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Horror and the Supernatural

9:00 am to 9:45 am 
State Library, Fourth Floor
Louisiana Spirits: Haunted History
Nicole Beauchamp, Haunted French Quarter Hotels
Michael Wynne, Haunted Central Louisiana


9:30 am to 10:15 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Serials
Speak of the Devil: Where Music, Madness, and Murder Meet
K. Scott Culpepper, The Demonologists’ Daughters
Vincent B. “Chip” LoCoco, The Devil’s Jazz: The Haunted Chronicles of the Axman of New Orleans


10:45 am to 11:45 am
Outside Museum, South Tent
Grave Humor: Cults, Killers, and the Dark Sides of Community
Delilah S. Dawson, House of Idyll
Philip Fracassi, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
Jenny Kiefer, Crafting for Sinners: A Novel
with moderator June Pulliam


1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Serials
The Architecture of Evil: Haunted Houses, Broken Hearts, and Horror That Doesn’t Hold Back
Brian Asman, Man, F*ck This House (and Other Disasters)
Christina Henry, The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
with moderator Adrian Van Young


2:30 pm to 3:15 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent C
How to Survive a Young Adult Horror Novel (or Die Trying)
Desiree S. Evans, The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories
Olivia Worley, So Happy Together: A Novel
(ages 12 and up)