Howard David Ingham is a writer and educator. He lives in Swansea. Between 2005 and 2012 his work appeared in more than forty publications for White Wolf Games Studio. He writes games, fiction and books, and keeps a regular blog about film and culture at Room207Press.com. His book We Don’t Go Back: a Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror is due for release in 2018. Twitter: @HowtheWoodMoves Facebook: Room207Press

Dr. Seth Jacobowitz is a Senior Research Associate at the Dominican Studies Institute at City University of New York. He is the editor and translator of the Edogawa Rampo Reader (Kurodahan Press, 2008) and author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (Harvard Asia Center, 2015), which won the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. His work on Edogawa Rampo and Japanese genre fiction have appeared in Mechademia, Japan Forum, and several edited volumes.

Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of several books: Horror (Batsford, 1992); The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism (CUP, 1993); Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s (MUP, 1996); and The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption (with Lucy Faire and Sarah Stubbings, BFI, 2003). He is also the editor several collections: Approaches to Popular Film (with Joanne Hollows, MUP, 1995); The Film Studies Reader (with Joanne Hollows and Peter Hutchings, Arnold/OUP, 2000); Horror, The Film Reader (Routledge, 2001); Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (with James Lyons, BFI, 2003); Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste (with Antonio Lazaro-Reboll, Julian Stringer and Andrew Willis, MUP, 2003); Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader (with Paul Grainge and Sharon Monteith, EUP, 2006); Film and Comic Books (with Ian Gordon and Matthew P. McAllister, University Press of Mississippi, 2007); and The Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows and Media (with Lincoln Geraghty, McFarland, 2008). He was also the founder of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies; is series editor (with Eric Schaefer) of the MUP book series, Inside Popular Film; and is series editor (with Charles Acland) of the Berg book series, Film Genres. After over a decade researching the history of horror in the 1940s, he is now working on horror in the 1960s.

Andrea Janes is the founder and owner of Boroughs of the Dead: Macabre New York City History Tours, as well as the author of a book of short horror fiction BOROUGHS OF THE DEAD: New York City Ghost Stories and several other short horror stories. Currently she is at work on A Haunted History of Invisible Women, a nonfiction book examining woman-centered narratives in American ghost lore.

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, producer, former programmer, and founder of horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and contributed to Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (2015), We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (2017) and Refocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay (2023). She co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published (via her imprint Spectacular Optical) the anthology books Kid Power! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror was released by Severin Films in 2021.

Dru Jeffries has a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, with a MA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. His work on the intersections between comics and cinema can be read in QUARTERLY REVIEW OF FILM AND VIDEO 31.1, CINEACTION 77, as well as his dissertation (2014).

Ken Johnson grew up in Maine and graduated from Brown University in 1976 with a B.A. in art. He earned a master’s degree in studio art with a concentration in painting at the State University of New York at Albany in 1977. For the next five years he worked as a technician in the painting department of an art conservation laboratory operated by the New York State Department of Historic Sites in Waterford, NY. In 1983, he started writing art reviews for the Albany Times Union newspaper and for other local publications in the Albany, NY region where he lived from 1977 to 2001 (in Troy from the early ‘80s on). In 1987 he began writing articles on contemporary artists for the now defunct Arts Magazine, and a year later he moved on to Art in America magazine for which he wrote reviews and articles regularly for the next nine years. In 1997 he began writing reviews for The New York Times, and continued to do so until September 2006, when he took a job as the chief art critic for the Boston Globe. After a year in Boston, he returned to New York and to writing art criticism for the Times, continuing to do so until October 2016. In 2011, his book “Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art” was published by Prestel Books. In 2013, he began producing an online comic called “Ball and Cone” (ballandcone.tumblr.com). “Ball and Cone” was listed among “Notable Comics” in “The Best American Comics of 2016.” (see here http://on-panel.com/BAC2016/index.html) Now he devotes most of his time to painting: https://www.instagram.com/ball_and_cone_/?hl=en He has lived in Flushing, Queens since 2001.

Derek Johnston is Lecturer in Broadcast Literacy at Queen's University, Belfast, and is the author of Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). His research focuses on British broadcasting history and on the history of genres such as science fiction and horror, particularly where the two combine.

C. Courtney Joyner is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter whose first major output was a string of more than 25 movie screenplays beginning with The Offspring (AKA From a Whisper to a Scream) starring Vincent Price, and Prison, directed by Renny Harlin, and continuing in the '90s with Class of 1999, the CBS telefilm Distant Cousins, and Full Moon features like Dr. Mordrid, Trancers III, and H.P. Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear, the latter two of which he also directed. A film historian, Joyner’s articles and criticisms have appeared in more than twenty different publications, ranging from The Hollywood Reporter, Famous Monsters of Filmland to True West, where he served as Film and TV editor for three years. His critically acclaimed film book, The Westerners has been followed by contributions to biographies of John Wayne and Lon Chaney, and histories of horror and western movies. His two latest filmbooks, Unsung Heroes and Warner Brothers Fantastic will be published in 2020. In the world of fiction, Joyner is an award-winning author of short stories and novelist, many of them Westerns, having created the Shotgun mass market paperback series for Pinnacle Books. He is also the author of the sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Nemo Rising (2018), which has recently been adapted as a boardgame. Website: ccjoyner.com

Tenebrous Kate is a New Jersey-based writer and artist whose work explores her long-standing fascination with all things dark, fantastical, and forbidden. She is the co-host of the literary podcast Bad Books for Bad People and has issued limited-run publications under her micro-publishing imprint Heretical Sexts. Her work has been featured in a variety of publications including Heathen Harvest, Occult Rock, Slutist, and Ultra Violent Magazine. She has created artwork for a variety of clients ranging from boutique perfumier Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab to German black metal band Porta Nigra. Kate has hosted retro screenings at Alamo Drafthouse and has appeared in pop culture variety shows including Kevin Geeks Out, Meet the Lady, and Bonnie and Maude. Her long-running blog, Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire, cataloged her encounters with offbeat cinema, literature, and art.

Miriam Kent is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on adaptation and representation in films based on Marvel superhero comics. She has published widely on the cultural significance of superheroes. Her first book, Women in Marvel Films (2021, Edinburgh University Press), examines portrayals of women in Marvel film adaptations, linking these to wider issues to do with feminism and gender politics.

David Kerekes is a co-founder of the publishing house Headpress. He is co-author of the books Killing for Culture (1994), revised and updated as Killing for Culture: From Edison to Isis — A New History of Death on Film (2016), and See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy (2001). He is the author of Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit (1994) and has written extensively on popular culture. His meditation on southern Italian Diaspora and folklore, Mezzogiorno, was published in 2012. www.worldheadpress.com

Jack Ketchum (1946 – 2018) is the pseudonym for a former actor, singer, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk — a former flower child and baby boomer who figures that in 1956 Elvis, dinosaurs and horror probably saved his life. His first novel, Off Season, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. He personally disagrees but is perfectly happy to let you decide for yourself. His short story The Box won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from the HWA, his story Gone won again in 2000 — and in 2003 he won Stokers for both best collection for Peaceable Kingdom and best long fiction for Closing Time. He has written eleven novels, the latest of which are Red, Ladies’ Night, and The Lost. His stories are collected in The Exit At Toledo Blade Boulevard, Broken on the Wheel of Sex, and Peaceable Kingdom. His novella The Crossings was cited by Stephen King in his speech at the 2003 National Book Awards. (Photo by Steve Thornton) www.jackketchum.net

Mikel J Koven is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film Studies at the University of Worcester. He is the author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006), Film, Folklore & Urban Legends (2008), and Blaxploitation Cinema (2010). He frequently publishes on topics about the relationship between folklore and horror cinema.

Lisa Kröger is the co-author of Monster, She Wrote and the forthcoming Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult, as well as co-host of the Know Fear and Monster, She Wrote podcasts. She’s won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award. Her work has been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times, Book Page, and Rue Morgue. She’s contributed fiction and nonfiction to Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road, EcoGothic, The Encyclopedia of the Vampire, and Horror Literature through History. Her essay collections include Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences and Spectral Identities: The Ghosted and the Ghostly in Film and Literature. Her newest short fiction will be out soon in Cemetery Dance magazine. Lisa is an active member of the Horror Writer's Association and a core member of the NYX Horror Collective. With NYX, she produced 13 Minutes of Horror, a short film festival for women filmmakers, which streamed on Shudder.

Tugce Kutlu completed her undergraduate education in Radio, Television and Film as a valedictorian at Ankara University, received another BA in International Relations from Anadolu University. She completed her MA in Film Studies at University College London (UCL) under a scholarship, wrote her dissertation on grief in the 21st-Century horror films supervised by Professor Susanne Kord at UCL and was awarded a Distinction. She is currently writing her thesis on the 21st-century Turkish cinema and power relations for her second MA at Ankara University. Her works I am not Carrie: Rebellious Girls of Horror Cinema’s New Era and The rule of the weird: power relations in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos have been published by academic journals. She has been to numerous academic conferences, pressenting her work. She is currently doing her PhD at Ankara University and she is a graduate teaching assistant at the same university.

Kevin Lafferty grew up in Pasadena. Despite this setback, he moved to Santa Barbara to study marine biology in 1981, where he remains. To his mother’s embarrassment, he is not a real doctor. Rather, as a parasitologist (not to be confused with a parapsychologist) he studies the role of parasites in natural ecosystems. He is a senior scientist at the USGS, and adjunct professor at UC Santa Barbara, where he influences well-adjusted young minds to find beauty in things like the black fingers of death or raccoon latrines. His academic achievements include receiving the Ward Medal for Parasitology, authoring over 200 scientific publications, and being one of the 10 most cited parasitologists. None of this helps him get a window table or invitations to dinner parties.

Justin LaLiberty holds degrees in Critical Film Studies and Film Preservation and Archiving and has spent more than half of his life working in either theatrical exhibition or home video in the roles of projectionist, film programmer and archivist. He currently works as the Director of Operations for OCN Distribution, sister company of Vinegar Syndrome, and spends most of his free time logging films on Letterboxd and taking photos of his cat.

Simon Laperrière is a writer, scholar and film curator based in Montreal. Currently a PhD Candidate in Film Studies at Université de Montréal, he is a frequent collaborator of different film publications like Hors champ, Panorama-Cinéma, 24 images and Zoom-Out. His most recent book, Series of Dreams: Bob Dylan et le cinéma, was published in 2018 by Rouge profond. (He also tried to finish Evil Within 2, but abandoned the game before the final boss).

Cory Legassic is a faculty member of the Humanities and Sociology Departments at Dawson College, Montréal, Québec, where he teaches courses on Social Movements, Social Justice Education, Anti-Racism, Media and Feminist Masculinities. His article “Reasonable Accommodation as a Settling Concept” was published in The Canadian Women’s Studies Journal in their special issue on Women and Canadian Multiculturalism (2010). An article on horror icon Rondo Hatton and the politics of disfigurement in forties horror is forthcoming.

Dr Catherine Lester is a lecturer in film and television at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of the book Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema (2021) and editor of the forthcoming essay collection Watership Down: Perspectives on and Beyond Animated Violence (2023), both published by Bloomsbury. She has also published shorter pieces on the intersections of children’s culture and the horror genre in the books Discussing Disney (2019), Global TV Horror (2021) and the Fantasy/Animation Research Network http://fantasy-animation.org. When she isn’t writing or teaching she can usually be found relaxing with her partner, cat and two rabbits, whose lives aren’t nearly as dramatic as those of the rabbits in Watership Down.

Joe Lipsett is a Toronto-based film critic and podcaster. He has written for Bloody Disgusting, Pajiba, Consequence, The Spool, That Shelf, Anatomy of a Scream, as well as his own site QueerHorrorMovies. Once upon a time he was a sessional film instructor at Carleton University where he taught courses on Dystopias, Cyberpunk, Animation, Superheroes and Slashers. Nowadays Joe is the co-host of several podcasts, including YA adaptation podcast Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr, Erotic Thriller podcast White Ladies in Crisis (on the Anatomy of a Scream Pod Squad Network) and Bloody FM’s Horror Queers, which has been profiled in The AV Club, Variety, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly. 

Felicia Lobo is a Brooklyn-based director and educator specializing in horror and fantastical theatre. She holds a BFA from NYU Tisch in Drama and a Masters in Educational Theatre from CCNY, and her work creates visceral responses from audiences, exploring the terror and humor of our mortality. Some credits include GAS by Charles Cissel, Pop Punk High by Anderson Cook & Ben Lapidus, and Suburban Nightmare by AJ Ditty & Travis Yablon. From 2013-2018 she was co-artistic director of Insomnium Theatre Company which produced horror theatre experiences in basements and warehouses throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. Outside of her theatre work, Felicia is the frontwoman of the band QWAM, runs the YouTube channel GirlyGore, and hosts the podcast Sinister Sisters featuring strange stories from around the world. Catch up with her at FeliciaLobo.com.

Meg D. Lonergan [she/they] is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Law and Legal Studies with a collaborative specialization in Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Meg teaches several courses in Law and Legal Studies and the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton, including seminars on Cultural Criminology; Crime, Emotion and the Senses; Feminist Controversies in Sex and Law; Law and Violence; and True Crime Media. She has previously had the pleasure of teaching seminars on Gender and Law at the University of Alberta and The Sociology of Fear and Risk at Concordia University online. When she is not teaching or doing research, Meg can be found watching horror movies or trying to teach herself how to play the ukulele (much to the chagrin of her elderly Pekingese Dorian).

Bruna Foletto Lucas is currently in her third year as a PhD student at Kingston University London, researching the role of women in horror films, both in front of and behind the camera (“Woman and Horror: Reframing the Debate”). She's presented papers in key horror international conferences and has taught a guest MA lecture at Kingston University London as well as created and delivered a course based on her own research for The Brilliant Club. Bruna is currently a member of Doing Women's (Global) (Horror) Film History, created by Alison Peirse, where she is researching the works of the Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas. Her writing outside of academia can be found on The London Horror Society and the UK Film Review.

Roger Luckhurst is a British writer and academic. He is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia University in 2016. He works on Victorian literature, contemporary literature, Gothic and weird fiction, trauma studies, and speculative/science fiction. Luckhurst is notable for his introductions and editorships to the Oxford World's Classics series volumes -- Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Dracula, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Portrait of a Lady, H.P. Lovecraft's Classic Horror Tales, King Solomon’s Mines, and The Time Machine -- and for his books on J. G. Ballard (1997), The Invention of Telepathy (2002), Science Fiction (2005) The Trauma Question (2008), The Mummy’s Curse: The True Story of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Zombies: A Cultural History (Reaktion Press, 2015). He has also written two books for the British Film Institute classic film series on The Shining and Alien. Luckhurst has written pieces for The Guardian and features for the film journal Sight and Sound and wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary about mummy curses in 2012. He has been an occasional film reviewer and commentator for the radio programmes Front Row and Free Thinking.