Name: Chilling Comics
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

Grove Ballroom 2

A discussion of horror comics, what makes them special and influential, how to break into comics writing, historical highlights of horror comics, and why some stories can only be told in the comics medium. This will look at key horror comics through history from the EC Comics of the 1950s to the Marvel horror comics of the 1970s, the Vertigo comics of the 1980s and 90s, to current horror manga by Junji Ito and Gou Tanabe. The emphasis will be on the unique storytelling aspects of the comic book format.

Moderators

Shawn Hainsworth

Speakers

Alys Arden

Author

Alys Arden was raised by the street performers, tea leaf-readers, and glittering drag queens of the New Orleans, French Quarter. Her debut novel, The Casquette Girls, garnered over one million reads online before it was acquired (Skyscape). The fifth book in the series, The Immortal... Read More →

Raymonde Chira

Author

Raymonde Chira (she/they) is a writer, illustrator and librarian based in New York City. She is the author of multiple dark short stories and comics, having been published in Ghost Parachute, Dark Matter Presents: The Off-Season, Let Her Be Evil, and Bump in the Night (forthcoming... Read More →

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 →

Justina Ireland

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

Convention Event, Livestreamed Session

StokerCon 2025

Shawn Hainsworth

Alys Arden

Raymonde Chira

Scott Edelman

Justina Ireland

Attendees (17)

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