Guests
Portland 2012 Guests
Guests attending the HPL Film Festival. They are mostly harmless although we cannot guarantee that they will note bite.
Andrew’s interest in the works and worlds of HPL was first kindled by Sean Branney during their high school years, and that interest has grown into an ongoing 25-year creative partnership. Starting with their own high-intensity brand of live-action role-playing games, their efforts have expanded into music, film, historical writing, and vintage document replicas. With Sean Branney, Leman wrote A Shoggoth on the Roof, a full-length Lovecraftian Broadway-style musical with a very troubled production history. He also co-wrote, produced and performed in the popular HPLHS series of 1930s-style radio dramas, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre, and can frequently be heard reading Lovecraft’s stories on the H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast. Andrew also directed and co-produced the HPLHS Motion Picture production The Call of Cthulhu... Read more
Andrew Migliore is founder and director emeritus of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon. He started out his career as a software engineer and later as a software engineering manager at several innovative startup software companies. In fact, his need to research the web and HTML in 1995 led him to create a website called Beyond Books, which ultimately led to the creation of the the book Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H.P. Lovecraft (with John Strysik), Lurker Films, and the film festival. He has been involved in the Lovecraft and literary horror community ever since. Read more
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Andrew S. Fuller is a speculative fiction writer and editor whose stories appear in On Spec, The Pedestal, Daily SF, Abyss & Apex, Crossed Genres, and the collection Full-Throttle Space Tales vol. 5, with forthcoming work in the anthology FISH (Dagan Books). “The Circus Wagon” novelette received an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year (2010), and his screenplay Effulgence won the Deep One Best Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Lovecraft Film Festival. He wrote the story for this year’s short "Coda". He has edited Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine since 1999. He lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. Find him online at andrewsfuller.com and 3lobedmag.com. Read more
Andrew W. Jones' edgy, irreverent comedy and horror shorts have won honors at dozens of festivals world-wide. In 2010, his film "Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer" was an official selection at 37 film festivals and won "Best Comedy" at the 2010 HP Lovecraft Film Festival. Read more
Brandon Seifert is the writer of Witch Doctor, a paranormal medical drama comic book series published by Robert "The Walking Dead" Kirkman's imprint at Image Comics. He's also written several other comics in the horror/supernatural genre.
Cameron Harrison was born in the Hothian wastes of Alaska, where one seemingly innocuous night, he watched The Evil Dead. Bruce Campbell awoke more than the ancient evil when he read from the Necronomicon. He also awoke a passion for horror films and filmmaking in young Cameron. His shorts and commercials have won numerous awards, and he recently served as co-producer on the documentary PRICELE$$ currently airing on PBS. He's currently working on a paranormal-parody web series called Spooked, which will air later this summer.
Casey T. Malone has been knocking around the TV and film world for a number of years including working on shows for Discovery Channel and PBS. As an independent filmmaker he has several credits to his name including the short films The Transient and Blood of the Witch. He penned a script for an upcoming horror film Tamora Gamble which is tentatively slated to star Doug Bradley and Robert Englund. TG is currently in the early funding stages. He is overjoyed to be showing Fortuna, the second in his silent expressionist trilogy, at the HPLFF. Read more
Cody Goodfellow has written three novels of modern cosmic horror. His recent short fiction has appeared in New Cthulhu, Weird Fiction Review and Horror For The Holidays. As editor of Perilous Press, he has published Mythos works by Michael Shea, Brian Stableford and David Conyers. His new collection, All-Monster Action, is now available from Swallowdown Press. He also wrote, co-produced and scored the short film Stay At Home Dad. He lives in Los Angeles.
E. Catherine Tobler was born on the other side of the International Dateline, which either gives her an extra day in her life or an extraordinary affinity when it comes to interdimensional gateways. Her fiction appears in Realms of Fantasy, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet among others. Her Lovecraft-themed tales have appeared in both Historical Lovecraft and Future Lovecraft from Innsmouth Press. She is the senior editor of Shimmer Magazine and lives in Colorado, which has a distinct lack of interdimensional gateways, but an abundance of mountains, which may prove mad indeed. You can visit her online at www.ecatherine.com. Read more
Edward Morris is a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award and the 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award. His short stories have appeared over eighty times worldwide, most recently in Ross Lockhart's The Book of Cthulhu, Joseph M. Pulver's A Season In Carcosa, and slated for a forthcoming issue of The Lovecraft E-Zine. He has been a returning guest at Ye Fest now since 2007.
Eric Morgret is co-owner of Maelstrom Productions. With this company he has directed/edited several shorts and the feature film: Strange Aeons. As he crawls around in the nether regions of Seattle film he is working on several different projects. Eric is the Festival Director and Head of Programming for the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival and the Crypticon Seattle horror convention. MIFFF is a genre film festival in its fourth year in Seattle. He is also the Marketing Manager for Strange Aeons Magazine.
Gregory is a Portland area filmmaker having moved here from Nevada City, CA. In 2009 he helped local production company, Red Jackalope, shoot its first feature film up through his graduation from Pacific University Oregon. Current projects include a documentary entitled Black Girl in Suburbia and a western that shall remain untitled.
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 19 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
Jared is a graduate of Fairfield University, where his thesis film, The Music of Erich Zann, screened at 16 international film festivals, including the 2009 HP Lovecraft Film Festival. He currently works as a freelance photographer and videographer in Massachusetts, developing ideas for feature films and hoping to share his love for the movies with the world.
Jarred W. Wallace is the founder and President Dagon Industries, Inc. They have their tentacles on the pulse of what’s cool in the realms of Cthulhu Mythos pop culture by manufacturing trinkets and baubles for the Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos aficionado such as Cthulhu Fish, Poker Cards, Collectors Coins, Miskatonic U. Products, Lapel Pins, Decals, etc. He lives in a perpetual state immanent flight, a carefully assembled escape and evasion kit always packed and ready by the front door. Do not wake him unless you know where his gun is first. Every year he can be found at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. Persons in need of his assistance in matters both undead and unearthly should contact him there. Read more
Jason Hooper is a filmmaker from Portland, Oregon. Jason's longtime interest in horror and the bizarre led him to direct the short film "DumbShow" as his final project for Pacific University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video Production. He is currently working at a local production studio, Laika, while using his spare time to plan his next project. Read more
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His 2012 books are Kalimpura from Tor Books, and Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh from Prime Books. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a past winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Jay can be reached through his blog at jlake.com.
Jeff Burk is the cult favorite author of Shatnerquake, Super Giant Monster Time, and Cripple Wolf. He is also the Editor-In-Chief for The Magazine Of Bizarro Fiction and the Head Editor of Eraserhead Press' horror imprint, Deadite Press. His influences include: Sleep deprivation, comic books, drugs, magick, and kittens. You can stalk him online at www.JeffBurk.wordpress.com and www.Facebook.com/LiteraryStrange. Read more
Jeremy Peterson is a Portland area director, producer and editor of over fifty and micro-budget short including several award winning films that range in tone from lovecraftian to comedic. Founder of "a3o Studios: Independent Film", a loose group of creative filmmakers that specialize in low and no-budget, high-quality short films. In 2010 a3o Studios showed "Effulgence", a twenty minute short film at HPLFF that was based on the 2009 HPLFF winning screenplay. Jeremy also has a strong interest in world domination through extensive use of lasers, robotics and/or tamed monsters.
Jess Gulbranson is the author of novels 10 A BOOT STOMPING 20 A HUMAN FACE 30 GOTO 10, MEL, and Antipaladin Blues. His short fiction, poetry, and art have been featured in Lambshead's Cabinet of Curiosities, Kizuna, Umbrella Journal, and Bradley Sands Is A Dick. For Crappy Indie Music: The Blog he is a critic, interviewer, and douchebag-in-residence. Living in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter, Gulbranson also makes music under the names Coeur Machant and DJFalsifier.
In the past ten years Jesse Blanchard has made 49 short films, including #46 "Space Bugs" and #49 "Shine". His films have played Cannes, been picked up Dimension Films, and recognized by industry veterans Drew Barrymore, Neil LaBute, and George Romero. He is currently in post-production on his 50th short, a teaser for his feature film, Chompers 3D. I started working in 3D two years ago, designing and building a 3D rig in his garage. Since then, he has patented his own 3D camera system and supports himself by selling the Robert Rig and helping others make the transition to 3D. Read more
Lee Moyer is an Illustrator and Designer whose work has been featured on many past posters for the HP Lovecraft Film Festival (where he was a Guest of Honor in 2004). He painted the poster for Call of Cthulhu and DVD covers for HP Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, Out of Mind, Cool Air, Dreams of Cthulhu, Pickman's Model, The King in Yellow, Annabel Lee and Strange Aeons. 2012 saw him join forces with past HPL guest Caitlin R. Kiernan for a duo of book covers: Two Worlds and In Between and Confessions of a Five Chambered Heart. Both will guests at this year's Readercon in Boston. His game with Keith Baker, The Doom that Came to Atlantic City, was the victim of a merger and is currently without a publisher. The horror! The horror! Read more
Mike Dalager enjoyed an amphibious childhood on the island of Oahu in the State of Hawaii. He threw many Summoning Stones as a boy, in an attempt to conjure Deep Ones from the waters of historic Pearl Harbor. In a cold Pasadena backyard in November of 2004, his new friends Sean and Andrew of the HPLHS directed him to swipe grape jam off a foam board featuring strange patterns and markings, while wearing nothing but a sailor hat and white shirt. By doing so, he had portrayed the role of Guerrera, doomed sailor who releases great Cthulhu from his deep slumber in 2005's silent movie sensation, The Call of Cthulhu. Mike now enjoys his role as shipping shoggoth and more at HPLHS, Inc. Read more
Mike Dubisch has been bring Lovecraftian imagery to book illustration the mid 1990s. His Cthulhu Mythos art has been featured in numerous publications and his designs were used in "Stay At Home Dad" at this year's festival, and Mike himself appears in his own Ambidextrocity and Cthonic Doodling experimental film series, debuting at this year's HPLFF. His graphic novel, the mythos space opera Weirdling was published to critical acclaim in 2007, and 2011 saw the release of his limited edition artbook The Black Velvet Necronomicon: Black Velvet Cthulhu His deluxe sized comic book The Wet Nurse from publisher Strange Aeons and the illustrated book All-Monster-Action from Swallowdown books are also debuting at this years festival. Read more
Molly Tanzer lives in Boulder, Colorado along the front range of the Mountains of Madness, or maybe just the Flatirons. She is a freelance writer and editor by trade, and also works as the administrative overlord for Clockpunk Studios, and as the assistant to the publisher at Prime Books. Her work has appeared in, among other venues, The Book of Cthulhu, Future Lovecraft, and Running with the Pack, and is forthcoming in Fungi and The Book of Cthulhu II. Her debut book, A Pretty Mouth, is forthcoming this fall from Lazy Fascist Press. She blogs—infrequently—about writing, vegan cooking, movies, and other stuff at http://mollytanzer.com, and tweets as @molly_the_tanz. Read more
Nick Gucker grew up on the rain forested island of Ketchikan, AK and moved to Seattle to pursue music and art. When he’s not busy whispering to insects or engaged in the taxidermy and mummification of creatures both reptilian and mammalian, he can be found hunched over his art table dreaming up disturbing nightmares and freakish delights. Nick’s artwork has appeared in the pages of Strange Aeons Magazine and The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction. Read more
Reber Clark has been a fan of H. P. Lovecraft since high school. His music is published worldwide by C. Alan Publications, Southern Music Company, Columbia Pictures Publications and Warner Brothers Music Publications. His movie, Lovecraft Paragraphs, premiered at the 2009 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival. He continues to score for film with projects in active development. He recently completed music for Theatre Banshee’s production of The Merchant of Venice directed by Sean Branney. Read more
Robert M. Price, a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since the Lancer paperback collections of 1967 appeared, began writing scholarly articles ands humorous pieces on HPL and the Cthulhu Mythos in 1981. His celebrated semi-pro zine Crypt of Cthulhu began as a quarterly fanzine for the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association in 1981 and made it to 109 issues. In 1990 he began editing Mythos anthologies for Fedogan & Bremer and Chaosium, Inc. and still does! His fiction has been collected in Blasphemies and Revelations. Centipede Books will soon be issuing his five-volume annotated edition of the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. Read more
Rose Sirna ("Iris") is thrilled to be making her feature film debut in It's In The Blood. A global gypsy and lifelong theater enthusiast, she began taking acting classes in Madrid, Spain and has since studied and performed on three continents, including a play on the Great Wall of China. She was born in Rome, Italy, speaks four languages, and has extensive training in classical and musical theatre vocal performance. Rose is excited to dive into the world of film and television, and has recently made the City of Angels her new home. Read more
Ross E. Lockhart is the managing editor of Night Shade Books. A lifelong fan of supernatural, fantastic, speculative, and weird fiction, he holds degrees in English from Sonoma State University (BA) and San Francisco State University (MA). In 2011, he edited the acclaimed anthology The Book of Cthulhu.
Scooter Downey is a Kentucky native who is proud to be making his directorial feature debut on It's In The Blood. Downey attended film school at the University of Miami where he graduated with a BA in Film and Theater. He previously worked as a production assistant on How You Look to Me (2005). Downey made It’s In the Blood alongside his producing partner and best friend Sean Elliot. Together they wrote, fundraised, produced and marketed the film, with Downey at the helm as director. It's In the Blood marks the beginning of a new movement within the film art, called Psyche-Saga by Downey and Elliot. Read more
Scott Allie hails from New England, and grew up in the swamps of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He's the long-time editor of Hellboy, and his writing includes the graphic novel The Devil's Footprints, set in his home town, two Solomon Kane graphic novels, and contributions to the Hellboy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his son and fiancée.
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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 editions of Clark Ashton Smith's fantastic tales and poetry for Night Shade Books. His reviews and essays have appeared in Weird Tales, Publisher's Weekly, Lovecraft Studies, Studies 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... Read more
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A. Scott Glancy is the last surviving legionaire at Fort Pagan Publishing, a dubious outpost on the borders of the role-playing game industry. Scott has written extensively for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game, including the Origins Award-winning campaign background Delta Green. And yes, he does look a little like Walter Sobchak.
Sean writes, produces and directs for screen, audio and theatre. In 1985 with collaborator Andrew Leman, he co-founded the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society ("HPLHS", http://www.cthulhulives.org). Sean wrote the adaptation of 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 seventy film festivals worldwide and has won numerous awards. Sean’s co-written, produced and performed in many audio projects, including the HPLHS’ very popular Dark Adventure Radio Theatre CDs, a series of 1930s-style radio plays. Read more
Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s short fiction appears in The Book of Cthulhu (Night Shade Books), Evolve 2 (EDGE) and Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (ChiZine Publications and Tightrope Books). She has co-edited the anthologies Historical Lovecraft and Future Lovecraft for Innsmouth Free Press, a micro-press she founded in 2009. Future Lovecraft was recently picked up by Prime Books to be reprinted as a mass-market paperback in the fall of 2012. Silvia is the winner of the 2011 Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize and has been a finalist for the Manchester Fiction Prize. She is currently co-editing an anthology titled Fungi and working on her first collection. Read more
Thomas Nicol is a software developer by profession, which finances his filmmaking passion. He lives in Champaign-Urbana, IL, where he organizes the local filmmaking community organization Champaign Movie Makers. He's generally found working on way too many projects at once, most of which he seasons with at least a few Lovecraftian elements.
Thomas Phinney is Guru of Fonts and Typography for Extensis, purveyors of the WebINK web font service, and Suitcase Fusion font management software. His newest typeface Cristoforo, a revival of a Cthulhu classic, is being funded via Kickstarter.com, with a May 19 deadline. His previous Lovecraft connection is having designed clues for The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep, and custom fonts for that and other Call of Cthulhu campaigns. Thomas did type at Adobe for a decade, lastly as product manager for fonts and global typography. He is involved in the design, technical, forensic, business and historical aspects of type, a board member of the international typographic association ATypI, and has been an expert witness in court. Read more
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Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire has been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since his days as a Mormon missionary in Omagh, Northern Ireland (1973). He has written for a number of anthologies (Black Wings, The Children Of Cthulhu) and last year had tales reprinted in such anthologies as The Book Of Cthuhlu and New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird. These past few years has seen him writing like an obsessed lunatic, and his many books include The Tangled Muse, Some Unknown Gulf Of Night, Gathered Dust And Others, and Uncommon Places. In October Miskatonic River Press will publish The Strange Dark One: Tales Of Nyarlathotep, and in 2013 Dark Regions Press will publish Encounters With Enoch Coffin (written in collaboration with Jeffrey Thomas). Read more
