Name: Gunslingers And Ghouls: Western Horror
Start: 2025-06-14T16:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-14T16:45:00-0400

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.

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

Aspen 2

Authors share their insights around the growing popularity and diversity of horror westerns; tips for writing in this unique subgenre; and their reading recommendations. This panel will touch on why westerns are so fitting for the horror genre and how horror westerns have become an avenue for telling more diverse stories of the Old West.

Moderators

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 →

Speakers

Nicole Kurtz

C.S. Humble

Rhonda Jackson Garcia AKA RJ Joseph

academic and creative writer/editor/professor, RJ Joseph, Writer/Speaker

Rhonda Jackson Garcia, AKA RJ Joseph, is a Stoker Award™ and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, Texas based academic and creative writer/professor whose writing regularly focuses on the intersections of gender and race in the horror and romance genres and popular culture. She has... Read More →

John Opalenik

John Opalenik is an author and educator from Connecticut. He is the author of The Primeval series, The Blue Beneath the Mountain, and the short story collection Among the Willows & Other Strange Tales. He’s had numerous short stories published in anthologies, and zines. He lives... Read More →

Saturday June 14, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Aspen 2

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