Eldritch Events
The literary, “CthulhuCon”, portion of the festival will take place in the two upper rooms from 1:30-5:30pm on Saturday and Sunday. The main screen downstairs will be used exclusively for films, opening and closing, and award ceremonies.
Doors open at 1pm on the weekend. The theater closes for cleanup and dinner at 5:30 and re-opens at 6:00pm with tracks starting at 7:00pm.
Events for the 2009 Portland Festival.
Join us late Friday and Saturday night at Tony Starlight's for SpookySpookyScaryScary, the episodic tale of CHUCK and DEXTER: best-friends, roommates and huge fans of horror author H.P. Lovecraft. But when the Great god CTHULHU sends Chuck a dream, the duo form the world's worst cult ever. Armed only with the power of the internet, cheap beer, small daggers and poor social skills they vow to spread the bad word that CTHULHU IS REAL!!
Nolan’s career spans half a century and he was best friends with Charles Beaumont (The Twilight Zone; Circus of Dr. Lao) for a decade of that. He is also good friends with George Clayton Johnson (Twilight Zone; Ocean’s 11; Logan’s Run co-writer with Nolan), Norman Corwin (giant of the radio age), Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. During the interview, we will cover these things, and also his excursions into Hollywood (he co-wrote Burnt Offerings with Dan Curtis, and Trilogy of Terror with Richard Matheson in addition to over 100 other TV and film projects). Nolan has the gift of gab and a sharp wit: should be great fun.
Participants: James R. Beach; Jason Brock; William F. Nolan.Read more
What’s coming next in Lovecraftian cinema, including a sneak peek at the much anticipated Whisperer in Darkness from the cultists who brought us Call of Cthulhu.
Join us for what will be surely a mind expanding experience as we use modern technology to talk to Mr. Branney and Mr. Leman remotely on the set of their new highly anticipated movie.
Participants: Andrew Leman; Andrew Migliore; Sean Branney.
Find out what is going on in the world of Dark Horse with the editors who make it happen. Participants: Scott Allie; Shana Gore.
Participants: Cody Goodfellow, Gary Myers, Jessica Amdanda Salmonson, Robert M. Price, S. T. Joshi
The bicentennial of Poe’s birth has inspired a lot of discussion of his contributions to the literature of horror and the supernatural. The panelists focus on his short stories and his poems, as well as on his theory of short story writing. They also discuss Poe’s extensive influence on Lovecraft, who always regarded Poe as his “God of Fiction.”
Panel: S. T. Joshi, Gary Myers; Joe Pettit, Jr., Maryanne Snyder
Participants: Cody Goodfellow, Ed Morris, Jemiah Jefferson, Maryanne Snyder
Participants: Cody Goodfellow; Ed Morris; Laird Barron; S. T. Joshi.
Lovecraft’s strange and potent vision has spawned multiple generations of "mythos" fiction. Join authors Michael Shea, Joe Pulver, Cody Goodfellow, Robert Price, Gary Mayers, and Laird Barron in a roundtable discussion of the state of the Lovecraftian genre — where does it stand and where will it be in the next decade?
Participants: Cody Goodfellow, Gary Myers, Joe Pulver, Laird Barron, Michael Shea, Robert M. Price.
The perils and promise of adapting written works for the screen. What's it like, what has worked, and what hasn't worked so well?
Participants: Aaron Vanek; Andrew Migliore; Robert M. Price; Scott Allie; William F. Nolan.
He was one of the greatest masters of horror and the fantastic in both print and film, a protege of Lovecraft himself and an influence on generations of writers. A look back at the life, works, and legacy of Robert Bloch.
Participants: Joe Pulver; Robert M. Price; Wilum Pugmire.
What do we know about Robert W. Chambers and his strange book, The King in Yellow (1895)? Could this book have influenced Lovecraft’s conception of the Necronomicon? The panelists discuss Chambers’s wide-ranging work and trace his influence on Lovecraft as well as on other writers of supernatural fiction, down to the present day.
Participants: Gary Myers, Joe Pettit, Jr., Joe Pulver, S. T. Joshi, Wilum Pugmire
Comics and films, video games and board games, plush toys and bumper stickers speak both from and to fans and non-fans alike. How has the legacy of Lovecraft, his contemporaries and followers pervaded our society and entertainment?
Participants: Cody Goodfellow; James R. Beach; Jason Brock; Laird Barron.
