Press Release – June 30th

Chicago Horror Film Festival has two great pieces of news being announced today. Horror Author and friend to CHFF John Everson will be a guest at this years film festival and will be signing copies of his latest novel, “Siren.”.

John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant (2004), Sacrifice (2007), The 13th, (2009) and Siren (2010). All of these novels were released in paperback by Leisure Books. Limited hardcover editions were also issued from Delirium Books, Necro Publications and Bad Moon Books.

Over the past 15 years, John’s short fiction has appeared in more than 50 magazines, including Space & Time, Dark Discoveries and Grue, as well as in a couple dozen anthologies, most recently in A Dark and Deadly Valley, Cold Flesh, Damned, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook. His short stories have also been translated and published in Polish and French. A wide selection of his short fiction has been collected in four short story collections – Creeptych (Delirium Books 2010), Needles & Sins (Necro Books, 2007), Vigilantes of Love (Twilight Tales, 2003) and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (Delirium Books, 2000).

Advance Tickets on sale now for the 2010 Chicago Horror Film Festival at a special promotional price of only $3 for a 1 Day Pass. The promotional advance ticket price is only good until July and then ticket prices will once again return to the $10 price for advance tickets.

The Chicago Horror Film Festival is a 3 day festival from September 24th to September 26th and is filled with Independent Horror films from all over the world as well contests and special events. Festivals in the past have included the “I want to hear you Scream” contest, FX Fashion Shows, Art of Horror galleries, Paranormal Investigations, and of course the Sinister Visions Presented Zombie Pinup Contest. We have also given out numerous awards and have watched as many of the films we have shown find their way into various distribution channels.

We are very proud of our long history, having served the horror community since 2003, and look forward to continuing the tradition for our latest chapter here in 2010! Already we are in talks with many excellent vendors, have talked to some interesting new coordinators as to some new events, and have watched some very exciting film submissions. All of which give the organizers of the Chicago Horror Film Festival goosebumps when thinking about this year’s festival.

“As I always say for every year’s festival and just one of my favorite movie quotes, “We have such sights to show you.’” – Jason R. Davis, Festival Director

*Quote from Hellraiser

Submissions are still open, so visit us online at http://www.chicagohorrorfest.com to submit your film if you are a filmmaker.

Advance tickets can be purchased at http://chicagohorrorfest.eventbrite.com