2025 Award winners!
And the 2025 winners are:
Cthulhu in Carcosa!
Our 2026 Fundraising campaign is now LIVE! Join the campaign to support the 31st Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, by purchasing deluxe and VIP ticket packages, or just T-shirts and other exclusive goodies. This year we've moved off of the Kickstarter platform and built our own system at Arkham Bazaar, to reduce some of the usual bottlenecks, as well as fees, so that all of your support dollars flow directly to the festival.
The annual Lovecraftian Microfiction contest is open!
All stories must be submitted by Friday, September 11, 2026.
>>> Submit your Entry <<<
What is it?
Micro Fiction is very short prose fiction. Smaller than Flash Fiction but bigger than a haiku. Usually 500 words or less. There are some famous short short stories, including Hemingway’s - For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Welcome to CthulhuCon™ PDX, the Pacific Northwest's premiere Lovecraftian convention!
About the Festival
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® & CthulhuCon™ promotes the works of H.P. Lovecraft, literary horror, and weird tales through cinematic adaptations by professional and amateur filmmakers, panel discussions, author readings, gaming, art, and sometimes live music. The festival was founded in Portland, OR in 1995 by Andrew Migliore, with the desire that H.P. Lovecraft would be rightly recognized as a master of gothic horror and his work more faithfully adapted to film and television.
These links will take you to the section for submitting Films and Screenplays, and the Micro Fiction Contest. (or you can just scroll down to see all of them.) If you are looking for information on how to become a guest, artist, vendor, etc, please go to the festival portal (above) and then navigate to the corresponding section.
Submit a Film or Screenplay
Submit to the Lovecraftian Micro Fiction Contest
Who is H.P. Lovecraft?
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon General Policies and Code of Conduct
By entering our events, all attendees accept our General Policies and agree to abide by our Code of Conduct. Attendees must respect common sense rules for public behavior, personal interaction, common courtesy, and respect for private property. Harassing or offensive behavior will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to revoke, without refund, the membership and badge of any attendee not in compliance with this policy.
Harassment Policy
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