Stacey Abbott is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of Celluloid Vampires (2007), Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (2016), and co-author, with Lorna Jowett, of TV Horror: The Dark Side of the Small Screen (2012).

Elizabeth Abele is an Associate Professor of Literature at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.  Her essays on the intersections of American culture with gender and race have appeared in American Studies, Journal of Transnational American Studies and College Literature, and in edited anthologies on work of Kurt Vonnegut, Ridley Scott, Anne Proulx and M. Night Shyamalan. She is the author of Home Front Hero: The Rise of a New Hollywood Archetype, 1988-1999 (2014) and co-editor of Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism (2015). Her most recent publications have traced the gothic in contemporary film with ¨Guillermo del Toro’s Political Fairy Tales¨ (REDEN) and ¨Visions of Red Riding Hood: Transformative Bodies in Contemporary Films” (Humanities).

Chris Alexander has spent his life eating, sleeping and breathing movies, breaking only to obsess over music. He is the editor-in-chief of FANGORIA magazine, has released several collections of his own music, has written a book about movies he loves, and his first feature film - which he wrote, directed, co-shot, edited, composed the music, handled FX and even catered - BLOOD FOR IRINA will be released via Autonomy Pictures later this year. Visit Chris at www.chris-alexander.ca.

Peg Aloi is a freelance film and TV critic, a former professor of media studies, and co-editor (with Hannah Sanders) of The New Generation Witches: Teenage Witchcraft in Contemporary Culture (Routledge) and Carnivale and the American Grotesque: Critical Essays on the HBO Series (Macfarland). With Hannah, she also co-organized two scholarly conferences at Harvard University on paganism, witchcraft, and media. Peg's forthcoming book The Witching Hour: How Witches Enchanted the World is a cultural analysis of the witch in contemporary media. Peg was also one of the co-founders of The Witches' Voice and wrote about film and TV for the site for over a decade, and her long-running blog "The Witching Hour" can now be found on Substack.

Dr. Katarzyna Ancuta is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Her research interests oscillate around the interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic/Horror, currently with a strong Asian focus. Katarzyna is the author of Where Angels Fear to Hover: Between the Gothic Disease and the Meataphysics of Horror (2005) and her most recent publications include contributions to B-Movie Gothic (2018), Twenty-First-Century Gothic (2019), Gothic and the Arts (2019), The New Urban Gothic (2020) and The Transmedia Vampire. Katarzyna co-edited three special journal issues on Thai and Southeast Asian horror film and Tropical Gothic and two edited collections: Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018) and South Asian Gothic (2021) and is currently co-editing a similar volume on Southeast Asian Gothic and a journal special issue on Asian Gothic.

Lea Anderson is a critic and genre expert working in the intersections of Black horror, monster theory, and Black feminism. A FANGORIA columnist and contributor, she has appeared in the Shudder docuseries, The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time and Horror’s Greatest.

Melanie R. Anderson is an assistant professor of English at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. She teaches American literature, and her research interests tend toward supernatural fiction. She is the co-author of the award-winning book Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (2019) and the author of Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2013). She has co-edited three scholarly essay collections: The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities (2013), Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences (2016), and Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House (2020). She also co-hosts two podcasts about horror: The Know Fear Cast and The Monster, She Wrote Podcast. She can be found online at melanieranderson.com.

Since 2005, Toronto based film journalist Stuart “Feedback” Andrews has been a regular contributor to Rue Morgue Magazine and a spoken word contributor to Rue Morgue Radio where he’s interviewed many of the horror genre’s most celebrated figures.He studied film at Toronto’s York University and was a student of influential genre film critic Robin Wood (Hitchcock’s Films). Excerpts from his career retrospective interview with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero appear on the special features of the Weinstein Company’s 40th anniversary DVD reissue of Night of the Living Dead. He’s also the host of CKLN radio’s long running weekly film show Cinephobia Radio.

Karen Arthur is an American film director, producer, and actress. She has directed the feature films Legacy (1975), The Mafu Cage (1978) and Lady Beware (1987), but the majority of her work has been in television, where she has had a long and prolific career directing television films and series, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (for an episode of Cagney & Lacey).

Melanie Ashe is currently undertaking her Masters in Film Studies at Concordia University, where she has been doing research in environmental film industries, superheroes and pop culture. Growing up in Australia, she developed a fascination with Australian cinema and storytelling, and a love of Oz-Horror films. She has published articles in Reinvention journal, written for online journals Peephole and Screen Machine, and experiments in playful video-criticism (https://vimeo.com/215423385). In a previous life, she volunteered at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) teaching kids how to make a horror movie in 3 days.

David Austin is the author of FEAR OF A BLACK NATION: RACE, SEX, AND SECURITY IN SIXTIES MONTREAL (2013), winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize. He has also produced radio documentaries for CBC's IDEAS on the life and work of C.L.R. James (THE BLACK JACOBIN, 2004) and Frantz Fanon (THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH, 2006) and he currently teaches in the Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Religion at John Abbott College.