Registration opens:
August 24th, 2026

HPL Author Series

Fright Fest Panel

Fright Fest panel with Karma Brown, Nick Cutter, Jessica Hamilton and Andrew F. Sullivan.

Authors Karma Brown, Nick Cutter and Jessica Hamilton chat about spine-chilling stories and eerie insight with author Andrew F. Sullivan.

The 45-minute conversation is followed by a 15-minute question-and-answer period. Check out the HPL catalogue to borrow the author's books before the event.

Karma Brown is the author of seven novels: the #1 international bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, What Wild Women Do, Come Away with Me (a Globe & Mail Best Book of 2015), Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers The Choices We Make and In This Moment, and The Life Lucy Knew. She is also the author of the bestseller The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life. An award-winning journalist, Karma has been published in SELF, Redbook, and Chatelaine, among other outlets. She lives just outside Toronto with her husband, teenage daughter, and a Labradoodle named Fred.

Nick Cutter is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Dorians and the nationally bestselling modern horror classic The Troop (which is currently being developed for film), as well as the critically acclaimed novels The Deep, Little Heaven, The Queen, and The Handyman Method, cowritten with Andrew F. Sullivan. Nick Cutter is the pseudonym for Craig Davidson, whose much-lauded literary fiction includes Rust and Bone, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, and, most recently, the short story collection Cascade. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Jessica Hamilton, author of The Woods, was born in Australia but grew up in Canada. She has lived and worked in the Czech Republic, Taiwan, India, and Japan. She studied writing at the Humber School for Writers as well as George Brown College and has published two thrillers, What You Never Knew and Don’t You Dare. She lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, son, and daughter.

Andrew F. Sullivan is the author of The Marigold, a novel about a city eating itself, which was a finalist for the Aurora Awards, the Locus Awards, and the Hamilton Literary Awards, and named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, The Verge, Book Riot and the Winnipeg Free Press. He cowrote The Handyman Method with Nick Cutter, a novel about home improvement gone wrong. Sullivan is also the author of the novel WASTE, called a “brutal, mesmeric debut” and one of the Best Books of the Year by the Globe & Mail, and the short story collection All We Want is Everything, a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year and finalist for the ReLit Award. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

Epic Books is selling copies of each author's books at the event.