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Thursday, June 4
 

3:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
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avatar for Ann Heyward

Ann Heyward

Ann O’Mara Heyward is a horror fiction and non-fiction writer in Cleveland, Ohio.  Her short story “The Carny” recently received the Supernatural Fiction Award from The Ghost Story (theghoststory.com).  Her short fiction will be adapted by the NoSleep Podcast (air date TBA... Read More →
avatar for Raymonde Chira

Raymonde Chira

Author
Raymonde Chira (she/they) is a writer, illustrator and librarian based in New York City. She is the author of multiple dark short stories and comics, having been published in Ghost Parachute, Dark Matter Presents: The Off-Season, Let Her Be Evil, and Bump in the Night (forthcoming... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Peter Rosch

Peter Rosch

Author
Peter Rosch is the author of What The Dead Can Do, Future Skinny, But I Love You, and My Dead Friend Sarah, and other dark fictions, many born from the addictions he chased while living in New York City. He’s sober now but remains an addict’s addict: he can turn anything fun into a serious problem... Read More →
avatar for Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Author, Editor, Publisher, eSpec Books
Award-winning author, editor, and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked in publishing for over thirty-five years, been a published author for twenty-five years, and a publisher for eleven years. She is also a book and cover designer, having worked on hundreds of books in... Read More →
avatar for Andrew Robertson

Andrew Robertson

Founder, Great Lakes Horror Company

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

5:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Ryan Marie Ketterer
avatar for Norman Prentiss
Thursday June 4, 2026 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings
 
Friday, June 5
 

9:00am EDT

Author Readings
Friday June 5, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Lawrence

Speakers
avatar for Kenya Moss-Dyme

Kenya Moss-Dyme

Author/Nightmare Vendor

As a child, I realized that my entertainment choices leaned more toward ghosts and goblins than princesses and fairy godmothers. My favorite authors were Stephen King and Jack Ketchum, as I wasn't aware of any BIack women - or Black men - who wrote horror, so I began writing short-form hor... Read More →
avatar for Erin Louis

Erin Louis

Author, Winding Roads Stories
Erin is a former exotic dancer with a love of books, writing and humor. She spent twenty five years as a stripper on and off and started writing as a way to shed light on a misunderstood industry and profession. But also, to destigmatize and humanize those who choose to work in the... Read More →
avatar for Alex Gonzalez

Alex Gonzalez

Wrote "rekt" and "The Man of Wind and Moss" for Erewhon. Happy to be here! Cheeky pint, king?
Friday June 5, 2026 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

10:00am EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Jay Bechtol

Jay Bechtol

The Alaskan Delegation
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
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Clare Castleberry

Clare Castleberry is an author, artist, and narrator from Louisiana. For updates, follow https://femmebionic.substack.com/
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barbara barnett

Author/Editor
Barbara Barnett is the author of The Apothecary's Curse and Alchemy of Glass, both published by Pyr Books. The Apothecary's Curse was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award (2017). She is also the author of Chasing Zebras: The Unofficial Guide to House M.D., published in five langua... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

11:00am EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Victoria Dalpe

Victoria Dalpe

Victoria Dalpe is a Providence-based horror writer and painter. To date, her short fiction has appeared in over sixty anthologies. She has put out the collection Les Femmes Grotesques and the horror fantasy trilogy Selene Shade: Resurrectionist for Hire with CLASH Books. Book 2 Selene... Read More →
avatar for C.S. Humble
avatar for Diane Sismour

Diane Sismour

Producer/Screenwriter/Author, Author / Screenwriter
Diane Sismour keeps her fans up at night with grounded horror, thrillers, and psychological suspense. Her characters and audiences never know what perils await them or the predicaments they must resolve. She’s a member of national and local writing and screenplay groups.

Her scr... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Tommy B. Smith

Tommy B. Smith

Tommy B. Smith is a writer of dark fiction, award-winning author of The Mourner’s Cradle, Poisonous, and the short story collection Pieces of Chaos, as well as the coming of age novel, Anybody Want to Play WAR? His latest venture into cosmic and psychological horror, the Blac... Read More →
avatar for Darius Jones

Darius Jones

Darius Jones’s stories and poems have appeared in Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast, Space and Time Magazine, and Star*Line Magazine. His first book, The Books of Hours, a collection of 24 Dark Cosmic poems, was published in 2025.

Darius is a member of the HWA, the SFWA, t... Read More →
avatar for CJ Dotson

CJ Dotson

Author
C. J. Dotson possesses the statistically average number of body parts for a human being to have. She and her husband, stepson, and children (all of whom also appear human) share a cabin in the woods with more bugs than she would ever like to see. She is the author of THE CUT (4/8/25... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

1:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Sarah Langan

Sarah Langan

Sarah Langan is the three-time Bram Stoker Award Winning author of the novels Trad Wife (2026) A Better World (2024), Good Neighbors (2021), Audrey's Door (2009), The Missing (2007), and The Keeper (2006). She works in prose and film and lives in Los Angeles.
avatar for Mikayla Randolph

Mikayla Randolph

writer
Mikayla Randolph (she/her) is the author of Not Your Final Girl. Her short fiction has been published in The Chamber Magazine, Watershed Review, and Coffin Bell. She lives in Monterey, California with her husband, two dogs, and an overwhelming pile of books to be read.


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avatar for Diana Rodriguez Wallach

Diana Rodriguez Wallach

Young Adult Author
Diana Rodriguez Wallach is a multi-published author of young adult novels, most recently YA horror novels. Her next book, THE SILENCED, described as Girl Interrupted meets Poltergeist, comes out in September 2025 through Random House/Delacorte. In October 2023, she released HATCHET GIRLS, a modern twist on the legend of Lizzie Borden, and in 2021, she published SMALL TOWN MONSTERS, named one of the “13 Scariest Books of 2021” by Kirkus Reviews (both through... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

2:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Brandon Ketchum

Brandon Ketchum

LCSW, Local Recovery Coordinator, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

avatar for Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels

Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels

Author/Editor, HWA Mental Health Committee, Brisbane Writers Workshop

avatar for Catlyn Ladd

Catlyn Ladd

Writer
Catlyn Ladd loves alliteration, the poetic slip of similar sounds through throat and tongue. She blends metaphors and archetypes from the shadow self, illuminating the monsters, beautiful and horrifying, that gestate there. Her speculative fiction has been published in over a dozen... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

3:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for ROYCE BUCKINGHAM

ROYCE BUCKINGHAM

Author--Penguin/Random House (Blanvalet)
Royce is an author of 14 novels with Penguin/Random House (Blanvalet) in Germany and with Putnam's and St. Martin's Press in North America. He is a member of the HWA and WGAw. Royce grew up with Stephen King and D&D and has been publishing horror and fantasy as a grown-up since 2006... Read More →
avatar for Christa Carmen

Christa Carmen

writer
Christa Carmen is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island and Beneath the Poet’s House, coming fall 2024 from Thomas & Mercer.
Additional work can be found in Vastarien, Nightmare, Orphans of Bliss, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, and the Stoker... Read More →
avatar for Sara Tantlinger

Sara Tantlinger

Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, as well as other works like To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and her recent fiction collection, Cyanide Constellations. She embraces all things macab... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for John Langan

John Langan

Author, THE FISHERMAN
John Langan is the author of two novels and five collections of stories.  For his fiction, he has received the Bram Stoker and the This Is Horror awards.  With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011).  He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jac... Read More →
avatar for Jessica McHugh

Jessica McHugh

Jessica McHugh is a 3x Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet, a multi-genre novelist, & an internationally-produced playwright who spends her days surrounded by artistic inspiration at a Maryland tattoo shop. She’s had thirty-two books published in seventeen years, including her Elgin... Read More →
avatar for Jason A. Wyckoff

Jason A. Wyckoff

Jason A. Wyckoff is the author of two short story collections published by Tartarus Press, Black Horse and other Strange Stories (2012) and The Hidden Back Room (2016). HIs short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. His debut novel, IXIXIKLIS was published in 2025 by Grendel Press. Lives in Columbus, Ohio. Married, with cats... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings
 
Saturday, June 6
 

9:00am EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Jonathan Fortin

Jonathan Fortin

Jonathan Fortin is the author of the LILITU series from Crystal Lake Publishing, specializing in Gothic Horror and Dark Fantasy. He attended the Clarion Writing Program in 2012, one year after graduating summa cum laude from San Francisco State University's Creative Writing program... Read More →
avatar for Robert Ottone

Robert Ottone

Robert P. Ottone is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winning author from Long Island. He is the author of the novels AMITYVILLE AWAKENS, THE VILE THING WE CREATED, THE TRIANGLE, THERE'S SOMETHING SINISTER IN CENTERFIELD and the collections TEAR ME OPEN: FEARS UNWRAPPED and HER INFERNAL... Read More →
avatar for Michael Allen Rose

Michael Allen Rose

Bizarro Writers Association President, RoShamBo Publishing

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

10:00am EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for James Chambers

James Chambers

Trustee; Co-Chair, StokerCon Governing Committee; Chair, Horror University, Horror Writers Association
James Chambers is the Bram Stoker Award® and Scribe Award-winning editor and author of A Bright and Beautiful Eternal World, On the Night Border, On the Hierophant Road, the graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, and editor of Under Twin... Read More →
avatar for Keith Rosson

Keith Rosson

Keith Rosson is the author of the novels The Devil by Name, Fever House, Smoke City, Road Seven, and The Mercy of the Tide, as well as the Shirley Jackson Award–winning story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner and their two children. More can be found at keithrosson.com... Read More →
avatar for Hazel Zorn

Hazel Zorn

I'm an oil painter and SFF/ Horror writer-- REEF MIND is out now from Tenebrous Press!
Saturday June 6, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

11:00am EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Kevin Wetmore, Jr.

Kevin Wetmore, Jr.

Volunteer Coordinator, HWA LA

avatar for Mo Moshaty

Mo Moshaty

Writer, Lecturer, Producer and Journalist, NightTide Magazine/Mourning Manor Media
Mo Moshaty is a multi-award-winning horror writer, producer, and international lecturer whose work explores trauma, folklore, and the boundaries of fear through a diverse and inclusive lens. She is the author of Maddalena – 206 Word Stories (2022), Henry – A Quaint and Curious... Read More →
avatar for Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Professor of English/Author
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar is a Pennsylvania writer, editor, and English professor who teaches creative writing, composition, and composition theory classes. A former secondary English teacher in Delaware public schools , she received her Doctorate of Education with a Literacy... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Kristy Park Kulski
avatar for Ally Malinenko

Ally Malinenko

Ally Malinenko is the author of several poetry collections as well as Ghost Girl and the Stoker nominated This Appearing House both from Katherine Tegen Books/Harper Collins
avatar for Brian McAuley
Saturday June 6, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

1:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Paul Michael Anderson
avatar for RICHARD KADREY

RICHARD KADREY

I do stuff
Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of Kadrey’s other books include The Flesh King, The Grand Dark, and The Dead Take the A Train (with Cassandra Khaw). His work has been nomin... Read More →
avatar for Emily Ruth Verona

Emily Ruth Verona

Author
Emily Ruth Verona is the author of the novel Midnight on Beacon Street, published by Harper Perennial in 2024 and the novella Shiva
Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

2:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Leanna Renee Hieber

Leanna Renee Hieber

Actress, Ghost Tour Guide and Author with, Kensington, Tor and Union Square Books
An actress, playwright, ghost tour guide and award-winning, bestselling author of ghost-filled fiction and non-fiction for Kensington, Tor, Sourcebooks and Union Square, Leanna’s A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts, co-authored with Andrea J... Read More →
avatar for Liz Kerin

Liz Kerin

LIZ KERIN is the author of the critically acclaimed NIGHT’S EDGE duology, YA horror THE PHANTOM FOREST, and the forthcoming HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY from Sourcebooks in February 2027. She’s also a playwright and screenwriter, who graduated from NYU Tisch, where she majored... Read More →
avatar for CJ Leede

CJ Leede

CJ Leede is a horror writer, hiker, and Trekkie. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School, where she studied Mythology and the Middle Ages. When she is not driving around the country, she can be found in LA with her boyfriend... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

3:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Kate Maruyama
avatar for Mae Murray
avatar for Nicole M. Wolverton

Nicole M. Wolverton

Horror Writer, Editor, & Academic, Professionally Unsettling Fear Enthusiast
Nicole M. Wolverton is the author of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters (2024, CamCat Books/Marble Press) and the upcoming Meat Sweats (March 2027, Horrorsmith Publishing) and Mother Mort's Carnival Phantasmagoria (October 2027, Ethereal Visions Publishing). She served as Editor of th... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for LC Allingham

LC Allingham

Author / Editor / Artist / Publisher, Speculation Publications


avatar for KC (Kristina) Grifant

KC (Kristina) Grifant

Author, Editor, San Diego HWA co-chair
A previous StokerCon chair, KC Grifant is an award-winning writer based in Southern California who creates internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction, and weird west stories. Dozens of her short stories have appeared in podcasts, magazines, games, and Stoker-nominated... Read More →
avatar for Jamie Flanagan

Jamie Flanagan

Writer, Editor, Actor, Freelance
Jamie Flanagan (they/them) is a WGA East screenwriter, SAG actor, HWA author, and editor. Screenwriting credits include Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, The Fall of the House of Usher, AMC Shudder's CREEPSHOW, Peacock's HYSTERIA!, and Amazon's... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings
 
Sunday, June 7
 

10:00am EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for John G. Hartness

John G. Hartness

Author, Podcaster, Editor, Publisher, Billionaire, Philanthropist, Playboy, Falstaff Books
John G. Hartness is a teller of tales, a righter of wrong, defender of ladies’ virtues, and some people call him Maurice, for he speaks of the pompatus of love. He is also the award-winning author of the urban fantasy series The Black Knight Chronicles, the Bubba the Monster Hunter... Read More →
avatar for Brigitte Winter

Brigitte Winter

Author
Brigitte Winter writes books about your favorite monster ex-girlfriends. She also writes narrative games, poetry, and short stories. The capacity of storytelling to connect, inspire, and incite is central to Brigitte’s art and her activism, and she makes art that is queer, feminist... Read More →
avatar for Mar Romasco-Moore

Mar Romasco-Moore

Author of queer YA multimedia horror novel Deadstream (VIking, 2025) and several other books.
avatar for C.R. Kellogg

C.R. Kellogg

C.R. Kellogg is a mom and writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest. Kellogg writes speculative fiction, horror and raves about food and books on her Substack. She is an alumnus of the Viable Paradise workshop and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and Horror Writers... Read More →
Sunday June 7, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

11:00am EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Victoria Navarra

Victoria Navarra

Victoria Navarra lives in Richmond, VA. Her fiction has been published in Analog, ParSec, and Andromeda Spaceways, and her first horror story is forthcoming in F&SF. She was a 2023 AnLab finalist, and recently she won the Emerson First Chapter Prize for the Emerson Popular Fiction MFA Program. She works at the Direction of Education Assessment and Accreditation at Randolph-Macon College. In between short stories, she is haphazardly working on... Read More →
avatar for Oliver Baer

Oliver Baer

Oliver Baer does many things. He was the editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine and Two Backed Books. He now edits roleplaying game manuals for Burning Wheel and other companies. His epistolary novel, Letters to the Editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine, was published in October 2019. His short... Read More →
avatar for Steven Van Patten

Steven Van Patten

Writer/ Producer/ Stage Manager, Laughing Black Vampire Productions
Brooklyn native Steven Van Patten is the author of the critically acclaimed Brookwater’s Curse trilogy that features an 1860s Georgia plantation slave who becomes law enforcement within the vampire community. In contrast, the titular character in his Killer Genius series is a m... Read More →
avatar for Jeff Deck

Jeff Deck

Author & novel coach, Eternal Author Books
Jeff Deck is an indie author who lives in Maine with his wife, Jane, their dog Rippey, and the ghost of their dog Burleigh. Deck writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, dark fantasy, and other speculative fiction. He is the author of the horror story collection Survivor and Ot... Read More →
Sunday June 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Lawrence
  Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

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

Speakers
avatar for L.T. Williams

L.T. Williams

Writer and Space Scientist
L.T. Williams can’t seem to escape mountains – whether it's the mountain of his TBR list, the Appalachians where he grew up, or the Ozarks where he now resides. L.T.'s love for speculative fiction also started in the mountains, where the folk tales, urban legends, and cryptid... Read More →
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avatar for Saratoga Schaefer

Saratoga Schaefer

author of SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP and TRAD WIFE
(they/them) author of SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP and TRAD WIFE, as well as the upcoming THE LAST TIME WE DROWNED and A THOUSAND MONSTROUS FORMS.
Sunday June 7, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Lawrence
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