Guests
Guests attending for 2009 Portland Festival.
Dan O'Bannon is the well-known screenwriter behind the classics Alien, Total Recall, Lifeforce, Heavy Metal (two segments), Dark Star (which he did the special effects for and starred in as well; this led to a stint on Star Wars as a special effects designer) and Return of the Living Dead (which he also directed).
Dan could not be here in person due to health reasons but we have captured his essential saltes on the crawling celluloid which is the next best thing for us Lurkers.Read more
Gary Myers fell under the shadow of Lovecraft at the tender age of sixteen and never completely escaped it. All of his published writings have touched on the Cthulhu Mythos in one way or another. His first book, The House of the Worm, a cycle of dream fantasies in the manner of Lovecraft and Dunsany, was published by Arkham House in 1975. His second book, Dark Wisdom, a cycle of Lovecraftian horrors in a more modern vein, was published by Mythos Books in 2007. His third book, The Country of the Worm, will mark a return to the earlier fantasy mode, with a revised and expanded edition of the first book supported by an equal number of similar stories written in the decades since; it will be published by Mythos Books in the near future.Read more
William F. Nolan writes mostly in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He is best known for co-authoring the novel Logan’s Run, with George Clayton Johnson. He is the author of more than 2000 pieces (fiction, non-fiction, articles and books), and has edited 26 anthologies in his 50+ year career. Adept at poetry and screenwriting as well as fiction, he was also co-writer of the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings, and co-wrote Trilogy of Terror with his friend Richard Matheson, both for Dan Curtis.Read more
Cody Goodfellow has written Radiant Dawn and Ravenous Dusk, an epic of modern Mythos horror, and his Lovecraftian fiction has appeared in Dark Discoveries, Book Of Dark Wisdom and the anthologies Arkham Tales, Hardboiled Cthulhu and Tales Out Of Miskatonic University. As a founding partner of Perilous Press, he works with celebrated editor S.T. Joshi to unearth the forbidden lore of tomorrow for their New Millennium Mythos line of cosmic horror fiction.
Edward Morris is a 2009 Rhysling Award nominee and 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee whose work has appeared in Murky Depths, Interzone twice, and forty-size other markets in four languages and seven countries. His Lovecraft-inspired steampunk/alternate history series There Was A Crooked Man just hit at Mercury Retrograde Press in Atlanta. He will be a returning guest author/panelist at Orycon 31, and a new guest author at Bizarrocon, this fall. He is currently nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for his short story "Lotophagi" which appeared in Farrago's Wainscot #11.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
Jason V Brock is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, composer and artist, and has been published internationally in Dark Scribe Press’s Butcher Knives & Body Counts [anthology]; Dark Discoveries; Animal Magnetism [anthology]; Calliope; Ethereal Tales; The Bleeding Edge [anthology]; San Diego Comic-Con International’s Souvenir Book and several others. He has also been a model for J.K. Potter (Rude Mechanicals by Kage Baker). He is Art Director/Managing Editor for Dark Discoveries Magazine.Read more
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Jemiah Jefferson was born in Denver, Colorado and started writing fiction and jokes at a young age. Her publications include the novels Voice Of The Blood, Wounds, Fiend, and A Drop Of Scarlet, and the legendary erotic short-story chapbook st*rf*ck*ng. She has also written fiction, essays, and criticism 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. She lives in Portland, Oregon.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
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., a life-long fan of pulp horror, fantasy, and science fiction, found himself exiled from a happy anonymity as of 1999 when Chaosium, Inc. published his highly acclaimed Cthulhu Mythos novel Nightmare’s Disciple. Though these days he writes mostly Surrealist poetry, his effectively chilling fiction and verse has appeared in collections including The Book of Eibon, Nameless Cults, Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak Supernatural Sleuth, Rehearsals for Oblivion, and many others. He has received several honorable mentions in Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. Joe also edited Ann K. Schwader’s verse collection The Worms Remember (2001). Hippocampus Press has just released Blood Will Have Its Season, Joe’s 1st collection of short work, edited by S.T. Joshi.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, was recently 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
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 issue of Weird Tales.
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
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
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. The complete and unabridged edition of Joshi's biography will appear in 2010 from Hippocampus Press under the title I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft.Read more
Scott Allie writes and edits for Dark Horse Comics and Glimmer Train Press. His writing includes the horror comic The Devil's Footprints, set in his hometown of Ipswich, Mass.—with a sequel coming in 2008—and the forthcoming Solomon Kane series. Other work includes tributes to H.P. Lovecraft, contributions to Star Wars comics and Buffy the Vampire Slayer prose, and a series of self-published horror comics called Sick Smiles, from Aiiie! Comics.Read more
Shawna Gore has been working at the Dark Horse Comics factory of joy and entertainment since 1997. After serving as Dark Horse's publicist for five years, she left the comics industry and briefly flirted with a career in music before regaining her sanity and accepting an offer to rejoin the Dark Horse staff as an editor. Quickly approaching her sixth year as an editor, Shawna is one of Dark Horse's more horror-focused editors, but she also likes comic books about talking bunnies.Read more
Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire is an eccentric recluse who dreams in Seattle, Washington. He has been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since the early 1970's and now has a number of books to his credit. His most popular books are THE FUNGAL STAIN AND OTHER DREAMS, SESQUA VALLEY & OTHER HAUNTS and DREAMS OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR. Last month his newest collection, WEIRD INHABITANTS OF SESQUA VALLEY, was published by Terradan Works, and Pugmire considers it a very solid collection of Mythos fiction.Read more
