I'm sorry doctor we've just discovered that tickets are now on sale for the Los Angeles edition of the

HP Lovecraft Film Festival

It's taking place September 28th and 29th which we believe is a Friday and a Saturday in Los Angeles, well, specifically in San Pedro, California at the Warner Grand Theater.

You could see creepy features, weird short films. There's a mall of Kathoo, author readings, all kinds of lovecrafty and stuff you don't want to miss.

Go to HPL Film Festival.com, doctor, please.

HPPaucraft.com.

Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings towards the beneficial aspects of the unknown have from the first being captured and formalized by conventional religious rituals,

it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic

mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore. This tendency too

is naturally enhanced by the fact that uncertainty and danger are always closely allied,

thus making any kind of an unknown world, a world of peril and evil possibilities.

When to this sense of fear and evil, the inevitable fascination of wonder and curiosity

is super added.

There is born a composite body of keen emotion

an imaginative provocation whose vitality must

of necessity endure as long as the human race itself.

Children will always be afraid of the...

Children will always be afraid of the dark.

Men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions

which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

With this foundation no one need wonder at the existence of a literature

of cosmic fear.

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