Guest of Honor
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
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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
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
Dan O'Bannon is the well-known screenwriter behind the classics Alien, Total Recall, Lifeforce, Heavy Metal (two segments), Dark Star (which he did the special effects for and starred in as well; this led to a stint on Star Wars as a special effects designer) and Return of the Living Dead (which he also directed).
Dan could not be here in person due to health reasons but we have captured his essential saltes on the crawling celluloid which is the next best thing for us Lurkers. Read more
We are happy to announce that Mike Mignola will be Artist Guest of Honor at this year's festival.
Mike Mignola was born on September 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland, the eldest son of a tough and leathery cabinetmaker. His fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age (he doesn’t remember why); reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Read more
Born 2nd December, 1937, Brian Lumley came into the world just nine months after the most obvious of his forebears — meaning of course a "literary" forebear, namely, H.P. Lovecraft — had departed from it.
By his pre-teens Lumley had read Dracula and some other horror classics, but having followed the adventures of Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future in the British Eagle comic, his first love was Science Fiction. Then, in his early teens "as a result of reading Robert Bloch's Lovecraft pastiche Notebook Found in a Deserted House in a British SF magazine" he became more surely attracted to macabre fiction, an attraction that has lasted a lifetime. Read more
