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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10:00am EDT

Author Readings - Sunday 10 Elm

Sunday June 15, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT

Elm 1 & 2

Speakers

Emily Hughes

Author, reviewer, listmaker

Emily C. Hughes (she/her) wants to scare you. Formerly the editor of Unbound Worlds and TorNightfire.com, she writes about horror and curates a list of the year’s new scary books. Her first book, Horror For Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared... Read More →

F. R. Michaels

F. R. Michaels is just a nice, normal person who happens to like weird and scary stories. Seriously. An IT guru, retired church elder, and garage-band musician, his true love is writing about the strange little people who live in his head. His work has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's... Read More →

Denise Tapscott

Enchanted Flower Productions

I'm the author of Gypsy Kisses and Voodoo Wishes as well as the sequel, Enlightening of the Damned. Not only do I play a spicy vampire named Tasha on the YouTube show The Vamps Next Door, I am proud to be a member of the podcast Beef, Wine, and Shenanigans

Sunday June 15, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Elm 1 & 2

Convention Event

11:00am EDT

Author Readings - Sunday 11 Elm

Sunday June 15, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

Elm 1 & 2

Speakers

Aaron Dries

Aaron Dries is a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, and Ditmar, Australian Shadows and Aurealis Award-winning author based in Canberra, Australia. His novels include HOUSE OF SIGHS, THE FALLEN BOYS, A PLACE FOR SINNERS, WHERE THE DEAD GO TO DIE (with Mark Allan Gunnells... Read More →

Christopher Hawkins

Co-chair, Chicagoland Chapter

Christopher Hawkins (he/him) is the multi-award-winning author of Downpour and Suburban Monsters. His latest novel is I Contain Multitudes.

Chris Panatier

Writer

Sunday June 15, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Elm 1 & 2