StokerCon 2026: Full Schedule

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

Speakers

Charles Barouch

Author, HorrorWords.com

Charles Barouch writes Horror (start with Shadows Without Light), Westerns (start with the Marshal Theo Starr books), Science Fiction (start with Tiago and the Masterless), and more.

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 →

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
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Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings

Thursday June 4, 2026 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT

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Speakers

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 →

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 →

Andrew Robertson

Founder, Great Lakes Horror Company

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

5:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Leza Cantoral

Publisher/Publicist, CLASH Books

Leza Cantoral is the publisher of CLASH Books. She is an editor, writer and filmmaker. Editor of Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath. Author of Trash Panda and Cartoons in the Suicide Forest. She is currently working on a novel and a short film screenplay... Read More →

Ryan Marie Ketterer

Norman Prentiss

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

9:00am EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

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 →

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 →

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
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Author Readings

10:00am EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Jay Bechtol

The Alaskan Delegation

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Clare Castleberry

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

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
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Author Readings

11:00am EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

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 →

C.S. Humble

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
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Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Tommy B. Smith

Tommy B. Smith is a writer of horror and dark fiction whose works meander through the darker spaces of the psychological and the cosmic. A two-time Imadjinn Award-winning author and 2023 nominee for the Michael Knost Wings Award, he has been featured in numerous publications to span... Read More →

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 →

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
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Author Readings

1:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

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.

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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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
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Author Readings

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Brandon Ketchum

LCSW, Local Recovery Coordinator, Mental Health Champion of the Pittsburgh VA, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and Author

By day, Brandon Ketchum is a social worker at the VA. By night he is a spec fic writer putting a weird spin or strange vibe in every story, dark or light. He is a member of SFWA and the Horror Writers Association, and his work has been published with Air & Nothingness Press, Perihelion... Read More →

Lauren Elise (L. E.) Daniels

Author/Editor, HWA Mental Health Initiative Co-Chair, Brisbane Writers Workshop

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
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Author Readings

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

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 →

Christa Carmen

Author

Christa Carmen lives in Rhode Island. She is the Bram Stoker Award-winning and two-time Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island, Beneath the Poet's House, and How to Fake a Haunting, as well as the Indie Horror Book Award-winning Something Borrowed... Read More →

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
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Author Readings

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

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 →

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 →

Jason A. Wyckoff

Jason A. Wyckoff's first novel, IXIXIKLIS was published in 2025 by Grendel Press. His third collection of short stories, Snare for a Small Eclipse, is forthcoming from Nightmare Press. He is the author of two prior collections published by Tartarus Press, Black Horse and other St... Read More →

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

9:00am EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

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 →

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 →

Michael Allen Rose

Bizarro Writers Association President, RoShamBo Publishing

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

10:00am EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

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 →

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 →

Hazel Zorn

REEF MIND is out now from Tenebrous Press! Short work in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Matter INK. Horror writer/ oil painter.

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

11:00am EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Kevin Wetmore, Jr.

Volunteer Coordinator, HWA LA

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 →

Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Author/Editor/English Professor

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 Specialization... Read More →

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

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Kristy Park Kulski

Kristy Park Kulski is a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, Korean-American author and editor. Her work includes Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, the novel Fairest Flesh, and novella House of Pungsu. Born in Honolulu, she now lives in... Read More →

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

Brian McAuley

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

1:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Paul Michael Anderson

Writer

Writer of the novellas STANDALONE, YOU CAN’T SAVE WHAT ISN’T THERE, and THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH, as well as the collections BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN and EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT IN THE END: APOCALYPSE SONGS

Richard Kadrey

Guest of Honor

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 in... Read More →

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
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Author Readings

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Leanna Renee Hieber

Author, Actress, Ghost Tour Guide, 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 Janes... Read More →

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 →

CJ Leede

CJ Leede is a rescue dog mom, hiker, Trekkie, and author of USA-Today bestselling novels Maeve Fly and American Rapture. Her debut novel, Maeve Fly, won the Splatterpunk Award, the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award, and earned a Bram Stoker Award nomination. CJ's third book, Headlights... Read More →

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

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

Kate Maruyama

Mae Murray

Nicole M. Wolverton

Professionally unsettling, Horror Writer, Editor, & Academic

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 the... Read More →

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

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Speakers

LC Allingham

Author / Editor / Artist / Publisher, Speculation Publications

LCW Allingham is an award-winning author, artist, and editor. Her publications include her novel, LADY, and novella MUSE, as well as short fiction. She is the co-founder and executive editor of the indie press, Speculation Publications, a member of the Historical Novel Society and... Read More →

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 →

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
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10:00am EDT

Author Readings

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

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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 →

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 →

Grace R. Reynolds

Author

GRACE R. REYNOLDS is an American speculative fiction writer. She was raised in New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University. Having lived in seven states, she currently calls Maryland “home,” where she writes dark fiction and poetry. In addition to her short fiction, she is... Read More →

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 →

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
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11:00am EDT

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

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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 →

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 →

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 →

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
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Author Readings

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings

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

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Lara Frater

Writer, Librarian

Lara Frater (she/her) is the author of the Paranormal Pest Control series, the End of the Lines Zombie series, Jersey Devils, and many short stories and poems. She is also the author of the non-fiction book Fat Chicks Rule. http://www.larafrater.com. During the weekdays, she's a medical... Read More →

Maddison Dawn

Author of EATING VERONICA, coming May 2027

Maddison's debut EATING VERONICA is coming May 2027 from Grand Central in the US and Fontana in the UK. It's a feminist psychological horror novel about beauty standards and empowerment, following the bloody glow up of a young woman who spawns a carnivorous monster that feeds on her... Read More →

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.

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 →

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