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.