Scott Connors will use slides of Clark Ashton Smith’s fantastic painting and sculpture to navigate us through the artistic waters that poured from the Emporer of Dreams.
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In addition to being a writer, Lord Dunsany was a prolific artist and sculptor. S. T. Joshi will share photos from a recent trip Dunsany’s castle, and elucidate us on the famed writer’s lesser known talent.
Pickman's Apprentice is our exciting art competition! Some of the best Mythos artists have only 90 minutes to complete a Lovecraftian masterpiece of visual art based on a wacky combination of a setting and a Mythos monster... suggested by you! Come be a part of this interactive art race and watch a live birth of madness right before your eyes.
Each finished piece will be auctioned off during the remainder of the festival, with all the proceeds going to our charity of AnimalAid.
Check out this awesome new film that takes both found footage and Cosmic Horror to new heights (well, depths).
If you love Lovecraft and you love the classic Hammer films, you'll love Lovecraft Gets Hammered! Monster Kid Radio's Derek M. Koch guides you through a number of Hammer films that feature Lovecraftian themes, tropes, and madness.
Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane is being made into a comic book series from Dark Horse (and is also being turned into a movie).
Dark Horse's original Conan editor, Scott Allie, writes the series, with art by Mario Guevara and Dave Stewart, who reinvents his revolutionary color technique from Conan.
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a rock band from British Columbia who's main body of music consists largely of often tongue-in-cheek homages to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Even the band's name is drawn from a phrase in Lovecraft's story The Tomb.
This year's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival features a real live wedding (our fifth)! The Festival has become a true community of friends who eagerly wait out the year to see one another again, and sometimes among such kindred spirits deeper bonds form. Last year saw our friend Mars, maestro of the macabre, make the acquaintance of Victoria Price, daughter of Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price. This year the two are getting married—right here at center stage! Dr.
Come join us for an eldritch experience as Brian Lumley reads House of Cthulhu and then fields some Q&A.
Meet the creator behind the successful Hellboy character. Here is your chance to ask Mike those questions you always feared to know the answers to. Mike will also be joined by Dark Horse editor Scott Allie and Rue Morgue editor Jovanka Vuckovic.