Each year since 2014 we have held a Lovecraftian MicroFiction Contest, taking entries from authors from all over the world! The winning entries are published in a small book with the Challenge From Beyond for that year. We began this as a way to engage and include more creators in the Cosmic Horror genre, and the proceeds support the Festival directly.
Join us for special HPLFF film screenings at NecronomiCon Providence, August 16-18th, 2024. Screenings will take place mostly at RISC Metcalf Auditorium, with our infamous Late Night Lovecraft screening at AS220 Black Box. Come watch some cosmic horror, including original stories, adaptations of Lovecraft and Poe, as well as Cthulhian laughs, all up on the big screen.
When an 18th Century Cleric, Rev. Heatly Smythe is appointed to a new rural Parish, he finds his faith tested by local superstitions surrounding a strange mound in an ancient woodland. Heatly has little time for the local superstition and being an academic and a scholar, he begins to ruminate about the true nature of the so-called 'Devil's Mound'. In an attempt to rid the Parish of it's 'blasphemous beliefs', Heatly endeavors to prove that the mound in question is merely an ancient neolithic burial sight, of historic and scientific importance.
A man of science, trapped between the arcane and incomprehensible grief, resorts to unthinkable measures to try to prolong his beloved’s life. In all his heartache, he is devoured by his grief, unwilling to confront the reality of his wife’s condition until it is too late. There is no sense – no moral – in suffering. There is only pain. Hashir dares to discover the truth and faces the consequences.
Martin is a hoarding collector living a solitary life on a small plot of land. While out magnet fishing for metal, Martin stumbles upon a mysterious object that possesses a dark and terrifying greed that is larger than even his own.
