StokerCon 2026

StokerCon 2026

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7:00am EDT

Boardroom Crawford

8:00am EDT

Welcome To Librarians' Day! Pennsylvania Ballroom Registration Third Floor Coat Check

8:15am EDT

Panel A: Conspicuous Consumption Butler

8:30am EDT

Brains! Brains! Brainstorming Ways to Engage Your Community Pennsylvania Ballroom

9:00am EDT

Author Readings Armstrong Author Readings Lawrence Adolescent Terrors: Writing Young Adult Horror Somerset Are We Rehearsing for the Fall of Civilization? Cambria Out of the Shadows: the Evolution of Horror into Everyday Life Westmoreland HU: Understanding Tone and Word Placement in Poetry Washington

9:30am EDT

How to Feature Horror at Your Library Pennsylvania Ballroom

9:45am EDT

Panel B: "Strangely are Our Souls Constructed": On Frankenstein Butler

10:00am EDT

Author Readings Fayette Author Readings Armstrong Author Readings Lawrence Better the Devil You Know: A Panel on the Value of Queer Villians Somerset Nevertheless We Persist: Resilient Souls Share Their Journeys Westmoreland Pitch Session Panel Cambria Dealers Room Allegheny Ballroom I

10:30am EDT

Buzzing About Horror Books Pennsylvania Ballroom

11:00am EDT

Author Readings Armstrong Author Readings Lawrence Author Readings Fayette Bloodsplatters: Art, Storytelling, and Horror Somerset Working with Big 5 Publishers Cambria Guest of Honor Spotlight: Speculative Musings: the influence of Linda D. Addison Westmoreland HU: The Human Touch: Outwriting AI Washington

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings Fayette Author Readings Armstrong Author Readings Lawrence Publishing and Promoting on a Shoestring Budget Cambria Lifetime Achievement Award Spotlight: Creating and Developing Compelling Characters and Worlds with Jonathan Maberry Westmoreland Female Asian Gothic: Fury and Metamorphosis Somerset

12:30pm EDT

Panel C: "Hell with the Lid Taken Off": Steeltown and the USA Butler

1:00pm EDT

Author Readings Fayette Author Readings Armstrong Author Readings Lawrence Hooked on Horror (Again): Middle Grade Books Cambria Sell Your Books! Tips and Tricks for Hand-Selling Books Somerset Bizarro Fiction: The Wrecking Ball of Weird vs. the Boundaries of Genre Westmoreland What Horror Means to Me Pennsylvania Ballroom HU: Little Monsters: Writing the Unsettling Child in Horror Washington

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings Armstrong Author Readings Fayette Author Readings Lawrence Artificial Intelligence: How to Identify Who's Using It ; How to Avoid It; How to Fight Back Against It Cambria Guest of Honor Spotlight: The Writing Life and Building a Career with James Tynion Westmoreland Digital Campfires: How Internet Built a New Generation of Readers and Writers Somerset The Past is Undead: Exploring an American Vampire Canon Pennsylvania Ballroom Panel D: Worlds of Horror Butler

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings Fayette Author Readings Armstrong Author Readings Lawrence Creative Resilience: Overcoming Disappointment Cambria Editing as an Art Form Westmoreland Making Modern Spaces Scary Somerset Summer Scares: A Thrilling Summer Reading Program Pennsylvania Ballroom HU: The Five Senses of Dread Washington

3:30pm EDT

Panel E: Gendered Tensions and Feminist Rebellions Butler

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings Fayette Author Readings Lawrence Author Readings Armstrong Navigating the Horror of the Parasocial Cambria Guest of Honor Spotlight: John Shirley, The Nature of Death in Horror Fiction Westmoreland The Ghost in the Margins: Queerness in Gothic Horror Somerset

8:00pm EDT

Final Frame Film Competition Allegheny Ballroom II

10:00pm EDT

Final Frame Reception Allegheny Ballroom Foyer II

11:00pm EDT

Special Screening of "Mourning Meal" Allegheny Ballroom II