FrightReads Book Festival 5

CELEBRATE 5 YEARS OF FRIGHTREADS!

Frightreads Book Festival is back, and we're inside the MAIN BUILDINGS of HOWARD COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS! Frightreads is an all-ages event that features hundreds of authors of all Halloween type genres (horror, mystery, sci-fi, thriller, fantasy, etc), fabulous actors and talented artists of every variety! Make FrightReads your one stop shop for everything horror to kick the Halloween Season off right!

WHEN:

SEPTEMBER 13-14, 2025

Saturday: 11AM (VIP) 12 - 6PM

SUNDAY 12 - 6PM

WHERE:

HOWARD COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS

2210 Fairgrounds Rd, West Friendship, MD 21794

TICKET INFO:

VIP Gets you in an hour early on Saturday! Comes with a swag bag to store all of your new books, and even a shirt! That's a deal!

Group passes saves you a whole ticket! Get four friends to go, and come for free with that deal! 5 Tickets for the price of 4!!!

As always, Kids 12 & Under are FREE with paying adults!!!

WHAT DOES YEAR FIVE BRING US???

Photos from 2024!

TONS OF INTERACTIVE PHOTO OPS!
FREE FACEPAINTING!
NICKI'S FREE CRAFTS CORNER! (Make some crafts, color some pictures, etc)
INFORMATIVE PANELS!
CONCERTS!
FILM FESTIVAL!

COSTUME CONTEST HOSTED BY CANNON DOLL-X!

TAKE YOUR PHOTO WITH LIL' ANNABELLE at the GET HAUNTED booth!

SPECIAL GUESTS:

AUTHORS:

ADAM CESARE!

JEFF STRAND!

BRIDGETT NELSON!

A.G. MOCK!

HEATHER GRAHAM!

KELLY FLORENCE & MEG HAFDAHL!

FILM AND TELEVISION:

PATTY MULLEN!

ERIK STOLHANSKE!

JANE JENSEN!

BEATRICE BOEPPLE!

LLOYD KAUFMAN!

JO ARMINIOX!

TARA BUCKMAN!

MICHELLE SANTIAGO!

BILLY BRYAN!

HIPHOPMCDOUGLE!

With these special guests, and even more on our website, you won't want to miss out! Visit Frightreads.com to view our full author, vendor and special guest lists, as well as showtimes for films and programming! See you in September!