. The indefatigable Co-Chairs Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan worked tirelessly with fellow committee member Alex Davis, to keep the show on the road and we got there. Despite the ceiling collapsing in a venue room in The Grand Hotel, one of the partner sites for the weekend, and having to move everything – and everyone – into The Royal only a few weeks beforehand, Chillercon UK went ahead in Scarborough. And what a wonderful event it turned out to be.
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