Kurt Lustgarten

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Raised in the Northeast on a steady diet of macabre and arcane fiction, Kurt Lustgarten owes much of his storytelling style (and neuroses) to the work of H.P. Lovecraft. His screenplay based on William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost-Finder was inspired by a love of supernatural horror and the detective/adventure genres. He is currently developing the sci-fi thriller Futures with writer Jesse Mittelstadt (Across the Hall), which Kurt is attached to direct.

Laird Barron

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Laird Barron's work has appeared in places such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCIFICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound! and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, and his most recent collection, Occultation, were published by Night Shade. Mr.

Lynn Cesar

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Author/illustrator Lynn Cesar is a native of New York City, having studied fine art and illustration there. Her first mature work was in holography, producing several of the field's first animated holograms (including one of a pterodactyl flying at the viewer through the film plane).She came to the San Francisco to join the Mission district company Multiplex, and there continued her work in holography. After her marriage to writer Michael Shea and the birth of their two children, she turned to the finishing arts, gaining a reputation in Northern California for murals and faux finishing.

Marc Laidlaw

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Marc Laidlaw is the author of six novels, including The International Horror Guild Award winner, The 37th Mandala. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies since the 1970s. In 1997, he joined Valve Software as a writer and creator of Half-Life, which has become one of the most popular videogame series of all time. He lives in Washington State with his wife and two daughters, and continues to writes occasional short fiction between playing too many videogames.

Mark Kinsey Stephenson

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Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Artistic Director are several of the creative hats worn by Mark. Although he has 60+ acting credits, received numerous honors, and been associated with critically acclaimed award-winning stage productions, Mark is most recognized for the HP Lovecraft cult horror films -- The Unnamable and its sequel (as Randolph Carter). Currently, he is on the fast-track to record Lovecraft stories for the public's listening pleasure, and in the developmental stage for a one-man show about HP.

Mary Jane Hansen

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Mary Jane Hansen is a writer/actor whose work has been featured in theatres throughout the U.S. and internationally. She adapted Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" for the screen and appears in the film as Asenath Waite. Audiobook versions of her plays have been nominated for Audie Awards and The Benjamin Franklin Award. Among her plays are A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, American Soup and Letters From A Window in the Sky. Her poetry has been featured in publications by the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society.

Maryanne Snyder

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Maryanne Snyder is a poet and author from Seattle, whose wide-ranging interests include the history of weird fiction. Among her favorite authors are Poe, Oscar Wilde, Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith. She is currently collaborating with Wilum Pugmire on a collection of strange stories, the first of which, "The House of Idiot Children", appeared in the January/February 2009 issue of Weird Tales.

Matt Lagan (Professor Nathaniel Ward, The Whisperer in Darkness)

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Matt was so impressed by the original Whisperer trailer that he jumped at the chance to be in the full-length film. In addition to encountering Lovecraft's Mi-Go, Matt has run afoul of giant piranhas, psychic Nazis, a ‘mega’ shark, Martians, Moby Dick, and several other curious beings in more than 300 movies, plays, commercials, videos, and voiceovers. His real life adventures have led him into trekking jungles, crossing the Himalayas (in winter!), and eating dog with the hill tribes of North Vietnam.

Michael Cisco

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Michael Cisco is the author of The Divinity Student, The Tyrant, The San Veneficio Canon, and a contributor to The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Descredited Diseases, Leviathan III and IV, and Album Zutique. In 1999, his debut work received the International Horror Writers Guild Award for best first novel. His nonfiction appears in reference books published by Chelsea House and the Gale Group.

Michael Davis

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**Unable to attend due to an emergency**

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