Jamie Flanagan is a Bram Stoker Awards®–winning author, actor, and screenwriter. Screenwriting credits include Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, The Fall of the House of Usher, AMC Shudder’s Creepshow, and Peacock's Hysteria! 

Their short fiction and essays have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as The Darkest Night, Shadows in the Stacks, Dracula Beyond Stoker, Bestiary of Blood, and Nightmare Magazine. 

As a stage performer, their credits include the Off-Broadway premiere of columbinus (New York Theater Workshop, Drama League Nomination for Ensemble), regional productions with Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Arena Stage, Rep Stage, The Studio Theatre, Theater J, The Kennedy Center TYA, and others. 

Film and television appearances include Absentia, House of Cards, Oculus, Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, The Midnight Club, and Hysteria! 

BRIAN KEENE  is the author of over fifty books and three-hundred short stories — mostly horror, crime, fantasy, and nonfiction. . His 2003 novel, The Rising, is credited with inspiring pop culture’s recurrent interest in zombies. He has also written for such media properties as Doctor Who, Thor, Aliens, Harley Quinn, The X-Files, Doom Patrol, Justice League, Hellboy, Superman, and Masters of the Universe. He was the showrunner for Realm Media and Blackbox TV’s Silverwood: The Door.

Several of Keene’s novels and stories have been adapted for film, including Ghoul, The Naughty List, The Ties That Bind, and Fast Zombies Suck. Keene also served as Executive Producer for the feature length film I’m Dreaming of a White Doomsday and the forthcoming Dead Format. 

From 2015 to 2020, he hosted the immensely popular The Horror Show with Brian Keene podcast. He also hosted (along with Christopher Golden) the long-running Defenders Dialogue podcast, and (with Jim Cobb and Dacia Arnold) the How To Survive 2025 limited series). Keene also serves on the Board of Directors for the Scares That Care 501c charity organization, which helps sick children, burn survivors, and those battling breast cancer.

The father of two sons and stepfather to one daughter, Keene lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, author Mary SanGiovanni and several cats.

Rebecca Cuthbert writes dark fiction and poetry. 

Her books include IN MEMORY OF EXOSKELETONS, SELF-MADE MONSTERS, CREEP THIS WAY, DOWN IN THE DARK DEEP WHERE THE PUDDLERS DWELL, and SIX O'CLOCK HOUSE & OTHER STRANGE TALES. 

She is the editor-in-chief of Undertaker Books. 

She loves ghost stories, folklore, witchy women, and anything that involves nature getting revenge. 

For more, visit RebeccaCuthbert.com. 

DM Guay is a former (very serious) journalist who now writes horror comedy. She's best known for the 24/7 Demon Mart series, about a corner store where the beer cave is the gate to hell.

She lives in Ohio, where she is trying to grow a 1,000 pound pumpkin in her backyard. She would have succeeded by now if not for her nemesis, a groundhog named Chonk. She is a retired roller derby player whose favorite things—besides books—are tiki bars, horror movie festivals, and cheese.

She was diagnosed with terminal, incurable stage 4 kidney cancer in 2017 and given six months to live. Spoiler alert: She didn't die and is in remission. Researchers now follow her around, trying to figure out why she's still alive. She hopes her good luck and weird genes can one day help cancer doctors figure out how to save more people.

You can find her at DMGuay.com, and at the bar after the event.

S.A. Bradley hosts the 5-time Rondo Award-nominated podcast, “Hellbent for Horror,” which explores all things horror across books, film, comics, and music. Director Guillermo Del Toro described the podcast as “well researched, articulate and entirely absorbing.” 

Bradley is the author of the Rondo-nominated book “Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy.” He is currently working on a follow-up book. 

Bradley’s short stories are published in the anthologies "Punk Goes Horror" and “Shadows in the Stacks". His articles have appeared in Horrorhound and Midnight! Magazine.

He is working on a collection of short horror stories. 

James Sabata is the Founder and Director of Spirited Giving, as well as a horror author, produced screenwriter, and former co-host of TheNecronomi.Com podcast. 

James is the author of books including FAT CAMP, THE CASSOWARY,
THE JAVELINA, and CADUCEUS. 

He co-authors The MIDNIGHT MONSTER MADNESS creature feature series with Vincent V. Cava.

He currently lives in Phoenix, AZ with his insanely hot wife, super kind daughter, two cats, multiple pet arachnids, and the ghost of an older gentleman with a hilarious sense of humor.