The counteract all the cosmic dread we've been feeding you this weekend, we've packed the last short film block of the festival with some of the most unhinged, funny, and gross short films we could find!
GM James Kiley will be running Delta Green RPG sessions on Saturday and Sunday! Spots in these games are free to pass holders, but limited to 6 per session. You can sign up in advance HERE (for free) to secure your spot!
Scenario: LAST THINGS LAST, by Shane Ivey
GM James Kiley will be running Delta Green RPG sessions on Saturday and Sunday! Spots in these games are free to pass holders, but limited to 6 per session. You can sign up in advance HERE (for free) to secure your spot!
Scenario: Music From a Darkened Room, by Dennis Detwiller
GM James Kiley will be running Delta Green RPG sessions on Saturday and Sunday! Spots in these games are free to pass holders, but limited to 6 per session. You can sign up in advance HERE (for free) to secure your spot
Scenario: PX POKER NIGHT, by Dennis Detwiller and A. Scott Glancy
What happens when dread of the unknown gives way to ecstatic acceptance, love ahd enthusiasm for monsters, elder gods and secrets man was not meant to know? How does embracing otherness and monstrosity change horror and fantasy and change ourselves? This panel explores work that paves the way for the future by embracing both the human and monstrous other and finding the horror and excitement in these tensions.
Lovecraft famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction” and the connection between Poe and Lovecraft's work is widely recognized. Panelists discuss how Poe's style and subject matter related to Lovecraft's more Gothic stories.
Hear Modern Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction stories and excerpts, straight from the mouths of the authors who wrote them!
From Edgar Allan Poe to the uncanny, learn how Southern Gothic literature has its roots in Gothic horror. Marginalized characters, haints, and the magic of the swamps is just the beginning when you journey into a world of decadence and decay.
Delve into "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World," a tale by the legendary Thomas Ligotti, featuring an uncanny figure akin to Lovecraft's eldritch entities, yet uniquely Ligottian in its form and the existential dread it evokes. In his introduction to the story, horror author and Ligotti narrator and scholar Jon Padgett elucidates Ligotti's significance as a contemporary heir to Lovecraft. Through the lens of "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World," discover an autumnal outré horror of the sort only the mind of Thomas Ligotti could conjure.
For sixty years Herbert West lingered as a minor character in a minor story overshadowed by Lovecraft's more cosmic creations. That all changed in 1985 with the release of Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator. Since then Herbert West has become an icon comparable to Freddy Kruger, Michael Meyers, and Jason Voorhees spawning competing films, comic books, novels, short stories, and even a pitch for a TV series. What are the origins of this iconic character and how has he been fantastically and macabrely transformed over the years.