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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6:00pm EDT

Nightfire Happy Hour!

Friday June 13, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Nightfire is sponsoring a Happy Hour, where you can stop by, meet and chat their authors, and have a drink or two.

There will be a hosted bar at this event.

Speakers

Anne Heltzel

Senior Editor, Abrams Books

I'm a YA fiction/nonfiction editor at Amulet, an imprint of Abrams Books--talk to me about my upcoming projects or pitch me something new!

S. A. Barnes

S.A. Barnes works in a high school library by day, recommending reads, talking with students, and removing the occasional forgotten cheese stick as bookmark. Barnes has published numerous novels across different genres under the pen name Stacey Kade. She lives in Illinois with more... Read More →

Cassandra Khaw

CASSANDRA KHAW is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and the Bram Stoker Award-winner, Breakable Things. Other notable works of theirs are The Salt Grows Heavy and British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, Hammers on Bone. Khaw’s work can... Read More →

Philip Fracassi

Nat Cassidy

Nat Cassidy writes horror for the page, stage, and screen. His acclaimed novels Mary: An Awakening of Terror and Nestlings were featured in best-of lists from Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, the Chicago Review of Books, the NY Public Library, and more, and he was named one of the... Read More →

CJ Leede

CJ Leede is a horror writer, hiker, and Trekkie. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School, where she studied Mythology and the Middle Ages. When she is not driving around the country, she can be found in LA with her boyfriend... Read More →

Friday June 13, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer

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Final Frame Film Competition Reception

Friday June 13, 2025 10:00pm - 11:45pm EDT