Lovecraft In Florida Documentary WINS At A Night of HORROR Film Festival

Mike T. Lyddon’s film LOVECRAFT IN FLORIDA has won the award for BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY at  A Night of HORROR International Film Festival 2026.

Lovecraft in Florida Film Festivals 2026

Lovecraft in Florida: DeLand and the Barlow House is currently in its 2026 film festival run.  The world premiere screening of the film took place at PENSACON in Pensacola, Florida the weekend of February 20th.  A NIGHT OF HORROR FILM FESTIVAL ran for four days from March 5th through the 8th culminating in an award for best short documentary for Mike Lyddon’s film.
Lovecraft in Florida will be screening at other horror film festivals and conventions over the summer and fall of 2026.  Please bookmark this page for further updates.

DELAND AND THE BARLOW HOUSE

Famed weird fiction and cosmic horror author H.P. Lovecraft spent several months of his life over the course of two trips to DeLand to visit his friend and fellow weird fiction enthusiast, Robert H. Barlow.  Barlow would become pivotal in Lovecraft’s life as an archivist.  He maintained a variety of manuscripts and related materials that would be published after the famed cosmic horror author’s death.

BLU-RAY PLANNED FOR AUTUMN 2026

Filmmaker Mike Lyddon is planning an autumn, 2026 blu-ray release for the Lovecraft in Florida films which will also include a brand new documentary about The Creature From the Black Lagoon in Florida AND His 2022 documentary on pre-code horror comic books HAUNTED THRILLS, a short doc that garnered six awards for BEST DOCUMENTARY and showed at 19 film festivals worldwide.

For further information, please see the official PRESS RELEASE on Lovecraft in Florida.