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 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, 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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).

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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).