Guests
Portland 2010 Guests
Guests attending for the Portland Festival.
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Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of today’s leading authors of dark fantasy and science fiction, having published eight novels and approximately two hundred short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Her novels include such award-winning and critically acclaimed works as Threshold, Low Red Moon, Daughter of Hounds, and her most recent novel, The Red Tree, which has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. Read more
Ellen Datlow has been editing short stories in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields for thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of SCIFICTION, as well as editing anthologies throughout those years and continuing to do so today. Her most recent anthologies include Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft Unbound, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Tails of Wonder and Imagination, Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Haunted Legends (co-edited with Nick Mamatas), The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People, Troll's Eye View (these last two with Terri Windling). Read more
Michael Shea was born in Los Angeles—in Culver City, across the street from the huge north wall of MGM Studio's main lot. There, the billboard-size movie ads greeted his infant eyes, and taught him awe and a love of grand narratives. An inveterate hitch hiker before, during, and after his college years, he encountered, in a flophouse up in Juneau, Alaska, a book of pure Fantasy entitled The Eyes of The Overworld. A year or so later, at a different flophouse in the Fillmore District (a ghetto in those days) of San Francisco, he encountered AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. Read more
A prolific author in many genres, Richard A. Lupoff first encountered Howard Phillips Lovecraft on a Sunday morning in the First Baptist Church of Bordentown, New Jersey. The year was 1946. The young reader was eleven years old. The Olde Gentleman had been dead for nine years, but Richard didn’t know it. Read more
William F. Nolan writes mostly in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. Though best known for co-authoring the classic Logan’s Run with George Clayton Johnson, Nolan is the author of more than 2000 pieces (fiction, non-fiction, articles and books), and has edited 26 anthologies in his 50+ year career. Read more
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Aaron Vanek was one of the first three filmmakers to screen a Lovecraft movie at the HPLFF in 1995. Since then, he has attended every festival but two, and made four other Lovecraftian adaptations, including Return to Innsmouth and Chambers' The Yellow Sign, both of which are distributed by Lurker Films. He is a proud recipient of a "Howie" award for his contributions to Lovecraft cinema, and hopes to keep the horror cosmic—this year, Vanek ran the first H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Los Angeles featuring six of the earliest and best films from the past decade and a half of the Portland fest. Read more
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Andrew Leman’s interest in the works and worlds of H. P. Lovecraft was first kindled by Sean Branney during their high school years, and that interest has grown into an ongoing 26-year creative partnership. Starting with their own high-intensity brand of live-action role-playing games, their efforts have expanded into music, film, radio drama, historical writing, and vintage document replicas. As a founding member of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, Leman has served as its president and an editor of its monthly publication, Strange Eons, and a developer of its massive website. He has written and produced numerous live-action gaming events, involving helicopters, herds of horses, mummified bodies, ancient documents Read more
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Andrew S. Fuller's stories appear in Abyss & Apex, Fantastic Metropolis, The Harrow, Blood Rose, and Necrotic Tissue, among others. Damnation Books recently released The Circus Wagon. He is the editor (and aliased cover artist) of Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine/anthology, and its publisher Legion Press. His screenplay Effulgence won the Best Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Lovecraft Film Festival. Read more
Cody Goodfellow has written three meta-Mythos novels, Radiant Dawn and Ravenous Dusk and Perfect Union. His short cosmic horror fiction has appeared in Black Static, Dark Discoveries and Strange Aeons, and the anthologies Cthulhu Unbound 3, Ancient Shadows, Cthulhu's Dark Cults and Horrors Beyond. He is also the co-founder of Perilous Press, a tiny but resourceful publisher of new Lovecraftian fiction. Its New Millennium Mythos line, edited by S.T. Joshi, includes new collections by Michael Shea and Brian Stableford. He lives in Los Angeles, so you don't have to. Read more
David was introduced H P Lovecraft and the world of Arkham House at the age of twelve and has continued collecting the genre to this day. His training and background is in fine art, but recently he has moved into illustration. He has done the covers for seven editions published by Hippocampus Press, and his work will soon appear as interior illustrations in editions by Centipede Press. Read more
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Don Webb teaches High School English in a reform school in rural Texas by day, Creative Writing for UCLA Extension by night. He has a had a mystery series at St. Martin's Press, a series of books on contemporary and Late Antique magical practice from Runa Raven Press, and over 300 published short stories of SF/F/H. His work has been translated into 11 languages. Don has been writing Lovecraftian fiction for 25 years. He has Mythos stories and poems in Cthulhu's Reign, Weird Tales, Interzone, Eternal Lovecraft, Eldritch Tales, Cyrpt of Cthulhu and many other venues. He has upcoming Mythos stories in Dead But Dreaming II, Black Wings II, Welcome to the Greenhouse, Cthulhu 2012, and F&SF He is a columnist for Dark Moon Digest. Read more
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Ed is a 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling. His first Cthulhu Mythos tale 'Jihad Over Innsmouth' ran on Pseudopod 106. He has published 6 ebooks and over 70 short stories, most recently in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year 2, Tales of World War Z and Imbrium Arts' zombierotica anthology RIGOR AMORTIS. Read more
James R. Beach is the Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of Dark Discoveries Publications — home of the quarterly Horror/Dark Fantasy color print magazine Dark Discoveries. Since 2004, he has published over 15 issues of the slick: a combination of articles, art, fiction and interviews, featuring dedicated issues on H.P. Lovecraft, The Twilight Zone, Fantastic Art, Forrest J Ackerman and Horror Comics, in addition to specials on contemporary genre figures. Read more
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Jason V Brock’s writing and art have been published Dark Scribe Press’s Butcher Knives & Body Counts [anthology]; Animal Magnetism [anthology]; Calliope; Ethereal Tales; San Diego Comic-Con International’s Souvenir Book and several other venues. He is Art Director/Managing Editor for Dark Discoveries Magazine. Jason co-edited the acclaimed anthology The Bleeding Edge with living legend William F. Nolan (showcasing work from Shirley, Matheson, Bradbury, Lansdale, Braunbeck, and others). He assists Mr. Nolan on various projects, such as the Bluewater Productions comics Logan’s Run: Last Day and Dark Universe. Read more
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Author, editor, and longtime horror fan Jemiah Jefferson's publications include the novels Voice Of The Blood, Wounds, Fiend, and A Drop Of Scarlet, and the chapbook of erotic short-stories st*rf*ck*ng. She has also written for Willamette Week, Just Out, Plazm, 2 Gyrlz Quarterly, and the culture blog Popshifter, and maintains a regular comedy-flavored film review blog on Livejournal. Her most recent project, a slipstream "wovel" titled Firstworld, was serialized on the website of local publisher Underland Press. Since 2005, she has been a part of the editorial department at Dark Horse Comics, working on titles including Emily the Strange, Criminal Macabre, Creepy Archives, and Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse. Find out more at http://www.jemiah.com. Read more
Jessica Amanda Salmonson, a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, ReaderCon Certificate, and Lambda Award, is the author of such novels as Tomoe Gozen, The Golden Naginata, Thousand Shrine Warrior, Anthony Shriek, and Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman. Her short story collections include The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic, and A Silver Thread of Madness, the latter including the Lovecraftian tale "A Child of Earth and Hell." Her nonfiction includes The Encyclopedia of Amazons. Read more
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Joe Pettit Jr. has written for a variety of publications including VideoScope, Ugly Things Magazine, Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture, and the All Music Guide online. A long time connoisseur of the weird, Joe enjoys savoring the rarified bouquets of fine tales and films of horror and the supernatural, delving into forbidden tomes of metaphysical and Fortean lore, and boldly exploring strange soundscapes and bizarre states of mind. He physically resides in Eugene, Oregon, but mentally dwells somewhere between Innsmouth, Transylvania, and the Arkham Asylum. Occasionally he is incapacitated by fits of cosmic horror. Read more
Laird Barron's work has appeared in places such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCIFICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound! and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, and his most recent collection, Occultation, were published by Night Shade. Mr. Barron is an expatriate Alaskan currently at large in Washington State.
Author/illustrator Lynn Cesar is a native of New York City, having studied fine art and illustration there. Her first mature work was in holography, producing several of the field's first animated holograms (including one of a pterodactyl flying at the viewer through the film plane). Read more
Marc Laidlaw is the author of six novels, including The International Horror Guild Award winner, The 37th Mandala. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies since the 1970s. In 1997, he joined Valve Software as a writer and creator of Half-Life, which has become one of the most popular videogame series of all time. He lives in Washington State with his wife and two daughters, and continues to writes occasional short fiction between playing too many videogames.
Maryanne Snyder is a poet and author from Seattle, whose wide-ranging interests include the history of weird fiction. Among her favorite authors are Poe, Oscar Wilde, Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith. She is currently collaborating with Wilum Pugmire on a collection of strange stories, the first of which, "The House of Idiot Children", appeared in the January/February 2009 issue of Weird Tales.
Robert M. Price has been nursing an unwholesome obsession with the work of H.P. Lovecraft for some forty years now, having discovered the Old Gent's tales in their Lancer paperback incarnation. (By the way, the "Old Man" refers to HPL, not to Bob!) Running across the first issue of Lovecraft Studies in 1980 really uncorked the jug, prompting him to begin writing a series of scores of Lovecraft articles, many of which appeared in the pages of his own publication Crypt of Cthulhu, which ran for some 107 issues. Read more
Ron Hilger is a Northern California native who has organized such Clark Ashton Smith related events as "The CAS Centennial Conference" in 1993 and "The CAS Plaque Dedication" in 2002. Hilger has also edited, with Scott Connors, Red World of Polaris (Night Shade Press, 2003) and The Averoigne Chronicles (Donald M. Grant Publishers). Currently, Ron and Scott are completing the five-volume set, The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, also for Night Shade Press, and Lost Worlds, a journal of CAS studies published by Seele Brennt publications. Read more
S. T. Joshi (b. 1958) is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, and other writers, mostly in the realms of supernatural and fantasy fiction. He has edited corrected editions of the works of Lovecraft, several annotated editions of Bierce and Mencken, and has written such critical studies as The Weird Tale (1990) and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). His award-winning biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), has already become a collector's item. Read more
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Scott Allie comes from New England puritan stock, and grew up in the swamplands of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he first discovered Lovecraft through the comic book Skull. At Dark Horse Comics, he's the long-time editor of Hellboy, and his writing includes the graphic novel The Devil's Footprints, set in his home town, and two volumes of Solomon Kane stories. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his son. Read more
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Scott Connors has been twice nominated for the International Horror Guild Award for his scholarly and critical writings. Along with Ron Hilger, he is editing the definitive edition of Smith's fantastic tales for Night Shade Books, the fifth volume of which is now at the printers. His reviews and essays have appeared in WEIRD TALES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, LOVECRAFT STUDIES, STUD7IES IN WEIRD FICTION, NYCTALOPS, GHOSTS & SCHOLARS NEWSLETTER, ALL HALLOWS, WORMWOOD, and the EXPLICATOR, as well as such books as Don Herron's THE BARBARIC TRIUMPH, Darrell Schweitzer's THE ROBERT E. HOWARD READER, ICONS OF SUPERNATURAL HORROR, A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS, .SUPERNATURAL LITERATURE OF THE WORLD, and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE VAMPIRE, the last four edited by S. T. Joshi. Read more
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A. Scott Glancy threw away a perfectly miserable life as an attorney to work in the role-playing game industry. Since joining Pagan Publishing he has co-authored and edited four books of the Origins award-winning Delta Green series for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. He has authored two Mythos short stories, edited a Mythos horror novel, a Mythos short story collection and four scenario anthologies for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. Twelve years later he finds himself in charge of Pagan Publishing. Read more
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Sean writes, produces and directs for screen and theatre. In 1985 with friend and collaborator Andrew Leman, he co-founded the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society (“HPLHS” http://www.cthulhulives.org). Sean adapted H.P. Lovecraft’s celebrated short-story The Call of Cthulhu as a silent film and co-produced it for the HPLHS. The Call of Cthulhu has screened at more than sixty film festivals worldwide and has won numerous awards including: Les Prix Tournage (Grand Prize) &emdash; Avignon Film Festival; Audience Choice Award &emdash; Århus Festival of Independent Arts, Denmark; Best Feature &emdash; Eerie Horror Film Festival; and many others. Read more
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Victoria Blake is the founder and publisher of Underland Press, which has published novels by Jeff VanderMeer, Joe R. Lansdale, and Brian Evenson, among others. In the four years since launch, books from Underland Press have won a National Library Association Award for best novel, and have been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Nebula awards. Read more
Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire became an obsessed Lovecraft fanatic in 1973, after returning from his two-year Mormon mission. He published the Lovecraftian fanzine, MIDNIGHT FANTASIES, and the booklet, CARL JACOBI: AN APPRECIATION. In 1974 he created Sesqua Valley as a haunt in which to place his Mythos tales. An illustrated hardcover omnibus of his finest weird fiction, THE TANGLED MUSE, was published in September by Centipede Press, and this year his tale "Inhabitants of Wraithwood" was published in S. T. Joshi's BLACK WINGS anthology. He has a collection of tales of Nyarlathotep, THE STRANGE DARK ONE, forthcoming from Mythos Books, and is near completion of his next book for Hippocampus Press, UNCOMMON PLACES. Read more
