Once more the Veil parts, granting me a glimpse into the Hideous Future, and once more I share a portion of that vision with you, to wit, that portion involving the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in scenic, cloud-shrouded Portland Oregon this weekend ( Read more... )

Rushing toward us like a foetid wind from a Tartarean abyss, except nicer, comes NecronomiCon Providence 2019, at which I have the honour (as the Old Gent would say) to be a Guest of Honour! And here, then, you can find my schedule, should you dare to gaze upon it ( Read more... )

What ho! Once more I shriekingly adorn the tentacular spectacular that is the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in scenic (and so far sunny) Portland, Oregon. And once more, my schedule has materialized from out of the ultraviolet in this hideous Form:

THURSDAY October 4

7:00pm-10:00pm: VIP Reception for Kickstarter backers [Tony Starlight's Showroom ( Read more... )

For my fellow fans of the Sage of Providence, of horror film, or of the Rose City, here's my schedule as I know it for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon this weekend!

I'll be at the Thursday night VIP gathering, so I hope to see you there -- I may be doing some reading of Lovecraftian poetry, even, so fair warning.

Friday, ( Read more... )

Although it waited nigh until the stars came right, here for the delectation and terror of all is my schedule as I know it for the upcoming (this weekend!) 20th Anniversary H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in that Innsmouth of the West, Portland, Oregon ( Read more... )

Because GenCon lurching two weeks early should actually benefit me somehow, I've taken advantage of the opportunity thus opened to attend NecronomiCon Providence this year. A biennial celebration of all things Lovecraftian on his birthday in his hometown, it is the pre-eminent Grampa Theobald Fest in all the land. And they've been nice enough to ( Read more... )

I'm once again a Cthulhu-themed guest at a Cthulhu-themed event in Portland in April, but this one is the straight-up CthulhuCon PDX this weekend, with only a smattering of films to enthrall and distract us. The schedule is mostly up, and herewith my part in it. Said part does not extend to knowing whether any of the panels (except KARTAS Live, of ( Read more... )

People need to just accept that August Derleth invented the byakhee. Sandy Petersen may have pulled a fast one over on us by heading their monster entry in Call of Cthulhu with a Lovecraft quote from "The Festival," but nobody ever reads the rest of the paragraph after the quote he used:

"They flopped limply along, half with their webbed feet and ( Read more... )

A perhaps infortuitous collision between my iTunes Work Shuffle mix and the subject of the July issue of Ken Writes About Stuff."Serpent People ( Read more... )

Hey, gang! It's possible that you haven't heard that I'm a Guest of Honor at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon held next weekend (Friday, April 11-Sunday, April 13) in Portland, Oregon!

And as is our nighted tradition 'round these parts, I present my schedule as I know it:

FRIDAY, APRIL 11

9:00-10:00 p.m. Panel: Beyond the ( Read more... )