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Amber R.W. Knapp
Amber is the creator behind the horror blog Another One For The Fire. You can also find their work in We Are Horror magazine. They’re a firm believer that candy corn IS good.
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Ashlina. D
Ashlina is a Latinx content creator, model & artist who loves Halloween all year & exploring deeper elements within the horror genre. What once was a fun way to spend time on the weekends has turned into her love & passion.
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Bernadetta F
Barnaby is so into horror movies that friends are often surprised and/or concerned when they've watched something that ISN'T a horror movie, or at least has SOME connection to horror.
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Blayne Waterloo
Blayne Waterloo (she/her) is a writer and web designer from Central Pennsylvania. She has a degree and background in both journalism and creative writing and enjoys rambling about trauma, mental health, and her passion for the horror genre. Blayne hosts the podcast Silver Scream Queens with her best friends, and can often be found gushing over movies and television on Twitter.
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Catherine Benstead
Catherine is an Australian based Sociologist with an insane love for blood, guts, and gore. She is the founder of Hear Us Scream and contributes a monthly column “Horrorology” where she examines sociological and criminological perspectives of horror movies. Catherine has a deep love for the horror community and is passionate about providing a space for horror lovers to come together and share their love for the genre. On her off days, Catherine spends time with her spooky nieces, waiting on her calico cat Pickles hand and foot, and hosting the horror movies podcast, Thank God It’s Friday!
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Destiny Kelly
Destiny Kelly is a visual horror artist and filmmaker from Southern California. She creates a variety of mixed media traditional and digital artwork inspired by the horror genre. In 2020, Destiny received her Bachelor's Degree from Long Beach State University's Film and Electronic Arts program, with a specialization in Production Design. Outside of doing art department related work on film sets, she has a passion for writing and directing her own independent horror short films.
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Dylyn
Dylyn, also known as Dylyn C.S., is a die-hard genre fan and film buff based in Washington state. As a queer, Jewish, chronically ill, and neurodivergent woman, she enjoys analyzing film through the intersections of these identities. In addition to her monthly column for Hear Us Scream (“Holy Terrors,” an exploration of Jewish talent in horror), she has written for other genre-analysis sites like Monster Thoughts and Slay Away. Currently, she and her partner are cultivating a video project called “PNW Halloween,” which will be a year-round dedication to cozy, autumnal ambience. Along with her horror adventures, however, she is working on a thriller-based project in her spare time and hopes to one day achieve her master’s degree in Film History. An avid poetry-lover, she also dreams of someday publishing a poetry book, as her love of writing first blossomed from her love of poetry. You can find Dylyn on Twitter @chaitension and @pnwhalloween or snuggled up to her puppies Wednesday, Loch Ness, and Seven and her hamster Chuck.
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Dulce
Dulce was born and raised in Miami, Florida but currently lives in Atlanta where she works in higher education helping students. Dulce has a degree in English Lit (minor philosophy) and would have to say that her favourite author is Shakespeare though her interests are pretty fluid. Dulce says that horror has prepared her for the world in many ways and she's still deciding if that's a good or a bad thing! Dulce can deal with anything as long as it's not 100 zombies running after her!
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Elecia Page
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Enola Lugosi
E. L. King (also known as Enola Lugosi) is a horror lover, writer and critic. They host the Slay Away horror podcast and are the Editor-in-Chief of horror media outlet SlayAwayWithUs.com. Their recent projects include voice acting as main character Ada in Fossil Games new game Sunshine Manor releasing October 28th on all platforms and an upcoming narrative podcast exploring urban legends, myths and folk horror. They reside in the horror hub of Austin, Texas, host a horror gaming channel on Twitch and YouTube and enjoy chatting about horror on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
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Gena Radcliffe
Gena Radcliffe is the co-host of the horror podcast Kill by Kill, and she is a writer and managing editor at the film and television website The Spool. Her work has been featured in Daily Grindhouse, Anatomy of a Scream, F This Movie and Grim Magazine. A native of Atlantic City, New Jersey, the weirdest place on Earth, she lives in Brooklyn with her family and one extremely shy cat.
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Hari Berrow
Hari is a Welsh and working-class writer and postgraduate researcher. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Cardiff University, exploring ways of using horror to create scripted presentations of mental ill-health within the horror genre. Hari recently completed The Other Room's Emerging Writers programme in association with Bad Wolf Studios, and her work has been featured in T'Art Magazine and Keep on Writing 2020. She has lectured online for The Folklore Podcast and Rural Gothic Conference and has worked with various universities and institutions to offer creative workshops. In 2020, she hosted monthly Horrorthons and, between May and December, watched 245 horror films - she deeply regrets this decision.
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Jack Van Tuyle
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Jerry J. Sampson
Jerry Sampson is a horror writer, screenwriter, and film analyst. Her love for film and the horror genre leads her to explore and question the darkness that lies in the shadows of human existence. She studies the concept of inherited trauma and finds this theme coming up consciously and unconsciously in much of her work. She has a monthly feature on the Rue Morgue website called Beautiful Filth which focuses on Extreme Horror films through the female gaze. Jerry is the Editor-in-Chief of Buckman Journal and she writes for Ghouls Magazine, Moving Pictures Film Club, Hear Us Scream, and other publications. She is currently in pre-production on her first short film, In Dreams. You can find her on Instagram @thesleepermustawaken and on Twitter @ladyscriptwrit.
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Jenni Holtz
Jenni Holtz is a Chicago-based LGBTQ+ health researcher, illustrator, and writer passionate about work centering the transgender community. Body horror is their favorite horror subgenre, as it captures their experience of being trans and disabled. Raw (2016), Suspiria (2018), The Skin I Live In (2011), and Possessor (2020) are some of their favorites in the genre. Their writing has been published at Autostraddle, In Their Own League, Flip Screen, Film Daze, Screen Queens, Loose Lips, and Restless Mag. When they're not sketching or typing, they can be found sitting under the nearest tree with a good book and a cold brew in hand.
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Jessica Scott
Jessica Scott is a freelance horror journalist with a passion for discussing the ways that the genre explores gender, queer identity, and mental health. She has bylines online and in print for outlets such as Film Cred, Daily Grindhouse, Nightmarish Conjurings, Grim Magazine, Screen Queens, and Ghouls Magazine. She is also the co-host of the horror film podcast ReHeated.
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K.C. Amira
KC Amira Calvo is a PhD researcher looking at the relationship between Reagan era cultural conservatism and child autonomy in 1980s biological horror cinema. She is the author of Heavy Metal Coffin, The Ivory Brush and several other short horror fiction pieces. Her passion project, Horror Chromatic, is a website dedicated to discussing diversity in the horror community and uplifting BIPOC fans and creatives alike. She lives in Brighton, England with her three cats.
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Kristen
Kristen, aka Chucky's Side Chick , has had a love for all things horror since the age of 17. She has passionately been a part of the DFWTO podcast since January of 2019. She especially loves watching horror films and enjoying all things creepy and spooky during the fall season. Being from the Midwest has its perks! She hopes to one day be able to run her podcast with her best friend as a full time career!
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Ky Fields
Kyasia Fields (KyFx) (she/they/them) is a Houston Based Special Effects Makeup Artist , Podcaster and Black Horror Scholar. They are the founder of KyFx Horror Group , a multimedia platform support inclusion in the Horror genre while accentuating the importance of Black Horror creatives and the Host of Monstrosities Voice Horror Untouched Podcast , the podcast for Black Horror By Black Horror.
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Lucy Derry-Holmes
Ever since she first heard the words 'this is my boomstick' Lucy has been a life long fan of horror. Residing in Scotland Lucy is a horror podcaster, LGBTQ+ activist and twitch streamer.
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Marina. G
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RC Jara
RC Jara (she/they) is a Latine content-creator. Their genre-focused work comprises podcasts, reviews, editorials, and filmmaker interviews. Apart from contributing to Hear Us Scream, they are currently a featured columnist on Dread Central (“Spins and Needles”) and developing projects for the Anatomy Of A Scream Pod Squad Network. Outside of film writing, RC has earned their BA in Mass Communication and a Minor in Sociology.
They can be reached on Twitter @rcjarascripts or by email at jarascripts@gmail.com
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Rebecca McCallum
A horror scholar and film journalist, Rebecca specialises in writing think-pieces that dissect and analyse the films of the genre. As well as contributing articles for The Evolution of Horror, Zobo with a Shotgun, Grim Magazine and JumpCut Online she also has a four-part exploration focusing on the Women of the Jack the Ripper films with Rue Morgue, an ongoing series on Women in Hitchcock’s films with Moving Pictures film Club and is due to release her first pocketbook in 2022. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin.
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Sam Whitaker
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S.C. Parris
S.C. Parris is the author of the DARK WORLD SERIES & horror short story, A NIGHT OF FRIVOLITY. She is currently writing the sixth and final book in her dark fantasy/horror series, and is working on a new book simultaneously. She hosts the horror podcast, Monster Thoughts where she invites guests in the horror community to talk their favorite monsters, and can be seen streaming on Twitch when she isn’t valeting for her professional wrestling husband.
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Violet Burns
Violet is a freaky feminist with a found footage heart. She teaches English and sometimes scares people in mazes.
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Zoë Rose Smith
Zoë Rose Smith is a film journalist specialising in anything extreme, with a penchant for nasty, gory and controversial horror films and books. She is the founder of Zobo With A Shotgun website, podcast and YouTube. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Ghouls Magazine. You can find her work on Second Sight’s The Guest release, Moving Pictures Film Club, Beyond Horror: The History and Sub-Culture of Red Films, Teen Screams documentary, We Are Horror, Scream Horror Magazine, The Evolution of Horror podcast, Mad About Horror, Jumpcut Online and Scream the Horror Magazine.