Cthulhu and "__": Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
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We’re undeniably in the middle of a Lovecraftian renaissance, but most calls for stories include a caveat asking writers to avoid pastiche. Editors obviously want to see Lovecraftian ideas used in new and intriguing ways, and applied to other genres. What does that say about the state of the field? Is pastiche tapped out, or are we just living in a post-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies world? Stross, Tanzer, Goodfellow, Glancy, Koch, Griffin

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Sexuality and Lovecraft
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Lovecraft’s work has a distinct absence of overt sexuality. While Lovecraft’s stories contain some deviant sexual behaviors, nothing is ever depicted in detail. However, modern authors and filmmakers seem unable to make a film without inserting (sometimes graphic) sex into the script. Why is that? Is it just the tentacles? or Is it something deeper? Downum, Joshi, Peterson, Cook, Smiley

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R'lyehan Roulette
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What’s up with Brown Jenkin? Whats up with cosmic flautists? What is with the byakhee? Panelists will weigh in on all sorts of topics in this short format grab bag of topics. Meant to be fun, this is a “lightning round” panel. Glancy, Hite, Goodfellow, Tanzer, Kessler. Moderated by Brian Callahan... who sincerely wants to know the answers to all these questions!

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The Medium of Madness
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Why do visual artists choose the particular mediums they do when they set out to interpret Lovecraftian Horror? Is there something in the clay, so to speak? Moyer, Dubisch, Rainey-Smith, Carlucci, Atkinson

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Lovecraft's Editors
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Panelists discuss Lovecraft’s editors at Home Brew, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and his relationships with them, and HPL’s many posthumous editors at Arkham House and other venues. Connors, Lupoff, Joshi

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Putting Cosmic Horror on The Screen
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Several filmmakers discuss the challenges and choices involved in putting cosmic horror on the screen. Moore, Nicol, Mars, Szostakiwskyj

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Small Press Publishing in the New Weird
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Panelists discuss everything that publishers face in this genre, including topics like “Where does the money come from?” “Building a table of contents” and “Print vs E-publication.” Young, Lupoff, O’Keefe, Lockhart, Fuller, Nicolay

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Praise Cthulhu!
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Panelists explore the curious link between Satan and the Cthulhu Mythos. How do figures like Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep fill the role of Lucifer in his mythology? Who borrowed from whom? Also, what aspects of the Cthulhu Mythos get worked into the ritual and rite of modern belief systems, like Satanism? Price, Brock, Moore, Stross

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Tainted Bloodlines
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A discussion of Lovecraft’s heroes as other. Olmstead in “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” “The Outsider,” “Arthur Jermyn,” and “Rats in The Walls;” all have a main character with either an unfortunate hereditary trait or a penchant for being an unwitting monster. Panelists will explore Lovecraft’s themes of identity, loss of self, and what it means to be a monster. Rawlik, McMillan, Renwick, Joshi, Price

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