Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of English at Central Michigan University and associate editor for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books, most recently The Age of Lovecraft (Minnesota, 2016); Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture; Return to Twin Peaks: New Approaches to Materiality,Theory, and Genre on Television, and the award-winning Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters.
Regina M. Hansen teaches at Boston University. She publishes and presents on horror, religion in film, neo-Victorianism, and the fantastic. Her works include the edited volumes Supernatural, Humanity and the Soul (with Susan George; 2014) and Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film, and a special Stephen King issue of Science Fiction Film and Television (with Simon Brown; 2017), along with the novel The Coming Storm (Atheneum 2021). Her writing on film, folklore, and the supernatural has appeared in the Wall Street Journal Review and the children’s magazine Dig Into History.
Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He is the coeditor, with Katarzyna Bronk, of Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014) and Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children’s Media (2018), and the editor of Gothic: A Reader (2018) and Horror: A Companion (2019). He has published three monographs, Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker’s Vampire on Screen (2019), Eco Vampires: The Vampire as Environmentalist and Undead Eco-Activist (2021).
Katherine A. Fowkes is Emeritus professor of popular culture and media production at Highpoint University. She is the author of The Fantasy Film (2010) and Giving Up the Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films (1998).
David Hauka teaches film directing and aesthetics at Capilano University’s School of Motion Picture Arts and screen writing, scene study, and 3D/virtual environment technique for actors in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia. His academic research focuses primarily on the influence of religion in American horror cinema.
Russ Hunter is a senior lecturer in film and television at the University of Northumbria. He is the coeditor of a forthcoming collection on the cinema of Dario Argento and is currently working on a monograph on the history of European horror cinema and an article exploring environmental discourses within Italian horror cinema.
Barry C. Knowlton teaches history, literature, and classics at Assumption College and has published on a wide range of subjects in the humanities.
Eloise R. Knowlton currently serves as Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Assumption College and is the author of Joyce, Joyceans, and the Rhetoric of Citation (1998).
R. Barton Palmer is a former Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University and the former director of The South Carolina Film Institute. His many books include Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir.
Carl H. Sederholm is associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Brigham Young University. He is the coauthor of Poe, “The House of Usher,” and the American Gothic and the coeditor of Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture.
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of English at Central Michigan University. He has edited three volumes of Lovecraft’s fiction.
Ramsey Campbell is one of the world’s most honored horror writers. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association, a Living Legend Award from the International Horror Guild, and a Grand Master Award from the World Horror Convention.
China Miéville is a fantasy fiction author, comic writer, and academic. His books include Perdido Street Station, The City & the City, and Kraken. His works have won the Hugo, the British Science Fiction Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the World Fantasy Award.
