Two reports of a Spanish Lovecraft event, translated and condensed…

The Guillermo Perez Villalta Building, host of the 10th International Fantastic Arts and Terror event Algeciras Fantastika, yesterday [Nov 2018] hosted the literary tribute to the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The director of the festival, Angel Gomez, together with other collaborating writers such as Juan Emilio Rios, Carmen Sanchez, Jorge Sanchez, Miguel Angel Planas and Juan Luis Helguera, honored the classic author through the reading of poems, sketches and short stories. Gomez recalled that this literary tribute of Algeciras Fantastika is one of its most traditional moments, and has previously celebrated and honoured famous artists such as Edgar Allan Poe, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells.

The Algeciras Fantastika 2018 festival is a multidisciplinary cultural event specializing in fantasy, suspense, terror and science fiction, organized by the City Council of Algeciras and the University of Cadiz (UCA). Angel Gomez Rivero, director of the event, highlighted the extensive program of Algeciras Fantastic, “in which we can enjoy screenings of short films and feature films, the Little Mystics children’s literary contest, exhibitions of illustrations by Jesus Merino, the literary tributes of H.P. Lovecraft, and the tributes to the film director Miguel Angel Vivas and the actor Manuel Galiana.”

[Algeciras Fantastic also offers a] retrospective session on The Cinema of H.P. Lovecraft, in which a palace containing the spirits and the monster of terror will be screened. [Then on] The last day of Algeciras Fantastika 2018 a retrospective Lovecraft double-bill screening, with projections of The Resurrected and The Whisperer in Darkness, both in original version with Spanish subtitles.