Nicole and her one-person band Hello, The Future! sings stories about the intersection of fandom and reality. She has performed at Dragon*Con, Philcon, Lunacon, InterventionCon, and most other things with "con" at the end of them. She'll sing about why dinosaurs have feelings, why Wash is the best character on Firefly, and how we didn't have to stop drawing those giant robots. Get ready to rock out with your watch parts out.Check out Hello, The Future! on Bandcamp.com.
Henry J. Vester III spent his larval stage in the southern California city of Riverside, and cut his little fangs first on the works of ERB, Lin Carter, Otis Adelbert Kline, and Arthur Conan Doyle. He discovered the unholy joys of HPL around 1968 in the two fabled Lancer paperbacks, and was soon sending in his hard-earned pazoors for the Arkham House volumes. Subsequent discoveries—and lasting fascinations—have included the works of REH, Lord Dunsany, Sax Rohmer, and particularly Clark Ashton Smith.
Huan Vu is a director, producer, screenwriter, compositing editor and matte artist. His films include Damnatus, Joey ist dabei, and Mu. His most recent effort is Die Farbe, an adaptation of Lovecraft's The Color Our of Space, and he is currently working on a Dreamlands feature film.
Ives Hovanessian is a screenwriter and author of noir, uncanny and horror fiction. Her prose work appears in anthologies from Aetherial Publishing and Obsolescent Press. Her first screenplay, Trendsetters, was optioned by Colossal Entertainment. A debut collection of short stories, "I Am Death," Cried The Vulture, will be released in the summer of 2013. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
James R. Beach is the Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of Dark Discoveries Publications—home of the quarterly Horror/Dark Fantasy color print magazine Dark Discoveries. Since 2004, he has published 19 issues of the slick: a combination of articles, art, fiction and interviews, featuring dedicated issues on H.P. Lovecraft, The Twilight Zone, Fantastic Art, Forrest J Ackerman and Horror Comics, in addition to specials on contemporary genre figures.Fiction contributors have included William F. Nolan, Brian Lumley, Richard Matheson, Wilum Pugmire and more.
Jared is a graduate of Fairfield University, where his thesis film, The Music of Erich Zann, screened at 16 international film festivals, including the 2009 HP Lovecraft Film Festival. He currently works as a freelance photographer and videographer in Massachusetts, developing ideas for feature films and hoping to share his love for the movies with the world.
Jarred W. Wallace is the founder and President Dagon Industries, Inc. They have their tentacles on the pulse of what’s cool in the realms of Cthulhu Mythos pop culture by manufacturing trinkets and baubles for the Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos aficionado such as Cthulhu Fish, Poker Cards, Collectors Coins, Miskatonic U. Products, Lapel Pins, Decals, etc. He lives in a perpetual state immanent flight, a carefully assembled escape and evasion kit always packed and ready by the front door. Do not wake him unless you know where his gun is first. Every year he can be found at the H.P.
Jason Bradley Thompson (www.mockman.com) is the author and artist of numerous comics, including H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea, The Stiff and King of RPGs (with Victor Hao). He wrote the Eisner-nominated book on Japanese comics Manga: The Complete Guide, and his gaming comics and illustrations appear regularly on the Dungeons & Dragons website.
Jason Hooper is a filmmaker from Portland, Oregon. Jason's longtime interest in horror and the bizarre led him to direct the short film "DumbShow" as his final project for Pacific University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video Production. He is currently working at a local production studio, Laika, while using his spare time to plan his next project.Jason is a painter and artist who started out taking a multimedia design course.
The Artifact is Jason’s third short film screened at the Lovecraft festival, but his first animated film. Jason has also worked as an illustrator on projects including Chaosiums Mythos the collectable card game, Unspeakable Oath magazine and some Dagon concept art for Stuart Gordon in 2001. His paintings are featured in the 2001 film The Yellow Sign as the crazed artist Aubrey Scott. Jason’s other films are The Vessel 2004, and Room For Error in 2006. In 2010 Jason also worked doing miniatures on the film The Whisperer in Darkness for the H.P.