We are excited to welcome Petter Nallo, the Creative Director of KULT: Divinity Lost, to our VIP convention guests. In a special seminar during the convention, he will present the core principles guiding the KULT team when creating material for KULT: Divinity Lost.

The Illusion Horror Con is excited to welcome Scott Dorward freelance writer, editor, and podcaster, to our VIP convention guests. Scott has worked on any number of games with Cthulhu in their names. You can hear him talk with Paul Fricker and Matt Sanderson about all things horror on The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. He runs games for the How We Roll and Ain't Slayed Nobody podcasts, and is a regular player on Grizzly Peaks Radio. 

In a few notable guest panels during the convention, he will discuss "Mastering Horror RPGs - Strategies and Unique Considerations" and "Horror Inspiration from Film, Art, and Other Media". Additionally, Scott will offer a GM raffle event for a charity called "The Night Bus" for Call of Cthulhu 7ed. written by him. 

We are a table top RPG designer and author, mostly working together. In 1984 we wrote Mutant, a Swedish post-apocalyptic game with talking animals. We started off the 1990s by creating KULT, an occult horror roleplaying game. At the same time we started working at the Science Fiction Bookshop in Stockholm, where we remain to this day. Today we write horror novels and supplements for games, most recently Call of Cthulhu and KULT.

"Seth Skorkowsky is a fantasy/horror novelist and an award-winning YouTube personality with three decades experience behind the Game Master’s Screen. He’s written scenarios for both Call of Cthulhu and Traveller. He loves audio books, travel, has a weakness for cheesy horror movies, and is really bad at pronouncing the names of Mythos creatures. Seth lives in Texas with his wife and a lot of miniatures he intends to paint but never does.

Twitter: @SSkorkowsky

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Matt is a freelance writer who has worked on publications for various horror roleplaying games including Call of Cthulhu and Kult: Divinity Lost. He is also one of the co-hosts of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcast.

Bridgett Jeffries (she/her) is the founder and owner of Symphony Entertainment Gaming & Arts LLC, a horror club that focuses on horror based TTRPG systems. As a Chaosium Community Ambassador, she is happy to assist with all Chaosium creator programs, but her particular interest is the Miskatonic Repository. She is an enthusiastically loud (very loud) advocate and cheerleader for community content creators.  You can catch her rambling (and hysterically laughing) on the Miskatonic University Podcast, where she and the other co-hosts discuss weird and horrific roleplaying games. When she’s not writing horror content, you can watch/listen to Bridgett on various podcasts and actual plays to include Chaosium’s Stream of Chaos, Ain’t Slayed Nobody, The Calyx, The Old Ways Podcast, and more. Bridgett is a resident of Columbus, Ohio, USA. She has three dogs (Sony, Zoe, and Gabriel). They’re pretty cool. Actually, no… they’re awesome.

Robin is the lead game designer and writer of KULT - Divinity Lost, the fourth edition of KULT with narrator and conflict solution mechanics Powered by the Apocalypse. Together with creative director and co-writer Petter Nallo and project lead Marco Behrmann at Helmgast Robin is part of the core KULT creative team. Robin have a passion for storytelling and scenario design and his main responsibility are convention scenario design and KULT roleplaying events.

Rina is a writer, horror gamer, and podcaster who dreams of world domination through playing RPGs. They are the Storyteller for The Old Ways Podcast's Vampire the Masquerade Chronicle, and they play regularly in Call of Cthulhu campaigns with The Old Ways, Ain't Slayed Nobody, and more. Their horror scenarios "Saturday the 14th", "Die Not Ingloriously", "We Could Be Heroes", and "Jolene" are available on DriveThruRPG, with a collection of Cthulhu Dark scenarios in the works for early next year. 

Connect with Rina on Discord (Rina (she/they)#8029), Twitter (@glitterfaethey), and Instagram (@theinevitablerina). 

JR Fryer is the author of The Atrocity Exhibition for the Taroticum & Other Tales scenario book, and was the main writer for the Beyond Darkness & Madness GM Guide for KULT: Divinity Lost. He also contributed to KULT 2nd/3rd edition, and has designed/written for Pelgrane Press, Third Eye games, and Wyrd Games.

Jacqueline Marie Bryk (she/her), Jax to her friends, is a freelance game designer, writer, sensitivity reader, and editor. She writes in many different genres, with her favorites being horror, honobono, low fantasy, and post-apocalypse. Her games are lauded for their compassionate, trauma-focused narratives and low-stakes engagement with high-stakes emotions.

Jax is the English-language editor for KULT, as well as writing the scenarios La Cena and And The Rockets Red Glare. Her favorite monsters are gynachids.

Matthew has been creating videos about tabletop RPGs since 2009 and has been writing RPGs for around a decade, spanning genres from fantasy to historical, and horror to contemporary mystery. As well as being a frequent contributor to game lines such as Vampire: The Masquerade, Matthew conceptualized and recently developed They Came from Beneath the Sea!, a sci-fi game set before the backdrop of 1950s B-movies, They Came from Beyond the Grave!, and more. He's also contributed to KULT: Divinity Lost, Call of Cthulhu, Modern AGE, and many, many more games.

Twitter: @dawkinsmp

Website: matthewdawkins.com

cuppycup is the producer and Keeper of Arcane Lore for Ain't Slayed Nobody, a tabletop podcast that blends roleplaying around the table with audio drama.

Joe Is the How We Roll podcast Host, Game Master and Producer. He has been playing TTRPGs for almost 30 years; enjoying Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu and many other games. He is a published author and has won an ENnie for his work on Stygian Fox’s Fear’s Sharp Little Needles.

I am the host of the Miskatonic Playhouse who play Miskatonic Repository content for Call of Cthulhu and host setting based campaigns within Call of Cthulhu for podcast and YouTube.

I also interview key figures within the industry and within the world of Call of Cthulhu offering the community the chance to send in questions. 

You can check us out at www.MiskatonicPlayhouse.com for more information and if you would like to submit your scenario to be played.

Fantasy Artist & Illustrator

Sumrow is a freelance Artist focusing primarily on fantasy, horror, & science fiction. He has done work for game companies, rock bands, and various table top role playing game podcasts, and fiction authors. Clients include: Chaosium Inc., ANALOG Science Fiction & Fact, Monster Magnet, among others.

He was honored to have collaborated in 2013-2014 on two albums with the incredible space-rock-band Monster Magnet of Red Bank NJ.

Gamer since 1982, co-designed Mutant Chronicles RPG, worked on Kult 2nd, wrote a few scenarios for Cyberpunk 2020, some MERP stuff and some other games no one outside Sweden has ever heard of. Recent work includes Bitter Reach for Forbidden Lands, Altdorf: Crown of the Empire for WFRP,  Gallery of Souls for Kult: Divinity Lost. Contributor to CY_borg and Dragonbane.