Dr Arthit Jiamrattanyoo is Lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He received a doctoral degree in Southeast Asian history from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2022. His areas of interest include modern Thai and Philippine literature, periodical studies, and affect and sensory studies. He is currently translating Nick Joaquin’s tropical Gothic tales into Thai and working on a research project on crime and horror ballads in the history of sensationalist mass media in Thailand