Apr 12, 2006 - Site Downtime - Some of you may have noticed problems with the I-CON site over the past few days. We have been having hardware issues with our server, which have now been resolved. All site functionality should now be fully restored... if you notice any issues, please email webmaster@iconsf.org. Thank you.

Mar 22, 2006 - Important Travel Update! - The Suffolk County Half Marathon will be taking place this Sunday, resulting in closures on Nichols Road between the Long Island Expressway and Rt. 347. Please use these directions to get to the convention on Sunday.

Mar 22, 2006 - New I-CON Community - ICON Science Fiction, Inc. is proud to announce its new project, community.iconsf.org. Designed to encourage community involvement and the open sharing of ideas and information, community.iconsf.org is our new hub for everyone who is interested in Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy (and Gaming, Anime, and everything else you might see at I-CON - and likely a whole lot more!). We encourage you all to stop in, take a look, and speak your mind - this site was created to allow you to immerse yourself further in the things that matter to you (and us).

Mar 22, 2006 - Indie Film Schedule - In addition to the main schedule and gaming schedule linked from our home page, the Indie Film schedule is now online. Also, an HTML (webpage) version of the schedule is coming soon, we thank everyone for their patience.

Mar 21, 2006 - Schedule Coming Soon Posted! - We know that many of you were anxiously awaiting the schedule for I-CON. Well, it's here! Go to the site index and check it out to see everything what I-CON 25 has in store for you!

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Website: http://www.cith.org/gerard/index.html

Gerard Houarner resides with his wife and better 3/4's, writer and poet Linda Addison, in a house decorated in Nouveau French Tribal Native Goth Fantastic in the Bronx. He is a product of the NYC school system and the City College of New York, where he studied writing under Joseph Heller and Joel Oppenheimer and crashed hallucinogenic William Burroughs seminars back in the day. He worked as a substance abuse and mental health counselor in Hells Kitchen, on the Lower East Side at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and in the Bronx at the start of the crack epidemic before settling into a quiet, contemplative career in a city psychiatric center. Through school, day job, marriage, divorce, and a second marriage sanctified in a New Orleans Voodoo Temple, he has continued to write whenever he can, mostly at night, about the dark.

Look for his work right now in Brutarian, Surreal Magazine, Inhuman Magazine, Tales of the Unanticipated, Fantastic Magazine; in the anthologies The Damned, Midnight Premiere, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Shelf Life, Damned Nation, Horrors Beyond, The Best of Epitaph, The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, Lost on the Darkside, Dueling Minds, Dark Acts, and the long-awaited Dead Cat's Traveling Circus of Wonders and Miracle Medicine Show, which he co-edited with the illustrator GAK.

For the latest news (including the upcoming Dead Cat anthology, and hopefully some announcements on new Max material and story collections) visit www.cith.org/gerard, or visit his message board at http://horrorworld.org (Click on Message Boards and select Dark Side Index). Visit Shocklines.com, the online horror book store, for a complete selection of available work.