Carbload for Cthulhu

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Come see all of our author guests in one place, chat with your favorites, buy their latest books, and get 'em signed, all while enjoying some free coffee, tea, and Cthul... erm, bagels and other snacks. Food and drink are limited, so come early and get your nosh on... for literature!

Return of The Lurkers: Return to Innsmouth with Aaron Vanek

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Made on a shoestring budget, this ambitious sequel to Lovecraft's Shadow Over Innsmouth was made by one of the festival's original "Lurkers." Check out this rarity on the big screen, introduced and with a Q&A by director Aaron Vanek, plus tales from other members of the cast and crew.

Kevin Leeson

Guest

Kevin Leeson is a Producer, Screenwriter, and Story Editor in the film and television industry. He has produced on projects featuring such diverse talents as Steve Austin, Daniel Stern, Mira Sorvino, Dolph Lundgren, and Toni Braxton. Kevin co-wrote and published a 6-issue limited comic book series “Outnumbered”, and was a contributor to the Shuster Award-adjacent Crime Anthology Graphic Novel “Acts Of Violence”. He is one of the co-hosts of the award-winning podcast “Caustic Soda”, and revels in finding the funny in the macabre inherent in the world around us.

Extraordinary Tales

Film

Five of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known stories are brought to vivid life in this visually stunning, heart-pounding animated anthology featuring Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman and Guillermo del Toro. Murderous madmen, sinister villains and cloaked ghouls stalk the darkened corridors of Poe’s imagination, as his haunting tales are given a terrifying new twist by some of the most beloved figures in horror film history.

John Strysik

Guest

OG Lurker, Filmmaker, Screenwriter

The Craft

Film

Set in 19th Century Arkham, the film follows Sonia, an upper class socialite married to infamous painter Richard Pickman. After a morbid display at the Newberry Street Art Club, Richard disappears and Sonia is left to be haunted by his work. A biopic fan fiction based on the stories and romantic history of H.P. Lovecraft and his wife Sonia Greene.

The Whisperer in Darkness

Film

A woman seeks out the truth behind a local legend and finds more than she bargained for. Inspired by the story by H. P. Lovecraft.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth teaser

Film

The exciting teaser trailer for the upcoming "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" feature film, directed by Bryan Moore. 

Lovecraftian gaming day at Guardian Games

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Need something to get you going during the day on Friday before the festival starts? We've reserved a section at Portland's greatest gaming store just for you to play a variety of Lovecraftian tabletop games. It's open play, so come on by Guardian Games and select from their massive library of Cthulhu board games, card games, and more!

You can sign up for a spot in a game on Warhorn, or just come and borrow one of the 600 games from the Guardian Games library!

Gala Night at the Cinema

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Join us for a Gala Night at the Cinema, 1920s-style! This once-in-a-lifetime event will open the festival with singing, dancing, burlesque, and amusement, before we get on to the serious business of news from the 1920s, a short presentation of the silent film, "The Old Man and The Goblins," and a special 10th Anniversary screening of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's "The Call of Cthulhu."

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