Henry Bartholomew is a lecturer in the department of literary and translation studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou, China. His research centres on the ghost story (1880-1920), the Gothic, weird fiction, speculative realism, OOO, “things”, “objects”, and aesthetics.

He is the editor of three books: Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (British Library Press, 2021), The Unknown: Weird Writings by Algernon Blackwood, 1900-1937 (Handheld Press, 2023), and The Living Stone: Tales of Uncanny Sculpture, 1848-1938 (Handheld Press, 2023). His other published work has appeared in the journal Open Philosophy (2019) and The Palgrave Handbook to the Vampire (2023).

Helen Pinsent (she/her) is a PhD candidate studying (auto)mobility, monstrosity, and Gothic engagement with the American dream.

I am a teacher, researcher and editor working on Gothic and horror literature, Frankenstein and monsters.

Interested in most things dark and twisty, Emerald L King is a lecturer in humanities and an award-winning cosplayer. Her research is divided between Japanese women’s writing, cosplay as fan translation, and shōjo (girls’) manga and culture.

I am a lecturer in 21st-century literature.

I’m the author of The Necromantics : Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature and co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies.

Teresa Fitzpatrick is an Academic Tutor in the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).

Teresa gained her MA with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at MMU, as well as her doctorate, with a thesis titled Killer Plants and Gothic Gardeners, which develops a material ecofeminist Gothic framework to explore the intersection of gender and cultivated nature in plant monster narratives from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Teresa is also co-founder and blog editor of the independent PGR/ECR Long 19th Century Interdisciplinary Research Network, managing the associated website.

Research interests: material ecofeminism, critical plant studies, environmental humanities, intersectionality (nature and gender), ecogothic, ecohorror, sci-fi and weird, nineteenth and twentieth century fiction. Her current projects focus on fungal gothic.

John Savarese is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo. His current research focuses on the Gothic ballad, the history of science, and sound studies.

I have just completed a PhD thesis on the work of John Polidori. I have broad interests in somnambulism and mesmerism, vampires and other monsters.