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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? Read more

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a rock band from British Columbia who's main body of music consists largely of often tongue-in-cheek homages to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Even the band's name is drawn from a phrase in Lovecraft's story The Tomb. Read more

This year's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival features a real live wedding (our fifth)! The Festival has become a true community of friends who eagerly wait out the year to see one another again, and sometimes among such kindred spirits deeper bonds form. Last year saw our friend Mars, maestro of the macabre, make the acquaintance of Victoria Price, daughter of Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price. Read more

Robert Lloyd Parry is an art historian and actor based in Cambridge, England. Since 2005 he has been touring the UK and Ireland with two one-man shows based upon stories from M R James "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary." He was recently awarded the Dracula Society’s Hamilton Deane Award for his production "Oh, Whistle…" Read more

Jovanka Vuckovic is the Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue Magazine, the world's leading horror in culture and entertainment publication. She has been featured as a genre expert on many documentaries and television shows and has contributed essays to several publications and books on the subject of genre cinema. Vuckovic bleeds horror and adores H.P. Lovecraft so much she even has a portrait of him tattooed on her flesh.

Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane is being made into a comic book series from Dark Horse (and is also being turned into a movie).

Dark Horse's original Conan editor, Scott Allie, writes the series, with art by Mario Guevara and Dave Stewart, who reinvents his revolutionary color technique from Conan. Read more

The 2008 HPLFF is proud to present the critically acclaimed one-man show performed by Robert Lloyd Parry showcasing the atmospheric retelling of two of the earliest and greatest tales by M R James - the master of the English ghost story. Read more

Scott Allie comes from New England puritan stock, and grew up in the swamplands of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he first discovered Lovecraft through the comic book Skull. At Dark Horse Comics, he's the long-time editor of Hellboy, and his writing includes the graphic novel The Devil's Footprints, set in his home town, and two volumes of Solomon Kane stories. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his son. 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