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Horror Writers Association Panel Discussion

Bringing Scares to Life and What Draws Us to the Genre

Horror Writers Association panel discussion

Join the Horror Writers Association--New York Chapter for a panel discussion covering what it takes to create a horror novel, novella, or anthology. Whether you're a reader or a writer, join us for a compelling conversation.

What draws writers to the horror genre? How do they tap into the psychology of readers' fears when creating their plots, characters, and worlds? Several horror authors join us for this panel discussion, sharing their journeys and best practices for presenting the creeps, crawls, and haunts that keep readers turning the page. Attendees will learn how these elements come together in creating a novel, novella, or anthology.

Panelist bios are below.

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Questions? Email sean.willey@hobokenlibrary.org

Panelist Bios

James Chambers is a Bram Stoker Award® and Scribe Award-winning author and a four-time Bram Stoker Award nominee. He is the author of the short story collections A Bright and Beautiful Eternal World, On the Night Border and On the Hierophant Road; the novellas, Kolchak and the Night Stalkers: The Faceless God, Three Chords of Chaos, and The Dead Bear Witness, Tears of Blood, The Dead in Their Masses, and Eyes of the Dead in the Corpse Fauna series. He also wrote the original graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe and has edited several anthologies, including Abandoned: Asylum, Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign, and Where the Silent Ones Watch. His website is: www.jameschambersonline.com.

Teel James Glenn has killed hundreds and been killed more times—on stage and screen as a stuntman for forty-plus years. Then he decided to do something risky: become an author. With dozens of books published in multiple genres, he’s a Shamus, Silver Falchion, and Derringer finalist, and won Best Novel 2021 in the Pulp Factory Award and the 2012 Pulp Ark Award for Best Author. His work has been printed in over two hundred magazines, including Weird Tales, Mystery, Pulp Adventures, Mad, Black Cat Weekly, Cirsova, and Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Book one of his ongoing Paradise Investigations series from Crossroads Press, Not Born of Woman, features Frankenstein’s creature as a 1930’s NYC P.I. who uses his knowledge of monsters to combat the worst monster of all: human beings. Book three, The Undiscovered Country, just released.

Carol Gyzander is a Bram Stoker Award® recipient and World Fantasy Award finalist. She writes and edits horror, weird fiction, and science fiction—with strong women in twisted tales that touch your heart. She has a story in Ellen Datlow’s Lovecraft’s Brood cosmic horror anthology (Tachyon Publications, July 2026). Carol co-edited and contributed to the Stoker-awarded Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Publishing) and Dark Spores (Crone Girls Press). Carol’s cryptid novella, Forget Me Not, is set near Niagara Falls in 1969 and 1939. Living in northern NJ, she’s Co-Chair of the HWA NY Chapter and co-hosts their online reading series, Galactic Terrors, every second Thursday. Follow her on Instagram @carolgyzander 

Christopher Ryan has been traditionally published in several horror, mystery, crime, and pop culture anthologies. He edits and publishes Soul Scream Antholozine, a horror anthology/magazine hybrid, and has independently published four novels: the IBPA award-winning supernatural police procedural City of Woe, its sequel City of Pain, a high school thriller Genius High, and near-future thriller A Simple Rebellion. Alien Buddha Press published his two poetry collections: It’s Been a Privilege (A Horror Story in Verse) and America, We Need to Talk. He holds a master’s degree in English from Rutgers University. Member HWA, MWA. Social media: @thischrisryan, podcast: Tell The Damn Story (over 400 episodes). Website: chrisryanwrites.blog

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