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Dr Linnie Blake is Head of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies and Reader in Gothic Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. She explains the importance of monsters to both society and personally.

Vivian Asimos is the author of Digital Monsters, a book exploring the world of online monstrosity. She received her PhD from Durham University in the study of virtual narratives and digital monsters. She is the co-founder of alt-ac.uk, an organisation dedicated to breaking the boundaries of traditional institutionalised academia and the world outside it. Visit her website

Dr Jonathan Myers is a psychologist specializing in human perception and its effects on behaviour in a variety of everyday areas. His interests focus on individuals as well as on organizations and their managers, and more broadly on financial markets. He is formally of the University of Hertfordshire and has been a visiting research scholar at Columbia University in New York.聽
Besides academic research Dr Myers has written popular articles and is the author of two published books for a general readership: Helping Your Child To Read, in the educational field and written for parents, and Profits Without Panic, focusing on investor behavior. Dr Myers has been a guest on radio and TV shows including Fox News and Sky News.

Travis Brown spends his days working in public affairs and nights doing his best to scare the Internet with short horror stories. He's been posting to Reddit's r/NoSleep subreddit for the past year. Most recently, he's been writing for SpookBrain.com, a new horror website that launched on Halloween of this year. Travis will be publishing two books, including his first novel, with Velox Books in 2021. You can find Travis trying to make new monsters at TravisBrownWriting.com

Dr. Robert White is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New Haven.聽 He teaches at both Yale University and the local psychoanalytic institute.聽 He became reacquainted with fairy tales when a patient used a Grimm鈥檚 tale as an extended metaphor of her own trauma.聽 Since then, he has researched and written about the use of fairy tales in psychoanalytic theory and practice.

John Herrman writes about technology and culture for The New York Times. Previously, he wrote and edited for The Awl, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo and Popular Mechanics. His focus is on the great digital platforms of this era, and how they change and create our material and social conditions. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.聽