StokerCon 2019: Full Schedule

4:00pm EDT

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S. Kay Nash

Attendee

I'm an occasional writer of dark short stories and a full-time freelance editor. I also enjoy narrating short stories for podcasts. Former Associate Editor at Escape Pod (2016-2020).

Brandon McNulty

Author & YouTuber

Brandon McNulty is the author of the horror novel BAD PARTS, which won both Pitch Wars (2017) and RevPit (2018). He gives weekly writing advice on his Youtube channel Writer Brandon McNulty.

Thursday May 9, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

5:00pm EDT

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Patricia V. Davis is the author of COOKING FOR GHOSTS, SPELLS & OREGANO, and DEMONS, WEEL-SEASONED, a trilogy of magical realism novels set aboard the haunted RMS Queen Mary. The audiobook versions were released in 2020 by Tantor Media. Patricia wrote and produced the screenplay... Read More →

Amanda Trujillo

David Busboom

David Busboom is a writer, science editor, and very occasional actor/producer for microbudget horror films. Talk to him about dinosaurs, rock music, and his debut collection EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING (JournalStone 2022).

Thursday May 9, 2019 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

6:00pm EDT

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Amy Grech

Author/Digital Content Strategist

Amy Grech has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines including: A New York State of Fright, Apex Magazine, Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled, Dead Harvest, Deadman's Tome Campfire Tales Book Two, Expiration Date, Fright Mare, Hell’s Heart, Needle Magazine, Psycho Holiday... Read More →

Patrick Freivald

Michael Kozlowski

Author, M.A.Kozlowski

Mike is a writer of horror and suspense. His sarcastic humor and social opinions regular infiltrate his writing but not overtly so. The primary goal of his writing is to entertain but he also finds it very therapeutic (you just can’t let all that weird stuff pile up in your head).Mike... Read More →

Thursday May 9, 2019 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

7:00pm EDT

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John F. D. Taff

Megan Hart

Megan Hart writes books. Some of them use bad words, but most of the other words are okay. She writes a little bit of everything from steamy romance to psychological horror (and domestic suspense as Mina Hardy.)

Violet Castro

Author of Maria The Wanted and the Legacy of The Keeper

Thursday May 9, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

9:00am EDT

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Kathleen Kaufman

Kyla Lee Ward

Kyla Lee Ward is a Sydney-based creative who works in many modes. This August will see the publication of her second poetry collection, *The Macabre Moderne and Other Morbidities* by P'rea Press, following 2011's *The Land of Bad Dreams*. Her novel *Prismatic* (co-authored as Edwina... Read More →

Ken MacGregor

Friday May 10, 2019 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Winchester Room

10:00am EDT

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Norman Prentiss

NORMAN PRENTISS is the author of ODD ADVENTURES WITH YOUR OTHER FATHER, THE APOCALYPSE-A-DAY DESK CALENDAR, and LIFE IN A HAUNTED HOUSE, and he won the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction for INVISIBLE FENCES, published by Cemetery Dance (www.cemeterydance.com... Read More →

Bill Bodden

Writer working on honing his skills. Have two short stories published (and counting!) both horror/dark fantasy. Most of my writing work has been in the tabletop gaming field, including work for Onyx Path/White Wolf, Modiphius Entertainment (for their World War 2/Cthulhu mashup, Achtung... Read More →

John R. Little

Friday May 10, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Winchester Room

11:00am EDT

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Tim Waggoner

I've published over forty novels and five collections of short stories. I write original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and my articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. I've won the Bram Stoker Award, the HWA’s Mentor of the Year Award, been... Read More →

John Skipp

Autumn Christian

Friday May 10, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

12:00pm EDT

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Jeff Strand

Five-time Bram Stoker Award nominee. One-time Bram Stoker Award winner. Ten-time (!) Bram Stoker Award Master of Ceremonies.Author of plentiful books for your reading pleasure, including Pressure, Dweller, My Pretties, Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), Clowns Vs. Spiders... Read More →

J. L. Gribble

writer, Raw Dog Screaming Press

J.L. Gribble writes the urban fantasy/alternate history Steel Empires series, which includes Steel Victory, Steel Magic, Steel Blood, and Steel Time. Her other jobs include medical editing, Netflix watching, cat snuggling, and blogging for SpeculativeChic.com. You can find her at... Read More →

Peggy Christie

Friday May 10, 2019 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

1:00pm EDT

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Thomas F. Monteleone

writer

Jonathan Maberry

Author, Jonathan Maberry Productions

JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-seller, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer. He is the editor of Weird Tales Magazine and president of the International... Read More →

Friday May 10, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

2:00pm EDT

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Kathe Koja

Creative Guest of Honor

KATHE KOJA is a novelist, playwright, performer, director and independent producer. Her work crosses and combines genres, from horror to historical to YA. Her novels—including The Cipher, Bad Brains, Skin, Strange Angels, Going Under, The Blue Mirror, the Under the Poppy trilogy... Read More →

Carol Gyzander

Carol writes horror, dark fiction, and sci-fi/cyberpunk. She's the Co-Chair of HWA NY Chapter and co-host of HWA NY Galactic Terrors reading series, as well as one of the HWA Chapter Program Co-Managers, supporting chapters in the US.Her story, "The Yellow Crown," was nominated for... Read More →

Friday May 10, 2019 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

3:00pm EDT

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Donna Lynch

Body horror, psychological horror, ghosts, witches, music, horror films, geography

Sara Tantlinger

Co-Chair, StokerCon® 2023

Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, and the Stoker-nominated works To Be Devoured and Cradleland of Parasites. She has also edited Not All Monsters and Chromophobia. She is an active HWA member... Read More →

Saba Syed Razvi

Saba Syed Razvi is the author of the Elgin Award-nominated collection In the Crocodile Gardens and the collection heliophobia, which appeared on the preliminary ballot for the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry, as well as the chapbooks Limerence & Lux, Of the Divining... Read More →

Friday May 10, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

4:00pm EDT

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Sarah Hans

Sarah Hans is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher whose stories have appeared in more than 40 publications, including Apex Magazine, Love Letters to Poe, and Pseudopod. Her debut horror novel, Entomophobia, was released in 2022. You can read Sarah’s short stories in the... Read More →

Usman Malik

Horror writing, reading. Short fiction. Dark Fantasy. Hauntings and haunted houses. Global horror.

Nicole Cushing

Nicole Cushing is a Bram Stoker Award® winning novelist and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award. Cemetery Dance will be publishing her new novella, The Plastic Priest, this December.

Friday May 10, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

9:00am EDT

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Michael Potts

Professor of Philosophy, Methodist University

I am a philosophy professor and creative writer. I have three published novels, one which is Southern Fiction ("End of Summer") and two of which are horror ("Unpardonable Sin" and "Obedience"). I also have two published collection of poetry, one mainstream ("From Field to Thicket... Read More →

Nicole Castle-Kelly

Shad Kelly

Saturday May 11, 2019 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Winchester Room

10:00am EDT

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Angel McCoy

Chad Stroup

Chad Stroup is the author of the novels Secrets of the Weird (Grey Matter Press) and Sexy Leper (Bizarro Pulp Press). His stories have appeared in various anthologies, such as Chiral Mad 4, Lost Films, and Splatterlands, and his debut comic series, Hag, is forthcoming from American... Read More →

Mark Hauer

Saturday May 11, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Winchester Room

11:00am EDT

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N.R. (Nancy) Lambert

Nancy Lambert is an author from New York City. As N.R. Lambert, her stories appear or are forthcoming in Lightspeed, VASTARIEN, The Modern Deity’s Guide to Surviving Humanity, Don’t Turn Out the Lights, and elsewhere. She’s also written for Entertainment Weekly, TIME, LIFE... Read More →

Kaaron Warren

Shirley-Jackson Award Winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had stories in print every year since. She was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy Convention in 2018 and has been shortlisted for the Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award.Her stories have... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

12:00pm EDT

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Meghan Arcuri

Meghan Arcuri is a Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author. Her work can be found in various anthologies, including Borderlands 7 (Borderlands Press), Madhouse (Dark Regions Press), Chiral Mad, and Chiral Mad 3 (Written Backwards). She served over two terms as the Vice President... Read More →

Tim Waggoner

Andy Lockwood

Talk to me about anything. Really. Obviously, I'm interested in the horror genre. I adore pop culture, spend my commute listening to podcasts and audiobooks, should have gotten a degree in comic books, love film, and try my best to keep up with tv. Also, I play video games where I... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2019 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

1:00pm EDT

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April Grey

April Grey's short stories can be found in various anthologies, both in print and on-line. Her collections of short stories, The Fairy Cake Bake Shoppe, and I'll Love You Forever are also available through Amazon. She is the editor of Hell's Garden: Bad, Mad and Ghostly Gardeners... Read More →

Michael Arnzen

Co-Chair, StokerCon® 2023

Amityville-born horror writer Michael Arnzen holds four Bram Stoker Awards® and an International Horror Guild Award for his often funny, always disturbing fiction and poetry. In addition to his creative books—like the novel, Grave Markings, the short story collection, Proverbs... Read More →

Bob Eccles

Parking Enforcement Officer, University of Michigan Police Department

Specializing in 100-word horror stories. A 30-year radio broadcasting veteran, I also do voice work: podcasts, documentaries, film trailers.

Saturday May 11, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

2:00pm EDT

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Steven Van Patten

Laughing Black Vampire Productions

Writer about anything that hastens the trip to the grave, supernatural and otherwise. Raconteur, tequila enthusiast, motorcycle owner, DJ, and professional TV show stage manager. If you have stock tips, I'm all ears.

Scott Edelman

Author

Marc Abbott

Author/Storyteller

I’m the author of the horror anthologies Hell at the Way Station (Winner of the African Literary award for Best Anthology)and Hell at Brooklyn Tea. My works have been featured in Under Twin Suns, Even in the Grave, New York State of Fright and Hells Malls. I have also been a featured... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2019 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

3:00pm EDT

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Gwendolyn Kiste

Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, and Pretty Marys All in a Row, among others. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Best American Science... Read More →

Valerie B. Williams

Writer, reader, dog lover.

Michael Cieslak

Editor in Chief, Dragon's Roost Press

Michael Cieslak is a lifetime reader and writer of horror, mystery, and speculative fiction. A native of Detroit, he still lives with his wife and their dog Tesla (named for the inventor, natch) in a house is covered in Halloween decorations in October and dragons the rest of the... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

4:00pm EDT

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Adam LaFrance

I'm looking to become a better horror writer. I love everything about horror but my passion is for reading and writing short horror stories. I've worked in the computer industry since 1998 so I'm quite the IT nerd. I love tatoos, small dogs and Fireball.

Robin Reed

Robin Reed, writing as Robin Morris, is the author of the indie horror novel "Mama" and the "Game" trilogy. Under her own name is the humorous novel, "Vampzompocalypse."

Brian Keene

Award-Winning Author

BRIAN KEENE writes novels, comic books, short stories, and nonfiction. He is the author of over fifty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and fantasy genres. They have been translated into over a dozen different languages and have won numerous awards (see below).His 2003 novel, The... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Winchester Room

5:00pm EDT

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Janice Leach

I write poetry, grants, and blogs. I'm co-author "Til Death: Marriage Poems" (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017) with Jim Leach. I also bake pies with local ingredients and volunteer at a long term garden project in youth detention. At home, I tend a rollicking kitchen garden filled... Read More →

Lucy A Snyder

Lucy A. Snyder is the five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of over 100 published short stories. Her most recent books are the poetry collection Exposed Nerves and the forthcoming Tor Nightfire novel Sister, Maiden, Monster. She also wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress... Read More →

Carina Bissett

The Storied Imaginarium

Carina Bissett is a writer, poet, and educator working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in multiple journals and anthologies including Upon a Twice Time, Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales, Arterial... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2019 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Winchester Room