Dr Katarzyna Ancuta is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Her research interests oscillate around the interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic/Horror, currently with a strong Asian focus. Katarzyna is the author of Where Angels Fear to Hover: Between the Gothic Disease and the Meataphysics of Horror (2005) and her most recent publications include contributions to The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2017), B-Movie Gothic (2018), Twenty-First-Century Gothic (2019), Suicide and the Gothic (2019), Gothic and the Arts (2019) and The New Urban Gothic (2020). Katarzyna co-edited three special journal issues on Thai and Southeast Asian horror film and Tropical Gothic, and two edited collections: Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018, with Mary J. Ainslie) and South Asian Gothic (2021, with Deimantas Valanciunas). She is currently co-editing a similar volume on Southeast Asian Gothic (with Mary J. Ainslie and Andrew Hock Soon Ng) and a journal special issue on Asian Gothic (with Hsu Li-hsin).