Dan O'Bannon

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Dan O'Bannon is the well-known screenwriter behind the classics Alien, Total Recall, Lifeforce, Heavy Metal (two segments), Dark Star (which he did the special effects for and starred in as well; this led to a stint on Star Wars as a special effects designer) and Return of the Living Dead (which he also directed).

Dan could not be here in person due to health reasons but we have captured his essential saltes on the crawling celluloid which is the next best thing for us Lurkers.

Daniel Kaemon (P.F. Noyes, The Whisperer in Darkness)

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Recent film credits include: The Whisperer in Darkness, My Religion, Power Poison, and Zombie Holocaust and You! Other Film credits include: Katherine (Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival), Still Life, The Night Before, Dream, Hitclown, and Side Effects Include. Television credits include: Alias, Days of Our Lives, Passions, To Pay The Rent, and Pirate Waters.

Darren Ormandy (Vomica)

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Darren discovered Lovecraft in the early 1990s when he started playing The Call of Cthulhu. He studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before working as an actor on stage and screen. One of his first jobs was as actor and fight choreographer in Christopher Nolan’s debut film, ‘Following’. Between acting jobs he worked as a prop maker and made The Book of the Dead featured in Brendan Fraser’s The Mummy films. In 2004 he wrote his first play ‘Hamburg,’ about the RAF raids in World War II, for the London Terror Season.

David Agranoff

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David Agranoff is the author of many works of dark fiction. David writes in the bizarro, horror and Science Fiction genres. His first short story collection Screams from a Dying World was nominated for a wonderland award. His first novel Hunting the Moon Tribe was released by Little Otick books. Hunting The Moon Tribe is a dark kungfu fantasy and monster fest, The screenplay of Hunting The Moon Tribe was quarter finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship.

David C. Verba

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David was introduced H P Lovecraft and the world of Arkham House at the age of twelve and has continued collecting the genre to this day. His training and background is in fine art, but recently he has moved into illustration. He has done the covers for seven editions published by Hippocampus Press, and his work will soon appear as interior illustrations in editions by Centipede Press.Currently he is working on a graphic novel that is surreal in nature with a Lovecraftian theme running through it's background.

David Hahn

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David Hahn’s work is decidedly contemporary and reflects his eye for crisp detail. Conceptual art, educational illustrations, storytelling, and character design all benefit from his fresh take and skillful approach. He has illustrated issues of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Marvel Adventures: The Fantastic Four, both for Marvel Comics, and Bite Club, Fables, Lucifer, Red Herring, for DC Comics, as well as The Batman Handbook, licensed for Quirk Books.

David Milano

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David Milano, a Los Angeles based freelance artist with a penchant for the macabre, has been drawing since before he can remember - always with an inclination to conjuring fantasy into reality. Over the years this obsession has manifested itself in many diverse disciplines including: illustration, sculpture, photography, writing, theater and film, and costuming/prop building.His hobbies include chainsaws, fine cocktails and shrinking heads, not necessarily in that order. Oh yeah, last year he did the poster for the Los Angeles H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.

David Prior

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David Prior has long believed that it's a director's duty to know first hand every job on a film set, which is how he justifies his rather bizarre list of credits. While he has produced and directed several feature length documentaries for DVD, he wrote and directed feature film The Empty Man, and AM1200, and directed "The Autopsy" episode of Netflix series Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (from the story by Michael Shea).

Denise Dumars

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Denise Dumars has a new mini-poetry chapbook from Space Cowboy Books, titled "Mars Maundering." Her recent chapbook Cajuns in Space placed 3rd in the Elgin Awards. She has stories in Occult Detective Magazine's Special Mythos #1 issue and upcoming in the Halloween edition of Weird Fiction magazine. She'll have her poetry chapbooks and her story collection, Lovecraft Slept Here, available at the festival.

DH Covey

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D.H. Covey is a Automatism Surrealist painter and motion picture storyboard artist. He is a graduate of The Maryland Institute of Fine Arts and moved to Hollywood in 1997 to work with Brian Yuzna on the movie Progeny. This led to more work on over 20 motion picture, video and TV projects. Both of his children attend Cal Poly Pomona. Michelle is a Fine Arts major, and Adam is a Mechanical Engineer. He and his wife Deby, a Technical Support Manager for GXS, will celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary this Saturday, May the fourth.

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