About the Editor and Contributors

The Editor

Matt Cardin is a writer, editor, college administrator, and college instructor specializing in the intersection of horror, religion, creativity, consciousness, and culture. In addition to teaching English and religion at Ranger College in Stephenville, Texas, he is the editor of ABC-CLIO’s Mummies around the World: An Encyclopedia of Mummies in History, Religion, and Popular Culture (2014) and Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies (2015). He also edited Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (2014), for which he received a World Fantasy Award nomination. He is also the author of the horror collections Divinations of the Deep, Dark Awakenings, and To Rouse Leviathan. He blogs at The Teeming Brain.

The Contributors

Stacey Abbott is a Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton. A genre specialist, she writes extensively about cult television and has also written about vampires, science fiction, romantic comedies, and the horror genre. She is the author of, among others, Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (2016).

Aalya Ahmad holds a doctorate in Comparative Literary Studies, specializing in horror fiction. She teaches across several different disciplines on horror literature and film, and publishes work on various aspects of horror, including the pedagogy of horror, race, class, gender and horror, zombies, indigenization, and Canadian horror film. Her first love was Edgar Allan Poe.

Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He specialises in Gothic and Horror Studies, and his publications include Spanish Gothic (2017), Horror: A Literary History (editor, 2016), Horror Film and Affect (2016), Digital Horror (co-editor, 2015), and Body Gothic (2014).

Melanie R. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of English at Glenville State College. She is the author of Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2013) and co-editor of The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities (2013) and Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences (2016).

Eleanor Beal is Associate Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her forthcoming publications include entries in the edited collections Transmedia Creatures: Connecting Frankenstein’s Afterlives and Divine Horror: The Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Supernatural. She is the author of the book Postsecular Gothic (forthcoming) for the Palgrave Gothic series.

Steve Behrends edited Clark Ashton Smith’s fugitive fictions (Strange Shadows, 1989) and other Smith titles; contributed to the literary criticism of Smith, Donald Wandrei, and Darrell Schweitzer; and is an avid reader of the British New Wave. He trained in the field of particle physics and is currently employed as a technical analyst in the Boston area.

Richard Bleiler is collections librarian at the University of Connecticut. His most recent book, The Strange Case of ‘The Angels of Mons’ (McFarland 2015), describes the controversy following the September 30, 1914 publication of Arthur Machen’s “The Bowmen” and collects for the first time many of the primary documents written to argue that angelic forces assisted the English troops.

Clive Bloom is an academic and author who has written widely on areas as diverse as popular culture, the Gothic, and political protest. He is the author of Gothic Histories and the editor in chief of Palgrave Gothic. His latest book, Thatcher’s Secret War: Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974–1990, was listed for “Radical Book of the Year 2016.”

Naomi Simone Borwein is a polymath disguised as a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include the Gothic, theory, and modern American literature, with a specialization in Southern literature. She engages with cultural and literary history, and quantitative methodologies.

Jason V Brock is an award-winning writer, editor, filmmaker, composer, and artist. He is the author of Disorders of Magnitude: A Survey of Dark Fantasy (2014), and he was art director/managing editor for Dark Discoveries magazine for more than four years. He also runs the biannual digest [NAMEL3SS], devoted to the macabre, weird, uncanny, and esoteric.

Simon Brown is Associate Professor of Film and Television at Kingston University and has written on various aspects of film and TV horror. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Screening Stephen King: King Adaptations and the Horror Genre on Film and Television, which is due for publication in 2018.

John Edgar Browning is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is internationally recognized for his horror, Dracula, and vampire scholarship, with over fourteen published or forthcoming books and over sixty-five shorter works. He is also widely regarded as a chief expert on real vampirism in the United States and abroad.

Chloé Germaine Buckley is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She has a PhD in literature with a focus on contemporary Gothic fiction. She has published numerous articles and chapters on Gothic and horror literature and film, and is co-editor of Telling It Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi.

Elsa Charléty is a PhD candidate in American literature at the Sorbonne University and in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her areas of interest include the representation of gendered bodies and voices in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature of the American South and the Caribbean, and the literary history of Gothic and horror narratives.

Michael Cisco is the author of various books, including The Divinity Student, The Great Lover, and ANIMAL MONEY. His scholarly work has appeared in Iranian Studies, Lovecraft and Influence, Thinking Horror, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in New York City.

Carys Crossen was awarded her PhD in English and American Studies from the University of Manchester in 2012. Since then she has spent her time alternately studying to become a librarian, and researching and writing. Her favorite topics of study are vampires, gender, the Gothic, and, most particularly, werewolves.

Stephen Curtis has a PhD in English literature and specializes in the darker aspects of early modern literature, in particular the significance of blood in the period and the connections between tragedy and horror. He has written and presented on various aspects of early modern drama, contemporary Gothic literature, horror movies, and video games.

Dara Downey is a Lecturer in English Literature at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, and Vice-Chair of the Irish Association for American Studies. She is author of American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age (Palgrave 2014) and is currently working on a monograph on slaves and servants in American Gothic fiction.

Stefan R. Dziemianowicz has edited many horror fiction anthologies and written many articles and reviews for The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Lovecraft Studies, and other journals. He is a senior editor at Barnes & Noble and has contributed to numerous reference works. He co-edited, with S. T. Joshi, Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia (2005).

Benjamin F. Fisher, Emeritus Professor, English, University of Mississippi, has published much about horror and related topics, notably on topics abut Poe. He is a past president of the Poe Studies association and Chairman of the Speaker Series for the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.

Matt Foley is a Lecturer in English at University of Stirling. He writes on the Gothic, transgression, and modernism. His most recent publication is an article on the acoustics of the Gothic romance for the journal Horror Studies. Current projects include writing a book on haunting modernisms and being the main academic contact for the Patrick McGrath archive at Stirling.

Kaja Franck’s thesis at the University of Herfordshire looks at the werewolf in literature as an ecoGothic monster, concentrating on the relationship between wilderness, wolves, and werewolves, and how language is used to demarcate animal alterity. She co-organized the Company of Wolves conference in September 2015.

Kelly Gardner is an early career researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Her PhD thesis explored the emergence and development of the sentient zombie. Her research interests include Gothic literature, posthumanism, transhumanism, and speculative fiction. Her recent publications have focused on the historical zombie, apocalypse, and the use of sound in zombie-themed media.

Richard Gavin is an acclaimed Canadian author of horror fiction and esotericism. He has published seven books, including Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness (Three Hands Press) and The Benighted Path: Primeval Gnosis and the Monstrous Soul (Theion Publishing). He welcomes readers at www.richardgavin.net.

Jon Greenaway is a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University researching theology, Gothic literature, and imaginative apologetics. He is also behind the popular online account @thelitcritguy, popularizing literary and critical theory.

Bob Hodges is a PhD candidate in literature and critical theory at University of Washington. His dissertation covers nineteenth- and early twentieth-century transatlantic detective fiction vis-à-vis political liberalism. He is co-editor of the forthcoming The Weird and the Southern Imaginary. He has contributed to Critical Survey of Graphic Novels, ESQ, Poe Review, and Clues.

Jerrold E. Hogle (PhD, Harvard) is University Distinguished Professor in English at the University of Arizona; past President of the International Gothic Association; author of, among other books, The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera (2002); and editor of the Cambridge Companions to Gothic Fiction (2002) and The Modern Gothic (2014).

Jim Holte is a Professor of English and Film Studies at East Carolina University. He is editor of The Fantastic Vampire and author of Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. He has written extensively on film, horror, and fantasy.

Gary Hoppenstand is a professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University, and he currently serves as the Secretary for Academic Governance at MSU. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of popular culture studies, and has won Michigan State University’s 2008 Distinguished Faculty Award.

William Hughes is Professor of Medical Humanities and Gothic Literature at Bath Spa University, England. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of seventeen books, including That Devil’s Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination (2015), The Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature (2013), and EcoGothic (with Andrew Smith, 2013).

Timothy J. Jarvis is a writer and a lecturer in creative writing. He has research interests, as a practitioner and critic, in the fields of the Gothic and weird fiction, innovative fiction, digital fiction, contemporary literature, and creative writing pedagogy. His novel, The Wanderer, was published in the summer of 2014.

Brian Johnson is an Associate Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Recent publications include articles on posthumanism and ecology in Swamp Thing, H. P., Lovecraft, and Ridley Scott’s Alien films. His current research focuses on superheroes and melodrama.

S. T. Joshi is the author of The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). He is the editor of Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia (2005) and American Supernatural Tales (2007).

Ian Kinane is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, London. He researches and teaches in the areas of modern and contemporary literature, genre fiction, and global literatures.

Laura R. Kremmel holds a PhD from Lehigh University and is a visiting assistant professor at Lehigh. Her interests include Gothic literature, British Romanticism, medical humanities, history of medicine, and disability studies. She has published articles on Gothic studies, romanticism, and disability, and is co-editor of The Handbook to Horror Literature, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.

Lisa Kröger is a writer and editor living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She has a PhD in Gothic literature, focusing on women writers. Most recently, she edited an essay collection on the writings of Shirley Jackson, published with Routledge. She is also a member of the Horror Writers Association.

Rob Latham is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles. He is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (Chicago 2002) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (Oxford 2014) and Science Fiction Criticism: Essential Writings (Bloomsbury 2017).

Chun H. Lee is an instructor at Brazosport College in Lake Jackson Texas. His work has appeared in Many Genres: One Craft, Dissections, and many others. His favorite class to teach is creative writing because seeing imagination at work is always rewarding.

Miles Link is a Research Associate in the School of English in Fudan University, Shanghai. He received his doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. He has published on the popular literature, television, and film of the Cold War, as well as the works of H. G. Wells and John Wyndham.

Roger Luckhurst teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is the author of The Mummy’s Curse (2012) and Zombies: A Cultural History (2015).

James Machin undertook his doctoral thesis on late Victorian and Edwardian weird fiction at Birkbeck, University of London, where he also taught English literature. Since 2013, he has been the editor of Faunus: The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen.

Steven J. Mariconda’s literary criticism on weird fiction, with an emphasis on close reading and prose style, has been published in a variety of periodicals and collections over the past thirty years. He is the author of H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality (Hippocampus Press, 2013).

Helen Marshall is a Lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. She has won the Sydney J. Bounds Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award, and she edited the 2017 edition of The Year’s Best Weird Fiction. Her debut novel Everything That Is Born will be published by Random House Canada in 2018.

Javier A. Martinez is an editor of the academic journal Extrapolation. His articles and reviews have appeared in Dead Reckonings, Extrapolation, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Science Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. He has served as department chair, college dean, and university provost, and is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Sean Matharoo is a PhD student of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside, where he studies francophone and anglophone speculative media, postcolonial theory, ecological philosophy, speculative realism, and noise. He has a forthcoming article in a special issue of Horror Studies devoted to sonic horror.

Neil McRobert is a researcher in contemporary horror and Gothic culture. He completed his doctorate at the University of Stirling. His particular interests are experimental horror fiction and film, and the role of technology and the Internet in contemporary horror. Recent publications have focused on found footage cinema and the growth of online horror folklore.

Sean Moreland is a writer, editor, and educator, much of whose research concerns Gothic and horror fiction in its literary, sequential art, and cinematic guises. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Ottawa.

Will Murray is a lifelong scholar of pulp fiction, a contributor to Fangoria magazine, and the author of several celebrated Cthulhu Mythos anthology stories. Enormously prolific, he has penned some seventy novels in series ranging from The Destroyer to The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage. His latest work is King Kong vs. Tarzan.

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Lecturer in Film Studies and American Literature, and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author/editor of numerous publications and Reviews Editor for Gothic Studies. Forthcoming publications include Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer (2017) and Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (2018).

Keith M. C. O’sullivan is Senior Rare Books Librarian at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He earned an MA in English from the University of Sussex and has also studied at the Universities of Surrey, Wales, and Stirling. He is currently researching on Ramsey Campbell and the Gothic tradition at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Elizabeth Parker has a PhD in English literature from Trinity College Dublin. She has been published in The Palgrave Companion to Literature and Horror (2017) and elsewhere, and she co-edited Between Space and Place: Landscapes of Liminality (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016). She is currently the TV editor of the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.

Bernard Perron is a Full Professor of Film and Game Studies at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is the editor of Horror Video Games (2009), the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Video Games Studies (2014) and Video Games and the Mind (2016), and the author of Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (2012). More information is at http://www.ludov.ca.

Hannah Priest is an academic writer and lecturer based in Manchester, UK. She has a PhD in late medieval literature, and her research interests include gender, violence, and monsters in popular culture. She has published on both medieval and contemporary popular fiction, including work on werewolves, cannibals, and fairies.

David Punter is a writer, poet, and critic, currently Professor of Poetry at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published critical monographs in many fields of literature, most notably the Gothic, but also including Romantic writing, contemporary fiction, and literary theory, as well as five small volumes of poetry.

Jean-Charles Ray is a PhD student in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal (Montreal, Canada) and in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France). His main field of study is horror in literature and video games.

Brittany Roberts is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, where she studies Russian and Anglophone horror, science fiction, and weird fiction. She is particularly interested in eco-horror and is currently writing a dissertation that considers the ecological possibilities raised by dark speculative literature and cinema.

Jim Rockhill has contributed to books devoted to E. T. A. Hoffmann, M. R. James, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bob Leman, Jane Rice, and Clark Ashton Smith, as well as various encyclopedias and journals including Supernatural Literature of the World, Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend, Dead Reckonings, and Lost Souls.

Travis Rozier earned his PhD in English at the University of Mississippi in 2015 and currently works as a lecturer in the English department at Texas A&M University. His areas of interest include literature of the U.S. South, Southern women writers, material culture, and weird fiction.

Darrell Schweitzer is a former editor of the legendary Weird Tales magazine, a critic, an essayist, and the author of books on Lord Dunsany and H. P. Lovecraft. He is also the author of three fantasy novels and about 300 short stories. A World Fantasy Award Winner, he lives in Philadelphia.

Brian J. Showers has written for publications such as Rue Morgue, Supernatural Tales, and Wormwood. He also edits The Green Book, a journal devoted to Irish writers of the fantastic, and runs the Swan River Press, Ireland’s only publishing house dedicated to literature of the Gothic, strange, and supernatural. He lives in Dublin.

Michael Siefener has worked as a freelance writer since 1992, publishing several novels and short stories, mostly in the fantastical vein. He received his LLD in 1991 but never worked as a lawyer. He was born in Cologne and currently lives in a small village in the Eifel, one of the westernmost parts of Germany.

Brian Stableford has been publishing fiction and nonfiction for fifty years. His most recent nonfiction projects are New Atlantis: A Narrative History of British Scientific Romance (Wildside Press, 2016) and The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French roman scientifique (Black Coat Press, 2016).

E. Kate Stewart holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi and serves as Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. She has published on Edgar Allan Poe and Transcendentalism, and has contributed to several volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Her primary research interests involve nineteenth-century American fiction.

Joel T. Terranova received his PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2015. Focusing on Gothic fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he has published a variety of scholarly works in this field. He also serves as the book review editor for Studies in Gothic Fiction.

Bev Vincent has a PhD in chemistry and is the author of forty peer-reviewed scientific articles. His work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award (twice), the Edgar Award, and the Thriller Award. He has been a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine since 2001. His author site is bevvincent.com.

Hank Wagner is a respected critic and interviewer whose work has appeared in numerous genre publications such as Dead Reckonings, Cemetery Dance, Mystery Scene, and Crimespree. He is a co-author of The Complete Stephen King Universe and Prince of Stories: A Guide to the Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman. He also co-edited Thrillers: 100 Must Reads with David Morrell.

Mark Wegley currently teaches at Tacoma Community College and previously taught at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and a master’s from Boise State University, where he completed a graduate thesis on the short fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

Lee Weinstein is a retired librarian and a lifelong horror fan. His essays have appeared in Studies in Weird Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and elsewhere. He is a current contributor to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and has edited several short story collections.

Jillian Wingfield is a PhD candidate and visiting lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research project is focused on American twenty-first-century vampire fiction, investigating vampire-human as well as intra-vampiric dynamics for what they reveal about a dialogue between genre and post-9/11 culturally dominant fears.

Gina Wisker is Professor of Contemporary Literature & Higher Education at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of, among others, Horror Fiction: An Introduction (2005) and Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction, and co-editor of the online horror journal Dissections. She is currently chair of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association, an HEA Principal Fellow, and a National Teaching Fellow.