Willow Catelyn Maclay is a queer historian, film essayist and co-author of Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema. She has written for numerous outlets including The Village Voice, Film Comment, and Reverse Shot. Her favourite horror movies are Cat People (1942), Suspiria (1977) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Craig Ian Mann is a film scholar, writer and researcher with a particular interest in the cultural politics of popular genres. He is the author of Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film (2020) and is currently writing his second monograph, Bleeding Us Dry: Independent American Horror and Anti-Capitalism. He is a lecturer in film and media studies at Sheffield Hallam University, organiser of the annual Fear 2000 conference series on contemporary horror media and co-editor of the 21st Century Horror book series at Edinburgh University Press.

Anna Marta Marini is a PhD candidate and research fellow at the Universidad de Alcalá. Her dissertation delves into the representations of border-crossing, Whiteness, and the Mexican “other side” in US cinema. Her research focuses on representations of the US-Mexico borderlands, and on Mexican American heritage(s) and Mexican politics—focusing on states of exception, otherness, identity re/construction, and narration through cinema, comics, and literature, esp. in the horror, noir, and weird western genres. She is the president of the PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies and chief editor of the journal REDEN dedicated to US popular culture and new media. She has organized several international conferences, among which 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture (2021), Animals in the American Imagination (2022), Darkness in the American Imagination (2023), Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture (2023). She is currently completing the monograph The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror: Crossing the Boundary (Edinburgh University Press, expected 2024).

Carolyn Mauricette is a Toronto-based Rotten Tomatoes approved critic, film writer and programmer/development coordinator for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival. You can find her writing on her website View From the Dark and Hollywood Suite. She has written reviews and articles for the online and print editions of Rue Morgue Magazine, Grim Magazine and contributed to The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films and The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films. Carolyn has produced talks on Afrofuturism for The Black Museum, lectures for the Fantasia Film Festival in 2020 and 2021, and is an industry commentator in the 2020 documentary "Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business" directed by Justin McConnell. You can also hear her on Reely Melanated, a film podcast focusing on Black creators, with her co-host Ashlee Blackwell.

Payton McCarty-Simas is an author, programmer, and film critic. Their academic and critical writing has been featured in Little White Lies, Film Daze, The Brooklyn Rail, and Horror Studies among others, as well as spotlighted in The New York Times, CNN, and RogerEbert.com. She is also the author of two books of nonfiction and film criticism, One Step Short of Crazy: National Treasure and the Landscape of American Conspiracy Culture (2024) and That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film (2025). Payton holds a Masters in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University and is a member of the Online Association of Female Film Critics and GALECA.

Maitland McDonagh is the founder of 120 Days Books, a small press dedicated to republishing gay erotic pulp novels of the 1970s, a film critic with a predilection for horror and the author of books that including Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: the Dark Dreams of Dario Argento and The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time.

Jimmy McDonough is a biographer and journalist. He has written definitive books on Al Green, Neil Young, Tammy Wynette, Russ Meyer and Andy Milligan. TIME magazine declared his Milligan biography The Ghastly One “a masterpiece” and John Waters repeatedly names it one of his all-time favorites. Jimmy first started writing The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family From Music City, USA – The Ormonds! in 1986. Currently he is finishing another years-in-the-making project, a biography of honky-tonk singer Gary Stewart. Jimmy is Editor-In-Chief of byNWR.com.

Maura McHugh lives in the West of Ireland, and began her career in academia. Her first Masters examined Irish nineteenth century supernatural fiction (making her a life-long Dracula nerd). After a sojourn in IT she later explored her love of cinema through a Diploma in Film Studies followed by a Masters in Screenwriting. Her dark fantasy and horror short stories and non-fiction essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies in America and Europe. Her two collections - Twisted Fairy Tales and Twisted Myths - were published in the USA, and she's written award-winning comic book series, including co-writing Witchfinder with Kim Newman for Dark Horse Comics. Her short story 'Bone Mother' is being adapted into a stop-motion short film by See Creature in Canada. She has also served on the juries of international literary, comic book, and film awards. Her web site is http://splinister.com and she tweets as @splinister

Rebekah McKendry, PhD is an award-winning film and television director with a strong focus in the horror and science fiction genres. She has a doctorate focused in Media Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, a MA in Film Studies from City University of New York, and a second MA from Virginia Tech in Media Education. Rebekah previously has worked as the Editor-in-chief at Blumhouse Productions and as the Executive Director of Marketing for Fangoria Entertainment. She is also a co-host of Blumhouse's SHOCK WAVES podcast. Her newest feature film, ALL THE CREATURES WERE STIRRING, is a horror-comedy releasing this Fall.

Dr Shellie McMurdo is a senior lecturer in film and television at the University of Hertfordshire, and a founding member of the Horror Studies Special Interest Group for the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies. She is the author of Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and Devil’s Advocates: Pet Sematary (Liverpool University Press, 2023). She had also published and presented on a variety of horror media including post-peak torture horror, American Horror Story and Fangoria Magazine. She is currently researching and writing her third monograph: Splatter Matters: Gore and Practical Effects in American Horror Cinema (forthcoming).

Dr Laura Mee is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her research focuses on horror, adaptation, and seriality. She is the author of Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Film Remake (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming) and Devil’s Advocates: The Shining (Auteur, 2017). She has published in journals and collections on topics including rape-revenge remakes, the critical reception of horror remakes, Room 237 and cinephilia, American Psycho and gender, and James Wan’s horror franchises.

David Metcalfe is a researcher, writer and multimedia specialist focusing on the interrelationship of art, culture, and consciousness. He serves as Scholar in Virtual Residence with the Windbridge Institute and Editor-in-Chief for the Windbridge Research Center's Threshold: Journal of Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies. In 2011 he established the Liminal Analytics: Applied Research Collaborative to focus on combining applied scholarship, digital media and social network development to build strategic transdisciplinary lines of communication.

Maude Michaud is a Montreal-based writer-director who specializes in genre entertainment. Her debut feature film DYS- World Premiered in July 2014 at the Fantasia International Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature. Her body of work includes over a dozen critically acclaimed short films which have toured the international festival circuit. She recently obtained her Master’s degree in Media Studies at Concordia University. She also created a documentary web series about the women in horror movement which served as a basis for her thesis project: “Horror Grrrls: Resistance and Agency within the Interpretive Community of Women Horror Filmmakers”.

Tom Holland is an American director and screenwriter of horror and thriller films. His early writing projects include Class of 1984 (1982) and the Robert Bloch-inspired Psycho II (1983), the latter starring Anthony Perkins as the menacing psychopath, Norman Bates which spawned the Psycho franchise. Tom gained more notoriety, however, as a director. His directorial debut was the popular 1980s vampire film, Fright Night (1985) which, at the time, was said to have been responsible for redefining the sub-genre, influencing later films like The Lost Boys (1987) and Near Dark (1987). The film was a box office hit and garnered three Saturn Awards and one Dario Argento Award. In 2016 Tom produced a documentary of the film called ”You’re So Cool Brewster” – The Story of Fright Night. For his next project, Child's Play (1988), Tom again cast Chris Sarandon. The film was a Number One box-office hit in America and a worldwide success, despite controversy over its thematic content. It, like Fright Night (1985), has since gathered a cult following amongst horror fans and they have made 8 films in total. Tom then went onto direct two films based upon adaptations of Stephen King's novels: The Langoliers (1995) for TV and the feature film Thinner (1996). He also took a cameo role in the Stephen King miniseries The Stand (1994). Tom also wrote the films ‘Class of 1984’, ‘Cloak & Dagger’ and ‘The Beast Within’. Tom's other projects have included The Incredible Hulk episode 'Another Path', Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (1985), three episodes of Tales from the Crypt (1989), and the prestigious Masters of Horror (2005) anthology. He starred in A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) with Ingrid Bergman. In 2009 Tom took a starring role in Hatchet II (2010) alongside Kane Hodder and Tony Todd. Mark Alan Miller has been working as a writer since 2005 when he started as a columnist for OC Weekly. From there, he became assistant editor to Clive Barker. Eventually he was promoted to Vice President, and developed and wrote dozens of books, movies, comics, tv shows and more. Mark’s work is not limited to horror, however, and in early 2014 he produced a series of animated shorts with the comedy troupe Superego for Nerdist Channel. He can also be heard on various Nerdist channel podcasts, including The Nerdist, Bizarre States, The Dork Forest, The Nerdist Writers Panel and The Todd Glass Show. His comic writing can be seen in the bestselling Boom! Studios comic books Hellraiser, Hellraiser: Bestiary and the critically acclaimed Next Testament, as well as The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down released by Dark Horse from a story by Joe R. Lansdale. Though he often works as a ghost writer, he has also has penned two books that bear his name, Next Testament published by Earthling, and Hellraiser: The Toll, published by subterranean Press, the audiobook for which is narrated by horror icon Tom Holland. Mark is also founder and president of Encyclopocalypse Publications, which has released over a hundred titles, including Fright Night, The Howling, Bubba Ho Tep, Vamp, Titan Find, Scared to Death, Manborg, and Re-Animator. He keeps a bottle of Miskatonic Eau de Parfum from Black Phoenix Alchemy lab on his desk at all times.

David Misch has been a comic folksinger, stand-up comedian and screenwriter; his credits include the multiple-Emmy-nominated “Mork & Mindy”, the Emmy-losing “Duckman”, the Emmy-ignored “Police Squad!”, the Emmy-engorged “Saturday Night Live” and the Emmy-ineligible “The Muppets Take Manhattan.” David’s written Funny: The Book and A Beginner’s Guide To Corruption; he blogs for The Huffington Post and appears in the anthology Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter. His play “Occupied” is in development at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles. David’s taught comedy at the University of Southern California, musical satire at UCLA, and spoken about comedy at Oxford University, the Smithsonian Institute, the University of Sydney (Australia); Yale, 92nd St. Y, the Actors Studio, New York Public Library, American Film Insitute, Grammy Museum (Los Angeles), Lucasfilm, Austin Film Festival, Midwest Popular Culture Association and VIEW Cinema Conference (Torino, Italy). More at davidmisch.com.

Stephanie Monohan is a writer, illustrator and researcher from New York City. She has a BA in American Studies from the College of William & Mary and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. Her work focuses on the intersections of film/technology, horror, and capitalism. She is a regular contributor to Screen Slate, covering repertory film screenings in NYC, and is a member of the collective behind Spectacle Theater, a microcinema in Brooklyn. She has also written for Real Life, Lux Magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room and more. Her illustrations are inspired by horror films, the occult, and socialism. Illustration clients include Verso Books, OCN Distribution, New York Review of Books, Motherboard, Screen Slate, Season of the Bitch, and more. You can usually find her sipping coffee and watching a midnight movie.

Frances Morgan is a music and film critic based in London. A former deputy editor of The Wire, she has written regularly for Sight & Sound about sound and music in cinema. She is currently researching electronic music histories at the Royal College of Art and the Science Museum.

Mo has lectured at Prairie View A&M's Nightmares from Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium, No Return: A Yellowjackets Symposium, and The Whole Damn Swarm: Celebrating 30 Years of Candyman. She’s spoken at Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Cine-Excess, and Fear2000: The Horror Evolution Will Be Colorized – Black Horror Cinema. Her work appears in A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales, The Encyclopocalypse of Legends and Lore, and 206 Word Stories. Her debut novella Love the Sinner will be released July 5th, followed by Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment in 2024-2025, and her essay in Vampire States of America in 2025. As a core member of Nyx Horror Collective, she’s partnered with The Shudder Channel and Stowe Story Labs. She’s also featured in 160 Black Women in Horror by Sumiko Saulson, Kenya Moss-Dyme, and Kai Leakes.

Bernice M. Murphy is Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to horror fiction and film, and is an expert on Shirley Jackson who edited the first ever essay collection on her work, Shirley Jackson: A Literary Legacy (2005). Her other books include The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2009), The Rural Gothic: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness (Palgrave, 2013), The Highway Horror Film (Palgrave Pivot, 2014) and (edited with Elizabeth McCarthy) Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic (McFarland, 2017). Her current book project is a monograph entitled California Gothic.

Vincenzo Natali is a Toronto-based writer-director known for science fiction and horror films such as CUBE, SPLICE, and IN THE TALL GRASS, as well as TV series Hannibal, Guillermo De Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, and the adaptation of William Gibson’s The Peripheral.

Adam Nayman is a film critic, lecturer and author based in Toronto. He writes on film for The Ringer, Sight and Sound and The New Republic, and has contributed articles to The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Walrus.  He teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and lectures for a variety of institutions online and in Toronto, including Ryerson and the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. He is the author of five books, including It Doesn’t Suck: Showgirls, The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together and  Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks.

Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, the Anno Dracula novels and stories, The Quorum, The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories, Life’s Lottery, Back in the USSA (with Eugene Byrne), The Man From the Diogenes Club, Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles and An English Ghost Story under his own name and The Vampire Genevieve and Orgy of the Blood Parasites as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include Nightmare Movies, Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones), Wild West Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies and BFI Classics studies of Cat People, Doctor Who and Quatermass and the Pit. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines (writing Empire’s popular Video Dungeon column), has written and broadcast widely, and scripted radio and television documentaries. His stories ‘Week Woman’ and ‘Ubermensch’ have been adapted into an episode of the TV series The Hunger and an Australian short film; he has directed and written a tiny film Missing Girl; he co-wrote the West End play The Hallowe’en Sessions. Following his Radio 4 play ‘Cry Babies’, he wrote episodes for Radio 7’s series The Man in Black (‘Phish Phood’) and Glass Eye Pix’ Tales From Beyond the Pale (‘Sarah Minds the Dog’). He scripted (with Maura McHugh) the comic book miniseries Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland (Dark Horse), illustrated by Tyler Crook; it’s a spinoff from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy series. His official web-site is at www.johnnyalucard.com. His forthcoming fiction includes the novels The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange and Angels of Music . He is on Twitter as @AnnoDracula.

Xueting C. Ni was born in Guangzhou, during China’s “re-opening to the West”. Having lived in cities across China, she emigrated with her family to Britain at the age of 11, where she continued to be immersed in Chinese culture, alongside her British education, realising ultimately that this gave her a unique a cultural perspective, bridging her Eastern and Western experiences. After graduating in English Literature from the University of London, she began a career in the publishing industry, whilst also translating original works of Chinese fiction. She returned to China in 2008 to continue her research at Central University of Nationalities, Beijing. Since 2010, Xueting has written extensively on Chinese culture and China’s place in Western pop media, working with companies, theatres, institutions and festivals, to help improve understanding of China’s heritage, culture and innovation, and introduce its wonders to new audiences. Xueting has contributed to the BBC, Tordotcom Publishing, and the Guangdong Art Academy. Her first book, From Kuan Yin to Chairman Mao, is published by Weiser Books. Her new anthology Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction came out in November 2021. Xueting currently lives just outside London with her partner and their cats, all of whom are learning Chinese.

Wendy C. Nielsen (www.wendynielsen.com) is Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where she teaches European Romanticism, Science Fiction, Enlightenment literature, and other courses about comparative literature. She is interested in solving why certain popular figures recur in British, German, and French literature, as seen in her book Women Warriors in Romantic Drama (University of Delaware Press, 2012) and the forthcoming monograph, Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650-1890 (Routledge, 2022). She regularly publishes scholarly essays in academic journals on world literature, Romantic-era automata, theater, the French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Olympe de Gouges, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Corday, and Boadicea.

Mark Norman is a renowned folklorist, author, and broadcaster, best known as the creator of The Folklore Podcast, a globally acclaimed show with millions of downloads since 2015. His books include The Folklore of Devon and The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts, which was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Awards. His bestseller Dark Folklore topped Amazon charts, and Zoinks! The Spooky Folklore Behind Scooby-Doo gained Top 10 status in TV History charts. A Council Member of the Folklore Society, Mark also founded The Folklore Library and Archive, dedicated to preserving folklore materials worldwide.

Andy Nyman is an Olivier award-winning English actor, writer and director, and is perhaps best known for co-creating the long-running stage hit Ghost Stories, which he both starred in and co-wrote/co-directed (with Jeremy Dyson). The original production of the play ran for five years and over a thousand performances in England, and went on to be staged in Australia, Canada, Russia and China, as well as being revived successfully in London in 2019. In 2017 he and Dyson wrote and directed the film adaptation of Ghost Stories, in which he also starred. He has also enjoyed a long-running partnership with the illusionist Derren Brown, collaborating on several television productions together, as well as four West End theatrical hits. As an actor, his film and television credits include The Woman in Black (1989), Severance (2006), Dead Set (2008), Crooked House (2008), Black Death (2010), Kick Ass 2 (2013), The Last Jedi (2017) and next year in Disney's 'Jungle Cruise'. On the London stage, he also appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen and most recently with his Olivier nominated performance as Tevye in Trevor Nunn's production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.'

Nuzo Onoh is a British writer of African-Igbo heritage. Popularly known as, “The Queen of African Horror”, Nuzo holds a Law Degree and a Masters Degree in Writing, both from The University of Warwick, Warwickshire. Nuzo has been championing African Horror and has featured on multiple media platforms promoting this unique horror genre. She is the first African Horror writer to have featured on Starburst Magazine, the world's longest-running magazine of cult entertainment and science fiction. She has also made the front-cover of Paranormal Underground Magazine and features in the reference book, “80 Black Women in Horror” (2014). Her writing has also featured in multiple anthologies, including her recent contest-winning and Lovecraft-inspired African Cosmic horror story, Guardians, featured in the Asterisk Anthology Volume 2 (2018). Nuzo has written several blogs for Female First Magazine about African Horror and has been mentioned as one of the new voices in British horror writing making a positive impact on how black and minority races are portrayed in mainstream horror fiction. A keen musician, Nuzo plays both the piano and guitar and has her own self-publishing company, Canaan-Star publishing. Her book, The Reluctant Dead (2014), introduced modern African Horror into the mainstream Horror genre. Her other books include Unhallowed Graves (2015) The Sleepless (2016) and Dead Corpse (2017). Nuzo lives in Coventry and is a member of the Coventry Writing Group.

Vicente Rodríguez Ortega has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University (NYU) and he is Senior Lecturer at Universidad Carlos III from Madrid. He has published in New Media & Society, Studies in European Cinema, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies or Television and New Media, among others. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Spanish Cinema & Genre (2009) and has written over twenty book chapters in a variety of edited volumes. He is the editor of Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays and member of the Research Group Tecmerin.

Lakkaya is a fully funded PhD student at University College London researching Ferocious Fatherhood: A Crisis in Masculinity and Fatherhood in American Horror Cinema, 1970-1991. She completed her BA in History at Queen Mary University of London in 2019 and her MA in Gender, Society and Representation at University College London in 2020. Her research specialisms are representation of gender on screen, social and cultural history, and genre cinema. She is also a writer and contributor to Ghouls Magazine and Moving Pictures Film Club.

Dennis Paoli has written for film, TV, the stage, and the internet. His feature films include Bodysnatchers (with Stuart Gordon, for Warner Brothers), adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator (with Stuart Gordon and William Norris), From Beyond (for Empire), and Dagon (for Filmax). For the stage, he wrote the one-man show Nevermore: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe, which has been performed internationally; co-wrote the script for Re-Animator: The Musical, for which he won several LA theater awards; and co-wrote with the Organic Theater Company, the baseball comedy Bleacher Bums, which ran Off-Broadway, through three revivals in Chicago, and over seven years in Los Angeles. The television version for PBS won an Emmy, and the film version (which he co-wrote with Mitch Paradise) aired on Showtime. The HBO film The Dentist (with Stuart Gordon) and his work for Showtime’s Masters of Horror series—adaptations with Stuart Gordon of H. P. Lovecraft’s Dreams in the Witch House and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat—brought the horror genre to cable television. His adaptation of Lovecraft’s The Hound was streamed on Halloween 2015 by the genre website Tales from Beyond the Pale (talesfrombeyondthepale.com). Dennis is also an academic, a teacher and administrator at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He has taught Gothic and Irish literature and 20th century drama. He has written criticism and articles for the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, the Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, and various volumes, periodicals, and online blogs. The most important work he does is as Donor-Advisor of The Heidi Paoli Fund, a philanthropic organization that supports cancer patients and their caregivers.

Dr. D. W. Pasulka is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her work spans Catholic history to modern day reports of UAPs and UFOs. Her recent book, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology (Oxford, 2019) has been featured in Vice, Vox, Fox News, Tank, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Publisher’s Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews. She has presented her research at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, universities, and has been an invited speaker internationally and at various museums and public radio stations. She is also the author of Heaven Can Wait (Oxford University Press 2014); two co-authored books about religion and technology; and numerous academic essays. In cooperation with the Vatican, she is the lead of the translation project of the canonization records of the saint, Joseph of Copertino. Her latest book, Encounters, will be released in Fall 2023 with St. Martin's Essentials. Additionally, Dr. Pasulka consults about religion and history for movies and television, including THE CONJURING (2013).

Marcelle Perks is a British author and journalist. Since 1993 she has contributed freelance articles to magazines such as Redeemer, Fangoria, Shivers, Flesh and Blood, SamHain, Kamera, Rue Morgue, Nerve.com, Film Maker magazine, The Dark Side and Videoworld. She has an MA in Media Studies and has taught creative writing at Leibniz University. She has contributed to The BFI Companion to Horror, British Horror Cinema, Gothic Lifestyle, Cinema Macabre, and Alternative Europe: Eurotrash & Exploitation Cinema since 1945. She’s also written how-to guides on sexuality and writes erotica and crime novels. Since 2001 she has lived in Germany.

Lisa Petrucci has been writing about Sixties sexploitation cinema since the early 1990s after seeing Doris Wishman's BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL and the Findlay’s THE SIN SYNDICATE on home video. From that time on she immersed herself in sin and skin flicks. Lisa met Something Weird Video's head honcho, Mike Vraney, in 1993, moved to Seattle, and began working at SWV as a graphic designer and film reviewer. Lisa and Mike became partners in life and business, running SWV as a team, each bringing their respective talents to the table. Together they helped make SWV one of the most beloved video labels, know for it’s bottom-of-the-barrel low budget film library with a punk rock attitude. Sadly, Mike passed away in January 2014 after a heroic battle with lung cancer. Lisa, determined to honor Mike’s hard work and legacy, has kept the flame alive by continuing to run the daily operations /mail order and by partnering with like-minded video companies and film archives like AGFA, Severin Films, Pop Cinema, Mondo Macabro, The Film Detective, and others to restore and release the Something Weird library on Blu-ray, theatrically, and streaming. Visit www.somethingweird.com and www.lisapetrucci.com for more information.

Daniel Pietersen is a writer of weird fiction and critical non-fiction on horror and horror theory. When not writing articles or preparing conference papers, you will find Daniel still trying to complete Dark Souls 2. David is also the editor of I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R Murray Gilchrist for British Library Publishing, as well as a contributor to Romancing the Gothic and Dead Reckonings.

Mark Pilkington is the author of the book and documentary film 'Mirage Men' and 'Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge'. He has written for The Guardian, The Wire, Sight and Sound, Electric Sheep, Fortean Times, Frieze and The Quietus amongst others. He founded and runs Strange Attractor Press and regularly speaks on esoteric and fringe culture topics. www.strangeattractor.co.uk / www.miragemen.com

Pradeep Pillai is a research scientist and theoretician working in evolutionary ecology. He divides his time between Boston and Montreal

Author of 'A Heritage Of Horror', the seminal text on British Horror Films, David Pirie is also an author and screenwriter of repute. His first TV play 'Rainy Day Women' was directly inspired by aspects of Nigel Kneale's 'Quatermass II'. Later work includes the acclaimed 'Murder Rooms' series of novels and TV which explored the origins of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' 'The Woman In White' for TV, uncredited work on Lars Von Trier's 'Breaking The Waves', and 'Murderland' starring Robbie Coltrane.

W. Scott Poole is a full Professor of History at the College of Charleston. He is the author of a number of books, most recently Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror (2018). He is also the author of a Bram Stoker-nominated biography of Lovecraft (2016) and Monsters in America, winner of the Pop Culture Association’s Best Book award in 2011 and appearing in a revised edition in 2018. He has written numerous essays and book chapters dealing with the history of horror. He has a lifelong crush on the late Elsa Lanchester. Photo by Leslie McKellar.

Andrew Pope is a critic and writer exploring the emotional architectures of genre cinema. Their work focuses on the aesthetics of disconnection, narrative ambiguity, and the intersection of mood and meaning in horror. They co-edit the online film journal Whitlock & Pope, have presented at the London Horror Symposium, and have contributed to Sight and Sound and Horrified magazines. Currently, Andrew is developing a project on horror and the cinema of dissociation.

Dianca London Potts earned her MFA in fiction from The New School. She is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, a VONA Voices alumna, and the online editor of Well-Read Black Girl. Her words have been featured in Lenny Letter, The Village Voice, Vice, and elsewhere. Her memoir, Planning for the Apocalypse, is forthcoming from 37 Ink. She currently works and resides in Brooklyn. You can follow her musings on Twitter via @diancalondon.