Behind the Scenes of Independent Horrors
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Sunday, April 13th
3-4 pm
EOD Center - Main room

Adaptations, screenwriting on a shoestring, getting funding, how to get it in front of your audience - from amateur to indie. Featuring local and visiting filmmakers of films playing in this year's festival.

Todd Slawsby, Darren Ormandy, Henrik Moller, Adam Petke, Sean Blau

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Monsters Seen and Unseen
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Sunday, April 13th
4-5 pm
EOD Center - Main Stage

Explorations in the nature of monstrosity. Do we prefer our monsters to be completely alien, or make us discover something about ourselves? Orrin Grey, Doug Bradley, Allen Koszowski, Pete Rawlik, Derek Koch, Brandon Seifert.

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The Infection of The King in Yellow
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Saturday, April 12th
10-11 pm
EOD Center - Main stage

In the wake of "True Detective", we take a look at the influence of Chambers's King In Yellow. What is it exactly, why are only some people drawn to it, and why does it hold such power over the "infected," both in fiction and for real life creators? Are the stories an essay on madness, supernatural fiction, or somehow both? Joe Pulver, Michael Cisco, KL Young, and S. T. Joshi.

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Cultists, Crosses, and Superstition: portrayal of religion in Lovecraft's fiction
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How various religious concepts are portrayed in Lovecraft's fiction. Cultists, Crosses, Superstition all come into play in stories including Dreams In the Witch House, Haunter of the Dark, Shadow Over Innsmouth, Call of Cthulhu, The Silver Key. Mike Davis, Robert Price, Diabolus Rex, Kenneth Hite, Edward Morris.

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Beyond the Tentacles: Summoning the Spirit of Lovecraft on the Tabletop
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Friday, April 11th
9-10 pm
EOD Center Main

Are games as effective at channeling Lovecraft's dread and cosmic horror as other media (film, fiction, graphic novels, art)? How do we keep games true to the spirit of Lovecraft, instead of just dice rolling to defeat monsters? Kenneth Hite, Sandy Petersen, Keith Baker, Scott Glancy.

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The Men Behind The Mythos
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Saturday, April 12th
3-4 pm
EOD Center - Main stage

Eye witness accounts of the HPL circle from people who knew them in real life. Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Lin Carter. S. T. Joshi, Bill Farmer, Robert Price, Wilum Pugmire.

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R'lyehan Roulette
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Saturday, April 12th
9-10 pm
EOD Center - classroom

In this crazy event, panelists are given a rapid-fire selection of Lovecraftian topics, and have only 5 minutes to speak on each subject. This will be an information dump of Cyclopean proportions from some of the most brilliant people in the room. Cody Goodfellow, Michael Cisco, Kenneth Hite, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Scott Glancy.

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History and Lovecraft: The Eugenics climate in turn-of-the-century USA
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Although Lovecraft's ideas about race sound strange and even repulsive to modern audiences, the United States in the 1920s was awash with eugenics ideas. How did Darwinism, health policy (such as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924) and science shape Lovecraft's vision? And how can we approach this delicate topic without declaring Lovecraft simply a "man of his time" and dismiss any modern concerns his writing may produce? Silvia Moreno-Garcia, S. T. Joshi, Sean Hoade, Kenneth Hite.

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Other Voices: Diversity and Lovecraftiana
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Friday, April 11th
7-8 pm
EOD Center - classroom

Is diversity in Lovecraftian fiction important? What have you done to increase diversity in your magazine/publications if anything? What challenges have you faced? What do you plan to do in the future, if anything? Does the fandom care about these issues? Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ross Lockhart, Jason Brock, Mike Davis, Nate Pedersen.

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The Lovecraft Geek LIVE
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Saturday, April 12th
8-9 pm
EOD Center - Main stage

We will be recording Robert M. Price for an episode of the Lovecraft Geek Live! A beloved figure in the Lovecraft circle, Dr. Price has edited countless collections of Lovecraftian stories, essays, articles, and magazines like "Crypt of Cthulhu."

His latest project “The Lovecraft Geek”, is a podcast designed to answer your questions about all things Mythos, but he'll be doing it live for our audience!

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