Miguel Tejada-Flores is a screenwriter whose first produced script, Revenge of the Nerds, became both a commercial success and a cult classic. His film writing credits range from dark epic science-fiction (Screamers) to psychological suspense (The Unsaid) to horror (Fright Night II); he has created stories for the big screen and the small, including movies and series for Showtime, USA Networks and the Sci-Fi Channel.
Mike Davis is the founder and editor of The Lovecraft eZine, an online magazine which is published monthly and is a prime internet source for original Lovecraftian fiction (it has featured new works by W. H. Pugmire, Peter Rawlik, Molly Tanzer, Jeff Thomas, Mark Rainey, Ann K. Schwander, and Joe Pulver) and information about Lovecraftian films and audios, memorabilia, books, art, and happenings within the Lovecraftian community. Mike conducts weekly video chats and interviews on Sundays. Many notable Lovecraftians such as Robert M. Price, S.T.
We are happy to announce that Mike Mignola will be Artist Guest of Honor at this year's festival.
Mike Mignola was born on September 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland, the eldest son of a tough and leathery cabinetmaker. His fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age (he doesn’t remember why); reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered.
Filmmaker, adventurer and net jockey Mike T. Lyddon has been making indie genre films for decades. He lived throughout South America for over 5 years shooting live music videos of indigenous and traditional music for the Howling Earth Project. His films have played in dozens of festivals and have garnered multiple awards. He is currently involved in an ongoing horror series, the latest being Creepers aka Horror Anthology Movie Volume 2 with adaptations of stories by Joe R. Lansdale, Lafcadio Hearn, Jeff Strand and Edgar Allan Poe.
Monsieur Soeur has been making various films with varying subjects, usually in a very scant amount of time, since about 2005. They have a taste in dark folk fables and speculating on fictitious subjects based precariously on fact and science-y hearsay, but are willing to entertain other things on occasion.
Nancy Holder is a New York Times bestselling author of horror and dark fantasy . She has written dozens of "tie-in" projects for such universes as Beauty and the Beast, Teen Wolf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Saving Grace, Hulk, Hellboy, Sherlock Holmes, and many others.
Life long artist Natalie Ewert wears many different hats creatively, working in sculpture, jewelry, painting, leather tooling and illustration. With a love of the whimsical and the bizarre, her work resides in hundreds of collections on 5 continents. Her favorite creative inspiration comes from animals, fantasy, macabre and the sacred arts. Specializing in one-of-a-kind pieces, she holds great respect for classic artisans and the beauty their toil produces.
Nate Pedersen is the editor of The Starry Wisdom Library anthology forthcoming September 2014 from PS Publishing. He will also be contributing to the Leaves of a Necronomicon anthology, edited by Joe Pulver. He lives with his wife April Tucholke - a young adult horror author - in Bend, Oregon, where he works as a librarian, journalist, and editor.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, the city which Lovecraft considered nearest to being America's literary capital, Nicholas T. Kubik's young imagination was nourished by the creations of Shelly, Stoker and Lovecraft.
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including the Lovecraftian titles Move Under Ground and The Damned Highway (written with Brian Keene). His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Tor.com, Weird Tales, the anthologies Lovecraft Unbound and Dark Wings II, and many other venues. Nick's fiction and editorial work has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Shirley Jackson awards.