CTHULHU, a film about the political chaos that results from global warming, is one of selections at the Horror Film Festival.

Next week, ghouls, ghosts and zombies will haunt screening rooms from the Providence Public Library to the Narragansett Cinema and even the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House (which is not in Brooklyn at all, but at 209 Douglas Ave. in Providence), when the Rhode Island International Film Festival stages its annual Horror Film Festival.

Films from as far away as New Zealand and Sweden will unleash their terrors, beginning with a documentary from not so far away — Connecticut filmmaker Connor Timmis’s Kreating Karloff, about the actor’s two most legendary roles, the Mummy and Frankenstein’s Monster. Also on screen will be Vampira The Movie, a documentary by Kevin Sean Michaels about the TV horror hostess. The show begins at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Providence Public Library.

Later that evening the action moves to the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House for screenings of horror shorts, with complete shows at 7 and 8:30 p.m.

Two films based on works by H.P. Lovecraft will be on screen at the Narragansett Cinema Oct. 19.

At 7 p.m. it’s Chill, about a man who must live in sub-freezing conditions; at 9:15 p.m. it’s CTHULHU, about the political chaos that results from global warming.

At midnight both Oct. 19 and 20, the Cable Car Cinema will show a double feature that’s geared to select audiences — Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror and Gay Zombie.

URI’s downtown Providence Feinstein campus is the scene for Oct. 20th showings, starting at noon, of four zombie flicks — A Feast of Flesh, The Terror Factor, Am I Evil and Days of Darkness.

At 8:30 p.m. Oct. 20, it will be Netherbeast Incorporated, a vampire tale set in corporate America and starring Judd Nelson and Robert Wagner. It will be shown at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House.

The screams continue Oct. 21 with the Japanese ghost story Apartment 1303 at noon on the URI Feinstein campus. The final nail will be hammered into the festival’s coffin at 9 that night at the Narragansett Cinema with the double feature of Brain Dead, about six people who are stranded in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba-controlled zombies at their door, and Voodoo Bayou.

Tickets are $10 for all shows at the door. Or you can buy six tickets for $40 at the door or online at www.RIFilmFest.org.