Shannon Scott is a professor of English and film at the University of St. Thomas. She has published fiction in horror journals and anthologies such as Nightmare Magazine and Dark Spores. She is co-editor of Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896. Shannon has also created two lecture series on the horror genre for Audible. Her nonfiction essays have been published in collections by Manchester UP, Routledge and upcoming from Bloomsbury and McFarland.