The Cthulhu Mythos Convention
August 17-19, 2001
Providence, Rhode Island
at the
Marriott
Guests of Honor
| Guest of Honor: |
Richard A. Lupoff |
| Special Guests of Honor: |
Chaosium, Inc. and Necronomicon Press |
Convention Committee Members
David S. Hammann, Franklin Hummel, Friday Jones, Robert “Mac” McLaughlin, Marc A.
Michaud, Chuck Morgan, Michael James Oetting, and Joan C. Stanley.
Program Participants
Greg Agostini; James Anderson; Dr. Bruce Ballon; Carl Jay Buchanan; Peter Cannon; Dr. John Dean;
David S. Hammann; Daniel Harms; C.J. Henderson; Chris Jarocha-Ernst; Friday Jones; Charlie Krank;
John Langan; Andrew Leman; Donovan K. Loucks; Donna McDermott-Thorland; Robert “Mac”
McLaughlin; Marc A. Michaud; Gary C. Myers; Robert M. Price; Joseph Pulver, Sr.; Faye Ringel;
Philip C. Robinson; Allen Ruch; Thom Ryng; Stanley C. Sargent; Ann K. Schwader; Darrell Schweitzer;
Joan C. Stanley; Jason Thompson; Jody Trout; John Tynes; Aaron Vanek; Bob Waugh; and Corey
Whitworth.
Commentaries and Other Links
Programming Schedule
Friday, August 17, 2001
- 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM – Dealers’-Artists’ Room (Sessions)
| Afternoon |
- Gaming: “John Dean’s Necronomicon, Part
1”
- Live-action role-playing across downtown Providence and the Brown
University campus. Check in at the “Cthulhu Live” table in the Dealers’ Room.
[PST Productions (Keepers)]
- Gaming: “Witchfinder”
- A WWII Delta Green live-action
adventure set in the Balkans. Check in at the “Cthulhu Live” table in the
Dealers’ Room. [PST Productions (Keepers)]
- 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM – Walking Tour #1 (Meet in Lobby)
- Donovan Loucks
leads a walking tour of Lovecraftian sites on College Hill. [Loucks (Guide)]
- 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM – Walking Tour #2 (Meet in Lobby)
- Chris
Jarocha-Ernst leads a walking tour of College Hill’s Lovecraftian sites.
[Jarocha-Ernst (Guide)]
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| Time |
Britannia |
Defiance-Republic |
Reprisal |
Washington (A/V Room) |
Parlor One |
Parlor Two |
| 12:00 N |
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Uzumaki (2000; Japan)
With
English subtitles. |
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| 12:30 PM |
| 1:00 PM |
| 1:30 PM |
| 2:00 PM |
Reading by Thomas Ryng
A reading
by Mr. Ryng of his own work. [Ryng] |
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| Curse of the Blue Lights
(1988) |
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Gaming: “The Terror of Devil’s
Lake”
A modern-day “Call of Cthulhu” adventure. (5 hours)
[Ballon (Keeper)] |
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Gaming: “The AP History
Project”
A modern-day “Call of Cthulhu” adventure. (5 hours)
[Vanek (Keeper)] |
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| 2:30 PM |
| 3:00 PM |
Reading by Ann K. Schwader
A
reading by Ms. Schwader of her own writings. [Schwader] |
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| 3:30 PM |
| 4:00 PM |
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The Future of
(e)Publishing
A discussion of electronic publishing and its future.
[Krank, Lupoff, Michaud, Ruch (Moderator)] |
|
Stephen King, the Mythos, &
More
A solo presentation on Stephen King. [Langan] |
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| 4:30 PM |
| 5:00 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
| Evening |
| Time |
Defiance-Republic |
Reprisal |
Washington (A/V Room) |
Parlor One |
Parlor Two |
| 6:30 PM |
|
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| Babylon 5: Thirdspace
(1998) |
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| Gaming: “The Terror of Devil’s
Lake” (cont.) |
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| Gaming: “The AP History Project”
(cont.) |
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| 7:00 PM |
| 7:30 PM |
Lovecraft’s Own
Necronomicon?
The presentation of what may be Lovecraft’s own
copy of the Necronomicon. NOTE: This panel is part of “Cthulhu Live”
gaming. Pretend violence may occur. [Dean, Price (Moderator), and
others] |
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| 8:00 PM |
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Gaming: “Club of the Seven
Dreamers”
A Dreamlands “Call of Cthulhu” Adventure. [Thompson
(Keeper)] |
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Gaming: “The Hills Rise Wild”
& “Cults Across America”
The playing of two Mythos-related
boardgames. [Lynch (Keeper)] |
|
| 8:30 PM |
| 9:00 PM |
Reading #1 by Richard Lupoff
A
reading of one of his stories by Guest of Honor Richard Lupoff.
[Lupoff] |
|
Painting Yourself (into) a
Corner
The pros and cons of developing your own corner of the mythos. [Cannon
(Moderator), Henderson, Jarocha-Ernst, Schweitzer] |
|
| 9:30 PM |
| 10:00 PM |
|
|
| The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph
Carter (1993) |
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| 10:30 PM |
| 11:00 PM |
| 11:30 PM |
- 12:00 M – Gaming: Mythos Card Game
- A very early morning
Mythos card gaming competition. (3-4 hours) [Robinson, Whitworth (Keepers)]
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Saturday, August 18, 2001
- 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM – Dealers’-Artists’ Room (Sessions)
| Morning |
- Gaming: “John Dean’s Necronomicon, Part 2”
- The
continuation of the “Cthulhu Live!” adventure begun on Saturday. [PST
Productions (Keepers)]
- 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM – Walking Tour #3 (Meet in Lobby)
- Darrell
Schweitzer leads a walking tour of Lovecraftian sites on College Hill. [Schweitzer
(Guide)]
|
| Time |
Britannia |
Defiance-Republic |
Reprisal |
Washington (A/V Room) |
| 9:00 AM |
|
|
C.A. Smith & M.R. James
A
short talk and discussion on these two authors. [Buchanan] |
|
The Real
Ghostbusters
“Collect Call of Cathulhu” and “Russian
About” |
|
| 9:30 AM |
| 10:00 AM |
Further Tales of Necronomicon
Press
A discussion of NecroPress by its founder and Special Guest of Honor, Marc
A. Michaud. [Michaud] |
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Lovecraft & Literary Criticism
101
The first of two panels on the literary criticism of HPL. [Anderson
(Moderator), Cannon, Ruch] |
|
| The Investigators World
Premiere |
|
| 10:30 AM |
| 11:00 AM |
Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
A
discussion of Robert Chambers’ strange symbol and other aspects of his works.
[Ryng, Tynes, Vanek (Moderator)] |
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Racism & the Mythos
A look at
how racist attitudes by Lovecraft and Howard influenced the Mythos. [Harms, Jarocha-Ernst,
Langan, Loucks (Moderator)] |
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Math & the Mythos Squared
A
follow-up talk by an assistant professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College.
[Trout] |
|
| 11:30 AM |
| 12:00 N |
Recent Mythos Fiction
The good, the
bad, and the really bad. [Henderson, Lupoff, Pulver (Moderator),
Sargent] |
|
20 Years of “Call of
Cthulhu”
Hearing the “Call of Cthulhu” and how it changed our
lives, with Special Guest of Honor Charlie Krank and others. [Ballon, Hammann (Moderator),
Krank, Robinson, Tynes] |
|
Lovecraft & Literary Criticism
102
The second of two panels on the literary criticism of HPL. [Buchanan,
Ringel, Waugh (Moderator)] |
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| 12:30 PM |
| 1:00 PM |
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| 1:30 PM |
| Afternoon |
| Time |
Britannia |
Defiance-Republic |
Reprisal |
Washington (A/V Room) |
Parlor One |
Parlor Two |
| 2:00 PM |
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Gaming: “The Hills Rise Wild”
& “Cults Across America”
Another session of playing two Mythos
boardgames. [Lynch (Keeper)] |
|
| 2:30 PM |
The Times of H.P. Lovecraft
A
look at the historical period in which Lovecraft lived. [McDermott-Thorland, Myers, Ringel
(Moderator)] |
|
The Case of The Case of Charles Dexter
Ward
A look at one of Lovecraft’s longest stories. [Cannon, Langan,
Michaud (Moderator), Waugh] |
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Mythos Prop-Making for Game &
Film
A discussion on how to make effective Mythos-related objects. [Leman,
McLaughlin (Moderator), Vanek, and others] |
|
| 3:00 PM |
Gaming: An Introduction to
Mythos
An introduction to playing the Mythos card game. [Robinson,
Whitmore (Keepers)] |
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| 3:30 PM |
| 4:00 PM |
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Lovecraft & the Colonial
Revival
A slideshow presentation by a staff member of Salem’s Peabody-Essex
Museum. [McDermott-Thorland] |
|
Innsmouth Wo Oou Kage
(Japan)
Japanese with no English subtitles. |
|
| 4:30 PM |
| 5:00 PM |
The Future of
NecronomiCon
Discussing whether NecronomiCon has a future. [Hammann, Jones,
McLaughlin (Moderator), Stanley and others] |
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| 5:30 PM |
| Evening |
| Time |
Defiance-Republic |
Reprisal |
Washington (A/V Room) |
Parlor One |
Parlor Two |
| 6:00 PM |
|
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Gaming: “White
Leviathan”
A “Call of Cthulhu” game with an early 19th century
Herman Melville theme. [Ruch (Keeper)] |
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Gaming: “Return of the
Nibelungen”
A “CoC” adventure set in 1920s Berlin. [Hammann
(Keeper)] |
|
| 6:30 PM |
| 7:00 PM |
Chilean Gothic (1999;
Chile)
English subtitles. (45 min.) |
|
| 7:30 PM |
| 8:00 PM |
Dreaming of Kadath
A quiet look
at Lovecraft, his dreams, and the Dreamlands. [Cannon (Moderator), Myers, Price,
Thompson] |
|
Mythos Short Film
Contest
Shoggoth on the Roof, directed by Andrew Lehman; A Portion of
Ka, directed by Brian Poe; The Yellow Sign (world premiere), directed by Aaron
Vanek; In the Vault, directed by Geoffrey Clark; Cool Air, directed by Bryan
Moore; Nyarlathotep (world premiere), directed by Christian Matzke; and The Voice
Inside, directed by BiFF JUGGERNAUT. [Jones (Moderator) and
others] |
|
| 8:30 PM |
| 9:00 PM |
Reading #2 by Richard
Lupoff
Guest of Honor Richard Lupoff reads one of his stories.
[Lupoff] |
|
HPL & REH Together
A look at
the fictional adventures together of Howard Lovecraft and Robert Howard. [Cannon, Price
(Moderator), Waugh] |
|
| 9:30 PM |
| 10:00 PM |
|
Reading by Carl Jay Buchanan
A
reading by the author of his poems dealing with Jack the Ripper.
[Buchanan] |
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Gaming: “Close to
Home”
A 1930s “Call of Cthulhu” game with players as HPL and other
Weird Fiction writers. (4 hours.) [Thompson (Keeper)] |
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| 10:30 PM |
| 11:00 PM |
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| 11:30 PM |
- 12:00 M – Gaming: Mythos Competition (Parlor One)
- Another
early-morning round of the Mythos card game; 3-4 hours. [Robinson, Whitworth
(Keepers)]
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Sunday, August 19, 2001
- 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM – Dealers’-Artists’ Room (Sessions)
| Morning and Afternoon |
- 10:00 AM to 12:00 N – The Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast (Grand
Ballroom)
- Our Guests of Honor speak, the Bloch Awards are presented, and Rev. Robert
Price sermonizes, with hymns praising the Great Old Ones! Tickets not sold at the
convention. [Krank, Lupoff, Michaud, Ringel, Price, and others]
|
| Time |
Defiance-Republic |
Reprisal |
Washington (A/V Room) |
Parlor Two |
| 9:00 AM |
|
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| Dark Heritage: The Final Descendant
(1990) |
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| 9:30 AM |
| 10:00 AM |
The Breakfast Alternative
For
those non-believers, an open discussion with some of our participants. [Anderson
(Moderator), Loucks (Moderator), and others] |
|
Gaming: “D.C.
Noir”
1950s Washington D.C. Cold War “Call of Cthulhu” adventure.
[Hammann (Keeper)] |
|
| 10:30 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
| 11:30 AM |
| 12:00 N |
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| Lovecraft’s Hidden
Religion |
|
| 12:30 PM |
The Mythos & Films, Yet
Again
Recent and not-so-recent film and video discoveries. [Agostini, Leman,
Jones (Moderator), Vanek] |
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Humor & Horror
If you
can’t scream, laugh. [Price, Ringel, Robinson (Moderator),
Sargent] |
|
| 1:00 PM |
| 1:30 PM |
How I Met Mr. Lovecraft
Our
Guests tell how they first encountered Lovecraft’s writings and the Mythos. The audience
is encouraged to share their own experiences. [Jarocha-Ernst (Moderator), Krank, Lupoff,
Michaud] |
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| 2:00 PM |
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| 2:30 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
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