Tribute to Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

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We were sad to lose a friend and festival regular, Joseph S. Pulver Sr. this year. We gathered some of his close friends and collaborators to share stories and pay tribute to the King in Yellow himself.

Richard Stanley Reads

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Richard Stanley reads Cosmic Horror classics!

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Richard Stanley reads a selection of Cosmic Horror classics! Nyarlathotep, and passages from Arthur Machen.

Filmmaker Q&A shorts 2

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Filmmaker Q&A Shorts 2

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Live filmmaker Q&A with folks from Shorts Block 2! Join the HPLFF Discord server to chat and ask questions: https://discord.gg/setAbEH

live events are recorded so you can watch later if you miss the live broadcast. All streams are available until Monday 10/5 at 6 pm.

Ariel Celeste (she/her)

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Ariel has played games her entire life, and is experienced across the range of mediums in which they are found. An only child, her adventures with imaginary friends set the stage for the acting she would do through college and the roleplaying games she would find later in life. A long time Scrabble enthusiast and one-time competitive Unreal Tournament savage, she is drawn to the math of Caverna and is ever ready to bring her best Nero Wolfe impression to the suicidal madness of Delta Green.

Panel: Herbert West as Cultural Icon

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For sixty years Herbert West lingered as a minor character in a minor story overshadowed by Lovecraft's more cosmic creations. That all changed in 1985 with the release of Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator. Since then Herbert West has become an icon comparable to Freddy Kruger, Michael Meyers, and Jason Voorhees spawning competing films, comic books, novels, short stories, and even a pitch for a TV series. What are the origins of this iconic character and how has he been fantastically and macabrely transformed over the years.

Panel: Wonder vs. Dread: Encountering the Gods in Fiction and Real life

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From cave paintings to Clive Barker, Gilgamesh to Octavia Butler, humans have always told stories to explain the inexplicable. This panel examines how humans describe the mind-blowing experience of confronting beings and forces that put us in our place as specks of dust in the darkness. Panelists bring the varied perspectives of fandom, authors in the field, traditional monotheism, and some academic occultism as we wrestle with angels and other embodiments of order and chaos.

Panel: Eldritch Evolution- the future of cosmic horror

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The mythos was always a shared universe, but shared to a very exclusive set of authors, namely white men. People of color were cast as the villains in these narratives, blamed for all the ills troubling mankind (if they were given a part in the story at all). Women were absent from these early stories, unless of course, they too were cast as villains. Invisible were the faces of our LGBTQ community in this tapestry of horror. How did outsider creators fall in love with something that casts them in such a negative fashion, and why do they (we) feel it's important to change its direction?

Panel: Summoning the Music of the Spheres

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The four composers who comprise ,"Out of the Aeons "'Will Severin, Reber Clark, Troy Sterling Niece and myself will once again form the multi-headed Hydra and offer up our hands on experiences in discussing what the expectations are in delivering a truly haunting and Powerful musical score for a lovecraftian film. Because the genre relies so strongly on mood and Atmosphere, music is such a key element in making or breaking it successful hpl inspired bit of cosmic horror Cinema.

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