Booths

StokerCon 2025: How to Perform a Seance
Moderator: Frances Lu Pai Ippolito; Panelists: Lisa Morton, Jonathan Gensler, Rebecca Cuthbert, and Sarah Walker.

StokerCon 2025: The United States of Horror
Patrick Barb (moderator), Cynthia Pelayo, John Langan, Christa Carmen, Elizabeth Broadbent, Wendy Dalrymple, Philip Fracassi

StokerCon 2025: Writing Quality at Speed
Charles Barouch (mod), Teel James Glenn, Carl Paolino, David Avallone, and B.E. Miller

StokerCon 2025: Understanding Historical Horror
Philip Fracassi, John Kachuba, Alma Katsu, John Langan

StokerCon 2025: The Halloween Librarians and You: A Not so Scary Partnership
Konrad Stump, Becky Spratford, Yaika Sabat, Chloe Waryan, and Sadie Hartmann

StokerCon 2025: Booksellers & Bookstores and Their Support of Horror
Marguerite "Peg" Turley, Lisa Doblow, Jenny Kiefer, Clay McLeod Chapman

StokerCon 2025: Venomous & Voracious: Fabulous Female Villains & What They Mean to Women Writers in the Horror Genre
Gwendolyn Kiste, Candace Nola, May Walker, Sara Tantlinger, J.A.W. McCarthy, vcastro

StokerCon 2025: Non-Traditional Gothic
Marianne Kirby, Carl Engle-Laird, Sofia Ajram, Caitlin Starling

StokerCon 2025: Hello, And Welcome To... A Celebration of Horror Lit's Most Vocal Advocates - Our Podcasters
Neil McRobert - Talking Scared; Robb Olson - The ARC Party; Anna Dupre - Anna Rose Reads; Trevor Williamson - Sley House Presents

StokerCon 2025: Pathways to Horror
Joshua Ginsberg, Marie Still, Lee Murray, Jose Cruz, Kurt Fawver, J.W. Ocker

StokerCon 2025: Sinners: Afrosurrealism, Horror and Vampires, Oh My!
Zin Rocklyn, Steven Van Patten, Donyae Coles, Denise Tapscott, Sumiko Saulson

StokerCon 2025: Radio play “The Devil’s Saint”
Performers: Charles Barouch, Teel James Glenn, and Carol Gyzander; Sound engineering: Steven Van Patten

StokerCon 2025: Love Bites: Where Horror and Romance Make Out
Michaela Rae, Jonathan Reddoch, Brianna Malotke, Elizabeth Suggs

StokerCon 2025: Transcending Horror Tropes
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, Lisa Wood, Carlos A. González, Stefan Sonntagbauer, Andrew Najberg

StokerCon 2025: Bubblegum Horror
Ryan LaSala, Kelly Andrew, De Elizabeth, Angela Sylvaine, Wendy Dalrymple

StokerCon 2025: Crossroads: Choosing and Succeeding Among Different Horror-Publishing Paths
Dan Franklin, Steven James, Alan Lastufka, Erin Macnair, Premee Mohamed, Janine Cross

StokerCon 2025: It Came From the Depths of the Archives!: Writing Nonfiction
L. Marie Wood, W. Scott Poole, Heidi Honeycutt

StokerCon 2025: There's No Such Thing As Self-Publishing
Mark Matthews, Chad Lutzke, Candace Nola, Peter Rosch, Kat Silva

StokerCon 2025: Plotting Your Publishing Journey
Daniel Barnett, Wendy Dalrymple, Angela Sylvaine, Jenny Kiefer

StokerCon 2025: Vampires: Why they Endure and Continue to Fascinate Us
Hailey Piper, S. Faxon, Liz Kerin, Heather Hein

StokerCon 2025: Taking Risks: Tackling Taboo Subjects in Horror
Robbie Dorman, Tamika Thompson, Jamie Flanagan, Clay McLeod Chapman, Christina Persaud, Douglas Ford

StokerCon 2025: Unmarked Graves and Tortured Roots: Defining Folk Horror from the Perspective of the Asian Diaspora
Geneve Flynn, J.A.W. McCarthy, Ayida Shonibar, Gabriela Lee, Kanishk Tantia

StokerCon 2025: Neurodiversity in Horror
Tee Wood, Rick Claypool, Steven Belanger, Lara Frater, Ricardo D. Rebelo, L. E. Daniels

StokerCon 2025: We are Coming for the Children: The Scary Truth About Middle Grade Horror
Becky Spratford, Derick Chow, Fleur Bradley, Eden Royce, Graham Annable, Maxwell I Gold, and Julia Smith

StokerCon 2025: Ghost Stories: From the Classics to the Modern
Lisa Morton, KC Grifant, Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, Michael Arnzen, Eric J. Guignard

StokerCon 2025: Mascot Horror: Cute, Cuddly, Creepy
Patrick Barb, Grace Daly, Brian McAuley, P.L. McMillan, Sam Rebelein

StokerCon 2025: Working with Editors
Lisa Kastner, Cecilia Kennedy, Henry Herz, and Kate Maruyama

StokerCon 2025: Women of the Horrific Weird West
KC Grifant, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Tiffany Morris, Christine Morgan, Cynthia Pelayo, Stephanie Rabig, Rebecca Rowland

StokerCon 2025: First Person Dead
CC Adams, Gemma Amor, John Langan, Gordon B. White, Jason A. Wyckoff

StokerCon 2025: Modern Young Adult Horror
Taylor Grothe, Robert Ottone, Maria Alexander, Joey Powell, Wendy Dalrymple

StokerCon 2025: Mind Killer or Manna?: Tapping into childhood fears to create exceptional modern monsters
Ann Dávila Cardinal, Dawn Kurtagich, Kat Ellis, Kiersten White, Rob Costello, Gretchen McNeil, Joshua Winning

Your Work is all Intellectual Property: Finding the Media Potential of your Fiction
Tananarive Due, LP Kindred, Ai Jiang, Kate Maruyama

StokerCon 2025: Adapting Horror
Tim Waggoner (adaptations of Halloween Kills, Terrifier, Pearl, Supernatural) V. Castro (adaptations of Aliens: Vasquez, Rebel Moon) Josh Millican (adaptations of Chopping Mall, Circus of the Dead) Tim Lebbon (adaptations of Star Wars, Alien, Hellboy) Moderators Jeff C. Carter (Host of the WE BLEED ORANGE & BLACK podcast) Paxton Holley (I READ MOVIES podcast, CULT FILM CLUB podcast)

Author Reading: Ari Loeb

Author Reading: Casey Masterson

Author Reading: Ef Deal

Author Reading: Geneve Flynn

Author Reading: Jean Marie Ward

Author Reading: Joe Baldwin

Author Reading: Kristi Petersen Schoonover

Author Reading: Lisa Acerbo

Author Reading: Lisa Morton

Author Reading: L.C. Marino

Author Reading: Mark Matthews

Author Reading: Melissa Bobe

Author Reading: Mercedes M. Yardley

Author Reading: Ricardo Rebelo

Author Reading: Robin Knabel

Author Reading: Sèphera Girón

StokerCon 2024: Paul Tremblay Interviewed by Dennis Crosby

StokerCon 2024: Interview: Jonathan Maberry Interviewed by Scott Sigler

StokerCon 2024: Purrfect Terrors: Cats in Horror

StokerCon 2024: Interview: Rob Savage Interviewed by Philip Fracassi

StokerCon 2024: Nisi Shawl Interviewed by Eric Guignard

StokerCon 2024: Breaking In and Breaking Out: Navigating Traditional Publishing

StokerCon 2024: Interview: Justina Ireland Interviewed by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

StokerCon 2024: Don't Sign Away Your Soul: Publishing Contracts

StokerCon 2024: Haunted by the Trope: Reimagining Ghost Stories

StokerCon 2024: Ask an Agent

StokerCon 2024: Screaming in SoCal

StokerCon 2024: Short Story Success: Submission to Publication

StokerCon 2024: It's Not Witchcraft: Practical Methods of Marketing Your Book

StokerCon 2024: Scripting Fear: The Alchemy of Adapting Horror for the Screen

StokerCon 2024: Stop the Killer Presents Sudden Acts of Horror

StokerCon 2024: Silver Screams: The Business of Adapting Books for the Big and Small Screens

StokerCon 2024: HWA Open Member Board Meeting

StokerCon 2024: Fear on the Frontier - Western Horror

StokerCon 2024: Curating Inclusive Horror Anthologies

StokerCon 2024: The Heart of Horror: Getting the Most Out of the HWA

StokerCon 2024: Exploring Queerness as "Otherness" in Horror

StokerCon 2024: Author Branding Roadmap

StokerCon 2024: High-Heeled Horror: Feminism and Womanhood in the Horror Genre

StokerCon 2024: Horror at the PTA

StokerCon 2024: Horror RPG -- James A. Moore's Dangerous Toys

StokerCon 2024: Ancestry as Source: Writing with Deep Authenticity

StokerCon 2024: Stage Fright: Writing Horror for Theater

StokerCon 2024: Sensitivity Reads: Writing Outside of Your Identity

StokerCon 2024: Short Story Writing: The Craft

StokerCon 2024: Scream Queens

StokerCon 2024: Author Life Productivity Tips & Tools

StokerCon 2024: Self-Care for Horror Writers

StokerCon 2024: Collaborative Writing

StokerCon 2024: How to Connect With Your Library Through Summer Scares

StokerCon 2024: To Hell and Back: Poetry

StokerCon 2024: Choosing the Best Setting for Your Story

StokerCon 2024: Dark Fantasy - A Discussion on Horror with Fantasy Elements

StokerCon 2024: Divination and Darkness: The Use of Divination for Generative Writing and Editing

StokerCon 2024: Fear Becomes Words Becomes Poetry

StokerCon 2024: Flipping the Lid on Mental Illness in Horror

StokerCon 2024: Short, Sweet, and Saleable

StokerCon 2024: Southwest Horror

StokerCon 2024: Latin American Folklore: Exploring our Identities Through Horror

StokerCon 2024: Short and Not So Sweet- Composing a Horror Short Story Collection

StokerCon 2024: The Ins and Outs of Horror Comics

StokerCon 2024: What We Can Learn from Grief in Horror

StokerCon 2024: Epistolary Horror

StokerCon 2024: Modern Cosmic: The More We Change, The More We Stay the Same

StokerCon 2023: Queer Horror Canon

StokerCon 2023: Asian Narratives in Horror

StokerCon 2023: Dread and Desire

StokerCon 2023: Cryptids

StokerCon 2023: Anomalous Architecture

StokerCon 2023: Decades of Black Women in Horror

StokerCon 2023: Adaptations and Retellings

StokerCon 2023: Avoid Medical Mistakes in Writing

StokerCon 2023: Crafting Point of View

StokerCon 2023: Guest of Honor Spotlight

StokerCon 2023: Self-Care for Horror Writers

StokerCon 2023: Revamping Classic Monsters

StokerCon 2023: Remembering Peter Straub

StokerCon 2023: Podcasting Audio Books

StokerCon 2023: Lifecycle of a Book

StokerCon 2023: Tales of Weird Pittsburgh

StokerCon 2023: Ancestry as Source

StokerCon 2023: Antipodean Gothic

StokerCon 2023: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Asian Narratives in Horror and Speculative Fiction

StokerCon 2023: Monstrous Metaphors: Horror Movies and Cultural Commentary

StokerCon 2023: All These Pages Bleed: Horror In Libraries

StokerCon 2023: Bound in the Flesh: Crafting the Anthology

StokerCon 2023: Rising Terrors: Exciting Voices in Horror

StokerCon 2023: Canadian Horror

StokerCon 2023: Horror through a Southern Gothic Len

StokerCon 2023: Keeping the Artificial Out of Art: AI, Bots, and ChatGPT

StokerCon 2023: Sense & Sensitivity: Modern Approaches to Mental Health

StokerCon 2023: Something Old, Something New: The Power of Horror Retellings

StokerCon 2023: Short Stories, Novellas, and Long Fiction, Oh My!

StokerCon 2023: Sisters of Foreboding

StokerCon 2023: Transformation in Horror

StokerCon 2023: Using Mystery Conventions in Your Horror

StokerCon 2022: Horror in Comics and Graphic Novels

StokerCon 2022: Finding Your Scooby Gang: Networking in Horror

StokerCon 2022: Epistolary Fiction and Found Footage

StokerCon 2022: Digging Up Graves: Horror Non-Fiction

StokerCon 2022: Banned Books: The Rising Threat of Censorship

StokerCon 2022: Whatever Possessed You? Traditions of Possession

StokerCon 2022: What Makes Cosmic Horror Cosmic

StokerCon 2022: The Tell-Tale Kidney: Medical Accuracy in Horror

StokerCon 2022: The Rules of Horror Guest of Honor Panel

StokerCon 2022: The Gothic in Horror and Dark Fantasy

StokerCon 2022: Stronger Than the Sum of Its Parts Authors and Editors

StokerCon 2022: Stalking Halloween in Less than 12 Parsecs: Blending Horror and Science Fiction

StokerCon 2022: Resurrecting the Past: Historical Horror

StokerCon 2022: Red Flags: When an Editor or Publisher is Not Right for You

StokerCon 2022: Pushing the Envelope with Dark Poems

StokerCon 2022: Psychology of YA and Middle Grade Characters

StokerCon 2022: Psychological Horror: When Humans are the Monsters

StokerCon 2022: Pitch Panel Pitch Session Advice

StokerCon 2022: Other Terrors

StokerCon 2022: Nancy Holder Lifetime Achievement Award Interview

StokerCon 2022: Monster Mash

StokerCon 2022: Kolchak the Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Discussion

StokerCon 2022: How to Get Reviews and Communicate with Reviewers

StokerCon 2022: Horrormance: Blending Horror and Romance

StokerCon 2022: Horror Noire: Black Americans in Horror

StokerCon 2022: Horror in the 21st Century Genre-Defining Books

StokerCon 2022: Horror Hits Close to Home: Personal Experience in Horror

StokerCon 2022: Horror and Hope: Writing in the Age of Covid

StokerCon 2022: Have You Seen the Yellow Sign: The King in Yellow

StokerCon 2022: Hardcore Horror: Body, Splatterpunk, and Other Extreme Horror

StokerCon 2022: Ghost Stories: They Haunt Your Dreams

StokerCon 2022: From Bloody Page to Big Screen: Writing and Pitching a Script

StokerCon 2022: Folk Horror Revival: When the Old Superstitions Are New Again

StokerCon 2022: Summer Scares YA Author Panel

StokerCon 2022: Summer Scares Middle Grade Author Panel

StokerCon 2022: Summer Scares Adult Author Panel

StokerCon 2022: Objects of Fear

StokerCon 2022 Horror Crime and Suspense

StokerCon 2022: Writing Workshops

StokerCon 2022: Meet the 2022 Diversity Grant Winners

Stokercon 2022: The Nature of Evil

StokerCon 2022: Origins of Monsters

StokerCon 2022: Haunted and Abandoned Places

StokerCon 2022: Mental Health and Horror

StokerCon 2022: How to Curate Anthologies

StokerCon 2022: Gothic Fiction Panel

StokerCon 2022: From Prose to Silver Screen

StokerCon 2022: Classic Monsters Reimagined
