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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
Gary Myers fell under the shadow of Lovecraft at the tender age of sixteen and never completely escaped it. All of his published writings have touched on the Cthulhu Mythos in one way or another. His first book, The House of the Worm, a cycle of dream fantasies in the manner of Lovecraft and Dunsany, was published by Arkham House in 1975. His second book, Dark Wisdom, a cycle of Lovecraftian horrors in a more modern vein, was published by Mythos Books in 2007. His third book, The Country of the Worm, will mark a return to the earlier fantasy mode, with a revised and expanded edition of the first book supported by an equal number of similar stories written in the decades since; it will be published by Mythos Books in the near future. 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
Jenna M. Pitman is a writer of speculative fiction from the Seattle area where she attends many different conventions, festivals, and events. Some of which she helps organize. She has had a variety of stories and articles featured in numerous publications, both anthologies and magazines including Revenant Magazine, Planet Lovecraft, and Strange Aeons. She is the co-founder of Vaginomicon, the Seattle contribution to Women in Horror Recognition Month, and the programming assistant for GeekGirlCon. She's had more day jobs than she's had years on this earth and specialized in animal care before making the move to writing. Currently she lives with two dogs and two cats and would gladly add to that list if only she had the room. And the time. Read more
Sean writes, produces and directs for screen, audio and theatre. In 1985 with collaborator Andrew Leman, he co-founded the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society (“HPLHS” http://www.cthulhulives.org). Sean wrote the adaptation of Lovecraft’s celebrated short-story The Call of Cthulhu as a silent film and co-produced it for the HPLHS. Read more
Born in Istanbul, 1982, Can Evrenol ("To My Mother and Father") graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with joint honours in 'Art History' and 'Film Studies'. In the summer of 2007 he shot his first independent short film "The Chest", with his family and friends on the street he grew up on. It went on to be screened at such festivals as "Montreal, Fantasia Film Festival", "Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival", "Sydney a Night of Horrors". He is now based in London, running his own filmmaking and editing company. In 2009 he edited the full length feature documentary "A Film About Races". Read more
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Michael Swertfager lived a normal life in the rat race of the Silicon Valley until he attended the 2005 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. That weekend his interest in H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe shifted from a hobby to an obsession. He has since been consumed by an unyielding desire to document the evil deeds of Edgar Allan Poe's actions during eight horrific nights in 1842. With years of study in animation and art, Michael stepped away from his domestic world and entered the craze of the artist. Read more
David Hahn’s work is decidedly contemporary and reflects his eye for crisp detail. Conceptual art, educational illustrations, storytelling, and character design all benefit from his fresh take and skillful approach. He has illustrated issues of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Marvel Adventures: The Fantastic Four, both for Marvel Comics, and Bite Club, Fables, Lucifer, Red Herring, for DC Comics, as well as The Batman Handbook, licensed for Quirk Books. David was nominated for both an Eisner Award and an Ignatz Award for his creator-owned comic series, Private Beach, published by Slave Labor Graphics. Read more
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Henry J. Vester III cut his little fangs first on the works of ERB, Lin Carter, Otis Adelbert Kline, and Arthur Conan Doyle. He discovered the unholy joys of HPL around 1968 in the two fabled Lancer paperbacks, and was soon sending in his hard-earned pazoors for the Arkham House volumes. Subsequent discoveries—and lasting fascinations—have included the works of REH, Lord Dunsany, Sax Rohmer, and particularly Clark Ashton Smith. He met and interviewed friends of Klarkash-Ton in Auburn, California, Fritz Leiber and one of the Great Old Ones, E. Hoffman Price; these interviews appeared in Fungi and THE BOOK OF THE DEAD from Arkham House.) Vester's poems and short stories have appeared in FUNGI, CHRONICLES OF THE CTHULHU CODEX, THE TSATHOGGUA CYCLE and THE INNSMOUTH CYCLE, and LOST WORLDS OF SPACE AND TIME (Vol. 2), LOST WORLDS OF SPACE AND TIME (Vol. 2), and he's a contributor to The Eldritch Dark website. Read more
Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, the city which Lovecraft considered nearest to being America's literary capital, Nicholas T. Kubik's young imagination was nourished by the creations of Shelly, Stoker and Lovecraft. With a writer for a mother and an engineer for a father Nick's grown to appreciate the arts as much for their spirit and truth as precision and purpose. Nick has served from editor to cinematographer on his many gifted friends' films as well as writer, producer and director of his own films. His own screen major film debut was in the Chicago based film Bled White (2009). Currently Nick is in pre-production on his own complement of short films, including a present day adaption of "The Whisperer in Darkness", a screenplay finalist for the 2010 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, to be followed by a web serial to be finalized into a feature film. Read more
