StokerCon 2025: Full Schedule

Welcome to the premiere horror literary convention presented by the Horror Writers Association. Registration for StokerCon 2025 is now available! This year the convention is being hosted by the city of Stamford, Connecticut, at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center. We’re taking over from June 12th through the 15th, 2025.

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5:00pm EDT

Folklore And Fiction: Turning Ancient Myths Into Modern Stories

Thursday June 12, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm EDT

Grove 2

Panelists will discuss how they have successfully implemented folklore in their writing, then describe how others can find, research, and use folklore as a basis or inspiration for fresh stories.

Moderators

Kristy Park Kulski (K.P. Kulski)

KRISTY PARK KULSKI (K.P. KULSKI) is a Hawaii-born Korean-American author, historian, and career vampire of patriarchal tears. Channeling a lifelong obsession with history and the morose she’s managed to birth the gothic horror novel, Fairest Flesh, and novella, House of Pungsu... Read More →

Speakers

Ricardo D. Rebelo

Writer, Swamp Yankee Press

Ricardo D. Rebelo is a horror author and documentarian based in Massachusetts. He’s published short fiction in Dracula Beyond Stoker Issue 6, Monsters in the Mills, Halloweenthology, Flash of the Undead, and more. His self-published cryptid books explore folklore from New England... Read More →

Sarah Read

Hilary Wilson

Literary Correspondent, The Folklore Podcast

Adam Nevill

Adam L. G. Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is an author of horror fiction. Of his novels, The Ritual, Last Days, No One Gets Out Alive and The Reddening were all winners of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. He... Read More →

Cindy O'Quinn

About the authorCindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer. She grew up in the beautiful mountains of WestVirginia. She writes fiction, nonfiction, and speculative poetry, which all lean heavily into thehorror genre. It was with Cindy’s fifth Bram Stoker Award® nomination that garnered... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm EDT
Grove 2

HWA Event, Livestreamed Session

8:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony

Thursday June 12, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

Garden Pavillion

Hosted by HWA President, Angela Yuriko Smith, come experience our opening festivities and meet our Guests of Honor.

This is a catered event with a cash bar.

Catering:
1) Antipasto Table: Roasted Vegetables & Garlic Cloves, Imported Olives, Prosciutto, Mortadella, Cured Salami, Fresh Mozzarella, Focaccia, Grissini & Herb Infused Virgin Olive Oil

2) Fruit and Cheese Display: Sliced Melon, Berries, Imported Domestic Cheeses, French Baguette & Water Crackers

Moderators

Maxwell Ian Gold

Executive Director, Horror Writers Association

Maxwell I. Gold is a Jewish American multiple award nominated author who writes prose poetry and short stories in cosmic horror and weird fiction with half a decade of writing experience. Five time Rhysling Award nominee, two time Pushcart Award nominee, and author of the Bram Stoker... Read More →

Speakers

Del Howison

Owner, Dark Delicacies

Del Howison is an author, journalist, SAG actor including a cameo in the upcoming horror film Big Baby produced by Cher and directed by Spider One. He is a Bram Stoker Award-winning editor of the anthology Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s... Read More →

Scott Edelman

Author

SCOTT EDELMAN has published 125+ 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 →

Tim Waggoner

i've published over sixty novels and eight collections of short stories. I write original horror and dark fantasy as well as media tie-ins. I'm a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, a one-time winner of the Scribe Award, and I've been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award... Read More →

Gaby Triana

GABY TRIANA is the Cuban-American author of 24 books for adults and teens, including Dark and Dangerous Things, Moon Child, Island of Bones, River of Ghosts, City of Spells, Wake the Hollow, Cubanita, and Summer of Yesterday. Her short stories have appeared in Classic Monsters Unleashed... Read More →

Adam Nevill

Paula Guran

Editor, anthologist, and reviewer Paula Guran has edited more than 50 science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies and more than 50 novels and collections featuring the same. She was senior editor for Prime Books for seven years. Previously, she edited the Juno fantasy impr... Read More →

Lisa Wood

Vice President, Horror Writers Association

L. Marie Wood is an award-winning psychological horror author and screenwriter. She won the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper. Her screenplays have won Best Horror, Best Afrofuturism/Horror/Sci-Fi, and Best Short Screenplay awards at several film festivals. Wood’s... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 8:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Garden Pavillion

HWA Event

5:00pm EDT

8:00pm EDT

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