Sophie Raine is a PhD student at Lancaster University studying penny dreadfuls and urban spaces. Sophie has previously published on both Victorian sex work in the VPFJ and on subterranean spaces in the Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic. She is currently co-editing the collection Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic due to be published in 2022. In addition to this, Sophie is the Peer Review Editor for the Victorian Network.

Joana Rita Ramalho is Lecturer (Teaching) in Film Studies, Comparative Literature, and Portuguese at University College London, where she teaches modules on Gothic film and literature, musical satire, and Portuguese language and culture. She has published in journals and collections on topics as varied as sexsationalist feminism in postmillennial gothic musicals; haptic motifs and sensory contagion in terror cinema; thing theory and dolls in gothic and horror films; portraits in 1940s Romantic-Gothic films; intermediality and radical humour in the work of British punk cabaret trio The Tiger Lillies; and the queer failure and mock heroism of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Mark Rance is a documentary filmmaker who for many years was a producer at The Criterion Collection before forming his own company in Los Angeles and producing DVDs and Blu-rays for the Hollywood studios. His titles include THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS, HARD EIGHT (aka SYDNEY), BOOGIE NIGHTS, MAGNOLIA, SEVEN, I,ROBOT, THE PRESTIGE, RESERVOIR DOGS and THE DARK KNIGHT. He moved to London in 2004 and established Watchmaker Films to restore and distribute lost independent films. Those restorations include Eagle Pennell’s THE WHOLE SHOOTIN’ MATCH and LAST NIGHT AT THE ALAMO; Tobe Hooper’s first feature, EGGSHELLS; and Jack Hazan’s A BIGGER SPLASH.

Tonia Ransom is the creator and executive producer of NIGHTLIGHT, an award-winning horror podcast featuring creepy tales written by Black writers. Tonia has been scaring people since the second grade, when she wrote her first story based on Michael Myers. She lives in Austin, Texas, and is set to premiere her second audio drama, Afflicted, on Halloween of 2022. You can follow Tonia @missdefying on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.

Jean-Charles Ray is an independent researcher and lecturer specializing in video games. With a PhD in film studies and comparative literature, his fields of expertise are horror and the articulation between narrative and game. He maintains a creative practice in tabletop role-playing.

Dr James Rendell is a lecturer in Creative Industries at the University of South Wales. He has published in various journals and edited collections and is the author of Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). He has appeared on a number of podcasts such as the Evolution of Horror and Between the Bannisters. His research largely centres on horror fans, identity, and representation with a particular focus on inclusivity and diversity. With Dr Kate Egan he is currently co-editing an edited collection of empirical studies into twenty-first century horror audiences and fandoms. He is also writing a book on His House, refugeedom, and race in British horror cinema.

Archivist by day, film lover by night, Amanda Reyes is also a freelance author who has been published online and in print. She recently edited Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999 (Headpress, 2017) which celebrates the made for television film, and expands upon her TV movie-centric blog, Made for TV Mayhem and its companion podcast.

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a founder member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. His books include Gothic Cinema (2020), Spanish Gothic (2017), Horror Film and Affect (2016) and the edited collection Horror: A Literary History (2016). He is the chief editor of the book series Horror Studies, published by the University of Wales Press, and has edited weird and Gothic fiction anthologies for the British Library.

Larry Fessenden (writer, director, producer, editor), winner of the 1997 Someone to Watch Spirit Award, and nominee for the 2010 Piaget Spirit Award for producing, is the writer, director and editor most recently of DEPRAVED, as well as the art horror films HABIT (Nominated for 2 Spirit Awards), WENDIGO (Winner Best Film 2001 Woodstock Film Festival) and NO TELLING. His film, THE LAST WINTER (Nominated for a 2007 Gotham Award for best ensemble cast), premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Fessenden directed SKIN AND BONES for NBC TV’s horror anthology FEAR ITSELF and the feature film BENEATH for Chiller films. He wrote the screenplay with Guillermo del Toro of THE ORPHANAGE, an English language remake of the successful Spanish film EL ORFANATO. He is the co-writer with Graham Reznick, of the hit Sony Playstation videogame UNTIL DAWN, which won a Bafta, and of several subsequent games for Supermassive gaming company. Fessenden has produced dozens of films including FOXHOLE (Jack Fessenden), THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (Ti West), WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt) and STAKE LAND (Jim Mickle). As a character actor Fessenden has appeared over 100 films including THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Jim Jarmusch), THE MOUNTAIN (Rick Alverson), IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE (Ti West), BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (Martin Scorsese), BROKEN FLOWERS (Jim Jarmusch), THE BRAVE ONE (Neil Jordan), ANIMAL FACTORY (Steve Buscemi), WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt), as well as many independent horror films including JAKOB’S WIFE, WE ARE STILL HERE, YOU’RE NEXT, I SELL THE DEAD and TV shows including “Louie” and “The Strain”. Graham Reznick is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. In 2009 he wrote and directed the critically acclaimed experimental horror feature film I CAN SEE YOU (“heralds a splendid new filmmaker” - The New York Times) and the award winning microbudget stereoscopic 3D sci-fi short THE VIEWER (featuring Lena Dunham). With Larry Fessenden, he is the co-writer of the BAFTA award winning Playstation 4 video game UNTIL DAWN (featuring Rami Malek and Hayden Panettiere, for Sony / Supermassive Games) and its best-selling PSVR tie-ins RUSH OF BLOOD and THE INPATIENT, and several more. Fessenden and Reznick hold a 2015 Guinness World Record for their work on the UNTIL DAWN screenplay. In 2015 he wrote and directed the iTunes chart topping audio drama THE CHAMBERS TAPE (featuring SUPERNATURAL’s Misha Collins), and in 2016, Graham co-wrote the Sundance premiere BUSHWICK, an action/thriller starring Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow. In 2017 he wrote and directed RAPID EYE, a live action, interactive sci-fi horror thriller pilot for Sony / Olive Bridge / Eko. Most recently, Graham created, directed, and executive produced the thriller/sci-fi/horror television series DEADWAX for AMC’s Shudder. As a sound designer and musician, Graham has designed audio, mixed, and/or composed additional music for over 20 feature films, including Ti West’s IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, and THE INNKEEPERS, Jon Watts’ CLOWN, Larry Fessenden’s BENEATH, and Jim Mickle’s STAKELAND, as well as the 2013 Academy Award winning short CURFEW and the 2016 Academy Award nominated short documentary WITHIN THE WALLS. He has also edited music videos for numerous bands including LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, THE JUAN MACLEAN, and JIMMY EAT WORLD. In 2018, Graham’s debut electronic music album GLASS ANGLES was released on vinyl by Death Waltz / Mondo and the follow-up ROBOPHASIA was released on Burning Witches Records. (Image credit: Nelson Bakerman) --- Graham Reznick is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. In 2009 he wrote and directed the critically acclaimed experimental horror feature film I CAN SEE YOU (“heralds a splendid new filmmaker” – The New York Times) and the award winning microbudget stereoscopic 3D sci-fi short THE VIEWER (featuring Lena Dunham). With Larry Fessenden, he is the co-writer of the BAFTA award winning Playstation 4 video game UNTIL DAWN (featuring Rami Malek and Hayden Panettiere, for Sony / Supermassive Games) and its best-selling PSVR tie-ins RUSH OF BLOOD and THE INPATIENT, and several more. Fessenden and Reznick hold a 2015 Guinness World Record for their work on the UNTIL DAWN screenplay. In 2015 he wrote and directed the iTunes chart topping audio drama THE CHAMBERS TAPE (featuring SUPERNATURAL’s Misha Collins), and in 2016, Graham co-wrote the Sundance premiere BUSHWICK, an action/thriller starring Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow. In 2017 he wrote and directed RAPID EYE, a live action, interactive sci-fi horror thriller pilot for Sony / Olive Bridge / Eko. Most recently, Graham created, directed, and executive produced the thriller/sci-fi/horror television series DEADWAX for AMC’s Shudder. As a sound designer and musician, Graham has designed audio, mixed, and/or composed additional music for over 20 feature films, including Ti West’s IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, and THE INNKEEPERS, Jon Watts’ CLOWN, Larry Fessenden’s BENEATH, and Jim Mickle’s STAKELAND, as well as the 2013 Academy Award winning short CURFEW and the 2016 Academy Award nominated short documentary WITHIN THE WALLS. He has also edited music videos for numerous bands including LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, THE JUAN MACLEAN, and JIMMY EAT WORLD. In 2018, Graham’s debut electronic music album GLASS ANGLES was released on vinyl by Death Waltz / Mondo and the follow-up ROBOPHASIA was released on Burning Witches Records. (Image credit: Tina Thorpe)

Leah Richards is a professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York; a Goth Martha Stewart; editor of Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture; and a feminist killjoy. A horror and pop culture scholar, she studies reanimated corpses as monstrous challenges to capitalism; white, cis heteropatriarchy; and general human stupidity. She has a cat named Renfield who sometimes eats bugs.

Jolene Marie Richardson is a New York-based costume designer, fashion historian, and writer. Her designs can be found in various film, stage, and television productions including The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs. She lecturers at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY, and her research is published on her blog Hanging By A Thread, and in the pages of Fangoria.

James Riley is author of The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties (Icon Books, 2019), a cultural history of the late-1960s and early 1970s. He is Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, University of Cambridge where he works on modern and contemporary literature. Previous publications have included a multi-volume collection on the work of film-maker and novelist Peter Whitehead and his next book will be Playback Hex, a study of William Burroughs and the tape recorder. James has lectured on his work internationally and has performed spoken word shows in London, Vienna and Coney Island, New York. He has written for Vertigo, The i, Fortean Times, Monolith and blogs at Residual Noise.

Kate Robertson is an Australian writer and academic based in New York. She writes about art, film and culture for a range of publications, including Senses of Cinema, The Atlantic, i-D, Vice, and Complex. Her first book, Identity, Community & Australian Artists, 1890-1914 Paris, London and Further Afield came out late-2019 with Bloomsbury Academic and her second, Trouble Every Day, is due out with Auteur in 2020. She is an affiliate of the University of Sydney, Australia, where she completed her dissertation and taught for several years.

Dr David Clarke is Associate Professor at Sheffield Hallam University and a co-founder, with Dr Diane Rodgers and Andrew Robinson, of the Centre for Contemporary Legend. From 2008-13 he acted as curator for the UK National Archives open government project that oversaw the release of the MoD’s UFO archive. He most recent book, UFO Drawings at The National Archives was published in 2017 by Four Corners Books. Andrew Robinson is a photographer, artist, and senior lecturer in photography at Sheffield Hallam University, where he co-founded the Centre for Contemporary Legend (CCL) with Dr David Clarke and Dr Diane Rodgers. His art practice investigates expressions of identity, folklore and related material culture through a visual anthropology of people, place, and trace. His research explores the folklore, myth and legend associated with photographs and photographers including subjects as diverse as the Photography of the Crimean War; Lover’s Leap Legends; English Calendar Customs; A.I Generated Imagery, and the Calvine UFO. Recent publications include chapters in; ‘Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID’ (Utah State University Press, 2023) and ‘Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland’, (Routledge 2021) along with papers presented at ‘Off The Shelf Literary Festival’ (Nov 23) ‘AI and Photography’ Royal Photographic Society (Oct 2023); ‘International Society of Contemporary Legend Research Annual Conference’ (June 2023).

Luke Robinson is a PhD candidate and a casual academic in the School of the Arts & Media, University of New South Wales, Australia. His thesis is on scenes of disappearing faces in 1940s Hollywood gothic woman’s films. He is part of the executive of the Sydney Screen Studies Network (https://facebook.com/SydneyScreenStudies/) and a video artist working with Move in Pictures (https://www.move-in-pictures.com). His research interests are in classical Hollywood film, film theory, politics and aesthetics of erasure, film fascism, and theories of film sound. He is currently co-editing a book called Sound Affects: A User’s Guide to be published by Bloomsbury (due for publication early 2023). Luke is also co-editing a book on single shots in Alfred Hitchcock’s films, forthcoming with Oxford University Press (most likely published late 2023).

Dr Diane A. Rodgers is Senior Lecturer in Media, Arts and Communications and a founder member of the Centre for Contemporary Legend Research Group at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Interested in all things wyrd, cult and horror-related, Diane is working on a monograph about 1970s British folk-horror and hauntology based on her PhD. When she’s not making punk rock noise with her band The Sleazoids, Diane has published articles in Folklore, book chapters in recent collections on folk horror from Routledge and Manchester University Press, and is co-editor of The Legacy of The X-Files, forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Matt Rogerson works in UK Health & Social Care research. A PAGE International Screenwriting Awards finalist and film critique writer specializing in Italian genre film, his work often concerns the intersection between horror and the Roman Catholic faith. He has featured in in House of Leaves Publishing’s Filtered Reality: The Progenitors and Evolution of Found Footage Horror, and appears not infrequently for Arrow Video and The Nottingham Horror Collective. His books, The Vatican Versus Horror Movies, and Fulci’s Inferno: Faith in the Films of a Giallo and Horror Auteur, are both published by McFarland & Co.

Julia Round is an award-winning writer and scholar whose research examines the intersections of Gothic, comics and children’s literature. Her books include Gothic for Girls: Misty and British Comics (2019, winner of the Broken Frontier Award for Best Book on Comics), Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Critical Approach (2014), and the co-edited collection Real Lives Celebrity Stories (2014). She is a Principal Lecturer at Bournemouth University, UK, co-editor of Studies in Comics journal (Intellect) and the book series Encapsulations (University of Nebraska Press), and co-organiser of the annual International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference (IGNCC). She shares her work at www.juliaround.com.

Shelagh Rowan-Legg received her PhD from King’s College London in 2014, and her first book, The Spanish Fantastic: Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, Fantasy, and Sci Fi was published in 2016. She is a Contributing Editor for ScreenAnarchy, a programmer for FrightFest, a script consultant, a filmmaker, and recently becomes the Executive Director of The Miskatonic Institute.

Joe Rubin is a film collector, programmer and preservationist who founded Vinegar Syndrome with Ryan Emerson in 2012.

Matt Ruff was born in New York City in 1965. He is the award-winning author of six novels, including Fool on the Hill, Bad Monkeys, Set This House in Order, The Mirage, and Sewer, Gas & Electric. His most recent novel, Lovecraft Country, tells the story of two black families fighting both supernatural horrors and the more mundane terrors of racism in Jim Crow-era America. Lovecraft Country is being adapted as an HBO series by Jordan Peele, Misha Green, and J.J. Abrams. Author Photo by Lisa Gold.

Emmalea Russo's poetry and writings on film and visual art have appeared in many venues including Artforum, BOMB, Granta, Compact, Return, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Her most recent book of poetry is Confetti (Hyperidean Press, 2022). She has taught courses on literature, philosophy, and film at Northeastern University, GCAS, The Home School, Saint Peter's University, and elsewhere.