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Programming

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We're back on all 3 screens of the Hollywood Theatre.

This will be a hybrid event, so we'll also be streaming on Eventive (but on a later date, tbd).

Best of the 2014 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival DVD now available on Arkham Bazaar!

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Did you miss seeing some of the short films at the 2014 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival? Just want to relive the best moments? Now you can! We collected the best shorts from the 19th Annual festival on this deluxe, limited edition DVD! Available now on Amazon and ArkhamBazaar.com

Panel Discussions now on YouTube!

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CthulhuCon PDX 2015 was amazing! The weekend was spent playing games, enjoying Lovecraftian art, film, and music, and, of course, learning stuff through our course of amazing panel discussions on topics ranging from "Lovecraft Gets Hammered" to "The Lost Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft" to "Dracula VS Cthulhu!" We've posted the first of these, "Neo-paganism and Lovecraft" in our YouTube channel today, with more to be posted in the coming days and weeks.

Travel & Venues

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This page has information on the venue, public transportation, local eats, hotel accommodations.

The Portland Venue

All Films and most live events take place at The Hollywood Theatre, built in 1926. Over the years, the Theatre has seated audiences for vaudeville shows, silent films accompanied by live orchestration, Cinerama and more.

Comic-Con Panel: The Science behind "At the Mountains of Madness"

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In his iconic weird tale, At the Mountains of Madness,  H. P. Lovecraft, wrote: "I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why."

Why was the fiction of Lovecraft, an amateur astronomer, cautionary of what science might discover? How accurate was Lovecraft's research?

This panel of scientists and Lovecraft experts will discuss the science, truth, and fiction behind this classic novella.

Lisa Will

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Dr. Lisa Will is the Resident Astronomer at San Diego's Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. She is also an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Department of Physical Sciences at San Diego City College. Dr. Will hosts popular monthly live planetarium show, The Sky Tonight.

H.P. Lovecraft Panel at Comic-Con

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Are you going to Comic-Con? On Friday the 10th from 2-3 pm Let our panel of soon to be shunned scientists and loathsome literary scholars drop some serious knowledge on The Science Behind "At the Mountains of Madness". An ever expanding throng have thrown their lot in already, so sign up now and show up early to RM23ABC!

20th Anniversary Festival Kickstarter Launched... and funded!

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On Monday, July 6 2015, we launched the "Trip to R'lyeh" Kickstarter campaign for the 20th Anniversary H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR. Then, 37 hours later, it was funded. We are thrilled at the outpouring of support! This definitely helps us pay some of our most basic expenses, like theatre rental, but there's still a ways to go to make this the Best Festival Ever! Please share!

Guest of Honor Charles Stross

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Charles Stross, 50, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. His modern Lovecraftian series, The Laundry Files, includes the Hugo-award winning novellas "The Concrete Jungle" and "Equoid", the Locus Award-winning novel "The Apocalypse Codex", and has been shortlisted for numerous other awards;  "The Annihilation Score" (Laundry Files book six), was published by Ace in July 2015.

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