Kristopher Woofter, PhD, is a faculty member in the English Department at Dawson College, in Tio\’tia:ke (Montréal, Québec). He edits the peer-reviewed journal Monstrum, and is Co-founder of the Montréal Monstrum Society. He is a 2021 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction for Shirley Jackson: A Companion (2021). He also co-edited American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper with Will Dodson (2021). He has recently written on Nosferatu (2022), the documentary thought-experiment film Into Eternity (with Mikaela Bobiy, 2022), and Jack Arnold\’s The Incredible Shrinking Man (forthcoming). His forthcoming projects as co-editor include The Weird: A Companion (fall 2024, with Carl Sederholm), The Routledge Companion to Horror (with Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, and Roger Luckhurst), and The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson (with Emily Banks). Kristopher is series co-editor (with Erin Giannini) of B-TV: Horror Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury, and an editorial board member for Horror and Gothic Media Cultures (Amsterdam UP).

Farah Alavi, a literature graduate from Sharda University, India, has a deep passion for classical literature, Gothic tales, and mythical folklore. Her recent research paper, titled \”Unveiling the Dark: An Exploration of Gothic Elements in Bram Stoker\’s Dracula and Its Cinematic Transformation,\” delves into the eerie and captivating world of Gothic fiction. Farah\’s work not only sheds light on the dark themes within Stoker\’s iconic novel but also examines how these elements have been transformed and reimagined in film. Her insightful analysis brings a fresh perspective to the timeless allure of Gothic storytelling.

Raiden Montero is an International Recruitment Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (USA). He is also a doctoral student at Concordia University Wisconsin (USA) and holds an MA in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). His research interests center around Horror Studies, political film readings, vengeful female ghosts, feminist film theory, Folk Horror, and Urban Horror. His geographic areas of interest are Southeast Asia (specifically Thailand) and East Asia (specifically Japan, Korea, and Taiwan).

Dr Meheli Sen is Associate Professor in the department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Cinema Studies program at Rutgers University. She has co-edited Figurations in Indian Film (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013). Sen’s book, Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema was published in 2017 by The University of Texas Press. She is currently working on a manuscript on horror and digital media cultures in South Asia.

Dr Sylvia Sagolsem is an Independent Researcher and former Assistant Professor of English Literature at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She holds a Ph.D. from Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (2019). Her research interests include Folktale and Fairy Tale Studies, Folklore and Digital Cultures, Oral Literatures, Literatures of Northeast India, and Hallyu Studies. Her forthcoming publications include two book chapters, “Hallyu 2.0 and social media in Manipur: Examining Cultural Formation through User Generated Content” (Palgrave/Springer) and “Phungawari in the Digital Age: Folkloric expressions and new media” (Routledge).

Aqsa Eram is a doctoral research scholar at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, India. Her research focuses on a postcolonial approach to Gothic in colonial writings. Her areas of interest also include contemporary horror, Indian literature in English and studies in Popular fiction.

Suleyman Bolukbas is a second year dual-title Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Originally from Turkey, his research focuses on comparative analysis of Turkish literature, gender and sexuality studies in literature and culture, and queer and gothic studies. In 2022, he became the Assistant Editor of Women, Gender, and Families of Color (WGFC). He is interested in queer readings of the gothic as an international and global phenomenon. His research particularly revolves around the global circulation of gothic narratives in relation to local identities, cultures, nations and how gothic\’s queerness is reshaped by them.

Ffion Davies is a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong researching deviant masculinities and the figure of the homme fatal in early twentieth-century American crime fiction. She was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship in 2020 and served as an assistant editor of Crime Fiction Studies between 2021 and 2023. She is particularly interested in studying subversive gender representation through Crime and Horror narratives of the twentieth century.

Dr Henry Bartholomew is a lecturer in the Department of Literary and Translation studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. His research interests include Gothic “objects” and affects, weird fiction, Algernon Blackwood, occultism, psychic vampires, and dark ecology.

ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew

Leonie Rowland is a PhD candidate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), where she researches Japanese Gothic in the age of animist capitalism. Her research interests include Japanese Gothic, Japanese horror, Asian Gothic, socioeconomics, capitalist realism, literature and film