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May 7, 2026May 7, 2026

Innsmouth Book club Episode 124 – Mike T Lyddon

From the Room 101 Substack, here is a transcript of the Innsmouth Book club Episode 124 conducted by Rob Poyton featuring guest, Mike T Lyddon.

Contents of part one of the interview include but are not limited to:
1)Introduction 2)Lovecraft film adaptations 3)Low Budget Filmmaking 4)Hiring Theater Actors for Movies 5)The Night Gallery TV Series 6)Discovering Lovecraft 7)Weird Tales 8)Lovecraft’s Letters 9)Robert E. Howard 10)Fiend Without A Face 11)Poe and Lovecraft

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About Mike T. Lyddon
Mike T. Lyddon has been making no-budget indie genre films for more than 30 years.
His last feature film, “Witch Tales” aka Cuentos de la Bruja (2020) is a horror anthology movie. It is based upon lesser known 1950s pre-code horror comic books in the vein of Tales from the Crypt. Witch Tales landed in 13 festivals and garnered 6 awards over the 2019-2020 seasons.
In 2022 he released a documentary on 1950s pre-code horror comic books called HAUNTED THRILLS. It won six awards for best short documentary during its 2022 film festival run.
His new documentary “Lovecraft in Florida” is a two part doc focusing on writer H.P. Lovecraft’s time in Florida. It is currently on the 2026 film festival circuit and has garnered an early BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY award from the prestigious A NIGHT OF HORROR FILM FESTIVAL.

Mike has an Amazon Authors page that includes his short stories as well as several issues of Monster! magazine he wrote articles for.
He has since sold several stories to a variety of publishers and a number of illustrations to magazines such as Cosmic Horror Monthly and Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror. In the latest issue of Lovecraftiana, Lyddon has contributed the cover art and a few interior illustrations.

Listen to the entire show on youtube.

March 29, 2026March 29, 2026

Lovecraft Doc Wins – Haunted Thrills Set For Blu-Ray Release

Mike Lyddon’s new documentary “Lovecraft In Florida: DeLand and the Barlow House” won Best Short Documentary at A Night of Horror Film Festival.

LOVECRAFT IN FLORIDA

Lovecraft in Florida takes us on a trip to the remains of the famed Barlow residence where H.P. Lovecraft spent several months over the last years of his life visiting his friend and fellow weird fiction enthusiast, Robert H. Barlow. Barlow would become a key figure after Lovecraft’s death as a preservationist and archivist for some of Lovecraft’s most important stories. These original manuscripts in Barlow’s possession were eventually passed on to August Derleth at Arkham House Publishing and the rest is glorious horror history.

BLU-RAY COMING AUTUMN 2026

Lyddon plans on releasing a blu-ray of the Lovecraft in Florida documentaries along with a short doc on The Creature from the Black Lagoon filming locations in Florida and his 2022 doc HAUNTED THRILLS. Haunted Thrills had tremendous success on the film festival circuit being an official selection in 19 film festivals worldwide and winning six awards for best documentary. The film explores the pre-code science fiction and horror comic book era of the late 1940’s to mid 1950’s. It features commentary by three living pre-code comic book artists – Joe Sinnott, Everett Raymond Kinstler, and Victor Carrabotta, all of whom have sadly passed away.
The Blu-Ray will be a special signed and numbered limited edition release so please bookmark this website as we near the release date, probably in October of 2026.

For additional info, please visit the Horror Anthology Movies website.

March 23, 2022

Pre-Code HORROR Comics Doc Playing at FEAR FAIRE in Las Vegas

HAUNTED THRILLS will be screened at FEAR FAIRE May 13 – 14, 2022 at the Rio Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Mike Lyddon’s documentary featurette on pre-code horror comic books from the 1950s will be playing in the film festival part of Fear Faire which is a horror convention of independent music, film, and art. It will feature live music including members of the original Oingo Boingo, make up effects demos, freakshow, costume contest, and more. Many thanks to the festival officials for selecting HAUNTED THRILLS to be part of the event.
https://www.thefearfaire.com/filmfestival

December 12, 2021December 13, 2021

HAUNTED THRILLS Pre-code HORROR COMICS Doc is LIVE

A new documentary on pre-code horror, science fiction, and crime comic books of the 1950s, HAUNTED THRILLS explores the lesser known publishers and titles of the era and spotlights the writers and artists who made it happen.

Rumble – https://rumble.com/vqmyfb-haunted-thrills.html

Bitchute – https://www.bitchute.com/video/ObhOzWLYs3BH/

Youtube – https://youtu.be/uG44Jtoobl8

Haunted Thrills features exclusive interviews with pre-code artists Everett Raymond Kinstler, Joe Sinnott, and Victor Carrabotta. Sinnott and Carrabotta talk about working for Stan Lee and Atlas Comics in the Empire State Building with some great stories about Stan and Marvel comics legend Jack Kirby.

Haunted Thrills is midway through it’s 2021-2022 film festival run and is an official selection in 11 festivals so far, garnering 5 awards for Best Short Documentary Film. This doc is a companion piece to Mike Lyddon’s previous feature film WITCH TALES, a horror anthology movie that adapts pre-code horror comic book stories to the screen.

September 10, 2021

Golden Age Horror Comics Doc At Florida Film Festival

Filmmaker Mike T Lyddon’s new doc about golden age pre-code horror comic books titled HAUNTED THRILLS will be screened as an official selection at the GAINESCON Film Festival in the Tampa Saint Petersburg area of Florida.
The film will screen Friday, November 19th or Saturday the 20th at the Studio Movie Grill, an amazing movie theater where you can dine while watching first run movies. Film festival winners will be announced on November 20th.
This two day event features real indie films in the genres of action, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
“I was very pleased to get HAUNTED THRILLS on the festival board at Gainescon as an official entry and I plan to attend the event.” Lyddon said. “It’s great to break the ice at the start of fall festival season and I couldn’t think of a better event than Gainescon to begin the journey.”

This short documentary is a companion piece to Lyddon’s previous feature film WITCH TALES that contains stories adapted from those awesome pre-code horror comics of the 1950s.
Lyddon’s film will play several festivals before being officially released on RUMBLE and subsequently on Youtube and a few other platforms.

July 1, 2021

Pre-code HORROR Documentary HAUNTED THRILLS 2021 Trailer

HAUNTED THRILLS (2021) will have its world premiere in October or November of 2021 and then released across multiple platforms including Rumble, Youtube, Bitchute and others.
A companion featurette to Mike T. Lyddon’s horror anthology movie WITCH TALES aka CUENTOS DE LA BRUJA (2020), the Haunted Thrills documentary looks at many of the publishers and artists who drew horror comics that were considered so extreme that it led to the Comics Code Authority stamp, one of the largest cases of industrial censorship in U.S. history.
Everyone knows about Stan Lee and Marvel Comics but few know that he was one of the original pre-code horror editors when he worked for ATLAS in the late 1940s. We interview two artists who worked at Atlas, Joe Sinnott and Vic Carrabotta.
Also, we speak with the great Everett Raymond Kinstler about his days with AVON and ZIFF-DAVIS publishers.
Trailer is now on RUMBLE and YOUTUBE, or watch it here –

March 18, 2021

Mike Lyddon Interviewed on Wicked Horror Show

Filmmaker Mike T. Lyddon is a guest on the WICKED HORROR SHOW podcastwith hosts Tony and Kevin. They discuss Lyddon’s latest feature length horror anthology movie WITCH TALES, his last film FIRST MAN ON MARS, and his latest project, a pre-code comics documentary called HAUNTED THRILLS covering all the lesser known publishers of sci-fi, horror and crimes comics of the early 1950s.
Also, we talk about THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and the surging popularity of COSMIC HORROR in both print and movies. Fans of H.P. Lovecraft will find this of particular interest.
Was THE BLOB the first film made about Cosmic Horror?
Lyddon is an award-winning writer, producer, director and special makeup effects artist known for the films Cut Up (1994), Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras (1999), Horror Anthology Movie Vol. 1 (2013) and Vol. 2 (2014) and First Man on Mars (2016). Short films include The Cordyceps Principle (2013), Thing in the Shed (2013), Footage Found Arabi (2013) and By the Hair of the Head (2014). He also filmed over 100 live indigenous and traditional music videos in South America for HowlingEarth.Com.
Witch Tales: On Halloween night, the enchanting girl next door wants to invite you in for a treat….or a TRICK. Witch Tales is a horror anthology movie featuring three gruesome tales of terror presented by a seductive witch while she concocts a very special brew during Halloween eve. The English version trailer is presented in the show.
First Man in Mars: The countdown to terror has begun. Astronaut Eli Cologne became the first man on Mars, but something went horribly wrong. Infected by an alien organism, he returned to Earth a savage monster with an unquenchable thirst for human flesh. The original trailer is presented in the show.
Click here to watch the show.

August 3, 2020August 7, 2020

Halloween Sale on Pre-code Horror Film and More

‘Tis the SEASON to be SCARY!
Halloween season has officially begun and we’re celebrating by giving you deep discounts on all of our indie horror and sci-fi movies!
WITCH TALES (2020) The new horror anthology by filmmaker Mike Lyddon, this incredible new film based on classic pre-code comic book horror stories from the 1950s was shot in Peru using a bilingual cast to produce two different versions – One in English and one in Spanish language, both of which are on the blu-ray! This is the first horror anthology in history to achieve this.
Right now, you can get the WITCH TALES blu-ray and the HORROR ANTHOLOGY MOVIE VOL. 1 DVD for this incredibly low price of $16.45 with FREE SHIPPING on EBAY!
Already have the DVD? Buy the blu-ray solo for only $14.45 with FREE SHIPPING.
And don’t forget to play the HORROR TRIVIA contest inside each blu-ray so you can enter to win one of ten amazing movie props from the film!

Horror Anthology Movie Vol. 1 DVD – signed edition is now on sale for $6.45 on Ebay…our lowest price EVER!
Approx. 2 hours in length, featuring 6 original tales of sci-fi horror stories like you’ve never seen before, all at an incredibly low price for our fans of fright! Shot in New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, and even one segment in New York, Horror Anthology Movie Vol. 1 is the perfect fright flick to celebrate the season!
Is $6.45 still not low enough? You can get it for FREE here!

Horror Anthology Movie Vol. 2 VOD. With segments filmed in New Orleans, Mobile, Ala., and New York state, this anthology features segments adapted from stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Joe Lansdale, Jeff Strand, and Lafcadio Hearn. Now you can Rent It in HD for $2.95 or BUY IT for the incredibly low price of $5.95.

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019

Pre-code Horror Anthology Movie Wins Big at Film Festivals

Cuentos de la Bruja aka Witch Tales, the latest feature film by Mike Lyddon, has ended it’s year long festival run having been selected in 13 film festivals worldwide winning 6 awards including best feature film.
Witch Tales, also known as Cuentos de la Bruja, was filmed in Peru. Mike Lyddon is currently editing the English language version of the film. The Spanish language version is an official selection in one last festival, Horror On Sea, taking place in January, 2020.
The film has three stories adapted from the lesser known pre-code horror comic books of the 1950s. Lyddon is a big fan of those comic books and is also working on a documentary called Haunted Thrills which will hit the festivals in 2020.
He has also just sold his first short story, “Thing in the Shed,” which has been published by Deadman’s Tome in the collection titled “Monster Party” and is available here.
For more information, please follow the Reel Progress page on Facebook, and the flagship site, horroranthologymovies.com.