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HP Lovecraft Film Festival VIRTUAL starts this Friday 12/5!

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HPLFF 2025 POSTER

We love our cosmic horror—it asks so many questions and makes us think. We also love short films.  So the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, going strong since 1995, is our jam.

Hosts Gwen and Brian Callahan go above and beyond—the quality of this festival, from curation and content to pledge campaign rewards and collateral material—is top notch.

Although the in-person festival happened in September, the streaming edition arrives December 5-9, 2025, and you’ll be able to enjoy over sixty short films, several full-length features, author readings, and panels right from your living room.

TALES FROM THE EMMA COVER

This year’s thirtieth anniversary theme is Cthulu on the High Seas, so in addition, some contributors to the Lovecraftian Microfiction/Challenge from Beyond books, which always accompany the festival, were instead asked to write an X-files-esque story surrounding The Emma, a two-masted schooner that plays into strange events in Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulu.” There are stories by favorites like Cody Goodfellow and John Shirley (34O editor Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s story “Compaction” is included too). The books will be on sale after the festival on Arkhaam Bazaar’s website.

If short films and cosmic/existentialist horror rocks your world, this festival is for you! You can purchase tickets for the December 5-9, 2025 streaming event here: https://hplfilmfestival.eventive.org/passes/buy.

Like your existential cosmic/weird? HPLFF has what you’re looking for!

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HP Lovecraft Film Festival 2024 Banner

Hello, 34O readers…it’s Kristi (Founding Editor).

Cosmic, at its core, is existential. Cosmic literature deals with many heavy themes, including the knowledge that should not be known, the futility of the human existence, and the consequences of generational trauma (and that’s just naming a few). Much of what we publish in 34 Orchard—although we publish all genres, not just cosmic—deals with these themes, so we think the H.P. LOVECRAFT FILM FESTIVAL & CTHULUTHON—which we’ve loved for years—would be of interest to our readership who might like their existential cocktails laced with a bit of shinyweird. We’ve seen a LOT of really excellent, thought-provoking, emotional content in this festival’s line-up year after year.

That said, the KICKSTARTER FOR THE H.P. LOVECRAFT FILM FESTIVAL & CTHULUTHON 2024 IS NOW LIVE! This year’s theme is Dunwich Harvest Festival and includes several hours of short and feature-length films, Q&A’s with filmmakers, and panel presentations.

The virtual option—happening on a computer or phone near you!—is from October 18-22, while the in-person option at the historic Hollywood Theater in Portland, OR is October 4-6.

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hplffpdx/h-p-lovecraft-film-fest-and-cthulhu-con-harvest-in-dunwich

One of the big honors for me this year is that I was asked to participate in 2024’s Challenge from Beyond, which will be published in the annual Microfiction Contest Winners volume! If you get your tickets through Kickstarter, the book is one of the add-ons.

The Kickstarter only runs through September 22nd, so be sure and hurry and get your package and exclusive goodies now! YES, TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE after the Kickstarter, but why wait? You can only get the goodies through the Kick, folks! If you DO decide to wait, be sure to sign up for their mailing list so you know when they’re available: https://hplfilmfestival.com/