Panel: Heroes Need Not Apply: The Protagonist in Lovecraft’s Uncaring Universe

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Panel Discussion
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Saturday, October 3, 2026 - 2:00pm to 2:50pm

A hallmark of cosmic horror is that reality is cold and indifferent with good and evil being merely a matter of perspective. Lovecraft rejected the conventions of what a pulp protagonist should be. From his most noble like Henry Armitage to the vilest examples such as Herbert West, we explore the morality of the characters in the Cthulhu Mythos. With David Heath (M), Sarah T. Walker, DB Spitzer, Adam Scott Glancy

David Heath is a podcaster and blogger who has hosted shows such as Dave's Underground Goat Shenanigans,and Radio Free Oleander. He is currently the co-host of The People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos. He lives with his extended family in northern Oregon on a working goat farm.

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Sarah Walker is an artist, anthropologist, and writer of horror living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in publications such as Audient Void, Lovecraft Ezine Press, Vastarien, and many more. She co-edited the Folk Horror anthology, A Walk in A Darker Wood with Gordon White, Phil Breach, and Duane Pesice, and A Walk in a City of Shadows: Tales of Urban Legendry, with Nora B. Peevy, Jill Hand, Gordon White, and Phil Breach.

 

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Fri, Oct 2 to Sun, Oct 4
Hollywood Theatre
Portland, OR
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Adventurer/Occult Investigator/Illustrator/Writer/Game Designer/Media Critic/Podcaster from Portland,Oregon. I like soda water, good game design, clever cosmic horror.
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In 1998 Scott Glancy left a perfectly functional career as an attorney to join up with the role-playing game publisher Pagan Publishing, the nerd equivalent of running away to join the Foreign Legion. Today Scott is the man in charge of Pagan Publishing (much in the same sense that the last surviving legionnaire can be said to be in command of Fort Zinderhoff). Pagan’s most recent project is “Horrors of War,” an anthology of scenarios set during the Great War for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. Scott is a contributing author on the award-winning Delta Green  series of Call of Cthulhu rpg supplements and has had Lovecraftian fiction published in several short story collections including the recent "Book of Cthulhu II," "Shotguns v. Cthulhu," and the upcoming “Swords v. Cthulhu.” You can hear his recorded games sessions on Role-Playing Public Radio, and listen to him bloviate on the Unspeakable Podcast and Podcast at Ground Zero.

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Fri, Oct 2 to Sun, Oct 4
Hollywood Theatre
Portland, OR
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H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival - Portland, OR