Name: Cosmic Horror: Beyond Lovecraft
Start: 2025-06-15T10:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-15T10:45:00-0400

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.

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

Grove Ballroom 2

A panel discussion of non-Lovecraftian cosmic horror with an emphasis on the works of Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Chambers, Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson, and Clark Ashton Smith, who contributed to the foundation of this horror sub-genre. The panel will also look at contemporary trends in cosmic horror that take the genre beyond HPL, and where authors are finding new, fertile ground for this kind of horror.

Moderators

James Chambers

Trustee; Co-Chair, StokerCon Governing Committee; Chair, Horror University, Horror Writers Association

James Chambers is the Bram Stoker Award® and Scribe Award-winning editor and author of A Bright and Beautiful Eternal World, On the Night Border, On the Hierophant Road, the graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, and editor of Under Twin... Read More →

Speakers

Barbara Cottrell

I am the author of The Shadows Of Miskatonic, a series of supernatural thrillers set in the world of H.P. Lovecraft.

Ann Dávila Cardinal

Author

Darius Jones

Darius Jones’s stories and poems have appeared in Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast, Star*Line Magazine, and other places. He is a member of the HWA, SFWA, and SFPA. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

John Langan

Author, THE FISHERMAN

John Langan is the author of two novels and five collections of stories. For his fiction, he has received the Bram Stoker and the This Is Horror awards. With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011). He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson... Read More →

Darrell Schweitzer

Darrell Schweitzer's books include four novels, THE WHITE ISLE, THE SHATTERED GODDESS, THE MASK OF THE SORCERER, and THE DRAGON HOUSE, plus nine short-story collections, the most recent of which is a volume of Lovecraftian stories, THE CHILDREN OF CHORAZIN, published by Hippocampus... Read More →

Sunday June 15, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Grove Ballroom 2

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