Aurelio Voltaire

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Aurelio Voltaire is often described as a modern day renaissance man of the macabre. He is a musician, author, filmmaker and designer of creepy toys. His music can best be described as a collection of murder ballads, tongue-in-cheek exercises in the macabre, with just enough bawdy songs about Star Trek and Star Wars to keep a convention audience rolling in the aisles.

Barrett Hunt

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Barrett Hunt is a first-time, amateur filmmaker from Victoria, Texas. A fan of the surreal and strange, he chose to adapt H.P. Lovecraft for his first short. Footage was shot whenever possible when he and Rolando Ramirez, his creative collaborator, and friend and actor in "The Book", Christopher Waldon had the time outside of their day jobs and lives.

Barry Lynch (Henry Akeley, The Whisperer in Darkness)

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Barry is a founding member of the Celtic Arts Center of Los Angeles, and a veteran stage and screen actor, director and producer. He is a five-time recipient of the Hollywood DramaLogue Critics award for outstanding achievement in theater, two Back Stage West Garland awards for Lead actor and the Los Angeles Drama Circle Critics’ Award for Best Actor in Theatre Banshee's production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir. His television credits include Star Trek, LA Law, Judging Amy, Miami Vice, Renegade, Civil Wars, and Hunter (movie of the week).

Ben Kepner (The End of Forever)

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Ben Kepner discovered the blasphemous works of Mr. Lovecraft at an early age. Since that ill fated meeting, all of Ben's creative endeavors have born the indelible taint of the unknowable horrors that lurk beyond or fragile reality. He struggles daily to maintain his sanity and build a career as a writer and filmmaker in Los Angeles CA. At this year's festival, Ben's film "The End of Forever" is being featured in the shorts program. He sincerely hopes it gives you nightmares.

Bradley Sands

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Bradley Sands is an author and editor of bizarro fiction. His books include TV Snorted My Brain, Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You, and others. He works as an editor for Eraserhead Press. Formerly, he was an assistant editor for Weird Tales.

Brandon Seifert

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Brandon Seifert is a comics writer from Fairbanks, Alaska, based in Portland, Oregon. Brandon's debut original series "Witch Doctor" was hand-picked by Robert Kirkman as the launch title for Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment at Image Comics. Brandon's Marvel Comics series "Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird" has received acclaim for its urban fantasy take on the 'lost' real-life Disneyland attraction the Museum of the Weird. Brandon and Clive Barker co-wrote the 12 issue "Hellraiser: The Dark Watch" series from BOOM! Studios. He is currently hard at work on his first novel.

Brian Guardiola

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During his high school years, Brian developed an interest in drawing comics and creating role-playing stories which lead him to attend Columbia College in Chicago with a focus on animation. He was required to take Movie Production courses, and after attending a Film Tech class, his became focused on developing movies rather than animating them. His first short film wasn’t created until December of 2010. Since then he has made 11 short movies. “Nefarious” was the first short movie he made under the Familiar Moon Cinema name.

Brian Lumley

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Born 2nd December, 1937, Brian Lumley came into the world just nine months after the most obvious of his forebears — meaning of course a "literary" forebear, namely, H.P. Lovecraft — had departed from it.

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.

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