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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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Saturday, June 14
 

9:00am EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 09 Glen
Saturday June 14, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
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Speakers
avatar for KC (Kristina) Grifant

KC (Kristina) Grifant

Author, Editor, San Diego HWA co-chair
A previous StokerCon chair, KC Grifant is an award-winning writer based in Southern California who creates internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction, and weird west stories. Dozens of her short stories have appeared in podcasts, magazines, games, and Stoker-nominated... Read More →
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Sarena Straus

Author
I write novels for the curious and adventurous, for people who are intrigued by a “what happens if,” scenario, and who like to explore the outcomes. My characters are ordinary people who find out that they are capable of extraordinary things and discover that one person can truly... Read More →
KJ
Saturday June 14, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
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  Convention Event

10:00am EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 10 Glen
Saturday June 14, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
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Speakers
avatar for JP Behrens

JP Behrens

JP Behrens is the author of the Travis Daniels Investigations Series. When he isn’t writing, reading, or practicing Kung Fu, you can find him playing games, building Legos, and spending time with family. On occasion, he sleeps.
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Tamika Thompson

Author
Tamika is author of THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS (Erewhon/Kensington, 2026) & Next Generation Indie Book Awards Horror WINNER, UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED (Unnerving Books), which Publishers Weekly calls “powerful,” “unsettling,” and “terrifying.” She is also the author... Read More →
avatar for Clay McLeod Chapman

Clay McLeod Chapman

Author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Kill Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and others.
Saturday June 14, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Glen 1
  Convention Event

11:00am EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 11 Glen
Saturday June 14, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Jessica Drake-Thomas

Jessica Drake-Thomas

Jessica Drake-Thomas is a poet and novelist, as well as PhD student focusing on the Gothic. She's the author of Hollow Girls, which was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, as well as two poetry collections, Burials and Bad Omens. She lives in Milwaukee with Nick and their two dogs... Read More →
avatar for Logan Alexander Johnson

Logan Alexander Johnson

Logan Alexander Johnson is a writer, designer, and researcher who uses words as a vehicle for activism, inclusion, and empowerment. He brings a designer’s empathy to the page, shaped by over a decade of experience in human-centered design. Logan writes stories that highlight the... Read More →
avatar for Tim Waggoner

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 →
Saturday June 14, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
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  Convention Event

12:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 12 Glen
Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Barbara Cottrell

Barbara Cottrell

Barbara Cottrell is a former professor who gave up her career to pursue her true passion: writing weird fiction. The first book in her series of supernatural thrillers, Darkness Below, won a gold medal at the Book Fest, was named best first novel by Indie Reader and was an editor’s... Read More →
avatar for Teel James Glenn

Teel James Glenn

writer
Teel James Glenn has killed hundreds and been killed more times-- on stage and screen as he has traveled the world for forty plus years as a stuntman, fight choreographer, swordmaster, jouster, illustrator, storyteller, bodyguard, actor and haunted house barker.His stories have been... Read More →
avatar for Ronald Malfi
Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
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  Convention Event

1:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 01 Glen
Saturday June 14, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Jonathan Gensler

Jonathan Gensler

Writer
Colorado-based writer of dark speculative fiction. US Army veteran and recovering entrepreneur. Words in Cosmic Horror Monthly, CreepyPod, and others. Stay in touch at jonathangensler.com
avatar for Christi Nogle

Christi Nogle

Christi Nogle is the author of the Bram Stoker Award® winning novel Beulah and the short story collections The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future; Promise; and One Eye Opened in That Other Place. Her work has appeared in many publications including Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, and... Read More →
avatar for Phill Bradley

Phill Bradley

Short Story Specialist
Phill Bradley is a short story specialist from Austin, Texas, who writes in the Horror, Thriller, Speculative, and Sci-fi genres. He has released two collections: Back End of the Bell Curve and Hope In One Hand.... This is Phill's first StokerCon.
Saturday June 14, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
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  Convention Event

2:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 02 Glen
Saturday June 14, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
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Speakers
avatar for Del Howison

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito

Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito

Editor, Writer, Publisher
Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito (she/her) is a Chinese American judge, mom, and writer in Portland, Oregon. Her writing has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Flame Tree’s Asian Ghost Stories, Chromophobia, Mother: Tales of Terror and Love, Death’s Garden Revisited, and Unquiet Spirits... Read More →
Saturday June 14, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
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  Convention Event

3:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 03 Glen
Saturday June 14, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
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Speakers
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avatar for Colleen Anderson

Colleen Anderson

Colleen Anderson lives in Vancouver, BC, and is a Canada Council and BC Arts Council grant recipient for writing. She has been widely published, and has performed her work before audiences in the US, UK, Brazil and Canada. A multiple award nominee, Colleen won the long-form Rhysling... Read More →
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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 →
Saturday June 14, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
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  Convention Event

4:00pm EDT

Author Readings - Saturday 04 Glen
Saturday June 14, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
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Speakers
avatar for B.C. Bull

B.C. Bull

Co-Chair For New England HWA, Horror Writers Association
avatar for Linda D. Addison

Linda D. Addison

Trustee, Horror Writers Association
Linda D. Addison is an award-winning author of five collections, including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award, HWA Mentor of the Year and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry.
avatar for Adam Nevill

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 →
Saturday June 14, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
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