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