NecronomiCon Providence

Guests of Honor

GUESTS of HONOR – NECRONOMICON PROVIDENCE 2022

Along with a great many prominent authors, artists, and academics joining us for NecronomiCon Providence 2022, these selected special guests well represent a multi-faceted and vibrant weird fiction community.

NECRONOMICON PROVIDENCE 2022 GUEST PANELISTS, PRESENTERS, SPEAKERS, AND READING AUTHORS
will be posted on the programming pages
ARMITAGE SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS will be posted on the Armitage Symposium page.

Santiago Caruso by Yves Tourigny
NecronomiCon Providence 2022 Artist Guest of Honor, Santiago Caruso (Quilmes, Argentina 1982) is an artist who cultivates a language of novel and personal rhetoric grounded in the symbolist aesthetics. His work stands out as much for its discursive complexity as for the vigor of his technique. Dedicated to fantastique, his most important illustrated editions include Jane Eyre (Folio Society), The Chants of Maldoror (Valdemar), The Dunwich Horror, The Bloody Countess, The Monk and the Hangman´s Daughter, The King in Yellow (Libros del Zorro Rojo), Materia Oscura, El Eco de mis Muertes (Aguijón de la Noche), The Walls of the Castle, and The Booking (Black Labyrinth). He has illustrated book covers for Tartarus Press, Actes Sud, Planeta, Sudamericana, and Páginas de Espuma, and designs album covers for various bands in America and Europe. As a teacher and disseminator, he has given lectures and taught seminars around the world. Since 2015, he has driven the cycle El Aguijón de la Noche in which he performs live pictorial improvisations interacting with music and recited prose and poetry as an attempt to recover for the secular world, the ritual articulation of icon, music, and word. Caruso’s artwork is well represented in galleries and museums in Argentina, the United States, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Brazil, Mexico, and Spain.
Gemma Files by Yves Tourigny
Formerly a film critic, journalist, screenwriter and teacher, Gemma Files has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work, two chapbooks of speculative poetry, a Weird Western trilogy, a story-cycle and a stand-alone novel (Experimental Film, which won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst award for Best Adult Novel). She has two new story collections from Trepidatio (Spectral Evidence and Drawn Up From Deep Places), one upcoming from Cemetery Dance (Dark Is Better), and a new poetry collection from Aqueduct Press (Invocabulary).
Kier-La Janisse by Yves Tourigny
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, programmer, publisher, producer and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012) – which has an expanded 10th anniversary edition coming out in 2022 — and has been an editor of several books, including Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017) and Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021). She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012), Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea (2017), Mike McKinlay’s Tights Worship: The Processes of THE RITA (2019) and David Gregory’s Tales of the Uncanny (2020). She is currently co-editing an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr. and writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter, as well as developing an animated film based on Julia Gfrörer’s graphic novel Vision. She is a house editor and producer of bonus features at Severin Films, where she made her first film as a writer/director/producer, the award-winning Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021).
Cassandra Khaw by Yves Tourigny
Cassandra Khaw is a USA Today bestselling author whose books include Hammers on Bone, a British Fantasy award and Locus award finalist; The All-Consuming World, one of the Washington Post’s Best science fiction, fantasy and horror books of 2021; and the Bram Stocker Award Finalist Nothing But Blackened Teeth, a Japanese haunted house story described as “sharp, playful, and nasty as hell.” Khaw’s work has been translated or is in the process of being translated to Catalan, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, French, and Spanish. Their short fiction can be found in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Tor.com, Nature, The Dark, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Khaw is also an award-winning game writer who has worked on She Remembered Caterpillars (German Game Awards Best Children’s Game 2017), Wasteland 3, and Falcon Age. Khaw has contributed to Magic:Tthe Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Critical Role, World of Darkness, and Warhammer 40k. They currently reside in Montreal with two inadvisably large cats.
Oscar Rios by Yves Tourigny
Oscar Rios is an Ennie award-winning author, editor, and publisher of cosmic horror fiction and role-playing supplements. Since his debut in 2005 with his campaign Ripples from Carcosa, this proudly Hispanic New Yorker has built a reputation for being quite prolific, having written over one hundred scenarios. His works include The 7th Edition Guide to Cthulhu Invictus, The Legacy of Arrius Lurco campaign, and several scenarios in the expanded version of Horror on the Orient Express. He also dabbles in writing fiction, with short stories in anthologies such as Cthulhu’s Dark Cults, Horror for the Holidays, and Heroes of Red Hook. He founded Golden Goblin Press in 2013 and works to mentor new authors while promoting diversity and representation of underrepresented groups in both cosmic horror gaming and fiction. An avid gamer, Oscar claims that the space behind a Keeper’s screen is his natural habitat.
Jonathan Sims by Yves Tourigny
*SADLY, Jonny cannot join us this year due to issues outside of his or our control – but he promises to join us next time.*
Jonathan Sims is an award-winning writer, performer, and game designer whose work primarily focuses on the macabre, the grotesque, and the gentle touch of creeping dread. His fiction podcast The Magnus Archives (produced by Rusty Quill) won the 2021 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio as well as many other awards within the podcast sphere, and came to its conclusion after a complete run of 200 episodes. His debut book, Thirteen Storeys, a London-based haunted apartment-block novel of social terror, was released from Gollancz in October 2020, with a follow-up due for release in late 2022. He also runs story-game and TTRPG company MacGuffin & Co. with his partner Sasha Sienna, and does various voice artist, streaming and design work. He lives in Walthamstow, England, with the two best cats and an overwhelming backlog of books that he really should get around to actually reading.
Ann VanderMeer by Yves Tourigny
Ann VanderMeer currently serves as an acquiring editor for Tor.com and Weird Fiction Review and is the Editor-in-Residence for Shared Worlds. She was the editor-in-chief for Weird Tales for five years, during which time she was nominated three times for the Hugo Award, winning one. Along with multiple nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award, she also has won a World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award and a British Fantasy Award for co-editing The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Other projects have included Best American Fantasy, three Steampunk anthologies, and a humor book, The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. Her latest anthologies include The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Sisters of the Revolution, an anthology of feminist speculative fiction and The Bestiary, an anthology of original fiction and art, The Big Book of Science Fiction and The Big Book of Classic Fantasy and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy.

Bryan Thao Worra by Yves Tourigny
NecronomiCon Providence 2022 Poet Laureate, Bryan Thao Worra is an award-winning Lao poet based in the US who served twice as president of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. He is the first Lao writer to become a professional member of the Horror Writers Association. He has presented at the Smithsonian and represented the nation of Laos during the London 2012 Summer Games as a cultural Olympian. He presents regularly on Southeast Asian horror and the Cthulhu mythos. His Mythos work has appeared in Cthulhusattva, Innsmouth Free Press, Book of Dark Wisdom, Illumen, G-Fan, The Book of Starry Wisdom, Twin Cities Geek, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, and more. He is also a playable character in the reprint of Chaosium’s Horror on the Orient Express.

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