Rebekah McKendry, PhD, is an award-winning director and writer with a specialty in the horror genre. She is also a Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She began her career working for Fangoria Entertainment and went on to write and work for media companies like Shudder, Simon & Schuster, Universal, Dark Horse, Penguin Random House, Blumhouse, Sony, and more. Rebekah holds a PhD in Media Arts with a focus on the horror genre, as well as master's degrees in Film Studies and Education. She is also an award-winning podcaster and currently hosts Fangoria's Colors of the Dark podcast.

Lisa Kröger is a Stoker- and Locus-award-winning author of Monster, She Wrote and Toil and Trouble. She holds a Ph.D. in Gothic literature and writes horror in all formats: fiction, nonfiction, podcasts, and screenplays. She's Chair of the Board of the Horror Writer's Association, and she's an active member the Nyx Horror Collective, a group focused on women-created genre content for film, television, and new media. Most recently, she produced 13 Minutes of Horror: Folklore, and the sequel 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci Fi Horror, both of which streamed on Shudder. The second installment won the Rondo Hatton Award for Best Short. She's also a host on the Monster, She Wrote and Know Fear podcasts, biweekly casts that dissects the horror genre.


Alyse Wax began working for reality TV, including shows like Big Brother, Hell's Kitchen, Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End, and Punkin' Chunkin' 2008. After a nervous breakdown, she found her place writing. Focusing on her passions, horror and television, she found her place as associate editor at FEARnet.com, horror editor at Collider.com, and co-editor-in-chief of DreadCentral.com. She has freelanced for dozens of other publications, including SYFY Wire, Blumhouse, Fangoria Magazine, Teen People Magazine, Weekly World News, and USA Network's Character Blog. Her books include Curious Goods: Behind the Scenes of Friday the 13th: The Series and The World of IT.