| Convention |
Dates |
GoHs, Notes
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| 1st World Fantasy Convention |
October 31 - November 2, 1975 |
Robert Bloch
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| 2nd World Fantasy Convention |
October 29-31, 1976 |
C. L. Moore, Michael Moorcock
|
| World Fantasy Convention III |
October 28-30, 1977 |
Richard Matheson
|
| 4th World Fantasy Convention |
October 13-15, 1978 |
Fritz Leiber, Alicia Austin
|
| 5th World Fantasy Convention |
October 12-14, 1979 |
Stephen King, Frank Belknap Long, Michael Whelan
|
| 6th World Fantasy Convention |
October 31 - November 2, 1980 |
Jack Vance, Boris Vallejo
|
| 7th World Fantasy Convention |
October 30 - November 1, 1981 |
Alan Garner, Peter S. Beagle, Brian Froud
|
| World Fantasy Convention '82 |
October 29-31, 1982 |
Peter Straub, Joseph Payne Brennan, Don Maitz
|
| World Fantasy Convention 1983 |
October 28-30, 1983 |
Gene Wolfe, Manly Wade Wellman, Rowena Morrill
|
| World Fantasy Convention 1984 |
October 12-14, 1984 |
Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen, Jeffrey Jones
|
| 1985 World Fantasy Convention |
October 31 - November 3, 1985 |
Stephen R. Donaldson, Victoria Poyser, Evangeline Walton
|
| 12th World Fantasy Convention |
October 29 - November 2, 1986 |
Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, J. K. Potter
|
| 13th World Fantasy Convention |
October 29 - November 1, 1987 |
Piers Anthony, Frank Kelly Freas
|
| 14th World Fantasy Convention / Fantasycon XIII |
October 28-31, 1988 |
James Herbert, Michael Foreman, Diana Wynne Jones
|
| 15th World Fantasy Convention |
October 27-29, 1989 |
Ursula K. LeGuin, Avram Davidson, S. P. Somtow, Robert McCammon, Yoshitaka Amano
|
| 16th World Fantasy Convention |
November 2-4, 1990 |
F. Paul Wilson, L. Sprague de Camp, Susan Allison, David B. Mattingly
|
| 17th World Fantasy Convention |
November 1-3, 1991 |
Susan and Harlan Ellison, Arlin Robins
|
| 1992 World Fantasy Convention |
October 29 - November 1, 1992 |
Michael Bishop, John Farris, Martin H. Greenberg, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Gould
|
| 1993 World Fantasy Convention |
October 28-31, 1993 |
Poul Anderson, John Crowley, Roger Zelazny, Tom Canty, Basil Copper
|
| 1994 World Fantasy Convention |
October 27-31, 1994 |
Damon Knight, George Alec Effinger, George R. R. Martin, Tim Powers, Kate Wilhelm
|
| 1995 World Fantasy Convention |
October 26-29, 1995 |
Terry Bisson, Lucius Shepard, Howard Waldrop, Rick Berry, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
|
| World Fantasy Convention 1996 |
October 31 - November 3, 1996 |
Katherine Kurtz, Joe R. Lansdale, Ellen Asher, Ron Walotsky
|
| 1997 World Fantasy Convention / Fantasycon XXI |
October 30 - November 2, 1997 |
Joan Aiken, Iain Sinclair, Bob Eggleton, Hugh B. Cave, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Doug Bradley
|
| World Fantasy Convention 1998 |
October 29 - November 1, 1998 |
Cecelia Holland, Richard Laymon, Frank M. Robinson, Gahan Wilson
|
| 25th World Fantasy Convention |
November 4-7, 1999 |
Charles de Lint, Leo & Diane Dillon, Patricia A. McKillip, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2000 |
October 26-29, 2000 |
K. W. Jeter, John Crowley, Charles Vess
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2001 |
November 1-4, 2001 |
Fred Saberhagen, Joel Champetier, Donato Giancola
|
| 2002 World Fantasy Convention |
October 31 - November 3, 2002 |
Dennis Etchison, Jonathan Carroll, Kathe Koja, Dave McKean, Stephen Jones
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2003 |
October 30 - November 2, 2003 |
Brian Lumley, Jack Williamson , Allen Koszowski, W. Paul Ganley
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2004 |
October 28-31, 2004 |
Betty Ballantine, Gwyneth Jones, Janny Wurts, Ellen Datlow
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2005 |
November 3-6, 2005 |
Graham Joyce, Robert Weinberg, Terri Windling, Kinuko Y. Craft
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2006 |
November 2-5, 2006 |
John Jude Palencar, Glen Cook, Dave Duncan and Robin Hobb, Glenn Lord, Gary Gianni
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2007 |
November 1-4, 2007 |
Carol Emshwiller, Kim Newman, Lisa Tuttle, Jean Giraud (Moebius)
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2008 |
October 30 - November 2, 2008 |
David Morrell, Barbara Hambly, Tom Doherty, Todd Lockwood
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2009 |
October 29 - November 1, 2009 |
Garth Nix, Michael Swanwick, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Lisa Snellings
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2010 |
October 28-31, 2010 |
Dennis McKiernan, Esther Friesner, David Hartwell, Darrell K. Sweet
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2011 |
October 27-30, 2011 |
Jo Fletcher, Neil Gaiman, Parke Godwin, Shawna McCarthy, Ruth Sanderson, Connie Willis
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2012 |
November 1-4, 2012 |
Elizabeth Hand, John Clute, Richard A. Kirk
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2013 / FantasyCon 2013 |
October 31 - November 3, 2013 |
Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Joanne Harris, Joe Hill, Alan Lee
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2014 |
November 6-9, 2014 |
Guy Gavriel Kay, Les Edwards, Stuart David Schiff, Lail Finlay
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2015 |
November 5-8, 2015 |
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Steven Erikson, David Drake, Glen Cook
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2016 |
October 27-30, 2016 |
Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Randal Spangler
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2017 |
November 2-5, 2017 |
Karen Joy Fowler, Gordon Van Gelder, Gregory Manchess, David Mitchell
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2018 |
November 1-4, 2018 |
Kaaron Warren, Scott Edelman, Tom Kidd, Michael J. Walsh, Aliette de Bodard
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2019 |
October 31 - November 3, 2019 |
Margo Lanagan, Beth Meacham, Tad Williams
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2020 (virtual) |
October 29 - November 1, 2020 |
Stephen Gallagher, Anne Groell, David Cherry
(held as an online virtual convention due to the Covid-19 epidemic)
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2021 |
November 4-7, 2021 |
Nisi Shawl, John Picacio, André-François Ruaud
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2022 |
November 3-6, 2022 |
Ginjer Buchanan, Victor LaValle, Jo Walton, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Iris Compiet, Andrei Codrescu, Ursula Vernon, Brandon O'Brien
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2023 |
2023 |
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2024 |
October 16-20, 2024 |
|
| World Fantasy Convention 2025 |
October 21-November 3, 2025 |
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