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Although enjoyed by many of the members, it took quite some time for the horror genre to become regularly celebrated by the Peterborough SF Club. The first horror guest the club approached was Iain Banks, who was a guest at the Club's Convention, "Congregate", in 1988. He returned as part of the Club's fifteenth anniversary celebrations in 1991, though by then he was focusing more on the mainstream and sf than echoing his earlier success with "The Wasp Factory". Other writers of Horror and Dark Fantasy who visited the City as part of those celebrations were Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Gallagher, Graham Joyce, Brian Stableford, Freda Warrington and Ian Watson. Since then the Club has had frequent visits by Horror authors. These have included Jamie Delano (who used Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, as a site of a mass-murder in his comic "Hellblazer"), Chuck Farley, Terry Hale (translater of 19th century French tales), Steve Jones (editor of many fine anthologies), Garry Killworth, Ben Leech, Richard Christian Matheson (who as a student was part of a parapsychologial investigation team, one of whose cases became filmed as "The Entity"), Kim Newman and Nicholas Royle. The Club has also celebrated local writers who had been active within the genre. Those have been J.D.Beresford, L.P.Hartley and E.G.Swain (a member of the M.R.James circle). 
Over the past couple of years the Club has had a handful of guests with strong Horror connections. Independent film maker Alex Chandon made such short films as Bad Karma and The Night Pastor, Simon Clark has written a half- dozen novels including Vampyrric. Stephen Laws had ten books published including Gideon which won the Dracula Society award for best novel. Mark Morris had become a full-time author when he received an enterprise grant. To encourage local writers the Club invited the Terror Scribes - an informal group of authors, artists and publishers - to the City. The Club has also tried to promote the Gothic novels of local author Martin Wilson.
To keep abreast of the latest publications and films, the Club is affiliated to the British Fantasy Society (T. Kelly Lee is a Club member who has written for |
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