Carl H. Sederholm is Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University. He is the editor of The Journal of American Culture, the co-author of Poe, the "House of Usher", and the American Gothic, and the co-editor of several volumes, including Adapting Poe, The Age of Lovecraft, Lovecraft in the 21^st Century, and Forgotten Disney. He is also the author of multiple essays on authors such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Shirley Jackson.

Kristopher Woofter teaches in the English Department at Dawson College, Montréal. He is the editor of the journal Monstrum and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated volume Shirley Jackson: A Companion. He is co-editor of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition, and Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema. Other publications include essays on F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and the documentaries The Hellstrom Chronicle and Into Eternity.