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Stacey Abbott
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).
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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
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).
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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.
Katarzyna Ancuta
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.
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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.
Stuart Andrews
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.
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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
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).
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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.
Phil Baker
Phil Baker is a writer of criticism and non-fiction, and his books include The Devil is a Gentleman: the life and times of Dennis Wheatley (Dedalus, 2009), William S. Burroughs (Reaktion Books, 2010), and a groundbreaking study of the obscure cult artist Austin Osman Spare (Strange Attractor, 2011/2023), of which Alan Moore has said ‘Phil Baker has established himself as among the very best contemporary biographers… What Baker has accomplished here is little short of marvellous.’
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Phil Baker is a writer of criticism and non-fiction, and his books include The Devil is a Gentleman: the life and times of Dennis Wheatley (Dedalus, 2009), William S. Burroughs (Reaktion Books, 2010), and a groundbreaking study of the obscure cult artist Austin Osman Spare (Strange Attractor, 2011/2023), of which Alan Moore has said ‘Phil Baker has established himself as among the very best contemporary biographers… What Baker has accomplished here is little short of marvellous.’
Thea Bamber
Thea/Rae Bamber is a PhD student at Roehampton University, currently working on their PhD thesis on the representation of goth and goth subcultures in contemporary horror. Their main research interests include reinterpreting the horror genre through the means of Gothic romanticism, the use of homoerotic imagery in slasher and splatter horror cinema, and the ways in which marginalised audiences interact with horror fandom. Outside of academia, they self-publish their work through the means of online video essays which they produce independently, as a means of making their level of academia accessible and entertaining, and they are fully aware of how shameless this promotion is.
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Thea/Rae Bamber is a PhD student at Roehampton University, currently working on their PhD thesis on the representation of goth and goth subcultures in contemporary horror. Their main research interests include reinterpreting the horror genre through the means of Gothic romanticism, the use of homoerotic imagery in slasher and splatter horror cinema, and the ways in which marginalised audiences interact with horror fandom. Outside of academia, they self-publish their work through the means of online video essays which they produce independently, as a means of making their level of academia accessible and entertaining, and they are fully aware of how shameless this promotion is.
Peter Bebergal
Peter Bebergal writes widely on the speculative and slightly fringe. His essays and reviews have appeared in NewYorker.com, The Times Literary Supplement, Boing Boing, The Believer, and The Quietus. He is the author of Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural; Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll; Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood, and The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God (with Scott Korb). Bebergal studied religion and culture at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Peter Bebergal writes widely on the speculative and slightly fringe. His essays and reviews have appeared in NewYorker.com, The Times Literary Supplement, Boing Boing, The Believer, and The Quietus. He is the author of Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural; Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll; Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood, and The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God (with Scott Korb). Bebergal studied religion and culture at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Howard S. Berger
Howard S. Berger is a screenwriter, editor, director,documentarian, historian and educator on all things cinema. He’s half creator (alongside Kevin Marr) of the “Destructible Man” blog – where individual films with dummy-deaths undergo close examination and deconstruction. Howard has also contributed to dozens of audio commentaries for Kino Lorber, Image, Synapse, Arrow and 101 Films as well as many interviews and articles to such magazines as Fangoria and European Trash Cinema. He was co-director of the cult feature, ORIGINAL SINS and the documentary A LIFE IN THE DEATH OF JOE MEEK. DESTRUCTIBLE MAN is currently being prepared as a feature documentary and video essay series.
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Howard S. Berger is a screenwriter, editor, director,documentarian, historian and educator on all things cinema. He’s half creator (alongside Kevin Marr) of the “Destructible Man” blog – where individual films with dummy-deaths undergo close examination and deconstruction. Howard has also contributed to dozens of audio commentaries for Kino Lorber, Image, Synapse, Arrow and 101 Films as well as many interviews and articles to such magazines as Fangoria and European Trash Cinema. He was co-director of the cult feature, ORIGINAL SINS and the documentary A LIFE IN THE DEATH OF JOE MEEK. DESTRUCTIBLE MAN is currently being prepared as a feature documentary and video essay series.
David Bering-Porter
David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York City. David has lectured, taught, and published on zombie movies and other forms of Black horror at the intersections of film, digital media, and technology. His current book project is a study of Undead Labor and the ways that race, labor, and value come together in the mediated body of the zombie as well as other examples of biological excess and his academic writing has appeared in journals such as Culture Machine, Critical Inquiry, Flow, MIRAJ, Post 45, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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David Bering-Porter is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York City. David has lectured, taught, and published on zombie movies and other forms of Black horror at the intersections of film, digital media, and technology. His current book project is a study of Undead Labor and the ways that race, labor, and value come together in the mediated body of the zombie as well as other examples of biological excess and his academic writing has appeared in journals such as Culture Machine, Critical Inquiry, Flow, MIRAJ, Post 45, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Kelly Boner
Kelly Boner (born Kelly Schmader) is a visual and performance artist residing in Chicago, IL. She received her BA in studio art from Oberlin College in 2009, and her Master of Arts Management in 2019. She designed and taught the pilot semesters of "Creative Communities: The Art of Drag" at Columbia College Chicago, a course that explores the nature of drag as both a community artform and form of artistic gender expression, with a focus on media literacy as it pertains to digital drag and video performance. Her academic and artistic relationship with the telephone as a source of horror is reflected in a postcard she submitted to the website PostSecret when she was 16 that simply stated "I'm afraid to answer the telephone."
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Kelly Boner (born Kelly Schmader) is a visual and performance artist residing in Chicago, IL. She received her BA in studio art from Oberlin College in 2009, and her Master of Arts Management in 2019. She designed and taught the pilot semesters of "Creative Communities: The Art of Drag" at Columbia College Chicago, a course that explores the nature of drag as both a community artform and form of artistic gender expression, with a focus on media literacy as it pertains to digital drag and video performance. Her academic and artistic relationship with the telephone as a source of horror is reflected in a postcard she submitted to the website PostSecret when she was 16 that simply stated "I'm afraid to answer the telephone."
Amy Bride
Amy Bride is a lecturer in American Studies at University of Manchester. Her first book, Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction (University of Wales Press, 2023) examines the intersection of race and finance in American Gothic monster fiction and film across the Long Twentieth Century, and she has also published on financialization within the slave trade, the monster octopus in Jordan Peele’s Nope, and the work of Bret Easton Ellis as Late-Capitalist Hyper-Gothic. Amy’s teaching specializes in Gothic American literature and culture from 1799 to 2011, and her other research interests include technogothic, body horror, the history of the slave trade, and cinema of the 1980s-90s.
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Amy Bride is a lecturer in American Studies at University of Manchester. Her first book, Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction (University of Wales Press, 2023) examines the intersection of race and finance in American Gothic monster fiction and film across the Long Twentieth Century, and she has also published on financialization within the slave trade, the monster octopus in Jordan Peele’s Nope, and the work of Bret Easton Ellis as Late-Capitalist Hyper-Gothic. Amy’s teaching specializes in Gothic American literature and culture from 1799 to 2011, and her other research interests include technogothic, body horror, the history of the slave trade, and cinema of the 1980s-90s.
Rebecca Bruce
Rebecca Bruce is a PhD student focusing on the unethical treatment and perception of mummies in nineteenth-century Britain. She focuses on the concept of ‘travel and the body,’ examining travel narratives, visual and material culture, mummy unwrappings, the display of human remains, and mummies in museums to develop a wider understanding of how the mummy was viewed during Victorian Britain. Bruce is the creator of Mummymania Mondays, a social media presence about mummies in history. She is also the creator and editor of The Anatomy Shelf, a free monthly newsletter focusing on the body in history literature and art. She is also the host of The Anatomy Shelf podcast (coming soon). In her spare time, she is also a gothic and horror writer and journalist working with publishers, authors and studios to promote their work (books and films). She has interviewed many horror icons such as Grady Hendrix, Ramsey Campbell, and Beverley Lee, and has forthcoming interviews with Sean Hogan, Tim Lebbon, and Stephen Volk. She has written popular articles including ‘Unfinished Business: Reading the Fragmented Ghost Stories of William Gay,’ Midwich Mayhem: How The Simpsons resurfaced a forgotten horror classic of the 1950s,’and has an article on mummy-brown paint in press for ArtUK.org. In May 2022, she curated an exhibition on Dracula, ‘a maritime history’ to mark the novel’s 125th anniversary. Additionally, she is the co-founder and co-chair of ISSE, The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania. In recent years, she has presented papers on mummies, gothic and horror studies, fiction, non-fiction, and the Victorians and mummymania.
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Rebecca Bruce is a PhD student focusing on the unethical treatment and perception of mummies in nineteenth-century Britain. She focuses on the concept of ‘travel and the body,’ examining travel narratives, visual and material culture, mummy unwrappings, the display of human remains, and mummies in museums to develop a wider understanding of how the mummy was viewed during Victorian Britain. Bruce is the creator of Mummymania Mondays, a social media presence about mummies in history. She is also the creator and editor of The Anatomy Shelf, a free monthly newsletter focusing on the body in history literature and art. She is also the host of The Anatomy Shelf podcast (coming soon). In her spare time, she is also a gothic and horror writer and journalist working with publishers, authors and studios to promote their work (books and films). She has interviewed many horror icons such as Grady Hendrix, Ramsey Campbell, and Beverley Lee, and has forthcoming interviews with Sean Hogan, Tim Lebbon, and Stephen Volk. She has written popular articles including ‘Unfinished Business: Reading the Fragmented Ghost Stories of William Gay,’ Midwich Mayhem: How The Simpsons resurfaced a forgotten horror classic of the 1950s,’and has an article on mummy-brown paint in press for ArtUK.org. In May 2022, she curated an exhibition on Dracula, ‘a maritime history’ to mark the novel’s 125th anniversary. Additionally, she is the co-founder and co-chair of ISSE, The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania. In recent years, she has presented papers on mummies, gothic and horror studies, fiction, non-fiction, and the Victorians and mummymania.
Megen de Bruin-Molé
Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé is a Lecturer in Digital Media Practice at the University of Southampton. She writes and speaks about contemporary adaptation, remix culture, and popular identity politics. She is the author of Gothic Remixed (Bloomsbury, 2020), and the editor of Embodying Contagion (UWP, 2021) and the Genealogy of the Posthuman (criticalposthumanism.net). Read more about her work at frankenfiction.com.
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Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé is a Lecturer in Digital Media Practice at the University of Southampton. She writes and speaks about contemporary adaptation, remix culture, and popular identity politics. She is the author of Gothic Remixed (Bloomsbury, 2020), and the editor of Embodying Contagion (UWP, 2021) and the Genealogy of the Posthuman (criticalposthumanism.net). Read more about her work at frankenfiction.com.
Douglas Buck
Douglas Buck grew up on Long Island. Under the personal influence of Abel Ferrara and Zoe Lund, he left his first career as an engineer to become a filmmaker. He is best known for his confrontational work on the darkness lurking in the heart of the suburban nuclear family unit, as seen in his anthology film FAMILY PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA, and his contribution to the Severin anthology THE THEATRE BIZARRE. Buck also edited the latter film, in addition to the Jack Ketchum adaptation OFFSPRING, David Gregory’s mindbending documentary LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU, and Gregory’s upcoming Bruceploitation documentary. His film criticism column “Buck a Review” is hosted at the long-running online journal Offscreen.
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Douglas Buck grew up on Long Island. Under the personal influence of Abel Ferrara and Zoe Lund, he left his first career as an engineer to become a filmmaker. He is best known for his confrontational work on the darkness lurking in the heart of the suburban nuclear family unit, as seen in his anthology film FAMILY PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA, and his contribution to the Severin anthology THE THEATRE BIZARRE. Buck also edited the latter film, in addition to the Jack Ketchum adaptation OFFSPRING, David Gregory’s mindbending documentary LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU, and Gregory’s upcoming Bruceploitation documentary. His film criticism column “Buck a Review” is hosted at the long-running online journal Offscreen.
Heather Buckley
Heather Buckley worked as a graphic designer and creative lead for thirteen years in the New York advertising world before transitioning to live her life-long dream of a career in the Film World. She has worked for years as a journalist for Dread Central, Diabolique, Fangoria and Vulture.
She worked in the makeup department on Billy Pon’s CIRCUS OF THE DEAD, and then as Makeup FX Shop Supervisor on The Booth Brothers’ DEAD STILL (and, under prosthetics, played a featured ghoul—film soon to be released by Sony Pictures) and Ted Geoghegan’s WE ARE STILL HERE (MPI).
She is currently a Blu-Ray Special Features Producer for Red Shirt Pictures, Severin Films, Kino Lorber and Liongate (Vestron) working on documentaries (over 100 and counting), which include THE THING, 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, BARTON FINK, THE LONG RIDERS, SAW 10th Anniversary reissue, and ARMY OF DARKNESS. She is also one of the Producers on Jen Wexler’s The Ranger for Glass Eye Pix and Hood River Entertainment a punk rock horror film coming to a pit near you.
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Heather Buckley worked as a graphic designer and creative lead for thirteen years in the New York advertising world before transitioning to live her life-long dream of a career in the Film World. She has worked for years as a journalist for Dread Central, Diabolique, Fangoria and Vulture.
She worked in the makeup department on Billy Pon’s CIRCUS OF THE DEAD, and then as Makeup FX Shop Supervisor on The Booth Brothers’ DEAD STILL (and, under prosthetics, played a featured ghoul—film soon to be released by Sony Pictures) and Ted Geoghegan’s WE ARE STILL HERE (MPI).
She is currently a Blu-Ray Special Features Producer for Red Shirt Pictures, Severin Films, Kino Lorber and Liongate (Vestron) working on documentaries (over 100 and counting), which include THE THING, 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, BARTON FINK, THE LONG RIDERS, SAW 10th Anniversary reissue, and ARMY OF DARKNESS. She is also one of the Producers on Jen Wexler’s The Ranger for Glass Eye Pix and Hood River Entertainment a punk rock horror film coming to a pit near you.
Tony Burgess
Tony Burgess is a Canadian writer of numerous books, including Pontypool Changes Everything and Fiction for Lovers. His most recent `fiction,’ The 3rd Figure , appears in the anthology Acephale and Autobiography/ Philosophy in the 21st Century: Responses to the “Nietzsche Event. Founded in 1936 by Georges Bataille, this volume is the 85th anniversary of the influential journal.
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Tony Burgess is a Canadian writer of numerous books, including Pontypool Changes Everything and Fiction for Lovers. His most recent `fiction,’ The 3rd Figure , appears in the anthology Acephale and Autobiography/ Philosophy in the 21st Century: Responses to the “Nietzsche Event. Founded in 1936 by Georges Bataille, this volume is the 85th anniversary of the influential journal.
William Burns
William Burns is a Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College. On the day he was born, crucial scenes for both THE EXORCIST and THE WICKER MAN were being filmed, forever marking him as a member of the Haunted Generation. The strange, the eerie, the unsettling, and the obscure have bedevilled him ever since. In search of lost futures, he has stumbled upon forgotten ghosts and shadowy remembrances. His newest book Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia (published by Headpress Books) is the culmination of the journey started in his previous book The Thrill of Repulsion: Excursions into Horror Culture.
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William Burns is a Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College. On the day he was born, crucial scenes for both THE EXORCIST and THE WICKER MAN were being filmed, forever marking him as a member of the Haunted Generation. The strange, the eerie, the unsettling, and the obscure have bedevilled him ever since. In search of lost futures, he has stumbled upon forgotten ghosts and shadowy remembrances. His newest book Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia (published by Headpress Books) is the culmination of the journey started in his previous book The Thrill of Repulsion: Excursions into Horror Culture.
David Bushman
David Bushman has been a television curator at the Paley Center since 1992, excluding a two-year stint as program director at TV Land. He is the coauthor of Twin Peaks FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About a Place Both Wonderful and Strange (2016) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Sunnydale’s Slayer of Vampires, Demons, and Other Forces of Darkness (2017). He is co-president/publisher of Fayetteville Mafia Press (http://www.fayettevillemafiapress.com) and has taught media and writing courses as multiple colleges in the New York metropolitan area. He is also a regular contributor to PaleyMatters (www.paleymatters.org).
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David Bushman has been a television curator at the Paley Center since 1992, excluding a two-year stint as program director at TV Land. He is the coauthor of Twin Peaks FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About a Place Both Wonderful and Strange (2016) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Sunnydale’s Slayer of Vampires, Demons, and Other Forces of Darkness (2017). He is co-president/publisher of Fayetteville Mafia Press (http://www.fayettevillemafiapress.com) and has taught media and writing courses as multiple colleges in the New York metropolitan area. He is also a regular contributor to PaleyMatters (www.paleymatters.org).
Jörg Buttgereit
Jörg Buttgereit is a German playwright, theatre director, and director of some of the most notorious and controversial films of all time. The so-called “trash poet” and “punk surrealist” behind the shockers NEKROMANTIK parts 1 and 2, DER TODESKING, and SCHRAMM has also brought his uncompromising vision to the stage, and helmed some fifteen radio plays for Westdeutscher Rundfunk. His superhero character Captain Berlin appears regularly in publications from Weissblech Comics.
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Jörg Buttgereit is a German playwright, theatre director, and director of some of the most notorious and controversial films of all time. The so-called “trash poet” and “punk surrealist” behind the shockers NEKROMANTIK parts 1 and 2, DER TODESKING, and SCHRAMM has also brought his uncompromising vision to the stage, and helmed some fifteen radio plays for Westdeutscher Rundfunk. His superhero character Captain Berlin appears regularly in publications from Weissblech Comics.
Ramsey Campbell
RAMSEY CAMPBELL lives on Merseyside with his wife Jenny. His pleasures include classical music, good food and wine, and whatever’s in that pipe. His web site is at www.ramseycampbell.com.
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RAMSEY CAMPBELL lives on Merseyside with his wife Jenny. His pleasures include classical music, good food and wine, and whatever’s in that pipe. His web site is at www.ramseycampbell.com.
Jacqueline Castel
Jacqueline Castel is a filmmaker, curator, archivist, and co-director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Her work as a writer and director has screened at Sundance, SXSW, Sitges, & Fantasia, and has featured collaborations with cult auteurs John Carpenter, David Lynch, and Jim Jarmusch. Castel’s archival work has extended to the estates of artists Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and H.R. Giger, and she has guest programmed for SXSW, the Alamo Drafthouse, New Beverly, Close-Up Film Centre, and Spectacle Theater.
She is currently in production on a documentary about international anticult Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth and in pre-production on an erotic thriller set in Tokyo co-written by herself and Sasha Grey.
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Jacqueline Castel is a filmmaker, curator, archivist, and co-director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Her work as a writer and director has screened at Sundance, SXSW, Sitges, & Fantasia, and has featured collaborations with cult auteurs John Carpenter, David Lynch, and Jim Jarmusch. Castel’s archival work has extended to the estates of artists Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and H.R. Giger, and she has guest programmed for SXSW, the Alamo Drafthouse, New Beverly, Close-Up Film Centre, and Spectacle Theater.
She is currently in production on a documentary about international anticult Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth and in pre-production on an erotic thriller set in Tokyo co-written by herself and Sasha Grey.
Abraham Castillo-Flores
Abraham Castillo Flores, Mexican spawn obsessed with the paradoxical beauty of horror narratives. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. After a long history in different tentacles of the film industry and academia, he now dedicates his life to the study, promotion, restoration and exhibition of fantastic and horror cinema. Programming director of Mórbido Fest from 2010 to 2021. Speaker at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies where he presented The Morbido Crypt´s Guide to Mexican Fantasy & Horror Cinema. Curator and host of the film series Mexico Maleficarum: Resurrecting 20th Century Mexican Horror Cinema at the Academy Museum (Los Angeles, 2022) and at the Cinématèque Française (Paris, 2023). Contributor to physical media labels such as Arrow Video, Severin Films, Radiance, and the Indicator Series, where he co-produced the boxsets: Mexico Macabre and El Vampiro. His lifelong obsession with mummies led him to develop the performative lecture The Testament of the Mexican Mummy.
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Abraham Castillo Flores, Mexican spawn obsessed with the paradoxical beauty of horror narratives. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. After a long history in different tentacles of the film industry and academia, he now dedicates his life to the study, promotion, restoration and exhibition of fantastic and horror cinema. Programming director of Mórbido Fest from 2010 to 2021. Speaker at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies where he presented The Morbido Crypt´s Guide to Mexican Fantasy & Horror Cinema. Curator and host of the film series Mexico Maleficarum: Resurrecting 20th Century Mexican Horror Cinema at the Academy Museum (Los Angeles, 2022) and at the Cinématèque Française (Paris, 2023). Contributor to physical media labels such as Arrow Video, Severin Films, Radiance, and the Indicator Series, where he co-produced the boxsets: Mexico Macabre and El Vampiro. His lifelong obsession with mummies led him to develop the performative lecture The Testament of the Mexican Mummy.
Saira Chhibber
Saira Chhibber is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies program at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. She has taught courses in popular culture, film and television studies. Her love of all things pop culture has led to having work published in diverse spaces, from Maximumrocknroll to the Journal of Religion and Film. As lifelong horror fan, she is excited to have a chapter forthcoming in The Witch Studies Reader. Saira has a long history of mostly successfully, convincing other kids and now adults, to check out more scary movies.
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Saira Chhibber is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies program at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. She has taught courses in popular culture, film and television studies. Her love of all things pop culture has led to having work published in diverse spaces, from Maximumrocknroll to the Journal of Religion and Film. As lifelong horror fan, she is excited to have a chapter forthcoming in The Witch Studies Reader. Saira has a long history of mostly successfully, convincing other kids and now adults, to check out more scary movies.
Annie Choi
Annie Choi is the editor and contributing writer of BleedingSkull.com and the co-author of BLEEDING SKULL! A 1990S TRASH-HORROR ODYSSEY. She is also the author of two books of essays, SHUT UP, YOU'RE WELCOME and HAPPY BIRTHDAY OR WHATEVER. She helped complete and release JUNGLE TRAP, a previously unfinished 1990 film by exploitation auteurs Renee Harmon and James Bryan, and as a musician in the duo Taken By Savages, she helped compose the soundtrack using era-appropriate drum machines and synthesizers. She’s been the co-programmer and host for the Alamo Drafthouse series Video Vortex, which celebrates obscure, DIY films that were released direct to video. She lives in New York City.
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Annie Choi is the editor and contributing writer of BleedingSkull.com and the co-author of BLEEDING SKULL! A 1990S TRASH-HORROR ODYSSEY. She is also the author of two books of essays, SHUT UP, YOU'RE WELCOME and HAPPY BIRTHDAY OR WHATEVER. She helped complete and release JUNGLE TRAP, a previously unfinished 1990 film by exploitation auteurs Renee Harmon and James Bryan, and as a musician in the duo Taken By Savages, she helped compose the soundtrack using era-appropriate drum machines and synthesizers. She’s been the co-programmer and host for the Alamo Drafthouse series Video Vortex, which celebrates obscure, DIY films that were released direct to video. She lives in New York City.
Robyn Citizen
Robyn Citizen, PhD, is the Senior Manager of Festival Programming at the Toronto International Film Festival. Before joining TIFF’s programming team in 2018, she was a film lecturer at the University of British Columbia from 2012 to 2017, during which she created the course Asian Horror Cinema. She has published essays in edited volumes and film journals, programmed for the Human Rights Film Festival and served on local and international film festival juries. Recently, she wrote chapters in the edited volumes Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror, The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema and the forthcoming, The Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Chapter.
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Robyn Citizen, PhD, is the Senior Manager of Festival Programming at the Toronto International Film Festival. Before joining TIFF’s programming team in 2018, she was a film lecturer at the University of British Columbia from 2012 to 2017, during which she created the course Asian Horror Cinema. She has published essays in edited volumes and film journals, programmed for the Human Rights Film Festival and served on local and international film festival juries. Recently, she wrote chapters in the edited volumes Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror, The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema and the forthcoming, The Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Chapter.
Mathias Clasen
Mathias Clasen, PhD, is associate professor in literature and media and co-director of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University. He is an expert on the psychology of horror and has published widely on the genre, including the books Why Horror Seduces (Oxford University Press, 2017) and A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies (Oxford University Press, 2021).
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Mathias Clasen, PhD, is associate professor in literature and media and co-director of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University. He is an expert on the psychology of horror and has published widely on the genre, including the books Why Horror Seduces (Oxford University Press, 2017) and A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Antony Clayton
Antony Clayton is the author of several books including Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London, Secret Tunnels of England: Folklore & Fact and Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley, His latest book is Mansion of Gloom: The Unsettling Legacy of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. Born in London, he now lives in Hastings.
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Antony Clayton is the author of several books including Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London, Secret Tunnels of England: Folklore & Fact and Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley, His latest book is Mansion of Gloom: The Unsettling Legacy of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. Born in London, he now lives in Hastings.
Wickham Clayton
Wickham Clayton is an author, movie critic, filmmaker and lecturer. Born in the US, he has been living and working in the UK for over 15 years. Establishing himself as an expert in Slasher films - Friday the 13th particularly - as well as the Twilight franchise and religion and film. He is fascinated by film form and genre, as well as the industrial and cultural structures that inform film style, and particularly the outlying films of the mainstream. Wickham is author of the forthcoming BFI Film Classics book on The Wicker Man (2024) and See!Hear!Cut!Kill!: Experiencing Friday the 13th (2020), editor of The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium: New Heart and New Spirit (2020) and Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film (2015) and wrote, directed and produced the award-winning short film A Possible History of Ghosts (2020).
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Wickham Clayton is an author, movie critic, filmmaker and lecturer. Born in the US, he has been living and working in the UK for over 15 years. Establishing himself as an expert in Slasher films - Friday the 13th particularly - as well as the Twilight franchise and religion and film. He is fascinated by film form and genre, as well as the industrial and cultural structures that inform film style, and particularly the outlying films of the mainstream. Wickham is author of the forthcoming BFI Film Classics book on The Wicker Man (2024) and See!Hear!Cut!Kill!: Experiencing Friday the 13th (2020), editor of The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium: New Heart and New Spirit (2020) and Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film (2015) and wrote, directed and produced the award-winning short film A Possible History of Ghosts (2020).
Sarah Cleary
Having gained her PhD from Trinity College, Sarah Cleary is a horror consultant, lecturer and author of The Myth of Harm which explores society’s long and often uncomfortable relationship between children, horror and media effects. She is also a Development Executive for Wild Atlantic Pictures specialising in genre features and the producer of Deadly Doses Podcast, a podcast dedicated to horror. When not talking, writing or dreaming about horror she is producing The Rocky Horror Picture Show which has ran at Dublin’s Sugar Club for the best part of 20 years.
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Having gained her PhD from Trinity College, Sarah Cleary is a horror consultant, lecturer and author of The Myth of Harm which explores society’s long and often uncomfortable relationship between children, horror and media effects. She is also a Development Executive for Wild Atlantic Pictures specialising in genre features and the producer of Deadly Doses Podcast, a podcast dedicated to horror. When not talking, writing or dreaming about horror she is producing The Rocky Horror Picture Show which has ran at Dublin’s Sugar Club for the best part of 20 years.
Sarah Cleaver
Sarah Kathryn Cleaver is a London-based researcher, writer and editor. She has written about film and culture for publications including Curzon, SHOWstudio, Dazed and The Final Girls. She runs Zodiac Film Club, a London-based independent curatorial project with a focus on good-looking films, complex female characters and overlooked genres. She has programmed films at London Short Film Festival, The Castle Cinema, The Garden Cinema among others, and collaborated with organisations including Girls in Film, T A P E Collective and Invisible Women.
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Sarah Kathryn Cleaver is a London-based researcher, writer and editor. She has written about film and culture for publications including Curzon, SHOWstudio, Dazed and The Final Girls. She runs Zodiac Film Club, a London-based independent curatorial project with a focus on good-looking films, complex female characters and overlooked genres. She has programmed films at London Short Film Festival, The Castle Cinema, The Garden Cinema among others, and collaborated with organisations including Girls in Film, T A P E Collective and Invisible Women.
Ian Cooper
Ian Cooper is an author and screenwriter. His books include Devil´s Advocates: Witchfinder General (Auteur 2011), Cultographies: Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Wallflower Press 2012) and Frightmares: A History of British Horror (2016). He has also written for edited collections on subjects including early 70s vampire films and the cult appeal of Klaus Kinski. His books, Devil´s Advocates: Frenzy (Auteur) and Family Values: The Manson Family on Film and TV (McFarland) will be published in 2018.
He also has a number of screenplays in various stages of development in the UK and US.
He lives in Germany.
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Ian Cooper is an author and screenwriter. His books include Devil´s Advocates: Witchfinder General (Auteur 2011), Cultographies: Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Wallflower Press 2012) and Frightmares: A History of British Horror (2016). He has also written for edited collections on subjects including early 70s vampire films and the cult appeal of Klaus Kinski. His books, Devil´s Advocates: Frenzy (Auteur) and Family Values: The Manson Family on Film and TV (McFarland) will be published in 2018.
He also has a number of screenplays in various stages of development in the UK and US.
He lives in Germany.
Don Coscarelli
DON COSCARELLI became the youngest filmmaker ever to have a feature film distributed by a studio when Universal bought his first film at age 19. The independent, award-winning filmmaker is best known for Phantasm which spawned a rabid cult of fans worldwide. His other indie genre hits include The Beastmaster and Bubba Ho-tep. On TV he directed Showtime’s Masters of Horror premiere episode. His film John Dies at the End was a Sundance selection. In 2004, he was inducted into Fangoria’s Hall of Fame.
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DON COSCARELLI became the youngest filmmaker ever to have a feature film distributed by a studio when Universal bought his first film at age 19. The independent, award-winning filmmaker is best known for Phantasm which spawned a rabid cult of fans worldwide. His other indie genre hits include The Beastmaster and Bubba Ho-tep. On TV he directed Showtime’s Masters of Horror premiere episode. His film John Dies at the End was a Sundance selection. In 2004, he was inducted into Fangoria’s Hall of Fame.
Maxime Coulombe
Maxime Coulombe est sociologue et historien de l'art. Il travaille sur le rapport à l'image dans les sociétés occidentales. Il a notamment publié aux Presses universitaires de France : Le monde sans fin des jeux vidéo, PUF, 2010, et Petite philosophie du zombie, PUF 2012. Il termine actuellement un ouvrage portant sur la peur de la ressemblance en histoire de l'art, à paraître en 2015.
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Maxime Coulombe est sociologue et historien de l'art. Il travaille sur le rapport à l'image dans les sociétés occidentales. Il a notamment publié aux Presses universitaires de France : Le monde sans fin des jeux vidéo, PUF, 2010, et Petite philosophie du zombie, PUF 2012. Il termine actuellement un ouvrage portant sur la peur de la ressemblance en histoire de l'art, à paraître en 2015.
Matthew Crofts
Matthew Crofts was awarded his doctorate at the University of Hull, England, UK, for his research on the importance of tyranny to the Gothic mode, utilising a range of Gothic novels and historical eras. Matthew’s previous publications include chapters on historical figures in MacDonald Fraser's Flashman in Neo-Victorian Biofictions (2020), an article in the special ‘Alternative Dickens’ issue of Victoriographies (8:1, 2018), a chapter on Dracula’s multimedia legacy in the edited collection Gothic Afterlives (Lexington Books, 2019), and a joint-authored chapter on Gothic rats in the edited collection Gothic Animals (Palgrave, 2020).
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Matthew Crofts was awarded his doctorate at the University of Hull, England, UK, for his research on the importance of tyranny to the Gothic mode, utilising a range of Gothic novels and historical eras. Matthew’s previous publications include chapters on historical figures in MacDonald Fraser's Flashman in Neo-Victorian Biofictions (2020), an article in the special ‘Alternative Dickens’ issue of Victoriographies (8:1, 2018), a chapter on Dracula’s multimedia legacy in the edited collection Gothic Afterlives (Lexington Books, 2019), and a joint-authored chapter on Gothic rats in the edited collection Gothic Animals (Palgrave, 2020).
Sarah Crowther
Sarah Crowther is a Lecturer in Media at Swansea University. She was the director of the 13th Fantastic Films Weekend at the National Media Museum in Bradford and has served on festival juries at Leeds International Film Festival and Celluloid Screams in Sheffield. She has written for Diabolique magazine and has recently featured in the i newspaper and The Conversation on the subjects of The Exorcist and correlations in the comedy and horror genres. She is currently working towards her PhD in Creative Writing, scripting a feature length comedy horror film and developing a thesis on the characterisation and correlation of genre. She also loves drag.
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Sarah Crowther is a Lecturer in Media at Swansea University. She was the director of the 13th Fantastic Films Weekend at the National Media Museum in Bradford and has served on festival juries at Leeds International Film Festival and Celluloid Screams in Sheffield. She has written for Diabolique magazine and has recently featured in the i newspaper and The Conversation on the subjects of The Exorcist and correlations in the comedy and horror genres. She is currently working towards her PhD in Creative Writing, scripting a feature length comedy horror film and developing a thesis on the characterisation and correlation of genre. She also loves drag.
John Cussans
John Cussans is an artist, writer and researcher based in London. Since 2009 he has been involved with the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, often working with the Haitian video collective Tele Geto. He is the author of Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie-Complex (Strange Attractor).
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John Cussans is an artist, writer and researcher based in London. Since 2009 he has been involved with the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, often working with the Haitian video collective Tele Geto. He is the author of Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie-Complex (Strange Attractor).
Tony Dalton
Tony Dalton has worked extensively in the film and television industry since 1969.
He's work with Granada TV, the BFI, BAFTA and many more.
Over the course of his career he befriended Roy Harryhausen, and co-written a biography of Ray’s life and work called AN ANIMATED LIFE (2002), which was published in 2003 followed by four more books about Ray and his life - THE ART OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN (2005), A CENTURY OF MODEL ANIMATION (2008), RAY HARRYHAUSEN - A LIFE IN PICTURES (2010) and RAY HARRYHAUSEN’S FANTASY SCRAPBOOK (2011).
He was also friends with Freddie Francis and assisted him with his biography, which was finally published in 2013 as FREDDIE FRANCIS - THE STRAIGHT STORY FROM MOBY DICK TO GLORY.
In 1972 he met Hammer director Terence Fisher and remained friends with him until his death in 1980. Tony has recently written a book on Fisher's life and career entitled TERENCE FISHER. MASTER OF GOTHIC CINEMA which is currently available from FAB Press.
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Tony Dalton has worked extensively in the film and television industry since 1969.
He's work with Granada TV, the BFI, BAFTA and many more.
Over the course of his career he befriended Roy Harryhausen, and co-written a biography of Ray’s life and work called AN ANIMATED LIFE (2002), which was published in 2003 followed by four more books about Ray and his life - THE ART OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN (2005), A CENTURY OF MODEL ANIMATION (2008), RAY HARRYHAUSEN - A LIFE IN PICTURES (2010) and RAY HARRYHAUSEN’S FANTASY SCRAPBOOK (2011).
He was also friends with Freddie Francis and assisted him with his biography, which was finally published in 2013 as FREDDIE FRANCIS - THE STRAIGHT STORY FROM MOBY DICK TO GLORY.
In 1972 he met Hammer director Terence Fisher and remained friends with him until his death in 1980. Tony has recently written a book on Fisher's life and career entitled TERENCE FISHER. MASTER OF GOTHIC CINEMA which is currently available from FAB Press.
Shamya Dasgupta
Shamya Dasgupta has been a sports journalist for over two decades, working in newspapers, magazines, television and the web over the years. He is currently Senior Assistant Editor with ESPNcricinfo. He is the author of Bhiwani Junction and Cricket Changed My Life, both books on Indian sport, and Don’t Disturb the Dead, about the Ramsay family of horror filmmakers from Mumbai, India. In addition, he has translated a book of fiction, Mirror of the Darkest Night, from Bengali to English. He lives in Bangalore, India with his wife and dog.
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Shamya Dasgupta has been a sports journalist for over two decades, working in newspapers, magazines, television and the web over the years. He is currently Senior Assistant Editor with ESPNcricinfo. He is the author of Bhiwani Junction and Cricket Changed My Life, both books on Indian sport, and Don’t Disturb the Dead, about the Ramsay family of horror filmmakers from Mumbai, India. In addition, he has translated a book of fiction, Mirror of the Darkest Night, from Bengali to English. He lives in Bangalore, India with his wife and dog.
Robert Dee
Robert Dee is a horror writer/director and filmmaking lecturer at Raindance Film School in London. In addition to his love of cinema he has also held a lifelong interest in the countercultural and esoteric, having worked in an occult bookshop, lived in a Buddhist community and written for Bizarre Magazine and Fortean Times. He explores these interests, often through a psychoanalytic lens, in his film work. In addition to a number of horror shorts, he is currently developing a microbudget feature for a practice-based PhD proposal on visual subtext, psychoanalysis and identity horror
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Robert Dee is a horror writer/director and filmmaking lecturer at Raindance Film School in London. In addition to his love of cinema he has also held a lifelong interest in the countercultural and esoteric, having worked in an occult bookshop, lived in a Buddhist community and written for Bizarre Magazine and Fortean Times. He explores these interests, often through a psychoanalytic lens, in his film work. In addition to a number of horror shorts, he is currently developing a microbudget feature for a practice-based PhD proposal on visual subtext, psychoanalysis and identity horror
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
Born in Montreal, Mario is a “monster kid” who teaches courses on genre cinema, grotesque traditions, and monster ethics in the Humanities department of John Abbott College. He began to watch monster movies at the age of 9, staying up to watch Hammer films on late-night television. He has been an independent filmmaker all his life beginning with his first super-8 film, ONE DARK NIGHT, which he shot in his parents's back yard. His films combine a love of silent cinema, “exploitation films,” the horror genre, and attractions-based sensibilities. He is also a programmer and coordinator at the Montreal Underground Film Festival. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, and is presently finishing a book linked to the history of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre, entitled SINISTER TABLEAUX: GRAND-GUIGNOL CINEMA, CORPOREALITY AND THE SENSES. He has published articles on the Grand-Guignol and cinema in the journal HORROR STUDIES (5.1), and in the book, RECOVERING 1940s HORROR: TRACES OF A LOST DECADE (2015), for which he is a co-editor. He is also publishing an article on Jean Rollin for the book, GLOBAL FEAR: INTERNATIONAL HORROR DIRECTORS (Intellect Press, 2016). He is an occasional writer for the Canadian horror genre magazine RUE-MORGUE.
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Born in Montreal, Mario is a “monster kid” who teaches courses on genre cinema, grotesque traditions, and monster ethics in the Humanities department of John Abbott College. He began to watch monster movies at the age of 9, staying up to watch Hammer films on late-night television. He has been an independent filmmaker all his life beginning with his first super-8 film, ONE DARK NIGHT, which he shot in his parents's back yard. His films combine a love of silent cinema, “exploitation films,” the horror genre, and attractions-based sensibilities. He is also a programmer and coordinator at the Montreal Underground Film Festival. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, and is presently finishing a book linked to the history of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre, entitled SINISTER TABLEAUX: GRAND-GUIGNOL CINEMA, CORPOREALITY AND THE SENSES. He has published articles on the Grand-Guignol and cinema in the journal HORROR STUDIES (5.1), and in the book, RECOVERING 1940s HORROR: TRACES OF A LOST DECADE (2015), for which he is a co-editor. He is also publishing an article on Jean Rollin for the book, GLOBAL FEAR: INTERNATIONAL HORROR DIRECTORS (Intellect Press, 2016). He is an occasional writer for the Canadian horror genre magazine RUE-MORGUE.
Samm Deighan
Samm Deighan is Associate Editor of Diabolique Magazine and co-host of the Daughters of Darkness Podcast. She’s the editor of Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin and her book on Fritz Lang’s M (1931) is forthcoming.
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Samm Deighan is Associate Editor of Diabolique Magazine and co-host of the Daughters of Darkness Podcast. She’s the editor of Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin and her book on Fritz Lang’s M (1931) is forthcoming.
Jon Dieringer
Jon Dieringer is a writer, film programmer, and media art conservator. He's the founder of Screen Slate, a resource for listings and commentary of repertory, microcinema, and gallery screenings and exhibitions in New York City. At media arts nonprofit Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Dieringer oversees the preservation video art and experimental films. And as a programmer, he has worked most prolifically at daily Brooklyn microcinema Spectacle and additionally curated programs and series at 92YTribeca, Anthology Film Archives, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Lightbox Film Center, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Many of these artist-focused series have focused on correspondences between archives and obsolete or overlooked media, including horror-themed series "Industrial Terror" and "The Medium is the Massacre." He's also one of the regular rotating hosts of Alamo Brooklyn's Terror Tuesday/Weird Wednesday screenings.
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Jon Dieringer is a writer, film programmer, and media art conservator. He's the founder of Screen Slate, a resource for listings and commentary of repertory, microcinema, and gallery screenings and exhibitions in New York City. At media arts nonprofit Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Dieringer oversees the preservation video art and experimental films. And as a programmer, he has worked most prolifically at daily Brooklyn microcinema Spectacle and additionally curated programs and series at 92YTribeca, Anthology Film Archives, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Lightbox Film Center, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Many of these artist-focused series have focused on correspondences between archives and obsolete or overlooked media, including horror-themed series "Industrial Terror" and "The Medium is the Massacre." He's also one of the regular rotating hosts of Alamo Brooklyn's Terror Tuesday/Weird Wednesday screenings.
Claire Donner
Claire Donner is the New York City branch Director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Despite her background in Art History, she has a special focus on the role of faith, superstition, and manufactured authenticity as a merchandising tool in horror media. Her favorite debate subjects include the so-called Amityville Horror, the Doris Bither case, and the life and theology of Anton LaVey. She enjoys pseudo-snuff films like Faces of Death, the symbiosis of gore and pornography, and cannibalism.
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Claire Donner is the New York City branch Director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Despite her background in Art History, she has a special focus on the role of faith, superstition, and manufactured authenticity as a merchandising tool in horror media. Her favorite debate subjects include the so-called Amityville Horror, the Doris Bither case, and the life and theology of Anton LaVey. She enjoys pseudo-snuff films like Faces of Death, the symbiosis of gore and pornography, and cannibalism.
