2025 Award winners!

And the 2025 winners are:

• Best Feature: A Blind Bargain, by Paul Bunnell
• Best Short: "Stargazer" by Justin Robert Vinall
• Best Adaptation: "The Outsider" by A. Burnett
• Audience Choice: "There is No Anti-memetics Division" by Adria Lang
• Best Screenplay: "His Father's House" by Kenneth Lawrence
• Screenplay Finalists:
  • "Slumber" by Jared Michael Delaney
  • "Black Dog Burrows" by Jchon Perkins
  • "The Pit" by Duncan B. Putney
• Lovecraft Under the Gun: "Popthulhu" by Trash People From the Dump

In addition to the Film and Screenplay Awards, we host a Lovecraftian MicroFiction contest each year. The top winners get published in a limited edition book along with that year's Challenge From Beyond, although this year's book ended up being more of an anthology to go along with the Cthulhu on the High Seas theme. The book will be available on arkhambazaar.com soon!

The 2026 Microfiction contest winners are:

"Windows" by Erik Gorka (overall winner)
"Under the Lake" by Matt Sprague
"The Black Sybil" by Russell W. Bynum
"The Coffee House Illuminati" by Brian Garbe
"It's a Job" by Emilio T. Jasso
"02/02/2020" by Aaron Ostrum
"Blemish" by James McRobert
"Blackberry, Blackberry" by David Haas
"The Room in the Library" by Chad Antil
"Floaters" by Jason Bulmahn
"The Second Act" by Kai R. Hastur
"Bite Your Little Toes" by Tim Uren
"The Necropocrypha" by Rick Hutchins
"A New King is Born" by Josef B. Wilke
"I Remember" by Bob Brinkman
"Star 25" by Pat Harrigan
"Terra Sing" by MM DeHart
"Alice" by Felicia Martinez
"Warm Cup of Void" by Luke Zwanziger
"Former Occupants" by Vincent J. Molina

Congratulations to all the filmmakers and screenwriters involved in this year's festival!