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 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 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

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 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 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 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.