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!
Hugo award-winning author Charles Stross will be our Guest of Honor at the 20th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Oct. 2-4, 2015 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR. Mr. Stross is to be honored for his contributions to bringing the worlds and ideas of H.P. Lovecraft to a new audience with his Laundry Files books; a series that combines a Lovecraftian aesthetic with humor, secret agents, and hackers.
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.
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)
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.
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!
Ancient friends, a vague impression of a dark nether world of subterrene mystery is projected in the old movie house the Warner Grand. When the thin coating of fine blue-grey dust settles a shade of a long-dead living thing might be raised up. Thus begins The Age of Yogg Sothoth and the HP Lovecraft Film Festival San Pedro.