What you expect from a horror convention and what Spooky Empire actually is are not the same thing. Since 2003, it has drawn fans from all fifty states to Orlando each October for a weekend of access that does not exist anywhere else in the genre. The experience is nothing like what "horror convention" might suggest to someone who has not been. Celebrity meet-and-greets with icons from Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Walking Dead, and hundreds of cult films form the spine of the weekend. Surrounding those signings is a full floor of horror makeup artists, independent filmmakers, prop replica craftspeople, authors, and a …