panels

Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow is an award-nominated anthology of new stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. Ellen will host a group reading by some of the contributors to the volume: Laird Barron, Marc Laidlaw, Michael Shea, and Caitlín R. Kiernan.

H.P. Lovecraft has been an inspiration to writers since he created his mythos and his Elder Gods. Generations of writers have used his creations to write their own interpretations of his work--some in pastiches that stayed close to the original texts, others in wholly original works that take Lovecraft's mythos and twists it into very modern and sometimes almost unrecognizable forms. Meet some of the contemporary writers who are playing in Lovecraft's universe but making it their own.

Screenwriters, directors and actors discuss shooting, casting, editing and funding a twisted celluloid story.

Writers of the horror, the horror, tell (not show!) us about their craft, influences, ritual and business experiences.

This panel examines the course of Lovecraft's literary from amateur journalist to pulp writer, discussing his (generally unsuccessful) attempts to secure book publication of his stories, and concluding with a survey of his posthumous editors, from August Derleth of Arkham House to the present day.

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has spent the past year in production on a feature film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic weird tale, The Whisperer in Darkness. Now, as they near completion of the film, the movie's producers join the HPLFF to talk about the project. In addition to discussing the trials and tribulations of indie filmmaking, they'll also show a never-before-seen scene from the film and will premiere a new trailer. Read more

Editors unlock some of their arcane secrets about why they started a magazine, how they assemble an anthology, and what horrors they seek.

Cosmic horror, that literary discipline dealing with the vast, cold universe and its manifold terrors, is a cornerstone of Lovecraftian fiction and a genre lately revived and celebrated by the proliferation of independent presses. This panel will examine and discuss the cosmic horror niche from the non-Euclidian geometry of Lovecraft’s most febrile imaginings, to the seductive extra dimensional forces of darkness introduced by Clive Barker, to the latest trends of a panoply of dark stars such as Caitlin Kiernan, John Langan, and Wilum Pugmire.

Explore the life and works of Lovecraft's protege Clark Ashton Smith, "Klarkash-Ton", the writer, painter, and sculptor, and poet who was one of the most admired writers for Weird Tales, one of the greatest explorers of cosmic and fantastic realms, and a major contributor to Lovecraft's "Mythos".