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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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Friday, June 13
 

8:45am EDT

Mind, Brains, Bodies: Interdisciplinary Discussions of Horror
Friday June 13, 2025 8:45am - 9:45am EDT
 Zombies as Monstrous Allegory
   Kati Lewis

 Avenging the Mind: Neurodiversity in the Horror Film
Deka Spears

 Trauma Amidst the Zombie Apocalypse
   George Hagman
Speakers
Friday June 13, 2025 8:45am - 9:45am EDT
Elm 1 & 2

10:00am EDT

Reclaiming and Reframing the Monstrous
Friday June 13, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
 The monstrous-feminine: Rehabilitating the Lamia
    Brenda Sieczkowski

 Tear Everything to Pieces: The Werewolf and Its Transformation as Queer Allegory in Ginger Snaps (2000)
    Marian Phillips

 Physician, Divine, or Horse-Doctor: Sheridan Le Fanu's Swedenborgian System of Metaphysical Medicine
    Daniel Holmes

 Beyond Priests and Demons: A New Wave of Possession Novels in the 21st Century
    Cassandra Sachar
Speakers
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Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Associate Professor of English/Author
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar is a writer and associate English professor in Pennsylvania who teaches creative writing, composition, and composition theory courses. A former secondary English teacher in Delaware public schools, she received her Doctorate of Education with a Literacy... Read More →
Friday June 13, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Elm 1 & 2

1:00pm EDT

Translating Trauma: The Legacies of Historic Horrors
Friday June 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
 Connecticut Witches in History and on Stage
    Kevin Wetmore, Jr.

 From Grover's Mill to Pontypool: Radio, Horror, and Film
    Kevin Cooney

 Cunning & the Courts: The Stamford Witch Trials 333 Years On
    Rolf Mauerer
Speakers
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Kevin Wetmore Jr.

Volunteer Coordinator, HWA LA
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is the author, editor or co-editor of thirty books, including Bram Stoker Award nominees Uncovering Stranger Things, The Streaming of Hill House, Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring, and Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters. He is also... Read More →
Friday June 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Elm 1 & 2

2:45pm EDT

Representation, Narrative, and Identity: The Cultural Politics of Horror
Friday June 13, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
 From Crusted Snow to Rotting Stars: ways of theorizing ‘Indigenous Horror’
    Naomi Borwein

 Cunning & the Courts: The Stamford Witch Trials 333 Years On
    Rolf Mauerer

 Shadowy Corners and Secret Liaisons: Representations of Bisexuality in Gothic Horror
    Gwendolyn Kiste

 Enough Rope to Hang Myself With: Bad Gay and Transgender Feelings in Horror Literature’s History
    David Riser
Speakers
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Gwendolyn Kiste

Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Haunting of Velkwood. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub,  Nightmare, Best... Read More →
Friday June 13, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Elm 1 & 2

4:30pm EDT

Who We’ve Become: Reassessing Relationships in Queer Horror
Friday June 13, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
 Not So Final After All: The Female Mutilator as the New Feminist Antagonizer
    Carina Stopenski

 “You’re the Prince”: Theorizing the Indulgent Father Archetype in The Loved Ones
    Cody Parish

 "When They Were Young, They Were the World's Darlings"; A Long-Overdue Appreciation of Billy Martin       (Writing as Poppy Z. Brite)
   Jaime Weida
Speakers
Friday June 13, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Elm 1 & 2
 
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