Lovecraft's influence on literature, comics and film was celebrated at Wondercon. Michelle Brittany reports, "Not a surprise, the room was packed to the gills." While presented as an exploration of arcane lore, a few suspect it is the first convocation on the West Coast to bring the return of the Old Ones. Be there when it happens!
It's a really, really great selection this year. So much so that we will be showing films throughout Saturday AND Sunday. Genre bending Sci-Western, Noir-Horror, and War-diabolique. Live action, stop motion, all paper, bunraku. India, Spain, Panama. Cthulhu's tentacles are everywhere! Los Angeles and World premiers. Do not miss this year!
Searchers after horror will pay a small price for entry into the macabre and fantastic celebration of HP Lovecraft. On the 125th anniversary of his birth, experience more than 50 years of years of filmmaking, meet the filmmakers, artists and authors exploring the path that Lovecraft blazed. Choose your ticket to a shoggoth load of films, art, apparel, gaming, books, drag kink cabaret, live radio theatre, naughty burlesque, and of course breakfast!
Once inside the price on your sanity, soul, and nerves cannot be predicted nor negotiated.
The Kickstarter campaign is a success. Yog Sothoth's materialization in San Pedro appears inevitable. Do not worry if you missed out on the preparation. You still have an opportunity to partake or be taken. Open the gate and experience the unfathomable (also great films, literature, art, and striptease)
Two of the smartest guys in the room, Kenneth Hite, author of Tour de Lovecraft, the Trail of Cthulhu RPG, and The Dracula Dossier, and Leslie S. Klinger, editor of the New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, and The New Annotated Dracula, join the roster of scholars at the inaugural CthulhuCon PDX. Mr. Hite and Mr. Klinger will be taking part in panel discussions and other activities that will thrill you with their insights into the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft.
We are pleased to announce that H.P. Lovecraft* himself will be a featured guest at CthulhuCon in April! You'll have the chance to pick his brain during a LIVE edition of Ask Lovecraft (www.asklovecraft.com), and may even have the chance to play a game or two with the man who started it all!
* Mr. Lovecraft will be appearing as his intrepid character, Leeman Kessler, whom he describes as a Nigerian-born actor living in Canada with his wife Rachel and daughter Amanda. Mr. Kessler has been performing as H.P. Lovecraft, since 2010, on stage and online with his web-series Ask Lovecraft. This will be his first time in Portland. You can hear him and his wife on their podcast, "Geekually Yoked."
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and The Hollywood Theatre are bringing Richard Stanley to Portland on March 6 (tix at http://bit.ly/OtherworldPDX) to introduce and Q&A a documentary double feature, featuring the US Premiere of The Otherworld, Mr. Stanley's film about the history of magical belief in his home of Montsegur, France, as well as a screening of the acclaimed documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. If you saw Richard's presentation at the 2013 Festival on the making of "Mother of Toads", which was filmed in Montsegur, you're definitely going to want to see the magical mayhem on show in his latest film! 
Support the CthulhuCon PDX (April 25-26) fundraiser by purchasing one of our Limited Edition ticket or shirt packages! In lieu of running a Kickstarter, we are selling a limited number of Early Bird ticket packages and shirts ONLY UNTIL FEB 16. Regular Ticket Packages are limited to only 70 (comes with an exlusive T-shirt, work shirt, or hoodie, plus special ticket/badge) and VIP Ticket packages (additionally includes catered VIP guest reception and numbered art print) are limited to only 30.
Even if you can't come, you can still support our fundraiser with your torso, by getting one of our exclusive T-shirts (or a babydoll tee, work shirt, or hoodie). Click here to get your tickets.
This weekend, Oct 11-12 at the Clinton St. Theater, we're showing a wonderful collection of the best independent horror films from around the world, including several US Premieres, and a whole bunch of Pacific NW Premieres.
Over 30 short films and two Pacific NW Premiere feature-length films await you Saturday and Sunday!
Watch our short YouTube trailer to get a sense of the variety of films we're showing, then buy your tickets on-line (or at the door, Saturday and Sunday):
Thank you, Portland! The Best of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, held on October 4 at the Hollywood Theater, was a great success! Thanks for coming and watching some amazing films with us. We went way over time and kept a lot of you up past your bedtime, watching films from the early days, like "The Old Man and The Goblins," as well as films selected for next year's 20th Anniversary Festival, including the World Premiere of "Fat Rabbit" from Adam Petke.
If you missed your chance to get the official T-shirt or women's top, you can now get that at our on-line store, Arkham Bazaar.