Brian R. Hauser

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Brian R. Hauser has spent most of his life in Ohio, which is as flat as it you've always heard it is. He holds three degrees from The Ohio State University (one in literature and two in film), because he likes definite articles. Like many Lovecraft fans of his generation, he first came to know 'Grandpa Theobald' and the Cthulhu mythos through table-top role-playing games before devouring the stories in print and watching the films in theaters, on tape, and on DVD.

Brian Yuzna

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Brian Yuzna has never been very far from the works of H.P. Lovecraft. He directed Bride of Re-Animator, Beyond Re-Animator, and the anthology film Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, and also produced the original fan-favorite and cult classic Re-Animator and its spiritual counterpart From Beyond. More recently, he directed the Lovecraftian Beneath Still Waters in 2005 and his latest, Amphibious: Creature of the Deep was released in 2010.

Bryan Thao Worra

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Bryan Thao Worra is an award-winning Lao-American writer. An NEAFellow in literature, he is a member of the Horror Writer Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. His work appears internationally, including Innsmouth Free Press, Tales of the Unanticipated, Illumen, Astropoetica, Outsiders Within, Dark Wisdom,and Mad Poets of Terra. He is the author of several books of speculative poetry On the Other Side of the Eye, BARROW, and the forthcoming DEMONSTRA. Visit him online athttp://thaoworra.blogspot.com.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

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Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of today’s leading authors of dark fantasy and science fiction, having published eight novels and approximately two hundred short stories, novellas, and vignettes.

Cameron Harrison

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Cameron Harrison was born in the Hothian wastes of Alaska, where one seemingly innocuous night, he watched The Evil Dead. Bruce Campbell awoke more than the ancient evil when he read from the Necronomicon. He also awoke a passion for horror films and filmmaking in young Cameron. His shorts and commercials have won numerous awards, and he recently served as co-producer on the documentary PRICELE$$ currently airing on PBS. He's currently working on a paranormal-parody web series called Spooked, which will air later this summer.

Cameron Pierce

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Cameron Pierce is the Wonderland Book Award-winning author of nine books, including Cthulhu Comes to the Vampire Kingdom. He has also edited three anthologies for Eraserhead Press, most recently In Heaven, Everything Is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch.

Can Evrenol

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Born in Istanbul, 1982, Can Evrenol ("To My Mother and Father") graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with joint honours in 'Art History' and 'Film Studies'. In the summer of 2007 he shot his first independent short film "The Chest", with his family and friends on the street he grew up on. It went on to be screened at such festivals as "Montreal, Fantasia Film Festival", "Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival", "Sydney a Night of Horrors". He is now based in London, running his own filmmaking and editing company.

Casey T. Malone

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Casey T. Malone has been knocking around the TV and film world for a number of years including working on shows for Discovery Channel and PBS. As an independent filmmaker he has several credits to his name including the short films "Fortuna," "The Modern Man," and "The Professor," which he produced specifically for HPLFF PDX 2013.

Christopher Gray (grandson of "Berkeley Square" director Frank Lloyd)

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The grandson of "Berkeley Square" director Frank Lloyd, Chris and his sister Antonia have maintained the legacy of Frank alive through the website www.FrankLloydFilms.com. After receiving a Master's degree from UCLA in Theater Arts (motion pictures) Christopher Gray taught film technique and history at the University of Brasilia, Brazil for the US Peace Corps. Returning to the US he has worked in all facets of documentary and education film production and post production.

Clay Ayers

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Clay first became interested in filmmaking while attending screenwriting classes from writer/director Tom Vaughan. After writing screenplays for the class and assisting others as an extra and PA, Clay decided to partner with musician/record producer, Scott Ayers to produce their first film, “The Shadow on the Wall.” Clay’s second film, “The Picture in the House,” is a stylized adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft short story. When not writing or filmmaking, Clay works as an engineer in Houston.

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