Dr Alison Peirse Associate Professor of Film at the University of Leeds, where she teaches screenwriting. She has read scripts for BBC Films, Screen Yorkshire, Duck Soup Films and Northern Film & Media, and she is script editor of the multi-award-winning horror feature film Dark Beacon. She writes fiction when she feels like it, working across prose, playwriting and screenwriting. She has collaborated with BBC WritersRoom, Penguin Random House and the Royal Court Theatre. Her stage play Euphoria was long-listed for the prestigious Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and her short story 'Atmosphere' was recently published in the Graveyard Smash anthology.

Alison is author of After Dracula: The 1930s Horror Film (2013), co-editor of Korean Horror Cinema (with Daniel Martin, 2013) and editor of Women Make Horror (2021).

Dr Carolyn King has recently and successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Kent, Canterbury, titled: Haunted Mirror: British Gothic Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema. Carolyn's interests are primarily in the Gothic, queer theory, film history, transatlantic cinema, nationality on film, stardom and fan magazines.

Neil Pettigrew first encountered Boris Karloff at the age of eleven in 1967 in the pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and immediately decided that Karloff was his favourite actor. He was soon an expert on Karloff’s career, despite having never seen any of his films. He put this right in 1969 when he saw House of Frankenstein on television. He has been regularly watching Karloff films ever since, reading about them, researching them, and writing about them.

He has written articles about Karloff for magazines including Famous Monsters of Filmland and Dark Side and is author of The Stop-Motion Filmography (McFarland, North Carolina USA, 1999), Lionel Atwill the Exquisite Villain (Midnight Marquee, 2014) and Templed Out (2021, a novel).

Professor Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has a key interest in Horror and is the author of two monographs on horror radio: Terror on the Air: Horror Radio in America, 1931-52 (2006) and Listen in Terror: British Horror Radio from the Advent of Broadcasting to the Digital Age (2014). In his professional practice, he is the lead scriptwriter for the US-based National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre on the Air, a horror drama podcast series which, in 2020, was acquired by the Library of Congress in recognition of ‘its cultural and historical importance’.

Dr Leslie McMurtry is a Lecturer in Radio Studies at the University of Salford. She recently published a book on radio and audio drama, Revolution in the Echo Chamber: Audio Drama’s Past, Present, and Future (2019). She also writes about Gothic and horror sound.

The Inner Space Exploration Unit is comprised of:

Judith Noble is Head of Academic Research and Associate Professor at Plymouth College of Art. Her most recent publication is Visions of Enchantment - Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture, co-edited with Daniel Zamani (Fulgur, 2018). She has contributed to a number of publications on film, surrealism and the occult. Her moving image work is distributed by Cinenova. Her current practice centres on text + image + magic and the quest for the post-anthropocene.

Dr Evie Salmon is an artist, writer, director and academic. She directs The Alchemical Landscape project and is chair of the Cambridge University Counterculture Research Group. Evie’s cross-disciplinary writing and teaching finds her working on film, law, literature, visual culture, censorship, secret history and countercultural practice. Evie has been published by Contraband, Getty Images, Cambridge University Press, Intersentia and the BFI, amongst others. As an artist she has exhibited widely, has held a creative residency at Idea Generation Gallery, London, and regularly writes, curates and directs events and performances at venues across the UK. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Randy Bowser has a lifelong history in theatre, winning numerous awards. He began his professional career at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, and he acts, writes, directs and composes music to this day. He is the writer, director and star of Karloff, the only authorised play about the life and works of Boris Karloff.

Sam Grotzke graduated from PCA with first-class honours in 2021 and is about to commence an MA in Fine Art. He lists horror films among his main interests.

Dr Eddie Falvey completed his AHRC-funded PhD on the early films of New York at the University of Exeter, research that serves as the basis of a forthcoming monograph from University of Amsterdam Press. Falvey is author of Re-Animator (2021), editor of The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy (2022) and co-editor of New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror (co-edited with Joe Hickinbottom and Jonathan Wroot, 2020). He has published widely on film and associated media and currently lectures in the School of Arts and Media at Plymouth College of Art.

Peter Barker is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an MA in Industrial Design graduate from the Royal College of Art and former Head of Industrial & Communication Design at Design School Kolding. His role at Plymouth College of Art saw him return to England after three years in Denmark at Design School Kolding, which is regularly ranked as one of Europe’s top 50 design schools. As the Head of School, Design + Communication here at Plymouth College of Art, Peter has worked closely with our Academic Dean to develop our new School of Design + Communication. As Head of School, Peter brings new ideas and expertise to bear on the consolidation, development, and innovation of the programmes that we offer, supporting the college’s commitment to creative pedagogy, interdisciplinary exchange, collaboration, and social impact.

Stephen Jacobs is author of Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster (2010; second edition forthcoming) and The Karloff Compendium (forthcoming, 2022), as well as guest in and historical consultant on the documentary Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (dir. Thomas Hamilton, 2021).