StokerCon® 2024

Nathan McCullough is a veteran journalist, editor and writer who has worked in the Atlanta area for more than 20 years. His first fiction story appeared in the Mini Anthology from Alban Lake Publishing in 2019, and his novella/short story collection, Drag You Down, debuted in 2020... Read More →

i've published over fifty novels and eight collections of short stories. I write original horror and dark fantasy as well as media tie-ins. I'm a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, a one-time winner of the Scribe Award, and I've been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award... Read More →

Horror Scholarship, Grindhouse films, teaching horror, teaching horror writing, horror as a genre, adaptation and appropriation, and rookie horror author.

The least famous author you've never heard of, Larry Hinkle writes horror comedy, pulp, and cosmic horror, tinged with a touch of weird. His short stories made the Preliminary Stoker Awards ballot in 2020 and 2022. His debut collection "The Space Between" was released in February... Read More →

J.A.W. McCarthy is the Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of Sometimes We’re Cruel and Other Stories (Cemetery Gates Media, 2021) and Sleep Alone (Off Limits Press, 2023). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including The Best Horror... Read More →

ANANDA LIMA is a poet, translator, and fiction writer born in Brasília, Brazil, now living in Chicago, IL. She's the author of the poetry collection Mother/land, winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf... Read More →