Welcome Remarks & Keynote with F. Paul Wilson

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Guest of Honor F. Paul Wilson will open the festival with a talk about "HP & Me." 

Awards Presentation and Closing Remarks

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Join us for the Awards Presentation! Winners of each award category will be announced and presented with our exclusive Cthulhu Award Statue, custom made by the incomparable Joe Broers.

Awards are given for:

  • Best Feature Film
  • Best Short Film
  • Best Adaptation
  • Best Screenplay
  • Audience Choice
  • Pickman's Apprentice
  • Lovecraft Under the Gun winner

Cthulhu Wars! with Petersen Games

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Petersen Games is sending some emissaries of madness to run Cthulhu Wars games and demos!

EOD Center will be set up for Games during these hours:

  • Friday 7:00-10:00 pm
  • Saturday 12:00-7:00 pm
  • Sunday 3:00-7:00 pm

Mythos Comedy Half Hour

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Tim Uren (Chuck from Chuck and Dexter) presents a half-hour sketch comedy, celebrating weird fiction and the genre's even weirder fans. Never before has a performer so antediluvian presented a comedy so cyclopean!

Black Sunday (feature)

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Shorts Block 6

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Short Films Block w/visiting Filmmaker Q&A afterwards.

Special Screening of Black Sunday

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BARBARA STEELE will introduce and take part in a Q&A for this special screening of Black Sunday (Saturday ONLY). Due to very limited room, the auditorium will open to allow seating first to 2017 HPLFF VIP and Deluxe Kickstarter backers and other 3-day pass holders, while seats are available, before being opened to all festival attendees. Please arrive early. Barbara will also be signing in the lobby after the screening.

Dr. West’s Laboratory with Ross E. Lockhart

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This is a workshop on writing scenes, and how individual scenes can be stitched together to form a story! Ross Lockhart will take up to 12 participants for this extremely insightful and skill-building workshop!

Like Dr. Herbert West’s or Victor Frankenstein’s ghastly resurrections, stories are made up of individual parts, called scenes. 

Children of the Corn w/Intro and Q&A by Courtney Gains

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Special Guest Courtney Gains will be with us for a screening of Stephen King's Children of the Corn. Short Film, "Goodnight, Gracie" will play before. Q&A to follow.

Book Pitch Session with Word Horde

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Have you written a novel (or long novella) that you think might be a fit for Word Horde? Or would you just like the chance to ask a professional editor a few questions? Are you attending next weekend’s H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon in Portland, OR? Now’s your chance to sign up for a one-on-one pitch session with Word Horde’s editor in chief, Ross E. Lockhart. On Saturday, October 7 between 4:15-5:15 pm, Ross will be listening to pitches and looking for the next break-out hit book.

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