2008

Thank you! Thanks to all who have supported the festival and attended. I hope everyone had fun. Please create an account, login and post comments on the films, events, and the forums. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Well I am still wiped out from running the festival. I'll start posting more news (including the award information) as soon as I am able.

Until then I am on a strict regiment of 40cc of gin every hour. Ha.

Thanks again!

Saturday night marks the return of the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets live and in concert! Don't miss the fun. You will need your festival pass to get in.

Sunday night is going to be our blow out wrap up party with ambient music and lightshow... and perhaps a visit by Elwood?

Friday night 12:30 am

Late-Nite Open Mic

• Lynn Cesar
• Joe Pulver
• Adam Niswander
• Michael Shea

Saturday 1:00-2:30 pm

Author’s Readings session 1

• Michael Shea (30 minutes)
• Adam Niswander (25 minutes)
• Bob Price (30 minutes)
• Richard Lupoff (30 minutes)

Saturday 2:00-3:00 pm

Brian Lumley Reading — Q&A

• Bob Price (moderator)

Saturday 2:30-3:30 pm

Ask S. T. Joshi

See Shorts Blocks for information on which shorts are in which block.

Please note that openers and trailers are not listed as of yet.

Raised in rural Louisiana, Philip Simon headed to the Pacific Northwest after college and has been with Dark Horse Comics since early 2000, editing horror and sci-fi manga titles such as Blood+, Eden, MPD-Psycho, Octopus Girl, and Who Fighter. Philip helped launch Dark Horse's manhwa line and is currently co-editing Dark Horse's Mangettes program, featuring CLAMP. His wide range of projects over the years has included art books, a superhero series, more manga titles (such as the multiple award-winning Blade of the Immortal), archival collections, and adaptations of The Evil Dead and Pigeons from Hell. He is also Dark Horse's Robert E. Howard line editor, currently steering Conan the Cimmerian, Kull, and Solomon Kane. He digs zombies.

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, AM1200 is his first major fiction work.

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets descend upon Portland once again with their own brand of Cthulhuoid punk rock. Admission is free with day or weekend festival pass. Show starts around 12:30am.

Friday night from 12:30am to 2:00am come join us for drinks at Tony Starlight's and an open mic were you can hear Lovecratian stories, tall tales, poems, and eerie personal accounts.

Maryanne Snyder is a poet and author from Seattle, whose wide-ranging interests include the history of weird fiction. Among her favorite authors are Poe, Oscar Wilde, Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith. She is currently collaborating with Wilum Pugmire on a collection of strange stories, the first of which, "The House of Idiot Children", appeared in the January/February issue of Weird Tales.

Edward Morris is a 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee whose work has appeared in Murky Depths, Interzone, AeonSF, Arkham Tales and many other markets around the world. He currently freelance-writes and -edits out of SE Portland.