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Thursday, June 4
 

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Jacques Mersereau

Jacques Mersereau

Author, Day and Night Media, LLC
Fellow Halloween People,

My name is Jacques Mersereau. I've made my living as an artist and video director for over forty years. I am an Emmy winning movie-maker and ran the University of Michigan's Video Studio for the last twenty years. I started my career in one of the USA's first ska bands opening for... Read More →
avatar for Kathleen Palm
avatar for Jes Malitoris

Jes Malitoris

I am a trans-nonbinary horror and dark fantasy author from North Carolina with a PhD in history and a day job in books marketing. My work has been featured in horror magazines and speculative fiction anthologies, shortlisted for Brave New Weird: Volume 3, and included on the Stoker award reading list... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Edward J. Flora

Edward J. Flora

Author, Gravesend Books
Ed is a horror author and audiobook narrator. His most recent book, In The Shadow of a Broken Spire, is a small-town folk horror story. He is a fan of cosmic horror, ghost stories and discovering new indie authors.
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avatar for Stacie Herrington

Stacie Herrington

Author | Screenwriter | Film Journalist
Stacie writes funny-scary-feminist horror for page and screen. She is the author of Dead Husband Energy: A Comedy-Horror Novelette. You can find her poetry in HWA Poetry Showcase XI (2024) and XII (2025), and the StokerCon Souvenir Anthology 2025. Stacie is the film columnist... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Thursday June 4, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Heather Hein

Heather Hein

Writing Heights Writers Association
Heather Hein is a Rocky Mountain Wordsmith who lives in Colorado with a menagerie of people, pets, and plants. Though her heart belongs in the west, she spent her high school years living in Iowa City where she (really!) worked at Hy-Vee Food Store before moving on to bigger and better... Read More →
avatar for Carina Stopenski

Carina Stopenski

Teen Librarian, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
academic HWA member | library advisory council member | pgh chapter co-chair | phd student of literature | author of STUFFED (unveiling nightmares) and THE THINGS WE DO FOR BLOOD (alien buddha press)
avatar for Daniel Carpenter

Daniel Carpenter

Commissioning Editor, Titan Books
Horror commissioning editor at Titan Books, author of Hunting by the River (Black Shuck Books, 2024)
Thursday June 4, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

5:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Thursday June 4, 2026 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Jack LaRoche

Jack LaRoche

QAA
Book reviewer. Wildlife/Exotic animal rehabber. Werewolf enthusiast.
avatar for K.A. Schultz

K.A. Schultz

author illustrator, Dakeha Taunus LLC
Kimann (K.A.) Schultz is the author of three horror short story collections NEITHERIUM, GÖTHIQUE, and KHRYSTMASS; PÔËTÍQUE Dark Poems & Lyric Poetry, JACOB A Denouement in One Act, and A LETTER FROM KRAMPUS
She was an independent blogger at Huffington Post 2013-2018, was also... Read More →
JC
Thursday June 4, 2026 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings
 
Friday, June 5
 

10:00am EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman

Author
SCOTT EDELMAN has published 135+ short stories in magazines such as Lightspeed, Analog, Apex, and The Twilight Zone, and in anthologies such as Why New Yorkers Smoke, Crossroads: Southern Tales of the Fantastic, and MetaHorror. He began his professional writing career in the comics... Read More →
avatar for John Kachuba

John Kachuba

Author
Shapeshifters! Ghosts! Middle Grade horror! Author of 15 books, including the historical fantasy trilogy, “The Bottle Conjuror,” and the middle/grade novel, “Haycorn Smith and the Castle Ghost.”Several of my nonfiction books are about ghosts and the paranormal and I am a... Read More →
avatar for Jo Kaplan

Jo Kaplan

Author, HWA LA co-chair
Jo Kaplan is a Shirley Jackson Award nominated author whose work has been described as “immersive, chilling, and compelling” by Library Journal and “delightfully creepy” by Booklist. She is the author of It Will Just Be Us, When the Night Bells Ring, and The Midnight Muse... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

11:00am EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Tom Deady
avatar for Meg Ripley

Meg Ripley

Writer of horror and dark fantasy, designer, and drawer. Her debut novel, NECROLOGY, (Book #1 of the Dirty) is a Foreword INDIES Bronze Medalist in Fantasy (2024).

Book 2 of the Dirty, WOODFEAST, due Fall 2026, Creature Publishing.
avatar for Grace Daly

Grace Daly

Author
Grace Daly (she/her) is a disabled author with multiple invisible chronic illnesses. She lives near Chicago and spends most of her free time with her dog, who is a very good boy. Her debut horror comedy novel, “The Scald-Crow”, is currently available and her fantasy novella, “The... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Erika T. Wurth

Erika T. Wurth

Writer/Professor, Flatiron/Macmillan

avatar for Chloe Spencer

Chloe Spencer

Minnesota native Chloe Spencer is an award winning writer, indie gamedev, and filmmaker. She is the author of multiple sapphic horror novellas, novels, and short stories. In her spare time she enjoys playing video games, trying her best at Pilates, and cuddling with her cats. She... Read More →
avatar for Jamal Hodge

Jamal Hodge

Founder, Hodge Cinema
Jamal Hodge is a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated writer and an award-winning director. He has directed for Investigation Discovery’s Primal Instinct and PBS’s Southern Storytellers, while producing credits include the Academy Award–nominated documentary Armed Only With a Cam... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

1:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Ai Jiang

Ai Jiang

Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award winner, and Hugo, Astounding, Locus, Aurora, and BFSA Award finalist from Changle, Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, The Masters Review, among others... Read More →
avatar for Rebecca Cuthbert

Rebecca Cuthbert

Writer, Undertaker Books

avatar for Cynthia Gómez

Cynthia Gómez

Attendee
Cynthia Gómez writes horror and other types of speculative fiction. She has a particular love for themes of revenge, retribution, and resistance to oppression. The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, her first collection, was released from Cursed Morsels Press in July 2024. Her novella... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Ace Antonio-Hall

Ace Antonio-Hall

Omnium Gatherum

avatar for Amanda Headlee

Amanda Headlee

Amanda Headlee is the author of Till We Become Monsters, This is How a Villain is Made, Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face, and several short stories. A devoted connoisseur of cosmic and psychological horror, Amanda can often be found unraveling the universe’s darkest... Read More →
avatar for Dacia M Arnold

Dacia M Arnold

AMS/ AMG Marketing Account Manager, Liquid Mind Marketing, Dacia M Arnold LLC

Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
DC
avatar for Barbara Cottrell

Barbara Cottrell

Vanishing Edge Press
Barbara Cottrell is a former professor who gave up her career to pursue her true passion: writing weird fiction. The first book in her series of supernatural thrillers, Darkness Below, won a gold medal at the Book Fest, was named best first novel by Indie Reader and was an editor... Read More →
avatar for Sawney Hatton

Sawney Hatton

Sawney Hatton is an author, editor, and screenwriter who has long loved taking trips to the dark side. Weaned on a steady diet of paranormal horror and creature features, he quickly developed an appetite for all things macabre. With early influences as tonally disparate as Stephen... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Meghan Arcuri
avatar for Scotty Milder
avatar for Sonora Taylor

Sonora Taylor

Author
Sonora Taylor (she/her) is the award-winning author of several books and short stories. Her books include Someone to Share My Nightmares: Stories, Seeing Things, Little Paranoias: Stories, Without Condition, The Crow’s Gift and Other Tales, and Wither and Other Stories.  She a... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings
 
Saturday, June 6
 

9:00am EDT

Author Readings
Saturday June 6, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Lawrence C. Connolly

Lawrence C. Connolly

Writer
Lawrence C. Connolly’s books include the collections This Way to Egress, whose titular tale of psychological horror was adapted for the Mick Garris film Nightmare Cinema; and the Bram-Stoker-nominated Voices, which features Connolly’s best stories from The Magazine of Fantasy... Read More →
avatar for larry hinkle

larry hinkle

The least famous author you've never heard of, Larry Hinkle writes cosmic horror, pulp, and horror comedy, tinged with a touch of weird. His short stories made the Preliminary Stoker Awards ballot in 2020 and 2022. Books include The Space Between (collection, 2024), The Eris Ridge... Read More →
avatar for Nicole Givens Kurtz

Nicole Givens Kurtz

Author, Award-winning publisher, Mocha Memoirs Press
Nicole Givens Kurtz has been called “a genre polymath who does crime, horror, and science fiction and fantasy (Book Riot).” They’ve named her as one of the 6 Black SFF Indie Writers You Should be Reading, 30 Must-Read SFF Books by Black Authors, and The Best of the West: 8 Alternative... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

10:00am EDT

Author Readings
Saturday June 6, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
JF

Jonathan Frater

Publisher, Desperate Measures Press
I'm a librarian, people should ask me any question they can think of...
avatar for Sarah Read
avatar for Tim Waggoner

Tim Waggoner

Tim Waggoner’s first novel came out in 2001, and since then he’s published over sixty novels and eight collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. He’s written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural, Conan the Barbarian... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

11:00am EDT

Author Readings
Saturday June 6, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Clay McLeod Chapman

Clay McLeod Chapman

Author of Devil Inside, Bodies of Work, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Acquired Taste, Shiny Happy People, Kill Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and others.
avatar for Caitlin Starling

Caitlin Starling

Caitlin Starling is the nationally bestselling author of The Starving Saints, the Bram Stoker-nominated The Luminous Dead, and the upcoming Milkteeth, among others. Her work showcases her love of genre-hopping horror; her bibliography spans besieged castles, alien caves, and haunted... Read More →
avatar for John F. D. Taff
Saturday June 6, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Saturday June 6, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for J.R. Blanes

J.R. Blanes

Author, Ruadan Books
J.R. Blanes is the author of the novel, Portraits of Decay, forthcoming October 21, 2025, from Ruadán Books. His short fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from, Allegory, Tales to Terrify, The No Sleep Podcast, Creepy, among others. He lives in Chicago with his wife, their neurotic dog, and a three-legged cat. He plays bass guitar a... Read More →
avatar for Pauline Chow

Pauline Chow

Pauline Chow is a writer, coach, and ancestral magic practitioner, crafting alternative histories and optimistic futures. She is a Pushcart Prize nominated author with words in Cosmic Monthly Horror, Space and Time Magazine, Apocalypse Confidential, and more. Not your average data... Read More →
avatar for Gillian Daniels

Gillian Daniels

Gillian Daniels' poetry and short fiction have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among more than thirty other publications. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa, grew up in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, and she now writes, works, and haunts the... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

1:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Douglas Ford
avatar for Casey Masterson

Casey Masterson

Hello!

I am the author of numerous short stories, such as "Shock," "Portrait of an Artist," and "Project Lazarus." I am also the author of Revelations of the Raven Master, which is a collection of 18 short horror stories!
avatar for Tanya Pell

Tanya Pell

author
Tanya Pell is a narcoleptic horror author who drinks bougie coffee and lives in the American South. She is the Bram Stoker nominated-author of Her Wicked Roots, Cicada, and the upcoming This B Just Won't Die! Her short fiction can be found in Fever Dreams, Mother Knows Best, ... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Saturday June 6, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Linda Addison

Linda Addison

Trustee, Horror Writers Association

avatar for Billy Martin

Billy Martin

Stephen King, John Kennedy Toole, cats, birds (wild ones, not pets), New Orleans, Jaws, Goodfellas, international food, travel, old music (mainly 1960s - 1980s)
Saturday June 6, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Saturday June 6, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison is the New York Times Bestselling author of PLAY NICE, SO THIRSTY, BLACK SHEEP, SUCH SHARP TEETH, CACKLE, and THE RETURN. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS.

Her next novel, KISS SLAY REPLAY, is out this September from Berkley in the US and Titan in the UK... Read More →
avatar for John Shirley

John Shirley

Decades of experience in horror, television, science fiction,thriller writing, movie scripting. Strong opinions on AI, the future of our civilization,  esoteric spirituality. Weird poetry.The book I won the Bram Stoker for: Black Butterflies. My new horror novel (written with Ma... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Saturday June 6, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for N.J. Gallegos

N.J. Gallegos

ER Doc by day, horror author by night. She lives with her wife and two cats in the middle of tornado alley. She is a cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. She has two novels, The Broken Heart and The Fatal Mind, with Winding Road Stories. Her short story collection, Time of Death: A... Read More →
avatar for Lisa Kröger

Lisa Kröger

Trustee, Horror Writers Association
Horror writer. Author of MONSTER, SHE WROTE and TOIL AND TROUBLE. Cohost of the Know Fear Cast and The Monster, She Wrote podcast.
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Rami Ungar

I am a novelist from Columbus, Ohio specializing in horror and dark fantasy. I have published six books and several short stories.
Saturday June 6, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings
 
Sunday, June 7
 

10:00am EDT

Author Readings
Sunday June 7, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
LB
avatar for Stephanie Sanders-Jacob

Stephanie Sanders-Jacob

Author
Stephanie Sanders-Jacob writes horror and weird fiction. Her books include Pyramidia, Dropshipped, Hearsepower, and Singing All the Way Up. She loves murderous and mystical cowboys, satirical stories, and Furbys. She is the editor-in-chief of Squirm Books, the YA imprint of Slashic Horror Press... Read More →
avatar for Mark Mellon

Mark Mellon

Mark Mellon is a novelist who writes two-fisted, hardboiled, blood and guts pulp fiction and has five novels and over a hundred short stories (many as reprints) published in the USA, UK, Canada, Ireland, India, Bulgaria, and Denmark. Short fiction by Mark has recently appeared in... Read More →
avatar for Robbie Dorman
Sunday June 7, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

11:00am EDT

Author Readings
Sunday June 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Mary Berman

Mary Berman

Author, UNTIL DEATH (Little, Brown 2026)
Mary Berman is a Philadelphia-based novelist. Her debut, UNTIL DEATH, a horror novel about wedding planning, is coming May 19, 2026 from Little, Brown.
avatar for Jonathan Gensler

Jonathan Gensler

Author
Raised in a haunted house on the outskirts of a cursed town in West Virginia. US Army veteran and recovering entrepreneur. Words in Cosmic Horror Monthly, CreepyPod, and others. Stay in touch at jonathangensler.com
avatar for Lori D'Angelo

Lori D'Angelo

Writer
I write short horror fiction and am the author of The Monsters Are Here, a collection of short stories, which was published by ELJ Editions in October of 2024.
avatar for Kendall Phillips
Sunday June 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Fayette
  Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings
Sunday June 7, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Fayette

Speakers
avatar for Richard Dansky

Richard Dansky

Consultant, Dansky Narrative Services
Richard Dansky is a 25+ year veteran of the video game industry and is widely regarded as a leading authority on game writing and narrative. He has written and narrative designed for bestselling franchises including The Division, Assassins Creed, Far Cry, and Splinter Cell. He is... Read More →
avatar for Brian Cummings

Brian Cummings

Brian is an author of occult fantasy rooted in supernatural horror. He’s a metal musician, reluctant psychic, and host of the fiction/paranormal podcast, Dark Concepts. If you want to talk about spooky, reality-blurring stuff, he’s your dude.
avatar for Tony Sarrecchia

Tony Sarrecchia

Tony is a writer who creates audio dramas, including the award-winning, HARRY STRANGE RADIO DRAMA, and SCARLETT HOOD ADVENTURES. His LADY SHERLOCK HOLMES Episode, ‘The Lady in Red’, performed at DragonCon and the National Audio Theatre Festival won the NATF’s Platinum Festival... Read More →
avatar for Andromeda Ruins

Andromeda Ruins

Author, Andromeda Ruins
Heyyo, I'm a dark fantasy and horror author from a small town in the midwest! I mostly focus on Greek Mythology retellings and religious horror, but I have a soft spot for just about anything folk related as well!
Sunday June 7, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
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