Sam Weller, Friday's headliner and a panelist on Saturday, is the two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning authorized biographer of the legendary author Ray Bradbury. Sam has written for Slate, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, National Public Radio and many others. Weller's collection of gothic weird fiction, Dark Black, was published in 2020 by Hat & Beard Press and was hailed by Pulitzer prize-winner Daniel Kraus (Angel Down), National Book Award winner Charles Yu (Interior Chinatown), and #1 New York Times author Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl). Follow Sam on Bluesky @samwellerauthor@bsky.social or on his web site www.samweller.net. (He's published a few times with Utah's own Whisper House Press.)