Roger Luckhurst is a professor in the School of Arts, at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is author of eight books, including The Mummy's Curse (2012) and Zombies: A Cultural History (2015). He has also edited Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the collection Late Victorian Gothic Tales for the Oxford World's Classics series.

David Tallerman is the author of the YA fantasy series The Black River Chronicles, which began in 2016 with Level One, the Tales of Easie Damasco series, and the novella Patchwerk. His short fiction has appeared in around eighty markets, including Clarkesworld, Nightmare and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.