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August 17–20, 2017
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Opening Reception for “Lovecraft on the Road” exhibit, remarks by Derrick Hussey and Caitlin R. Kiernan at 6:00 p.m. (John Hay Library) |
6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. – NecronomiCon Welcome Pre-Party (Aurora) |
Thursday, August 17, 2017 |
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1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. – Bus Tour 1 |
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Walking Tour (Beverly Pettine) |
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Bus Tour 2 |
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – Opening Ceremony (First Baptist Church) |
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. – Ars Necronomica: Wonders of the Visible World Group Exhibition, Opening Reception (Woods Gerry Gallery) |
6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. – “The Tattered King”, theatrical production (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
7:00 p.m. to 12:00 m. – A very special outdoor celebration of Weird Providence (Façade Lot) |
8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. – “The Haunter of the Dark” by Dark Adventure Radio Theater (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. – Black Lodge Party (Thee Red Fez) |
10:30 p.m. to 12:00 m. – “Frank Difficult Presents” Screening with Live Music (Black Box Theater) |
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Location | 9:00 a.m. |
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11:00 a.m. |
11:30 a.m. |
12:00 noon |
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6:30 p.m. |
7:00 p.m. |
Omni, Bristol-Kent | Armitage Symposium – Shocking Revelations: Diverse Approaches to Lovecraft | Armitage Symposium – Gruesome Fashions: Lovecraft and Popular Culture | Academic Talks (Buffington, Nikrad) |
Armitage Symposium – Straining in its Own Direction: Lovecraft and the Sciences | The Fairy Folk: Faerie in the Weird Tradition (Di Filippo, Kiste, Lubnow, Raven, Ringel, Shanks) |
Women in the Lovecraft Circle (Branney, Connors, Ringel, Tchougounova-Paulson) |
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Omni, Newport-Washington | Pulp vs. Pure Cthulhu Gaming (Fricker, Hardy, Kramer, Lackey, Mason) |
Strange, Far Places (Branney, Loucks, Murray, Vaughan, Wynne) |
Making Short Films (Branney, Gelatt, Goodfellow, Lee, Porter) |
Eldritch Arthouse: Weird Fiction Influences in Art Cinema (Dwyer, Files, Gelatt, Griffin, Lee, Stanley) |
Games and Technology (Bond, Darrow, Haremza, Hawkes, LaRosa, Pyne) |
Erotic Lovecraftiana (LaFarge, Llewellyn, Rawlik, Taaffe, Zannella) |
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Biltmore, Garden Room | Wereweird: Lycanthropy, Animism, and Animal-Transformation in Weird Fiction (Goodfellow, S. G. Jones, Taaffe, Vaughan) |
Terror Trends and the Future of Weird Film (Buckley, B. Callahan, Gelatt, Lee, Stanley) |
The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast LIVE! | Clark Ashton Smith (Andersson, Connors, Glasser, Murray, Sidney-Fryer, Thompson) |
R. H. Barlow: Lovecraft and Beyond (Andersson, Connors, Houstoun, LaFarge, Olson) |
Women Directing Weird (Buckley, G. Callahan, Files, Lee, Porter, Wolanin) |
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Biltmore, Grand Ballroom | Ambrose Bierce: A Literary Legacy (Eckhardt, Houstoun, Hussey, Lai, Sidney-Fryer) |
Machinations and Mesmerism (Klinger, Mariconda, Martin, Moreland, Padgett, Smith) |
Writing Non-Stale Mythos Tales (Houstoun, K. Johnson, Lynch, O’Neil, Rawlik, Schweitzer) |
Lovecraft Criticism: What’s Left? (Cannon, Mariconda, Schweitzer) |
Guests of Honor (bagley, Datlow, K. Johnson, S. G. Jones, Mariconda, Okorafor, Palencar, Sidney-Fryer, Stanley, Straub) |
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Biltmore, L’Apogee | Author Readings (Dalpe, Di Filippo, Gidney, Grant) |
Artist Industry Portfolio Reviews (Panepinto) |
Author Readings (Bulkin, Cisco, Kiernan, Vaughan) |
Author Readings (Levy, Strantzas, Tem, Wehunt) |
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Biltmore, Renaissance Salon | Stories from the Borderland LIVE! (Bukowski, D’Angelo, Martin, Nicolay) |
Drive-In Lovecraft (Tromp) |
Sneak Peek: The Colour out of Space (Stanley) |
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Various Locations | Walking Tour (Rory Raven) |
Walking Tour (Cathe Rezendes) |
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Walking Tour (Barbara Barnes) |
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Bus Tour 3 | Bus Tour 4 |
Evening of Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – “Horace Whitly and the Unimaginable Horror” performed by David Neilsen (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. – Guest Reception (Biltmore, L’Apogee) |
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. – “The Brotherhood of the Beast”, Dark Adventure Radio Theater (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
9:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. – Eldritch Ball (Biltmore, Grand Ballroom) |
10:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. – RadioTheater NYC theatrical presentation of Weird Tales, Part One (Providence Public Library) |
Day of Saturday, August 19, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | 9:00 a.m. |
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5:00 p.m. |
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7:00 p.m. |
Omni, Bristol-Kent | Armitage Symposium – A Very Terrible Difference: Race, Gender, and the Other | Armitage Symposium – Still Others Have Made Me Tremble: Comparative Lovecraft | Academic Talks (Look, Lubnow) |
Armitage Symposium – No Ordinary Aesthetic Canon: Literary Studies | Voices in Weird Poetry (Coffman, Schweitzer, Sidney-Fryer, Taaffe, Wizdom) |
The King in Yellow & Robert Chambers (Emrys, Houstoun, Lai) |
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Omni, Newport-Washington | Campaigns in Call of Cthulhu (Dorward, Fricker, Hardy, Mason, Sanderson) |
Dark Crimes: The Weird in Noir Fiction (Di Filippo, Goodfellow, Gresh, Raven, Rawlik, Taaffe) |
Arthur Machen: Between Myth and Modernity (Cisco, Haringa, Kohoutek, Sidney-Fryer) |
Editing Horror (Datlow, Davis, Kelly, Klinger, Straub, Winter) |
Lovecraft in Context (Klinger, LaFarge, Mariconda, Moreland, Rawlik) |
Shirley Jackson as Weird Fiction (Haringa, Kiste, Pillsworth, Tremblay) |
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Biltmore, Garden Room | Nameless Cults: Robert E. Howard (Connors, Kohoutek, Lai, Shanks) |
Podcasting for Games (Bouchard, Haremza, Kramer, LaRosa, Pyne, Wilkins) |
Miskatonic University Podcast and Good Friends of Jackson Elias, Together – LIVE! (Bouchard, Dorward, Fricker, Kramer, Sanderson; video) |
The Lovecraft Circle (Andersson, Cannon, Connors, Mariconda, Olson) |
Poe and the New England Gothic (Bartlett, MacLeod, Raven, Ringel, Tremblay, Waugh) |
Miskatonic U. & the Mythos (Branney, Lubnow, Murray, Pillsworth, Waugh, Wynne) |
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Biltmore, Grand Ballroom | The Edge of Space: Where SF and Cosmic Horror Meet (Gresh, Lubnow, Okorafor, O’Neil, Waugh) |
Lovecraft Revisions (Cannon, Emrys, Houstoun, Klinger, Mariconda, Pillsworth) |
The Mythos: Lovecraft’s Greatest Creation or Suffocating Trope? (Goodfellow, Rawlik, Schweitzer, Wynne) |
Established Artists of Weird (Eggleton, Felton, Gervais, Palencar, Panepinto, Rainey-Smith, Sardinha) |
Teatro Grottesco: The Bleak Universe of Thomas Ligotti (Bartlett, Calia, Cisco, Houstoun, Padgett; video) |
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Biltmore, L’Apogee | Author Readings (Broadbent, Wizdom) |
Author Readings (Dejasu, Glasser, K. Johnson, Moore) |
The Outer Dark Podcast LIVE! | Author Readings (Gresh, S. G. Jones, Nunnally, Pillsworth) |
Author Readings (Bechtel, Kiste, Okorafor, Smith) |
Author Readings (Arthen, Dudar, MacLeod) |
Author Readings (Griffin, Llewellyn, Martin, Wehunt) |
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Biltmore, Renaissance Salon | Paperbacks from Hell (Hendrix) |
Some Notes on a Non-Entity (Eckhardt, Gafford, Zone) |
Lovecraft’s New England, Part 1 (Loucks) |
Lovecraft’s New England, Part 2 (Loucks) |
Poetry Workshop (Broadbent, Sidney-Fryer, Wizdom) |
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Various Locations | Walking Tour (Donovan Loucks) |
Walking Tour (Brendon Boucher) |
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Bus Tour 5 | Bus Tour 6 |
Evening of Saturday, August 19, 2017 |
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6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – The HPL ‘Comedy’ Quiz Show (Biltmore, Garden Room) |
6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – The Madness from Below, theatrical presentation (Black Box Theater) |
8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. – RadioTheater NYC theatrical presentation of Weird Tales, Part Two (Providence Public Library) |
8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. – Johnson & Lackey Presents: a series of short comedic adaptations of iconic Lovecraft tales (Black Box Theater) |
9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. – Lovecraftian Trivia Night (Biltmore, McCormick & Schmick’s) |
9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. – Coven, Beastmaker, and Magic Circle (Columbus Theater) |
10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. – “The Call of Cthulhu”, performed by David Neilsen (Black Box Theater) |
10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. – Innsmouth Sea Shanties! (Biltmore, McCormick & Schmick’s) |
Day of Sunday, August 20, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | 8:00 a.m. |
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10:30 a.m. |
11:00 a.m. |
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12:00 noon |
12:30 p.m. |
1:00 p.m. |
1:30 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. |
2:30 p.m. |
3:00 p.m. |
3:30 p.m. |
4:00 p.m. |
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5:00 p.m. |
5:30 p.m. |
Omni, Bristol-Kent | Armitage Symposium – Emanations of Abominations: Lovecraft Around the Globe | Armitage Symposium – Transformations and Reintegrations: Reclaiming Lovecraft | Academic Talks (Elder, Woodman) |
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Omni, Newport-Washington | Call of Cthulhu’s Favorite Scenarios (Adair, Bouchard, Fricker, McInnes, Mason) |
The Dreaded Surreal: Landscapes in Weird Fiction (Burke, Gidney, Griffin, Schaller) |
William Hope Hodgson: An Appreciation (Cisco, Gafford, Golaski, Gucker, Zone) |
The Weird, Weird West (Files, Goodfellow, Moore, Murray) |
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Biltmore, Garden Room | Fabulism in Contemporary Weird Fiction (Gidney, Glover, K. Johnson, Okorafor, Strantzas, Straub) |
Southern Gothic Horror: Yesterday and Today (Datlow, Shanks, Tem, Wehunt) |
Faithful Frighteners (Breen, Lee, MacLeod, Stanley, Wynne) |
Contemporary Weird Art (Bardi, Bukowski, D’Angelo, J. Jones, Joyner, Skinner, Wilson) |
The Future of Weird Fiction and NecronomiCon-PVD (bagley, Cowan, Datlow, Emrys, Hobbs, Kelly) |
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Biltmore, Grand Ballroom | Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast (Goodfellow, Ringel, Schweitzer, Teth) |
Small Press in the Weird (Davis, Ciaramella, Drobnjak, Goodfellow, Hussey, Olson) |
Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Roots of Cosmic Horror (Files, Kiste, Klinger, Martin, Schwadron) |
The Bleak Oblique: Aickman’s Influence on Contemporary Horror (Cisco, Di Filippo, Haringa, Strantzas, Tem) |
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Biltmore, L’Apogee | Author Readings (Allred, Files, Jeffrey Thomas, Tremblay) |
Author Readings (Emrys, Padgett, Straub, Taaffe) |
The Lovecraft eZine Live! | Author Readings (Bartlett, Crooks, Raab, White) |
Author Readings (Cannon, Darling, Dubeau, Jonathan Thomas) |
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Various Locations | Walking Tour (Rory Raven) |
Walking Tour (Cathy Hurst) |
Evening of Sunday, August 20, 2017 |
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6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – Quiet & Bold: Consultants Paraordinary LIVE! (Black Box Theater) |
9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. – The Dunwich Horror PICTURE SHOW! (Columbus Theater) |
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