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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8:00am EDT

Breakfast with the Guests of Honor

Saturday June 14, 2025 8:00am - 10:00am EDT

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Come have breakfast and visit with our Guests of Honor and Lifetime Achievement Award winner!

Note: Joyce Carol Oates will not be able to make this event.

This event requires a separate ticket purchase. You can purchase tickets here.

Catering: Fresh Baked Breads and Pastries, Assorted Bagels with Butter, Cream Cheese, Honey & Preserves, Assorted Scones, Sliced Seasonal Melons & Berries, Scrambled Egg Whites with Diced Tomato & Spinach, Applewood Smoked Bacon & Breakfast Sausage, Roasted Skillet Potatoes with Roasted Onions & Peppers, Pancakes with Maple Syrup & Wild Berry Compote, Belgian Waffles with Fresh Berries & Maple Syrup

Speakers

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 8:00am - 10:00am EDT
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