Conferința s-a deschis cu o discuție despre dimensiunea internațională a activităților Clubului Helion, coordonată de Cornel Secu și Marius Crișan, Helion Circle and the Fantastic Perspective on Literature.
În cadrul evenimentului au prezentat lucurări experți în studiul literaturii fantastice din Marea Britanie, Germania, Spania, Polonia, Ungaria și România.
William Hughes, Bath Spa University UK, ‘the first Gray Winter’: Ecocriticism and Contemporary Zombie Fiction.
Dana Percec, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, A Critique of the Gothic with the Benefit of Hindsight: P.D. James and Stephen King on Writing Fiction, Yesterday and Tomorrow.
Peter Seyferth, University of Hagen, The Gothic Utopia of Today.
Magdalena Grabias, Lublin University, A Strange Case of the Post-Millennial Gothic on Screen.
Karoly Pinter, Catholic University Budapest, Journey to the Unknown: the Uncertainty of Construed Reality in The Time Machine.
Constantina Raveca Buleu, “Sextil Puscariu”, Institute for Linguistics and Literature within The Romanian Academy, Gothic Variations: From Cybergothic to Candygothic, Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon – an Analysis.
Emanuela Ilie, “Al. I. Cuza” University from Iaşi, Romania. The Gothic Body. Reflections on the Abnormal Otherness in the Noir Prose Written in the Inter-War Romania.
Mariano Martin Rodriguez, project HISTOPIA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Further Ancient Yahoos: Civilisation versus Barbarism in Modernist Imaginary Voyages Set in Classical Antiquity.
Ştefan Borbély, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Has Become God Obsolete? Alternative Representations of the Supreme Being within the Speculative Fiction
Conferința s-a încheiat cu o lucrare care sintetizează aspectele gotice ale literaturii fantastice (Marius-Mircea Crișan, Gothic dimensions of the fantastic space).
În cadrul conferinței a avut loc și lansarea volumului Dracula an International Perspective (editor Marius-Mircea Crișan), Palgrave Gothic Series, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature 2017. https://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9783319633657 sau https://books.google.ro/books/about/Dracula.html?id=6×0-DwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y. Au luat cuvântul William Hughes, Dana Percec și Magdalena Grabias.
