Rebekah McKendry is an award-winning director and writer and the host of Fangoria's Colors of the Dark podcast. She has written and worked for media companies like Fangoria Entertainment, Shudder, Simon & Schuster, Universal, and Dark Horse. McKendry has a PhD in media arts with a focus on the horror genre and is a professor of cinematic arts at the University of Southern California.

Lisa Kröger is the Stoker- and Locus Award-winning author of Monster, She Wrote and Toil and Trouble. She holds a PhD in Gothic literature and co-hosts the biweekly podcasts Monster, She Wrote and Know Fear Cast. Kröger is chair of the board of the Horror Writer's Association and a member of the Nyx Horror Collective. She produced 13 Minutes of Horror: Folklore and its Rondo Hatton Award-winning sequel, 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci Fi Horror.

Alyse Wax is the author of Curious Goods: Behind the Scenes of Friday the 13th: The Series and The World of IT. She worked on reality TV shows like Big Brother, Hell's Kitchen, and Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End before shifting focus to writing. Wax was associate editor at FEARnet.com, horror editor at Collider.com, and co-editor-in-chief of DreadCentral.com. She has also written for SYFY Wire, Fangoria, Teen People , Weekly World News, and USA Network's Character Blog, among other publications.