Jamieson Ridenhour is the author of the werewolf murder-mystery Barking Mad (Typecast, 2011), the award-winning short horror films Cornerboys and The House of the Yaga, and the punk rock play Terry Tempest: The Final Interview. His ghost play Grave Lullaby was a finalist for the Kennedy Center’s David Cohen Playwriting award in 2013. Jamie’s short fiction and poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, TheNewerYork, The Lumberyard, Mirror Dance, and Architrave, among others, and has been podcast on Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, and Radio Unbound.

Jamie has a Ph.D. in the Victorian novel with an emphasis on Gothic fiction. In addition to publishing scholarly articles on Dickens, LeFanu, and contemporary vampire film, he edited the Valancourt edition of Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla (2009) and wrote a book-length study of urban gothic fiction, In Darkest London (Scarecrow, 2014). He has been teaching writing and literature for 20 years.

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