FRIDAY, JULY 29
CELEBRITIES: 5:00pm to 9:00pm
VENDORS: 5:00pm to 9:00pm
KARNEVIL AND AURELIO VOLTAIRE (Auditorium):
8:00pm. This is a ticketed event. Tickets available at registration.
SEMINARS (Rooms 2/3)
7:00pm to 7:55pm – How To Build, Advertise and Run a Non-Profit Haunted House
8:00pm to 09:00pm – Becoming Who I Was Meant To Be: An in-depth discussion with members of the Trans community.
AUTHORS (Rooms A/B)
6:00pm to 7:00pm – Adam Cesare, Matt Serfini, Patrick Lacey, Scott Cole and Aaron Dries.
7:15pm to 8:15pm – Times of Trouble: How do creatives stay productive in times of stress, grief, or trauma? Jessica McHugh (moderator), Ronald Malfi, V. Castro, Stephen Graham Jones, Rio Youers, Briana Morgan, Nicole Wilson, and Dea Scholfield discuss.
8:30pm to 9:15pm – Ronald Kelly and Wile E. Young.
9:30pm to 10:30pm – Kristopher Triana, Thomas R. Clark, and Chase Will
FILM FESTIVAL (Amphitheater)
5:00pm to 5:30pm – Blood Brothers, Rainy Season, Good Man – Honour Your Father, Cyber Bully, and Ghost Trippers
6:00pm to 6:30pm – Here There Be Tygers and The Retailer
7:00m to 7:50 – Swole Ghost, Stalked, 665, Blacked Box, and Trucksquatch
7:54 to 9:00pm – Escalation, Piggy, Venus Project STCR, and POX
SATURDAY, JULY 30
CELEBRITIES: 10:00am to 6:00pm
VENDORS: 10:00am to 6:00pm
SILENT AUCTION: Closes at 5:00pm
COSTUME CONTEST (Auditorium): 8:00pm
SCARES THAT CARE 5K:
Kids Fun Run: 8:00 am
5K: 8:30 am
CELEBRITY Q&As (Auditorium):
11:00am to 11:45am – Shawnee Smith
Noon to 12:45pm – Growing Up Horror with Danny Pintauro, Harvey Stevens, Danny Lloyd, and Danielle Harris
2:00pm to 2:45pm – E.T. 40th Anniversary with Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, and K.C. Martel
3:00pm to 3:45pm – Kerr Smith
4:00pm to 4:45pm – Barbara Hershey
PHOTO OPS (Second Floor) – Photo ops are ticketed. Tickets available at registration.
1:30pm – E.T. Reunion: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNughton, and K.C. Martell
1:45pm – Cujo Reunion: Dee Wallace and Danny Pintauro
2:00pm – Danielle Harris
2:30pm – Kerr Smith
3:00pm –Harvey Stevens
3:30pm – Barbara Hershey
4:00pm – Shawnee Smith
SEMINARS (Rooms 2/3)
11:00am – The Center for Paranormal Research and Investigation (CPRI) discusses the ir latest cases and paranormal findings.
AUTHORS (Rooms A/B)
10:15am to 11:00am: Russel R. James and Tom Deady
11:15am to 12:30pm: V Castro and John Edward Lawson
12:45pm to 1:30pm: John Urbancik and Nicholas Kaufmann
1:45pm to 2:30pm: Somer Canon and Laurel Hightower
2:45pm to 3:30pm: Daniel Kraus and Stephen Kozeniewski
3:45pm to 4:30pm: Stephen Graham Jones and Rio Youers
4:45pm to 5:45pm: Wesley Southard, Tim Meyer, and Kenzie Jennings
6:00pm to 7:00pm: The World’s Greatest Horror Novel: Lucas Milliron (moderator), Daniel Kraus, Shawn Burgess, James D. Dean, Holly Jennings, Bryan Nowak, Sheri White, and Kyle Lybeck share their picks for the greatest horror novel of all time.
7:15pm to 8:00pm: John C. Foster and Dacia M. Arnold
8:15pm to 9:00pm: Lucas Mangum and Todd Keisling
9:15pm to 10:15pm: The Economics of Publishing: Representatives from Apokrupha (Moderator), Raw Dog Screaming Press, Stygian Sky/Death’s Head Press, Dark Recesses Press, Bleeding Edge Books and St Rooster Books discuss how they operate amidst today’s global financial uncertainty.
10:30pm to…: The Gross-Out Contest: Contestants who enter will have three minutes to tell their grossest, vilest, and maybe funniest stories to judges Kristopher Triana, Samantha Kolesnik, Candace Nola, Jay Wilburn, and John Wayne Comunale, and emcee Brian Keene. Winners get prizes. Please Note: This is NC-17 content. Audience discretion is strongly advised.
FILM FESTIVAL (Amphitheater)
10:00am to 11:00am – 3AM, Hostile, Mama’s boy, Blood Brothers, Shelter, and Ghost Trippers
11:17am to Noon – Rainy Season, The Thing With The Glowing Green Eyes, Good Man – Honour Your Father, and Stalked.
12:23pm – Bloody Summer Camp
2:28pm to 3:00pm – Here There Be Tygers, POX, The Last Call, Cyber Bully, and The Retailer
3:52pm – Straight Edge Kegger
5:23pm to 6:00pm – 665, Blacked Box, Escalation, and Trucksquatch
SUNDAY, JULY 31
CELEBRITIES: 11:00am to 4:00pm
VENDORS: 11:00am to 4:00pm
AUTHORS (Rooms A/B)
11:15am to Noon – Amanda Headlee and Rachel Brune
12:15pm to 1:15pm – Boom or Bust: Horror is in a boom period. How will the current global economic uncertainty impact the genre? Todd Keisling (moderator), Ronald Kelly, Somer Canon, Laurel Hightower, Ronald Malfi, and Jeff Strand discuss.
1:30pm to 2:30pm – Kenneth Cain, Nathan D. Ludwig, and JC Walsh
2:45pm to 3:45pm – Brian Keene and Sonora Taylor (including an exclusive sneak preview of Scares That Care’s AuthorCon II)
FILM FESTIVAL (Amphitheater)
11:00am to 12:25pm – Be A Hero, Sleeping Awake, The House of Terror, Those Beautiful Moments, Mama’s Boy, Circle of Stone and Godzilla In James Town
12:35pm to 1:00pm – Janus and Last Radio Call