Carey Blankenship-Kramer & Delilah S. Dawson: Spooky Season
Sat, Oct 04
|First Baptist Church of Decatur
Ghost Scouts and cursed amusement parks bring the scares in this thrilling middle grade panel. Carey Blankenship-Kramer and Delilah S. Dawson deliver supernatural suspense, secrets, and eerie twists perfect for spooky season.
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2025, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
First Baptist Church of Decatur, 308 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30030
About
Get ready for eerie adventures and supernatural surprises. Whether it’s joining a ghost-fighting troop, surviving a haunted amusement park, or facing off against a powerful vampire hive, these stories deliver frights with heart. Perfect for readers who love a little scare and a lot of fun.
Join middle grade authors Carey Blankenship-Kramer, Kalynn Bayron, and Delilah S. Dawson as they discuss writing eerie adventures full of haunted secrets, supernatural showdowns, and young heroes who face the darkness—and fight back.
Following the panel, authors will proceed to signing tables to autograph books.
Purchase your book from Little Shop of Stories using this link, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the festival.
About the Moderator
Hugh “H.D.” Hunter is an author from Atlanta, Georgia. He wrote Something Like Right, which won the 2025 Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Children and Youth Literary Award for a debut YA novel. Hugh is also the author of the Futureland series, including Battle for the Park, which received multiple honors: it was named a Georgia Center for the Book 2023 "Book All Young Georgians Should Read," the 2023–2024 VA Reads Chapter Book of the Year, a 2024 selection for the CORE Excellence in Children’s Science Fiction Notable list, and the 2025 Read Across America selection for the state of Georgia.