StokerCon 2026

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 Shade: Loving the Dead will be released August 2026. In 2025, her short story "The Cleaner" was included in the Best Horror of the Year Volume 17 edited by Ellen Datlow and her short story "Because it was Worse Outside" was included in the Shirley Jackson winning anthology Why Didn't You Just Leave? edited by Nadia Bulkin and Julia Rios. Looking ahead for 2027, her sapphic gothic horror novel Parasite Life will be re-released and her second short story collection, I'll Break, You'll Break with Lethe Press.