Lorna Piatti-Farnell is Academic Dean at SAE Creative Media Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the Director of the Australasian Horror Studies Network (AHSN) and an Adjunct Research Professor at Curtin University, Australia. Her research sits primarily in screen media and cinematic cultures, with a particular focus on transmedia storytelling, eco-narratives, digital technologies and popular iconographies, and a long-standing interest in Gothic horror and fantasy. She is the sole editor of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture book series and co-editor of the Horror Studies book series for Lexington/Bloomsbury.
Simon Bacon is a writer and film critic based in Poznan, Poland. He has written and edited over thirty books on various subjects including Horror: A Companion (2019), Eco-Vampires (2020), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), Future Folk Horror (2023), The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (2024), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (forthcoming). He is also the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions and Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead with Peter Lang.