Scott Brewster is Associate Professor (Reader) of English at the University of Lincoln, UK, and is an Editorial Board member for Gothic Nature. He holds a PhD from the University of Stirling. He is co-author, with Lucie Armitt, of Gothic Travel through Haunted Landscapes: Climates of Fear (Anthem Press, 2022), and co-editor, with Luke Thurston, of The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (Routledge, 2017). Among his other books are Lyric (Routledge) and Irish Literature Since 1990 (Manchester University Press). Scott has written widely on the Gothic and the ghost story, including an essay on Dickens for The Victorian Ghost Story: an Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) and a chapter on the Victorian ghost story for The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, associate editor in charge of horror for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the founder and president of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic. He is the author or editor of 29 books including Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety (Fordham UP), The Monster Theory Reader (Minnesota UP), The Cambridge Companion to the American Gothic (Cambridge), The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema (Wallflower), Charles Brockden Brown (the University of Wales Press), Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women (Fordham UP), and Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination (The University of Wisconsin Press). Visit him at JeffreyAndrewWeinstock.com.