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Imaginarium 2025 proudly welcomes award-winning author R.G. Yoho as an Imaginator Guest! A proud member of the Western Writers of America and 2022 Spur Award finalist, he’s author of the five-book Kellen Malone Western series as well as books of historical fiction and nonfiction. R.G. also received the 2024 Branding Iron Award for outstanding service to the WWA as the Spur Awards Chair! Yoho is also America’s foremost authority on the life of Baldwin-Felts Agent and notorious coal mine spy, Charles E. Lively, who he profiled in the biography, “Charles E. Lively. The Deadliest Man in the West Virginia-Colorado Coal Mine Wars.” We are honoredRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes Liza Groen Trombi as an Imaginator Guest! Liza is the four-time Hugo Award-winning Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Locus Magazine, where she has been Editor-in-Chief and Publisher since 2009. Trombi participates in convention panels and awards juries, runs the Locus Awards Weekend and writing workshops, publishes books with Locus Press, and serves as board president of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. We are honored and elated to have Liza join us for our 11th year, taking place July 19-21, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.comRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning Hollywood makeup artist, actor, filmmaker, and author Michael F. Blake as an Imaginator Guest! A two-time Emmy-winning makeup artist, spent sixty years in the film and television industry before his retirement in 2018. His credits include Westworld, X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man 3, Independence Day, Tough Guys, Happy Days, and numerous other major productions. Michael’s books on silent screen legend Lon Chaney are the definitive works on the actor, and his trilogy served as the basis for the Turner Classic Movies documentary. His book The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt was named by True WestRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning stage and screen actor, producer, and writer Bill Oberst Jr. as an Imaginator Guest! Known for Daytime Emmy Award-winning “Take This Lollipop” and a ratings-winning role on CBS-TV’s “Criminal Minds,” Bill has appeared in a multitude of film, television, and stage productions. Bill’s staged theatrical reading “Ray Bradbury’s Pillar Of Fire” won an Ernest Kearney Platinum Award for its Los Angeles debut. In 2017, it won a United Solo Theatre Festival Award for its Off-Broadway debut on Theatre Row in New York City. Bill has won numerous individual awards, and Ron Chaney, great-grandson of Lon Chaney, presented him with theRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly announces Steve Jackson, founder of Steve Jackson Games, as an Imaginator Guest! Elected to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame, Steve has received 12 Origins Awards, as well as numerous other honors, for game design. His company, Steve Jackson Games, is one of the most successful game publishers in the industry. His current mega-hit is the card game Munchkin, which has a Steam version available for online play, and current projects include various Munchkin follow-ups, a new edition of Car Wars, and the ongoing republication of his first RPG, The Fantasy Trip. We are thrilled and honored to have Steve join usRead More →

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Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes author, historian, and podcaster Donald R. Guillory as a Spotlighted Guest! As an author, Donald’s work includes the thriller novel “Bastards of the Bayou,” the horror novel “Magnolia Lane,” and the non-fiction book ““The Token Black Guide.” Donald holds multiple academic degrees and his areas of interest are Social, Cultural, and Political History in the United States and Latin America. Donald is also the co-host of the Necronomi.com Podcast, a podcast discussing the social commentary in horror that has over one million downloads. We are thrilled to have Donald join us for our 11th year, taking place July 19-21, 2024 inRead More →

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Imaginarium 2023 proudly welcomes author and historian Jeff Mudgett as an Imaginator Guest! Jeff is the author of Bloodstains, the book that became the basis for the popular History Channel limited series American Ripper! The book and series are accounts of Jeff’s extensive investigation into his great-great grandfather, Herman Webster Mudgett, who is better known to history by his alias, H.H. Holmes, often regarded as America’s first serial killer! The investigation led to Jeff’s theory, which he spoke of in a 2015 TEDx Talk, that H.H. Holmes could possibly be the same person as the infamous Jack the Ripper! An attorney into his forties, JeffRead More →

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Imaginarium 2022 proudly welcomes actor, screenwriter, and author Santiago Cirilo as an Imaginator Guest! Many will recognize Santiago from some very popular roles he has performed, including Julio from The Walking Dead, Detective Martinez in Nashville, Febels in Beast of the Water, and his portrayal of Dodi Fayed in the documentary Princess Diana: Tragedy or Treason? Santiago is also a screenwriter and author, and in the past he had a highly successful career at world-renowned Gibson Guitars that saw him become the only builder for Chet Akins guitars, in addition to building guitars for “A” List artists including Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Keith Urban andRead More →

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Imaginarium 2022 proudly welcomes author and editor James Aquilone as an Imaginator Guest! James is the managing editor for Weird Tales Magazine and the author of the Dead Jack series of horror/fantasy novels that are currently in development as a television series! James is also the editor of two highly touted projects coming soon including the upcoming anthology Classic Monsters Unleashed (Crystal Lake Publishing & Black Spot Books) as well as the Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary Graphic Novel (Moonstone Books). Imaginarium 2022 is very excited to have James join us for our 9th year convention, taking place July 8-10, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information onRead More →

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Imaginarium 2022 is proud to welcome author, editor, publisher and playwright Anna Faktorovich as an Imaginator Guest! Ann is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. She previously taught for over four years at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia State College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism, an MA in Comparative Literature, and a BA in Economics. Anna has published two academic books with McFarland: “Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson” and “The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious andRead More →