Telluride Horror Show’s Author Roll Call
Tremblay, Hendrix and more are landing in Colorado this week to scare attendees silly.
As I said when they dropped their lineup last week, one of my favorite parts about Telluride Horror Show is their literary programming. The three-day genre festival – which kicks off on Friday in eye-popping Telluride, Colorado – never fails to bring some of the most fascinating and prolific authors working in the genre, and every year I find a new writer to love thanks to events like the Horror Book Fair and Creepy Campfire Tales.
This year's no different: in anticipation of Sarah Langan's attendance at the fest, I read her books The Keeper and The Missing this month, and I'm absolutely floored by the dark poetry of her words. Langan will be joined by other authors whose work I already celebrate: Grady Hendrix (Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, My Best Friend's Exorcism), Fango columnist Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians, The Indian Lake Trilogy), Daniel Kraus (Rotters, Whalefall), and Paul Tremblay (A Head Full of Ghosts, Horror Movie), and as always the programming will be led by author Jeremy Robert Johnson (The Loop, Skullcrack City).
Read on for more about Telluride Horror Show's literary programming, and get your pass HERE.
TELLURIDE, Colo. — Long recognized as one of the nation’s premier genre film festivals, the Telluride Horror Show has also become an essential gathering for the horror literary community. When the festival returns to the majestic mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, October 10 through 12, 2025, it will once again offer a weekend that not only celebrates horror on screen, but also pays tribute to the storytellers redefining the genre on the page.
While the festival's film program includes the Colorado premieres of Bryan Fuller’s DUST BUNNY, starring Mads Mikkelsen, and Chris Stuckmann’s SHELBY OAKS, the literary programming has steadily become one of Telluride Horror Show’s most beloved elements. Over the course of the weekend, readers and writers alike will find a slate of immersive events that bring the written word to life in uniquely atmospheric ways.