Name: Folklore And Fiction: Turning Ancient Myths Into Modern Stories
Start: 2025-06-12T17:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-12T17:45:00-0400

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.

Thursday June 12, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm EDT

Grove Ballroom 2

Panelists will discuss how they have successfully implemented folklore in their writing, then describe how others can find, research, and use folklore as a basis or inspiration for fresh stories.

Moderators

Kristy Park Kulski (K.P. Kulski)

KRISTY PARK KULSKI (K.P. KULSKI) is a Hawaii-born Korean-American author, historian, and career vampire of patriarchal tears. Channeling a lifelong obsession with history and the morose she’s managed to birth the gothic horror novel, Fairest Flesh, and novella, House of Pungsu... Read More →

Speakers

Ricardo D. Rebelo

Writer, Swamp Yankee Press

Ricardo D. Rebelo is a horror author and documentarian based in Massachusetts. He’s published short fiction in Dracula Beyond Stoker Issue 6, Monsters in the Mills, Halloweenthology, Flash of the Undead, and more. His self-published cryptid books explore folklore from New England... Read More →

Sarah Read

Hilary Wilson

Literary Correspondent, The Folklore Podcast

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 →

Cindy O'Quinn

About the authorCindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer. She grew up in the beautiful mountains of WestVirginia. She writes fiction, nonfiction, and speculative poetry, which all lean heavily into thehorror genre. It was with Cindy’s fifth Bram Stoker Award® nomination that garnered... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm EDT
Grove Ballroom 2

HWA Event, Livestreamed Session

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