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Perhaps best known for revitalizing the cinematic legacy of H.P. Lovecraft with the audaciously gory and blackly humorous horror film Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon has enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a director, writer and producer in both film and theater. Re-Animator, his acclaimed 1985 film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's serialized short story "Herbert West: Reanimator," won the Critics' Award at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to become one of the most revered horror films of all time. Several more Lovecraft adaptations, including From Beyond (1986), Dagon (2001) and the Emmy-nominated episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror, "Dreams In the Witch House" (2005), cemented his distinction as the director most closely associated with Lovecraft's vision. Read more

Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of today’s leading authors of dark fantasy and science fiction, having published eight novels and approximately two hundred short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Her novels include such award-winning and critically acclaimed works as Threshold, Low Red Moon, Daughter of Hounds, and her most recent novel, The Red Tree, which has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. Read more

Ellen Datlow has been editing short stories in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields for thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of SCIFICTION, as well as editing anthologies throughout those years and continuing to do so today. Her most recent anthologies include Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft Unbound, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Tails of Wonder and Imagination, Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Haunted Legends (co-edited with Nick Mamatas), The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People, Troll's Eye View (these last two with Terri Windling). Read more

William F. Nolan writes mostly in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. Though best known for co-authoring the classic Logan’s Run with George Clayton Johnson, Nolan is the author of more than 2000 pieces (fiction, non-fiction, articles and books), and has edited 26 anthologies in his 50+ year career. Read more

A prolific author in many genres, Richard A. Lupoff first encountered Howard Phillips Lovecraft on a Sunday morning in the First Baptist Church of Bordentown, New Jersey. The year was 1946. The young reader was eleven years old. The Olde Gentleman had been dead for nine years, but Richard didn’t know it. Read more

Michael Shea was born in Los Angeles—in Culver City, across the street from the huge north wall of MGM Studio's main lot. There, the billboard-size movie ads greeted his infant eyes, and taught him awe and a love of grand narratives. An inveterate hitch hiker before, during, and after his college years, he encountered, in a flophouse up in Juneau, Alaska, a book of pure Fantasy entitled The Eyes of The Overworld. A year or so later, at a different flophouse in the Fillmore District (a ghetto in those days) of San Francisco, he encountered AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. Read more