Quinn Bailey

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Quinn Bailey is the writer, director, editor, and composer behind “Play It All Night Long”. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Quinn studied film production at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he lives and works as a script analyst and freelance musician. As a lifelong cosmic horror fan, he’s honored to be a part of this year’s HPLFF.

Dennis Paoli

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Screenwriter of 2023's Suitable Flesh, directed by Joe Lynch and based on H. P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on The Doorstep", Dennis Paoli achieved his greatest enduring cult popularity by penning the wickedly witty scripts for two superior 80s H.P. Lovecraft adaptations directed by noted horror genre icon Stuart Gordon: the terrific Re-Animator and its equally excellent follow-up From Beyond. Paoli and Gordon first crossed paths working for the experimental Organic Theater in Chicago.

DB Spitzer

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Adventurer/Occult Investigator/Illustrator/Writer/Game Designer/Media Critic/Podcaster from Portland,Oregon. I like soda water, good game design, clever cosmic horror.
Praise to Tsathoggua!! They/Them

Danger Slater

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Danger Slater is the Wonderland Award-winning author of I Will Rot Without You, He Digs a Hole, Moonfellows, House of Rot and others. He writes gross horror stories that are both funny and sad. He has a cat named Bubbles.

Noah Hale

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Noah lives is a recent graduate of Portland Community College’s multimedia program where he developed skills in video editing, design, and motion graphics. He’s currently working on his editing and motion graphics reels as well as writing his second feature-length screenplay (a Lovecraft inspired horror/comedy set in Astoria). When not thinking about what story to make in which medium, he indulges in chasing/repousse metalwork, armored combat, Scythian archaeology, and archery.

Tony LaMalfa

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Tony LaMalfa is a big kid from a small town with a passion for storytelling. He is a former educator, produced playwright, and proud member of the Horror Writers Association. His literary debut, Forbidden Knowledge: Two Tales of Lovecraftian Terror, was recently released by Hippocampus Press. LaMalfa’s short fiction can be found in various publications by Weird House Press and the HWA, as well as The Weird Cat—a forthcoming anthology by WordCrafts Press.

A.W. McCullough

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A.W. McCollough writes science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction. His work tends to describe unfortunate things happening to relatable protagonists and frequently involves magic or robots. He is an editor of and contributor to the SPACE COCAINE anthology series, and his most recent work can be found at https://worlds.workingtitle.us/

Pauline Chow

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Pauline Chow explores alternative histories and disgruntled people in her writing. She is a mom, writer, data scientist, and former legal aid attorney. She lives in the woods in New York with her partner, daughter, and rescue pup. Snow days are her favorite. Find her stories on www.paulinechowstories.com including one forthcoming in Cosmic Horror Monthly. 

Katherine Kerestman

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Katherine Kerestman is the author of Lethal (PsychoToxin Press, 2023) and Creepy Cat's Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press, 2020), as well as the co-editor (with S. T. Joshi) of The Weird Cat, an anthology of weird cat stories (WordCrafts Press, October 2023). Her Lovecraftian and gothic works have been featured in numerous publications. Katherine is wild about Dark Shadows and Twin Peaks.

Anthony Cousins

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Anthony returns to H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival after winning Best Short in 2016 with "When Susurrus Stirs." Since then he's directed shorts "The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds" and "Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes."

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