The Dark Drafts Festival

01/22/2026

🖤 Dark Drafts — Important Weather-Related Schedule Updates 🖤

Due to the Sunday snowstorm forecast, we have made necessary adjustments to ensure the safety of our authors, guests, volunteers, and staff.

Friday
🕕 Special Signing Hours Added: 6–8 PM with many of our authors
🕗 VIP Party: 8 PM

Saturday
🕙 VIP Admission: 10 AM
🕚 General Admission: 11 AM
✍️ Signings conclude at 3 PM

Speakeasy ‘With Teeth’
🕖 Now beginning at 7 PM to help avoid the worst of projected snowfall.

❄️ Sunday is fully cancelled due to weather conditions.

Thank you for your understanding as we prioritize safety while doing everything possible to preserve the Dark Drafts experience.

01/20/2026

🚨Event Information & Program Schedule 🚨

We're down to the wire and can’t wait to welcome everyone to The Dark Drafts Festival this weekend 👻📚🍺

Here you'll find some general information and scheduling! If you have any questions please email [email protected]!

01/19/2026

Are you attending The Dark Drafts Festival?

A weekend full of authors, books, and booze set in one of America’s oldest haunted breweries 🍻 Here’s what you can expect on January 24th and 25th!

▪️Over 30 horror authors
▪️Two days of books and signings
▪️VIP Welcome Party
▪️Speakeasy w/Teeth
▪️Murder Mystery Dinner
▪️Dracula Dinner Feast

Don’t miss your opportunity for an incredible bookish weekend! Head on over to darkdraftsDOTcom for more info and tickets! 🔗 in our bio!

The Dark Drafts Festival: A Weekend of Authors and AlesImmerse Yourself in the World of Horror Literature at Bube’s Brewery!Step into a world of chilling tales and atmospheric ales at The Dark Drafts Festival in January. Join us at the historic Bube’s Brewery for a spine-tingling weekend celebra...

01/18/2026

🚨Author Announcement 🚨

Ronald Malfi 👻📚

Ronald Malfi is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of several horror novels and thrillers. He is the recipient of two Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Beverly Hills Book Award, the Vincent Preis Horror Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction, and is a Bram Stoker Award nominee. In 2024, the Maryland Library Association presented Malfi with the prestigious William G. Wilson Award for Adult Fiction. When he’s not writing, he’s performing with the rock band VEER.

Meet Ronald and grab a copy of his newest book, We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone, at The Dark Drafts Festival at Bube's Brewery in Mt Joy PA on January 24th and 25th!

🔗 to tickets in bio!

01/18/2026

🚨Author Announcement 🚨

Rebecca Rowland 📚👻

Rebecca Rowland grew up in Western Massachusetts but spent her early adult life in the Boston area, and most of her fiction is set in those locations. She is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist for her second fiction collection and an editor of seven horror anthologies, one of which earned a Bram Stoker Award nomination. She is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association and her writing genres of choice are psychological, transgressive, and art house horror heavily influenced by Joyce Carol Oates, A.M. Homes, and Chuck Palahniuk.

Come see Rebecca and grab a copy of her newest book, Eminence Front, at The Dark Drafts Festival at Bube's Brewery on January 24th and 25th in Mt. Joy, PA!

🔗 to tickets in bio!

01/18/2026

Why do you want to be a Dark Drafts VIP?

THE PERKS❗❗

▪️VIP only & author party (lots of karaoke!)🎤
▪️early 2 day access
▪️opportunity for the paranormal investigation 👻
▪️FREE breakfast buffets Saturday and Sunday
▪️Spooky swag

What are you waiting for!? Use the 🔗 in our bio for tickets!
January 24th and 25th at Bube’s Brewery in Mt. Joy, PA!

01/17/2026

The countdown has begun!

7 days 📚👻🍻 who’s ready to join us at the hauntingly historic Bube’s Brewery when we welcome in some of the most terrifying writers around!

Grab your tickets now and secure your spot!

01/16/2026

🚨Author Announcement 🚨

James Kaine 👻📚

James Kaine is a bestselling author, publisher and filmmaker born and raised in Trenton, NJ. An active pro member of the Horror Writer’s Association, he brings readers visceral, haunting tales of terror via his Horror House Publishing imprint.

Ted Tally, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, called his book My Pet Werewolf “Twisty. Spooky. Shocking.” and “Unputdownable. BookLife by Publishers Weekly proclaimed his novel, The Dead Children’s Playground, “will chill readers to the bone.” The book, the first in his American Horrors anthology series, has been a #1 bestseller in U.S. Horror on Amazon and was the winner of the 2025 Books of Horror Indie Brawl. His works are being translated into multiple languages, bringing James’s cinematic style of scary storytelling to a global audience. He resides in Hamilton, NJ with his wife, Jessica, their two children and an energetic Boston Terrier. When he isn’t writing he loves to read, travel, cook, watch movies and learn new skills.

🔗 for 🎟️ in our bio!

01/16/2026

🚨Author Announcement 🚨

J.A. Barrios 👻📚

J.A. Barrios is the award-winning creator of Tenebris: The Unholy Darkness and Ravings of an Unsettled Mind. Coming from a family of movie buffs, J.A. had always found an especial connection with Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror. Obsessed with movies like Star Wars, Conan The Barbarian, and The Dark Crystal, his imagination ran wild creating many creatures that would lurk in his mind.

Come see J.A. Barrios and grab some books at The Dark Drafts Festival on January 24th and 25th at Bube's Brewery in Mt Joy PA!

🔗 for 🎟️ in bio!

01/16/2026

On Saturday, January 24th join us for The Dark Drafts Festival very own Speakeasy: With Teeth 🐺

Gather round with drinks and snacks and hear the howling great stories from the authors of With Teeth, a wolf anthology benefiting The Lakota Wolf Preserve!

Grab your tickets now using the 🔗 in our bio!

01/15/2026

🚨Author Announcement🚨

Elizabeth Broadbent

Elizabeth Broadbent is a speculative fiction author from the American South. She’s the author of Ink Vine (Undertaker Books) Ninety-Eight Sabers (Undertaker Books) and Blood Cypress (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2025), as well as Naked & Famous (ELJ Editions, 2023). Her long career as a journalist included bylines in The Washington Post, Time, Insider, The Huffington Post, and many more. Her fiction has published by Penumbric, Tales to Terrify, Haven Speculative, If There’s Anyone Left, The Black Beacon Book of Horror, and many others, including a three story arc in Hyphenpunk. Her poetry has appeared in The Cafe Irreal and Antipodean SF. Broadbent lives in the snarkiest city in America with her patient husband, three sons, two cats, German Shepherd, and Sumter County Dog Goblin.

Come see Elizabeth and grab some signed books at The Dark Drafts Festival on January 24th and 25th at Bube's Brewery in Mt Joy PA!

01/15/2026

🚨Author Announcement🚨

Edmund Stone 👻📚

Edmund Stone is a horror writer and part time boat captain living on the Ohio River. But mostly he lives in his head where he derives a wealth of characters and strange ideas. He’s even seen a few strange things crawling from the water. He lives with his wife, four dogs, and a plethora of cats.

Come see Edmund and grab some books at The Dark Drafts Festival at Bube's Brewery on January 24th & 25th in Mt. Joy, PA!