StokerCon 2026

I love quiet horror, weird fiction, and cosmic horror!
More about me:
Bram Stoker Award® recipient and World Fantasy Award finalist Carol Gyzander writes and edits horror, weird fiction, and science fiction—with strong women in twisted tales that touch your heart. She has a story in Ellen Datlow’s upcoming Lovecraft’s Brood and stories in Weird Tales, Weird House Magazine, Under Twin Suns, and numerous other publications. Her cryptid novella, Forget Me Not (April 2022), is set near Niagara Falls in 1969 and 1939.
She’s edited eight science fiction and horror anthologies. Carol edited and contributed to the Stoker-awarded Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Publishing), including her poem “Bobblehead,” a Rhysling Award finalist. Another recent anthology is Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 4 from Crone Girls Press.
Carol is Co-Chair of the HWA NY Chapter and co-hosts Galactic Terrors, their monthly online reading series, every second Thursday. MWA, SFWA, Active HWA. Follow her on Instagram @carolgyzander