The original ten "masters" attending were John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, Bill Malone, and Garris himself.

From It to Carrie to The Shining: what makes Stephen King the Master of Horror. The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years  if it ever did end  began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspapers floating down a gutter swollen with rain.