• Dagon's Wedding Bells

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    wedding_ws_sm.jpgThis year's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival features a real live wedding (our fifth)! The Festival has become a true community of friends who eagerly wait out the year to see one another again, and sometimes among such kindred spirits deeper bonds form. Last year saw our friend Mars, maestro of the macabre, make the acquaintance of Victoria Price, daughter of Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price. This year the two are getting married—right here at center stage! Dr.

  • Brian Lumley Reading House of Cthulhu

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    Come join us for an eldritch experience as Brian Lumley reads House of Cthulhu and then fields some Q&A.

  • Meet Mike Mignola - Hellboy Panel

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    Meet the creator behind the successful Hellboy character. Here is your chance to ask Mike those questions you always feared to know the answers to. Mike will also be joined by Dark Horse editor Scott Allie and Rue Morgue editor Jovanka Vuckovic.

  • Open Mic at Tony Starlight's

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    Friday night from 12:30am to 2:00am come join us for drinks at Tony Starlight's and an open mic were you can hear Lovecratian stories, tall tales, poems, and eerie personal accounts.

  • Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Live at Tony Starlight's

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    The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets descend upon Portland once again with their own brand of Cthulhuoid punk rock. Admission is free with day or weekend festival pass. Show starts around 12:30am.

  • Oh, Whistle...: Two Ghost Stories by M.R. James

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    large_a-pleasing-terror.jpgOver a century after they were first published, the ghost stories of M R James retain their power to terrify and amuse. Following his critically acclaimed one-man show A Pleasing Terror Robert Lloyd Parry brings two more of James' classic spine-chillers back to life.

  • Happy 200th, Edgar Allan Poe

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    The bicentennial of Poe’s birth has inspired a lot of discussion of his contributions to the literature of horror and the supernatural. The panelists focus on his short stories and his poems, as well as on his theory of short story writing. They also discuss Poe’s extensive influence on Lovecraft, who always regarded Poe as his “God of Fiction.”

    Panel: S. T. Joshi, Gary Myers; Joe Pettit, Jr., Maryanne Snyder

  • H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard

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    Participants: Cody Goodfellow, Gary Myers, Jessica Amdanda Salmonson, Robert M. Price, S. T. Joshi

  • Humor and Horror

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    Participants: Cody Goodfellow, Ed Morris, Jemiah Jefferson, Maryanne Snyder

  • Robert W. Chambers

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    What do we know about Robert W. Chambers and his strange book, The King in Yellow (1895)? Could this book have influenced Lovecraft’s conception of the Necronomicon? The panelists discuss Chambers’s wide-ranging work and trace his influence on Lovecraft as well as on other writers of supernatural fiction, down to the present day.

    Participants: Gary Myers, Joe Pettit, Jr., Joe Pulver, S. T. Joshi, Wilum Pugmire

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