[1] Founded in 2010, the Telluride Horror Show is Colorado's first and longest-running genre film festival.
[3] Additional events include the Creepy Campfire Tales and book signing with an established author from the horror genre, the Pig Roast, the I Scream Social, the Killer Karaoke Party, and the Dread Central Horror Trivia competition.
[6] In 2018, the festival opened a brick and mortar horror merchandise store, Gargoyle's Gift Shop.
[7] 2019[8] Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and MacArthur genius grant winner Joe Bob Briggs, film critic and performer Eli Craig, director of Tucker & Dale vs.
2018[9] Meredith Borders, managing editor of Fangoria Stephen Chiodo, writer/director of Killer Klowns from Outer Space Jeremy Robert Johnson, horror author Paul G. Tremblay, horror author and editor 2017[10] Meredith Borders Jon Davison, film producer Jeremy Robert Johnson Tyler MacIntyre, director of Tragedy Girls Greg McLean, film director Patrick Brice, film director 2016[11] Joe R. Lansdale, horror author Sam Suchmann and Mattie Zufelt, writers/stars of Spring Break Zombie Massacre 2015 Henry Selick, writer/producer/director John Carroll Lynch, actor/director Stephen Cognetti, writer/director of Hell House LLC