On
Saturday, 8/27/16, & Sunday, 8/28/16, I will be a guest speaker at the Carnival of Para Horror in Buffalo, New York.
The Carnival
will be held at the Buffalo Central Terminal, 495 Paderewski Drive, Buffalo New
York. This is a three-day event, starting on Friday, 8/26/16, and running over
the weekend. Tickets can be purchased
online at the Carnival of Para Horror website and also at the door of the
event. There is free admission for
children 10 and under.
My
presentation on Saturday is “H. P. Lovecraft’s Cosmic Weird Tales & the
Cinema”. It will start at 2:00 PM and conclude
at 3:00 PM or thereabouts. This will be very
informal; I want my listeners to feel totally relaxed and to have fun; guests
should feel free to ask any questions during the presentation or after, and
raise any issues they may wish me to address.
I will be
examining Lovecraft’s unique, cosmic and rather revolutionary view of horror
and fantasy, as expressed in his major fictional works. Then, I will comment on key Hollywood films that
attempt to bring Lovecraft’s unique vision to life: Stuart Gordon’s Dagon
(2001); Daniel Haller’s The Dunwich Horror (1970); the Samuel Z. Arkoff
production of Die Monster Die (1965), starring Boris Karloff, and Roger
Corman’s The Haunted Palace (1963).
My
presentation on Sunday, “H. P. Lovecraft’s Goddess Shub-Niggurath: Redefining
the Horned God Archetype of the Wiccans”, will start at 1:00 PM, concluding an
hour later at 2:00 PM. Again, this will
be very informal. I decided to discuss Shub-Niggurath
separately since this entity represents a “special case” in Lovecraft’s work,
bringing in themes about gender, race and miscegenation that add a disturbing
element to Lovecraft’s aesthetic.
Before
and after the presentations, I will also have a stall at the Carnival for those
who wish to purchase a signed copy of my new book, and for those who, likewise, might
want to just drop by and say hello. I hope to see some of my Facebook and
Twitter friends and colleagues who live in the New York area as well.
The
Carnival of Para Horror is a well-known, annual event for individuals (like me)
who are fascinated by all things horror and paranormal. It’s a guaranteed good time for everyone.
And I am
going to be in very good company for this event! The well-known occult author,
writer and publisher Corvis Nocturnum will be a guest; other guests include
Debbie Rochon, actress, filmmaker, director and Fangoria radio host; Patsy Mullen, actress,
model and star of Frankenhooker; and Eugene Clark, star
of The Land of the Dead.
For information about the Carnival
& the list of speakers, check out the Carnival of Para Horror website: http://www.parahorror.com/#!guests/c1h6a
I hope to see all of you at the Carnival of Para Horror, 2016!
JLS
