J. Xavier Velasco is an award-winning Mexican writer/director based in Brooklyn, NY. His work is defined by the exploration of the otherly, set in an unsettling alternate reality and told through highly stylized visuals and emotional acting. His short film "Juan & La Borrega" (2011) got a Mexican Academy Ariel Award nomination in 2012 for Best Short Fiction Film and screened at more than thirty international film festivals like the AFI Fest.
Rion Smith is a bi-pedal mammal with an odd obsession with watery monsters and telling their sad and tragic stories. He lives in Tacoma.
Nick Spooner directs commercials, short films and other things, which occasionally win awards. Born in Boston and raised all around New England, he draws his own shooting boards, writes his own treatments and is proudly represented worldwide by The Sweet Shop. He was President of the Harvard Lampoon, wrote, produced and directed at Comedy Central, and once fronted a hardcore band in New York City. His new dark comedy short, “The Call of Charlie” can now be seen at a film festival near you.
Original art and cool things, including t-shirts, "bug domes," and illustrations.
Josh will be set up on Sunday in the Arcade Providence.
Narragansett Beer is New England’s oldest beer, founded in 1890. It was the #1 beer New England from the 1890’s through the 1970’s and the official beer of the Red Sox for over 30 years. It’s now the 37th largest brewing company in America and the fastest growing in the Northeast. Our flagship lager was winner of the Bronze Medal at the 2008 World Beer Cup and First Place at the Great International Beer Festival in 2010.
This weekend, they launch their newest H.P. Lovecraft themed beer "White Ship White IPA"! Sample some at the After Party at the Dorrance (60 Dorrance St)
Necronomicon Press was founded in 1976, primarily to publish the works of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of the horror field. Since that time the Press has issued hundreds of publications covering all aspects of the horror genre, from reprints of old fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, to printing the work of the some of the very best contemporary authors.
Mike Knives - "By layering colored inks on textiles, I create intricate surfaces for the toys that I sew. My surface designs are all hand- painted and screenprinted. I also collage fabrics together to make new dimensional textiles, and I love to draw with stitches."
See his colorful creations on Sunday at the Arcade.
Join Niels Hobbs of the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council for an exclusive walking tour of the city Lovecraft loved. Niels will take you to several notable sites from the life and fiction of the father of Cosmic Horror. Free with your pass, but space is limited, so show up early!
The Kickstarter for the 2016 H.P. lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, OR is live! Join us for a journey underground to the infamous Shanghai Tunnels! Get deluxe ticket packages, VIP Packages, exclusive shirts, lapel pins, and other artifacts by pledging now. Regular tickets will go on sale after the campaign ends, but most of these goodies are only available during the campaign!
Ashley Dioses is a poet of dark fantasy and horror from southern California. She is currently working on her first book of dark traditional poetry to be out from Hippocampus Press, hopefully this year. Her poetry has appeared in Weird Fiction Review, Spectral Realms, Weirdbook Magazine, Omnium Gatherum Media, Eye to the Telescope, Xnoybis, Necronomicum, Gothic Blue Book, and elsewhere. Her poem, “Carathis”, published inSpectral Realms No. 1, is mentioned in Ellen Datlow's full recommended Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven list. She blogs at fiendlover.blogspot.com.